Global Experience : Readings in World History since 1500

by Philip Riley; Chong-Kun Yoon; Frank A. Gerome

• ISBN13: 9780133177114
• ISBN10: 0133177114
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Table of Contents

Preface	xv
GLOBAL CONTACTS	1	(34)
Early Modern Exploration and Expansion	1	(10)
1. Cheng Ho [Zheng He]: Ming Maritime Expeditions	2	(3)
2. Vasco da Gama, Journey to India	5	(3)
3. Bartolome de Las Casas, Destruction of the Indies and "The Only Method of Converting the Indians"	8	(3)
West Comes East: China and Japan	11	(10)
4. Fernao Mendes Pinto, The Travels of Mendes Pinto	12	(5)
5. Matteo Ricci, Journals	17	(3)
6. Seclusion Edict of 1636	20	(1)
The African Slave Trade	21	(14)
7. Olaudah Equiano, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasa, The African	22	(2)
8. Commerce, Slavery and Religion in North Africa	24	(7)
9. Thomas Nelson, Slavery and the Slave Trade of Brazil	31	(4)
GLOBAL PATTERNS OF POLITICS AND CULTURE	35	(68)
Rulership and Society, East and West	35	(15)
10. The Laws for the Military House (Buke Shohatto), 1615 (Tokugawa "Hostage" System)	36	(4)
11. Louis XIV, Memoires for the Instruction of the Dauphin	40	(1)
12. Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-hsi [Kangxi]	41	(3)
13. Peter the Great, Correspondence with His Son	44	(3)
14. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Embassy to Constantinople	47	(3)
Degrees of Religious Toleration	50	(6)
15. The Maryland Toleration Act	50	(2)
16. Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man	52	(2)
17. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise Man	54	(2)
Government and Politics in the Enlightenment	56	(18)
18. John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government	56	(4)
19. Sophia, Woman Not Inferior to Man	60	(5)
20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sophie or the Woman	65	(4)
21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract	69	(5)
Economic Ideas in the Enlightenment and Early Nineteenth Century	74	(9)
22. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations	75	(5)
23. Friedrich List, National System of Political Economy	80	(3)
The Enlightenment in Russia	83	(10)
24. Catherine the Great, The Instruction to the Commissioners for Composing a New Code of Laws	83	(3)
25. A. N. Radishchev, A Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow	86	(3)
26. Catherine the Great, "Instructions to Captain Joseph Billings" and General Ivan V. Iakobii, "Secret Instructions to Agents of the Russian Empire in Alaska"	89	(4)
China's Sinocentric World	93	(10)
27. Ceremonial for Visitors: Court Tribute	94	(2)
28. Taisuke Mitamura, The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China	96	(2)
29. Emperor Ch'ien-lung [Qianlong], Letter to King George III	98	(5)
REVOLUTIONS AND REBELLIONS	103	(52)
Men and Women in Revolution	103	(16)
30. The Declaration of Independence	104	(3)
31. Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen	107	(4)
32. James Madison, The Federalist, Number 10	111	(3)
33. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France	114	(3)
34. Simon Bolivar's Political Ideas	117	(2)
America Asserts Itself	119	(5)
35. The Monroe Doctrine	120	(2)
36. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America	122	(2)
Global Revolutionary Ferment	124	(13)
37. Women Miners in the English Coal Pits	125	(3)
38. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto	128	(6)
39. The Taiping Rebellion	134	(3)
Nationalism and Romanticism	137	(18)
40. Robert Southey, "The Battle of Blenheim"	138	(2)
41. Program of the Serb Society of National Defense [Narodna Odbrana]	140	(5)
42. Irish National Identity and Destiny: Three Views	145	(4)
43. Fustel de Coulanges, "What Is a Nation?" A Reply to Mr. Mommsen, Professor in Berlin	149	(3)
44. Heinrich von Treitschke, A Word About the Jews Among Us	152	(3)
EMPIRES AND UPHEAVALS	155	(28)
England's Imperial March	155	(7)
45. Lord William Bentinck, Comments on Ritual Murder and the Limits of Religious Toleration	155	(3)
46. Lin Tse-hsu [Lin Zexu], Letter of Moral Admonition to Queen Victoria	158	(4)
Imperialism: Two Perspectives	162	(4)
47. Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"	163	(1)
