Requirements:
1. 10 – 12 paragraphs in length (around 1,200 words, give or take)
2. Analysis of Book, connecting to our class themes and the material we covered over the
semester (note that this means you should use class notes, Document Duels, primary and
secondary sources to develop, expand and enrich your analysis).
3. Cover the three aspects above (contents, style, assessment).
names of the book .:
Elizabeth C. Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future (Ithaca,
NY: Cornell University Press, 2004).
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
R. Edward Grumbine, Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River: Nature and Power in the People’s
Republic of China (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2010)
Bulliet, Richard. Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History.
Columbia, 2011.
Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
(Yale, 2013)
Steven Solomon, Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization (New York: HarperCollins,
2009)