Books Lists

Effective Summer Intersession 2021
ALL of my classes are ZTC (ZERO Textbook Cost) Courses.

It is NOT NECESSARY to read every chapter in each book listed below. 
This detail is explained in the course Reading Schedule for each course.

PDF versions of all required chapter readings are available in the course Canvas site for FREE.

  • History 140 – History of the Americas to 1800 –  ZTC Course – Zero Textbook Cost Course
    • Winter and Summer Intersession (4 week terms)
    • Fall and Spring Semester (16 and 8 week terms)
    • Summer session (4 and 8 week terms)
        • Guillermo Cespedes, Latin America:  The Early Years.
        • Larrie D. Ferreiro.  Brothers at Arms.
        • Peter Gordon and Juan Jose Morales.  The Silver Way.  
        • Allan Greer, editor. The Jesuit Relations.
        • Charles Mann.  1493:  Uncovering the New World Columbus Created.
        • Donna Pierce.  Spanish Colonial Art.
        • Matthew Restall. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.
        • Peter Turchin. War and Peace and War:  The Rise and Fall of Empires.
        • Colin Woodard. American Nations:  A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.  This text is also used in History 141.
        • Colonial Biographies
  • History 141 – History of the Americas Since 1800 –  ZTC Course –  Zero Textbook Cost Course
    • Winter and Summer Intersession (4 week terms)
    • Fall and Spring Semester (16 and 8 week terms)
    • Spring Fast Track 2 Term (8 week term)
    • Summer session (8 week term)
        • Mariano Azuela. The Underdogs.  (Mexico)
        • Joseph Boyden.  Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont.  (Canada)
        • Bruce Cumings.  The Korean War:  A History.  (The Pacific)
        • Marshall Eakin.  The History of Latin America:  Collision of Cultures.
        • Jordan Goodman.  The Devil and Mr. Casement:  One Man’s Battle for Human Rights in South America’s Heart of Darkness.  (Peru)
        • Kevin Starr.  California:  A History.  (California)
        • Colin Woodard.  American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.  Also used for History 140.  (USA)
  • History 150 – History of Latin America to 1824  –  ZTC Course –  Zero Textbook Cost Course
    • Fall semester only.
        • Peter Turchin.  War and Peace and War.
        • Henry Kamen. Empire:  How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763 (2004).
        • Charles C. Mann.  1493:  Uncovering the New World Columbus Created .  Also a Kindle edition.
        • Donna Pierce.  Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum .
        • Matthew Restall.  Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.  Oxford University Press.  Paper.  ISBN  978-0195176117.  There is an Amazon Kindle edition.
        • A.J.R. Russell-Wood. The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808:  A World on the Move (1998).
  • History 151 – History of Latin America since 1824  –  ZTC Course – Zero Textbook Cost Course
    • Spring semester only

FREE Books!
Multiple copies of most all assigned readings are also available for check-out from the Palomar College Library Reserve collection (click on link). 

Add the course name (e.g. “History 140”) for your search.

NOTE – Free Library copies
Copies of all of required readings are also available through the Instructor Reserve section of the Palomar College Library.  Search for History 140.