Books and Authors Flashcards
State the author, year, and content of:
The Time Machine
- H.G. WELLS
- 1895
- Time travel fiction, introduction to time travel and the study of history
State the author, year, and content of:
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“Unfreezing the Ice Age”
- David GRAEBAR
- David WENGROW
- 2021
- Focuses on the concept of mythic time and deep time, the concept of prehistory and modern history, how we look own on our ancestors and how they were actually more advanced than we commonly think
State the author, year, and content of:
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind
“City of the Mind”
- Justin POLLARD
- Howard REID
- 2006
- Summary of what was the Library of Alexandria
State the author, year, and content of:
Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet
“The Library”
- Ian MCNEELY
- Lisa WOLVERTON
- 2008
- Describing how the Library of Alexandria shaped knowledge
State the author, year, and content of:
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
“Sunlight on a Northern Field”
- Matthew GABRIELE
- David PERRY
- 2021
- Describes the supposed gruesome and “dark ages” of the Medieval world, and how it was not what it seems it was
State the author, year, and content of:
The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium
Welcome to Engla-lond”
- Robert LACEY
- Danny DANZIGER
- 1999
- Described the history from below, and how the society back then just had a different standpoint on things, talked about the development of English Language
State the author, year, and content of:
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England
“The Medieval Character”
- Ian MORTIMER
- 2008
- Describes the common humor and life in the medieval ages
State the author, year, and content of:
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
“Frequently Asked Questions”
- Charles MANN
- 2011
- Describes the brief history of the Aztecs, how they wrote after learning the Romanic alphabet, history is as complex as studying history
State the author, year, and content of:
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
“The City on the Lake”, “How Scholars Study the Aztecs”
- Camilla TOWNSEND
- 2019
- Disease transmission to Indigenous, Cortes was spared (a costly mistake), Guilt is not readily passed down the generations but responsibility can be
State the author, year, and content of:
A Sensory History of Ancient Warfare: Reconstructing the Physical Experience of War in the Classical World
“The Battle of Cunaxa”
- Conor WHATELY
- 2021
- Emphasized sensory history in the occurrence of Battle of Cunaxa
State the author, year, and content of:
The Face of Battle
“Agincourt”
- John KEEGAN
- 1976
- Emphasized the military history, and history from below in the eyes of the soldiers fighting on the front lines
State the author, year, and content of:
The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front
“Life in the Trenches”
- Peter HART
- 2008
- Described the front lines of the Battle of the Sommes
State the author, year, and content of:
A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- Emerson BAKER
- 2014
- View from 2014, what the Salem Witch Trials were
State the author, year, and content of:
Witchcraft in Old and New England
- George KITTREDGE
- 1929
- Emphasized how witchcraft was not unique to Puritans, everyone believed in it and that it was a mere incident
State the author, year, and content of:
Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft
- Paul BOYER
- Stephen NISSENBAUM
- 1974
- Emphasized the history from below aspect and how the villagers felt against the town, possibly interconnected with the time period that the author was in
