Pass/Fail Assignment 2
Due date: see course calendar
Deliverable: an e-mail or
e-mailed word document containing two parts:
1) A research question that
your paper will address – not a “topic” (like ‘Egyptian politics’) but rather a
“question” (like “to what degree do environmental and geographical factors explain
the historically centralized nature of the Egyptian state.”)
2) Five sources you have
found on that topic- preferably academic books or academic articles, either in
paper or digital form. Non-academic web sites are generally not a good source
for a history paper. IN ADDITION provide 1-2 sentences about each of these
sources explaining how this source will be useful in analyzing the study
question.
EXAMPLE:
1)
“The
Protestant Reformation saved lives in Northern Europe by stopping travel to
2)
Sources:
a.
Birch,
Debra J. Pilgrimage to
b. Hoolihan, Christopher. “Health and Travel in
Nineteenth-Century
c.
Randall
M. Packard, The Making of a Tropical
Disease: A Short History of Malaria (
d.
Robert
Sallares, Malaria and
e.
Horst
Fuhrmann, “Quis Teutonicos constutuit iudices nationum? The Trouble
with Henry” Speculum, Vol. 69, No. 2 (April 1994). Mostly on a
different topic, but when I searched it, it had a very interesting section on
how malaria ruined a Medieval German military campaign to conquer