Documents of Western Civilization

by Archer,Janice

• ISBN13: 9780314221001
• ISBN10: 031422100X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-31
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Contains a broad selection of carefully chosen documents. This reader can accompany any Western civilization text. (Package item ONLY.)

Table of Contents

Discovery and Crisis	1	(7)
European Exploration	1	(3)
From the Diary of Columbus' First Voyage to America, 1492-93	1	(3)
The Gold of the Indies, 1559	4	(1)
Michele Soriano
Disorderly Women and Witchcraft	4	(4)
Innocent VIII: The Witch-Bull of 1484	5	(1)
Malleus Maleficarum, 1486	6	(2)
Heinrich Kramer
Jacob Sprenger
Absolute and Limited Monarchies	8	(30)
The Growth of Absolutism	8	(16)
Letters from France	8	(1)
Busbecq
The Edict of Nantes, 1598	9	(2)
The Demolition of Feudal Castles, 1626	11	(1)
The Political Testament, 1638	12	(2)
Cardinal Richelieu
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685	14	(2)
from ``Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture''	16	(2)
Bossuet
Letter to the Officials of Marseilles, 1664	18	(1)
Louis XIV
from the Memoires of the Duke of St. Simon	19	(2)
Renewed Persecution, 1707	21	(1)
Isabel Charras
The Condition of the French Army, 1710	22	(2)
Fenelon
The Struggle for Power in Seventeenth Century England	24	(14)
James I on the Divine Right of Kings, 1609	24	(1)
from ``The Petition of Right'', 1628	25	(1)
A Pamphlet on the Civil War	26	(1)
Wallington's Account of the Battle of Edgehill	27	(1)
Death Warrant of Charles I, 1649	28	(1)
At His Execution, 1649	28	(1)
Charles I
The Act Abolishing the Office of King in England and Ireland, March 17, 1649	28	(1)
A Leveler's Petition to Cromwell, 1652	29	(1)
from The Diary of John Evelyn, 1652-1655	30	(1)
Excerpts from the Memoires of Reresby and the Diary of Evelyn regarding James II, 1685-1686	31	(1)
The Glorious Revolution of 1688: The Bill of Rights, 1689	32	(1)
Leviathan, 1651	33	(3)
Thomas Hobbes
Two Treatises on Civil Government, 1690	36	(2)
John Locke
The Search for ``Truth'' in the Seventeenth Century	38	(16)
The Scientific Revolution	38	(16)
Letters to Johannes Kepler	38	(2)
Galileo Galilei
From Galileo: Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World, 1632	40	(1)
The Papal Inquisition of Galileo and His Abjuration, 1633	40	(3)
Discourse on Method, 1637	43	(4)
Rene Descartes
Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, 1687	47	(1)
Sir Isaac Newton
General Scholium, 1687	48	(2)
Sir Isaac Newton
The Methods of the Witch Persecutions, 1631	50	(4)
Friedrich von Spee
The Enlightenment	54	(21)
``The Best of All Possible Worlds'': The European Quest for a New World	54	(21)
from Candide, 1759	54	(6)
Voltaire
from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764	60	(3)
Voltaire
``Women'', from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764	63	(1)
Voltaire
On Crimes and Punishments, 1764	64	(2)
Cesare Beccaria
Social Contract and Emile, 1762	66	(5)
Jean Jaques Rousseau
The Wealth of Nations, 1776	71	(1)
Adam Smith
The Progress of the Human Mind, 1793	72	(3)
Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet
The Eighteenth Century	75	(14)
Society: Elite and Ordinary	75	(8)
The Political Testament of Frederick II, 1752	75	(1)
Catherine the Great: ``Instructions to the Commissioners,'' 1768	76	(3)
On Penal Law in Russia, 1777	79	(1)
John Howard
On Empress Catherine, 1858	80	(1)
Alexander Herzen
from Memoirs of Marie Antoinette	80	(2)
Madame Campan
Travels in France, 1787-89	82	(1)
Arthur Young
Capital, Commerce, and Human Cargoes	83	(2)
from The Complete English Tradesman, 1727	83	(2)
Daniel Defoe
Bringing Up Baby: Family and Education in the Old Regime	85	(4)
Earl of Chesterfield: from Letters to His Son	85	(2)
On The Education of Noble Women in Russia, 1777	87	(2)
John Howard
The French Revolution	89	(17)
Prelude to the Revolution	89	(2)
Protest by the Cour des Aides, 1775	89	(2)
The Revolution	91	(13)
The Cahiers de doleances	92	(8)
The Abolition of Feudalism, August 4-11, 1789	100	(2)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, August 26, 1789	102	(2)
The Revolution Devours its Children	104	(2)
``Upon Becoming Consul,'' November 10, 1799	104	(2)
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact	106	(14)
Machines, Muscles and Merchants	106	(14)
``On Tolls in Germany''	106	(1)
Hodgskin
``On Road Maintenance in Russia''	107	(2)
Marquis de Custine
``Increasing the Productive Power of Labor,'' 1904	109	(1)
Adam Smith
from Self Help	110	(1)
Samuel Smiles
from The Working Class in England in 1844	111	(2)
