COURSE MATERIALS

Game books in the "Reacting to the Past" Series (listed below) are published by Prentice Hall (Pearson Education).  For additional information,  visit their web site or contact Charles Cavaliere at charles.cavaliere@pearson.com. Instructors should also make sure to obtain the companion texts, instructor's manual, and role descriptions for each game.

Games in development, instructor's manuals, and role descriptions (PDF files) are available from the Reacting to the Past Program.  Email reacting@barnard.edu for more information.


The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C.
© 2005 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0321333039 | ISBN-13: 9780321333032

Companion Text (Required):
Plato, The Republic (Desmond Lee, Trans.)
© 2007 | Penguin Classics | ISBN 9780140455113


Confucianism and the Succession Crisis of the Wanli Emperor
© 2005 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 032133230X | ISBN-13: 9780321332301

Companion Texts (Required):
Confucius, The Analects (D.C.Lau, Trans.)
© 1979 | Penguin Classics | ISBN-10: 0140443487

Ray Huang. 1587, A Year of No Significance
© 1982 | Yale University Press | ISBN-10: 0300028849


Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence 1945
© 2006 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0321355857 | ISBN-13: 9780321355850

Companion Texts (Required):
Stephen Hay, ed. Source of Indian Tradition, Vol. 2
© 1988 | Columbia University Press | ISBN: 9780231064156

Barbara Stoler Miller, trans. The Bhagavad-Gita
© 1986 | Bantam Classics | ISBN-10: 0553213652 | ISBN-13: 9780553213652


Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament
© 2006 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0321418786 | ISBN-13: 9780321418784

Companion Texts (Required):
David G. Newcombe. Henry VIII and the English Reformation
© 1995 | Routledge | ISBN: 9780415107280

Thomas More. Utopia (any edition)
© 2003 | Penguin Classics | ISBN 9780140449105

Erasmus, The Education of a Christian Prince
© 1997 | Cambridge University Press | ISBN-10: 0521588111


Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791
© 2005 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0321332296 | ISBN-13: 9780321332295

Companion Text (Required):
J.  J. Rousseau, The Social Contract  (Maurice Cranston, Trans.)
© 1968 | Penguin Classics | ISBN 9780140442014


The Trial of Anne Hutchinson: Liberty, Law, and Intolerance in Puritan New England
© 2005 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0321332288 | ISBN-13: 9780321332288

Companion Texts (Optional):
Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
© 2007 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0321478061

Michael Winship, The Times and Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided
© 2005 | University Press of Kansas | ISBN-10: 0700613803


The Trial of Galileo: Aristotelianism, the "New Cosmology" & the Catholic Church, 1616-33
© 2008 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0321341325 | ISBN-13: 9780321341327

Companion Text:
N/A (included in game book)


Charles Darwin, the Copley Medal, and the Rise of Naturalism, 1862-1864
© 2009 | Prentice Hall | ISBN-10: 0205723179 | ISBN-13: 9780205723171

Companion Text (Optional):
Janet Browne, Darwin's "Origin of Species": A Biography
© 2006 | Atlantic Monthly Press| ISBN-10: 0802143466 | ISBN-13: 9780802143464

  


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Photo credits:  Parthenon by Toon Possemiers; Statue of Galileo by David MacLurg; Statue of Confucius in Suzhou, China by Gautier Willaume; Statue commemorating the French Revolution by Bleex; View of British Parliament by Graeme Purdy.  All photos © iStockphoto.