48. Gandhi: Facing the British in India	164	(2)
Traditional Japan as a Modern State	166	(8)
49. President Fillmore, "Letter to the Emperor of Japan"	167	(2)
50. Ito Hirobumi, "Reminiscences on the Drafting of the New Constitution"	169	(2)
51. Geisha: Glimpse of Unfamiliar Japan	171	(3)
United States Expansion: Two Perspectives	174	(9)
52. The Roosevelt Corollary	175	(2)
53. Francisco Garcia Calderon, "The North American Peril"	177	(6)
AN ERA OF GLOBAL VIOLENCE	183	(74)
China and Russia in Upheaval	183	(5)
54. Manifesto of the Chinese United League	184	(2)
55. Maxim Gorky, "January 9"	186	(2)
World War I: Battle	188	(5)
56. Slaughter on the Somme	189	(2)
57. "World War I: A Frenchman's Recollections"	191	(2)
World War I: Diplomacy	193	(6)
58. Sir Henry McMahon, Letter to Ali Ibn Husain	194	(1)
59. The Balfour Declaration	195	(1)
60. President Wilson, "Speech on the Fourteen Points"	196	(2)
61. Memorandum of the General Syrian Congress	198	(1)
Bolshevik Utopian Dreams and Stalin's Revolution	199	(14)
62. V. I. Lenin, "Tasks of the Youth Leagues: Bourgeois and Communist Morality"	200	(4)
63. Nadezhda K. Krupskaya, "What a Communist Ought to Be Like"	204	(3)
64. John Scott, Behind the Urals	207	(3)
65. Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope	210	(3)
Fascism: Four Faces	213	(12)
66. Kita Ikki, Outline for the Reconstruction of Japan	214	(4)
67. Benito Mussolini, "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"	218	(3)
68. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf	221	(2)
69. Juan Domingo Peron: Justicialism	223	(2)
Patterns of Genocide	225	(14)
70. Rudolf Hoess, Eyewitness to Hitler's Genocide	225	(2)
71. Ethnic Cleansing in Northwestern Bosnia: Three Witnesses	227	(7)
72. Alain Destexhe, Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century	234	(5)
World War II: Asia and Europe	239	(9)
73. Adolf Hitler, The Obersalzberg Speech	240	(3)
74. The Atlantic Charter	243	(1)
75. "Tojo Makes Plea of Self-Defense"	244	(4)
The Atomic Bomb: Contrasting Perceptions of Nuclear War	248	(9)
76. President Truman's Decision	249	(1)
77. A Child's View of the Bomb	250	(1)
78. William Faulker, Acceptance Speech: 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature	251	(2)
79. Edwards Teller, "Dangerous Myths About Nuclear Arms"	253	(4)
THE LATER TWENTIETH CENTURY	257	(42)
The Cold War	257	(15)
80. The Truman Doctrine	259	(4)
81. Mao Tse-tung [Mao Zedong], "The People's Democratic Dictatorship"	263	(3)
82. Korea: The Thirty-Eighth Parallel	266	(3)
83. Nikita S. Khrushchev, Address to the Twentieth Party Congress	269	(3)
Decolonization: Africa	272	(8)
84. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth	274	(1)
85. A. L. Geyer, "The Case for Apartheid"	275	(2)
86. Desmond Tutu, "The Question of South Africa"	277	(3)
The Middle East: Politics and Upheaval	280	(7)
87. Israel's Proclamation of Independence	281	(2)
88. Palestinian Declaration of Independence	283	(2)
89. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, "Message to the Pilgrims"	285	(2)
America and the Second Indochina War	287	(12)
90. Marguerite Higgins, An Interview with Ngo Dinh Diem	288	(2)
91. Views of a Viet Cong Official	290	(2)
92. An American Prisoner of War	292	(3)
93. Francois Ponchaud, Cambodia: Year Zero	295	(4)
TOWARD THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY	299
From Perestroika to a New World Order	299	(9)
94. M. Gorbachev, Perestroika	300	(4)
95. Robert L. Bartley, "The Case for Optimism: "The West Should Believe in Itself"	304	(4)
Human Rights and International Relations	308	(9)
96. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights	309	(4)
97. William F. Buckley, Jr., "Human Rights and Foreign Policy: A Proposal"	313	(3)
98. Carolyn Forche, "The Colonel"	316	(1)
Africa in the Later Twentieth Century	317	(13)
99. Kwame Nkrumah, I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology	319	(2)
100. Theresa Andrews, Letters from 1990s Bush Doctor	321	(9)
Enduring Problems	330
101. Richard Preston, "Back in the Hot Zone"	330	(4)
102. Deng Xiaoping, A Market Economy for Socialist Goals	334	(4)
103. Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus	338