Friedrich Engels
``What Cost Progress?'' from Hard Times	113	(2)
Charles Dickens
Evidence Given Before The Sadler Committee and Ashley's Mines Commission, 1831-1842	115	(4)
from The Curse of the Factory System, 1836	119	(1)
Fielden
An Era of ISMS: Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism, and Romanticism	120	(19)
The Conservative Backlash	120	(7)
Reflections on the French Revolution, 1790	120	(5)
Edmund Burke
from Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions, 1814	125	(2)
Joseph de Maistre
The Many Faces of Liberalism	127	(6)
On Liberty, 1859	127	(5)
John Stuart Mill
from Hard Times, 1854	132	(1)
Charles Dickens
People and Their Homelands: The Dream of National Self-Determination	133	(3)
from On the Duties of Man, 1864	133	(3)
Giuseppe Mazzini
Storm and Strife: The Romantic Sensibility	136	(3)
``The Tables Turned,'' 1798	136	(1)
William Wordsworth
``England in 1819''	137	(1)
Percy Bysse Shelley
``Beethoven's Instrumental Music,'' 1813	137	(2)
E.T.A. Hoffman
Europe in an Age of Realism, 1850-1871	139	(9)
To Show Things as They Really Are	139	(9)
The Communist Manifesto, 1848	139	(4)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
The Origin of Species, 1871	143	(3)
Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man, 1871	146	(2)
Charles Darwin
Europe's ``Age of Progress,'' 1871-1894	148	(15)
The Industrial Revolution, Take Two	148	(8)
Industrial Progress in Germany, 1907	148	(6)
Earl Dean Howard
The Principles of Scientific Management, 1915	154	(2)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
The ``Woman Question'': The Debate Regarding Women in the Nineteenth Century	156	(7)
``A Petition to the King'', 1836	157	(1)
Madeline Poutret de Mauchamps
The Separation of Mother and Child Considered, 1838	158	(2)
Caroline Sheridan Norton
The Communist Manifesto, 1848	160	(1)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
``To the Citizens of France,'' 1949	161	(2)
Jeanne Deroin
Europe on the Eve of World War I	163	(14)
Europe on the Eve of World War I	163	(14)
Bloody Sunday: Father Gapon's Petition to Nicholas II, January 22, 1905	163	(3)
Siberia and the Exile System	166	(5)
George Kennan
``The White Man's Burden,'' 1899	171	(1)
Rudyard Kipling
``The Black Man's Burden,'' 1920	172	(1)
Edmund D. Morel
``Political Significance of Imperialism,'' 1902	173	(4)
J.A. Hobson
World War and Revolution	177	(8)
The Great War and its Aftermath	177	(8)
The Black Hand: Bylaws, 1911	177	(2)
The Treaty of Versailles, May 29, 1919	179	(3)
German Observations on the Treaty of Paris, May 29, 1919	182	(3)
Europe During the Interwar Years, 1919-1939	185	(16)
Thunder on the Right: Germany, Hitler, and the Rise of Nazism	185	(16)
from Judaism in Music, 1850	185	(1)
Richard Wagner
On the German Character, c. 1900	186	(3)
Heinrich von Treitschke
``Overwrought Nerves,'' 1923	189	(1)
Friedrich Kroner
The Nazi Party Program, 1920	190	(3)
Extracts from Mein Kampf, 1924	193	(2)
Adolf Hitler
Elections to the German Reichstag, 1924-1932	195	(1)
``The Nazi Conspiracy,'' 1945	196	(5)
Raymond H. Geist
World War II and the Holocaust, 1939-1945	201	(24)
``The Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed'': World War II	201	(6)
The Atlantic Charter	201	(1)
Request for Declaration of War, December 7, 1941	202	(1)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: On the Effects of Bombing, 1945 and 1948	203	(4)
``Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?'' The Holocaust	207	(18)
The Nuremberg Laws, 1935	207	(3)
``The Jews Are to Blame!'' 1941	210	(2)
Joseph Goebbels
``Detailed Statement on the Murdering of Ill and Aged People in Germany,'' 1941	212	(1)
Dr. T. Lang
Estimated Savings From the T-4 Program	213	(1)
``Order Regarding a Total Solution to the Jewish Problem,'' July 31, 1941	214	(1)
Hermann Goring
Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942	214	(2)
Affidavit Regarding the Operation of Auschwitz, 1946	216	(2)
Rudolf Hoss
On Medical Experiments at Dachau, 1942	218	(1)
Dr. S. Rascher
``Combating the Gypsy Nuisance,'' December 8, 1938	219	(1)
Heinrich Himmler
from Death Dealer, 1992	220	(2)
Rudolf Hoss
``Speech of the Reichsfuehrer-SS at the Meeting at Posen,'' 1943	222	(1)
Heinrich Himmler
from ``Political Testament,'' 1945	223	(2)
Adolf Hitler
The Postwar World, 1945-1970	225	(9)
The Bitter Harvest	225	(9)
The Yalta Conference, February 1945	225	(1)
The Truman Doctrine	226	(5)
The Marshall Plan	231	(2)
``Report on Italy,'' April 15, 1952	233	(1)
Daniel Goldy
``The Sources of Soviet Conduct,'' July 1947	234
George Kennan