![]() ![]() Why have some books had a profound impact on their times? How have they articulated an issue, focused debate, captured public attention, and spurred action? In this seminar, we will read a group of books that changed the modern United States. HIST 0010 First-Year: Books that Changed Modern America It fulfills both the Sector II (History and Tradition) and Cross-Cultural Analysis requirement and, depending on the faculty member in charge, may examine the world through ONE specific theme or highlight developments over two hundred or over two thousand years. ![]() This course serves as a gateway to the discipline of History and to the Department of History at Penn. We will examine both human and non-human actors and personal and systemic changes and explore trajectories that are never predetermined. We will cover the full scope of the human experience-empire, war, religion, revolution, industrialization, climate, globalization-over a vast geographic range, exploring key parallels and contrasts: in power and access to resources modes of production and value systems religious and ethnic traditions identities and cultural practice, and in political systems and social formations. This course examines the political, economic, social, cultural and intellectual foundations of the world in which we live.
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