Here is the hyper doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qEzIlDqIEjGBrQ1OnGjCFMGyVOEaV16VBTbrKr2daxQ/edit?usp=sharing>.
What an amazing team effort!
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 8:45 AM Amy Geriak <ageriak@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thank you everyone for all of these amazing suggestions! I’ve put together
a hyper doc and will share it with all of you as soon as I add the latest
nominations. The student is going to be so happy! And hopefully this is a
list that we will find many other uses for.
Warmly,
Amy
On Apr 25, 2023, at 8:16 AM, Derek Anderson <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Amy and BAISL:
I have been following this thread with great interest and I appreciate so
many of the good suggestions. Sarah just stole one of the new ones I was
doing to offer, Standage’s *History of the World in Six Glasses, *but here
are a few others I appreciate as a world history teacher and as a librarian.
What fun this has been to think about; I hope your delightfully ambitious
student enjoys so many of BAISL’s suggestions.
Derek
1) *1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus* by Charles Mann
2) *Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World* by Jack Weatherford
and Jonathan Davis
3) *A History of the World in 12 Maps* by Jerry Brotton
4) *On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State *by Joseph R. Strayer,
reissued 2016.
5) *Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World* by Mark
Kurlansky (it’s better than Salt by the same author)
6) *The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History* by Peregrine
Horden
7) *The Atlantic* by Simon Winchester and/or *The Pacific* by Simon
Winchester
8) *Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues* by Jonathan
Kennedy
9) *Islamic Gunpowder Empires: Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals* by
Douglas E. Streisand.
10) And, if I may, my own book: Improbable Voices: A History of the
World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives
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On Apr 25, 2023, at 1:52 AM, Sarah Murphy <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Wow!
So much, but how about A History of the world in six glasses by Tom
Standage. Less politics really but an interesting overview
Also Guns Germs and Steel. Jared Diamond
Sarah
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 6:28 AM Amy Geriak <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello fellow librarians -- I got a doozy of a request from a senior for--
history books he wants to read over the summer before starting college. I
am doing my own research into possibilities, but I would love any
suggestions the group might have.
He writes:
I’m looking for as deep an understanding as possible of the driving
forces that have shaped our world (for example, the rise and fall of the
roman empire, the spread of colonialism, the scientific revolution, or the
cold war). I realize that’s still an enormous volume of content, so please
recommend *whichever books you think best illuminate how the world
arrived at its current political, economic, and cultural state*. Both
western and non-Western perspectives would be awesome (perhaps with a focus
on the non-western, which I know least about). I’m happy to read paperback
books or textbooks, though I have a slight preference for smaller books
(400 pages or less), which I tend to find more digestible.
Thanks for your help --Amy
--
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