Non Campus MentisAnders Henriksson Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from term papers & blue book exams. From college students' own authentic and inimitable voices comes a collection of bloopers, malapropisms, revisionist hypotheses, and creative interpretations of history, the subject that grinds our critical, seething minds to a halt. DID YOU KNOW: Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, Me too, Brutus! Stalin, Rosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the Big Three Rasputin was a pheasant by birth Judyism had one big God named Yahoo Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator The Civil Rights movement turned around the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous If I Had a Hammer speech. |
Contents
THE HISTORIANS TASK Hindsight into the Future | 1 |
THE DAWN OF TIME The Stoned Age | 3 |
THE MISTS OF ANTIQUITY The Joy of Flooding | 5 |
THE CLASSICAL AGE Thucydides Meets the Mousi of History | 11 |
THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME Me Too Brutus | 17 |
THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN AND THE FALL OF ROME The Immaculate Contraption | 23 |
THE FEUDAL WORLD The Rise of the Manurial System | 27 |
CHURCH AND STATE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Vacant Bishop Bricks | 31 |
AMERICA FROM CRISIS TO TRIUMPH Custards Last Stand | 87 |
THE BIRTH OF MODERNISM Splatterism and the TwelveMoan Scale | 91 |
IMPERIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL RIVALRIES From the Missionary Position to Sweet Relief | 95 |
THE CATASTROPHE OF 1914 An Unthinkable War Becomes Thinkable | 103 |
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Rasputin Meets the Zeitgeist | 107 |
THE INTERWAR ERA Just Give Peas a Chance | 111 |
WORLD WAR II Hitler Becomes Depressed | 119 |
THE COLD WAR The Morels of the Story | 125 |
THE WANING OF THE MIDDLE AGES A Plague of Boobs | 39 |
THE RENAISSANCE The Grits of Change | 45 |
THE REFORMATION The Perils of Pope Clementine | 51 |
THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM Musketeers and Round Ones | 57 |
THE ENLIGHTENMENT The Invention of the Newton | 63 |
THE AGE OF REVOLUTION The French Demand Fraternities | 67 |
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION The Fast Paste of Change | 73 |
POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Anarchs and the Power Serge | 81 |
A NEW WORLD ORDER Tea with Dim El Sum | 133 |
The Meaning of All This | 139 |
So You Think Youre So Smart | 143 |
Maps | 146 |
EPILOGUE | 151 |
Sandy Arabia and the Palaced Indians | 152 |
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Non Campus Mentis: History of the World According to College Students Anders Henriksson No preview available - 2002 |
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