HIST 840
SYLLABUS
WEEKLY DISCUSSION MATERIALS
COURSE MATERIALS

Week 14:

CONCLUSION

Images:

“A Venerable Orang-outang”, a caricature of Charles Darwin as an ape published in The Hornet, a satirical magazine, 22 March 1871:
https:///upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Editorial_cartoon_depicting_Charles_Darwin_as_an_ape_%281871%29.jpg

Videos:

The Making of a Theory: Darwin, Russell, and Natural Selection (31 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOiUZ3ycZwU

In Focus: Wharram Percy [deserted medieval village] (5:52 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciWTXtVkras

County Mayo: Deserted Famine Village on Achill Island (2:06 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqoHZQW_dho

Oradour-sur-Glane (memorial village), from BBC documentary “The World at War” (narrated by Laurence Olivier, 1973), Episode 1 (0:00-1:52 of 54:20):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E

Oradour – Death of a French Village 10th June 1944 (Another documentary about the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, 9:08 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f6U1UTMAlk

Chernobyl: Drone Footage Reveals an Abandoned City [1986] (4:05 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeZtlFeEcNg

Fukushima [destroyed 2011]: Photographer Sneaks into Radioactive Ghost Towns (2013 – news story)
https://petapixel.com/2016/07/13/photographer-sneaks-radioactive-ghost-towns-fukushima/

The Abandoned Chinese Village that Nature Reclaimed (3:21 min.):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJO50M1Ptk

 

Readings:

Bryson, At Home, Chapter 19 (“The Attic”), pp. 605-632

Moore, The Prehistory of Home, Chapter 12 (“Conclusion”), pp. 220-225