Recommended Readings & Audio Visual Titles

RECOMMENDED READINGS:

Bohrer, Frederick N. Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Gerstenblith, Patty. Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law: Cases and Materials. Carolina Academic Press, 2008. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

Herodotus. “The Histories.” Waterfield, Robin (Trans.). Oxford University Press, 1998. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

Larsen, Mogens Trolle. The Conquest of Assyria: Excavations in an Antique Land. London: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1996. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

FILMS & VIDEOS:

On Orientalism. (Part 1 of 4). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

On Orientalism. (Part 2 of 4). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

On Orientalism. (Part 3 of 4). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

On Orientalism. (Part 4 of 4). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 1 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 2 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 3 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 4 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 5 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 6 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 7 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 8 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 9 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (Part 10 of 10). YouTube.com. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

SOUND FILES:

“The Song of Roland.” LibriVox. Internet Archive. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

Online Resources

Matthew W. Stolper

Professor of Assyriology and the John A. Wilson Professor of Oriental Studies

MAPS:

Fer, Nicolas de. L'Asie : Suivant les nouvelles decouvertes dont les point principaux sont placez. David Rumsey Map Collection. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

Jaillot, Alexis-Hubert. Map of the Ottoman Empire in 1600. Wikimedia Commons, 1696. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).

Map of the Middle East. University of Texas. Link to resource (accessed June 24, 2010).