Gentrain Society.

Prehistory and Earliest Civilizations

Unit 1: Up to 1200 BCE

  • A SHORT HISTORY OF MYTH, Karen Armstrong
  • A WORLD HISTORY, William McNell
  • AFFLUANCE WITHOUT ABUNDANCE, James Suzman
  • AGAINST THE GRAIN, James Scott
  • ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE, John Foster, trans
  • ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE; old and Middle Kingdoms, M. Lichtheim, trans
  • BEFORE PHILOSOPHY, Frankfort et al.
  • GILGAMESH, Stephen Mitchell (2 copies)
  • GODS AND MEN IN EGYPT, 3000 BC to 395 CE, Françoise Durand and Christiane Zivie-Coche
  • GODS AND MYTHS OF ANCIENT EGYPT, Robert Armour
  • HERITAGE: Civilization and the Jews, Abba Eban
  • INANNA: Lady of Largest Heart, Meador
  • INANNA; Queen of Heaven and Earth, Wolkstein and Kramer
  • LOVE SONGS OF THE NEW KINGDOM John Foste, trans
  • MOSES AND MONOTHEISM, Sigmund Freud (2 copies)
  • NOMADS, Anthony Satin
  • ORIGINS OF THE BOOK, Mohamed Hussein
  • PREHISTORY; THE MAKING OF THE HUMAN MIND, Colin Renfrew
  • PRIMITIVE MAN AS PHILOSOPHER, Paul Radin
  • PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY: The Mask of God, Joseph Campbell
  • STONEHENGE; A NEW UNDERSTANDING, Mike Pearson
  • THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN WORLD, Robin Winks and Susan Mattern-Parkes
  • THE BARBRIANS, Bogucki
  • THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATIO IN THE NEAR EAST, Henri Frankfort
  • THE COMPLETE PYRAMIDS, Mark Lehner
  • THE FACE OF THE ANCIENT ORIENT, Sabatino Moscat (2 copies)
  • THE GREATNESS THAT WAS BABYLON, H.W.F. Saggs
  • THE HITTITES, O.R Gurney
  • THE MIND IN THE CAVE, Thames & Hudson
  • THE RED SEA SCROLLS, Tallet and Lehner
  • THE TREASURES OF TUTANKAMON
  • THE WORLD OF ANCIENT TIMES, Carl Roebuck
  • WEAVERS, SCRIBES, and KINGS, Amanda Podary
  • WESTERN CIVILIZATIONS, Vol I, Joshua Cole and Catol Symes
  • WORSHIPPING POWER, Peter Gelderloos
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Heather Crowley joined MPC’s History Department in 2025, where she teaches a variety of classes on American and European history. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Cardiff University (UK) and an M.A. in History in Art from the University of Victoria (Canada), where she also completed her undergraduate studies. Her research focuses on the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Eastern Mediterranean, examining the crusader states and nearby Muslim polities. She is excited to join Gentrain as its director in 2026 and looks forward to the future of the program.
 

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Brown, Donovan III, psychology, in memory of Chuck Kimzey
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