The course has two core secondary texts. Everyone should obtain them and read them in full. Both are readily available from the internet at prices which, even including shipping, are well below what the bookstore would charge. Paperback issues are OK.

Those two texts are:

Helferich, Gerard. Humboldt's Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Latin American Journey That Changed the Way We See the World. New York: Gotham, 2004.

Adams, William Howard. The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson. New Haven: Yale, 1997.

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