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SUMMER WORK
AP World History
Summer 2016
Dan Moran: [email protected]
1-413-596-3298
Welcome to AP World History
For summer work you will be expected to read two books, one from each list below and write a brief four-page
paper about how the two books work together to inform your understanding of world history. In essence what
connections can you draw between the two books that help inform and deepen your knowledge of world
history? A more detailed rubric for this paper can be found on the class conference. Once you are sure you are
taking the course, I will add you to the first class conference. If you are new to the school I am happy to email
you the rubric when you contact me.
Read ONE on the following list:
A Little History of the World, E.H. Grombrich. Yale University Press 1985. Original publication Vienna 1936
Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind Yuval Noah Harari. HarperCollins, New York 2015.
Guns Germs and Steel Jared Daimond. W.W. Norton & Company, New York 1997
Destiny Distrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. Tamim Ansary. PublicAffairs, New York 2009
Read ONE of the following under any SINGLE category:
Religious History:
Destiny Distrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. Tamim Ansary. PublicAffairs, New York 2009
A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual To Its Senses. S. Brent Plate. Beacon University Press,
Boston 2015.
Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. Random House, New York 2014.
Cultural History:
At Home: A Short History of Private Life. Bill Bryson. Doubleday, New York 2010.
A History of the World in Six Glasses. Tom Standage. Walker & Company, New York 2005.
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History. Katherine Ashenburg. North Point Press, New York, 2007.
The Emperor’s Giraffe. Samual Wilson. Westview Press, Boulder 1999.
Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Sven Becket, Random House, New York 2014.
Scientific History:
A Short History of Nearly Everything. Bill Bryson. Random House, New York 2003.
The Story of Western Science: From the Wirtings of Aristotle to Big Bang Theory. Susan Wisebauer. Norton. New
York 2015.
Economic History:
Banking on Bahgdad: Inside Iraq’s 7000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict. Edwin Black. John Wiley and
Sons, Hoboken 2004.
Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Sven Becket, Random House, New York 2014.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. Acemoglu and Robinson. Crown Publishers, New
York 2012.
Debt: The First 5000 Years. David Graeber. Melville House, 2011.
Other Topics:
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently…and Why. Richard E. Nesbett. Free
Press, New York 2003.
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