Sources of World History, Volume II

by Kishlansky, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780534586904
• ISBN10: 0534586902
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-14
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

From constitutional documents, political theory, and philosophy to imaginative literature and social description, you'll find fascinating primary source material in SOURCES OF WORLD HISTORY VOLUME II. Each selection is included for its ability to raise a significant issue and includes works representative of major civilization complexes (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Islamic world, and Western civilization).

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
How to Read a Document	xxi
How to Read a Visual	xxix
PART IV The World of Travelers and Traders
Monarchy and Revolution	380	(19)
True Law of a Free Monarchy	381	(4)
James I
A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579)	385	(5)
Philippe Duplessis-Mornay
The Putney Debates (1647)	390	(5)
Sir William Clarke
Memoirs (1694--1723)	395	(4)
Duc De Saint-Simon
The New Science	399	(10)
The Two New Sciences	400	(5)
Galileo Galilei
Discourse on Method (1637)	405	(4)
Rene Descartes
Empires of Goods	409	(14)
The Rise and Decline of Flora (ca. 1637)	410	(4)
Anonymous
England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)	414	(4)
Thomas Mun
The Wealth of Nations (1776)	418	(5)
Adam Smith
Asia Alone	423	(22)
Hagakure (The Book of the Samurai) (1716)	424	(3)
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A Secret Plan for Managing the Country (1798)	427	(3)
Honda Toshiaki
Letter from China (1683)	430	(4)
Ferdinand Verbiest
A Eulogy for the Emperor (1722)	434	(4)
K'ang-hsi
The Scholars (1750)	438	(7)
Wu Ching-tzu
The European Enlightenment	445	(17)
The Social Contract (1762)	446	(3)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On Crimes and Punishments (1764)	449	(3)
Cesare Beccaria
The Declaration of Independence (1776)	452	(3)
Thomas Jefferson
Progress of the Human Mind (1793)	455	(3)
Marquis de Condorcet
Spirit of the Laws (1748)	458	(4)
Montesquieu
The French Revolution	462	(14)
What Is the Third Estate? (1789)	463	(5)
Abbe De Sieyes
The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) and The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)	468	(4)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)	472	(4)
Edmund Burke
Travelers to the East and West	476	(36)
A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689 (1689)	477	(3)
John Ovington
The Hai-Lu (1783--1797)	480	(3)
Hsieh Ch'ing Kao
Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan (1811--1813)	483	(4)
Vasilii Galovnin
Notes on the French Slave Trade (1784--1785)	487	(5)
Joseph Crassons de Medeuil
Travels in Ethiopia and Other Countries (1751)	492	(3)
Vaclav (Remedius) Prutky
Journals (1769)	495	(4)
Captain James Cook
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)	499	(4)
Olaudah Equiano
Social Customs of the Muslims (1794)	503	(5)
Dean Mahomed
Journal at the Court of King George III (1809--1810)	508	(4)
Abul Hassan
PART V Industrialism and Imperialism
The Industrial Revolution in Britain	512	(17)
Political Arithmetic (1774)	513	(3)
Arthur Young
Self-Help (1859)	516	(4)
Samuel Smiles
Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor (1842)	520	(4)
Sir Edwin Chadwick
The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845)	524	(5)
Friedrich Engels
Critiquing Industrial Society	529	(12)
On Liberty (1859)	530	(3)
John Stuart Mill
What Is Property? (1840)	533	(4)
Pierre Proudhon
The Great Charter (1842)	537	(4)
Communist Manifesto (1848)	541	(13)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
The Origin of Species (1859)	545	(5)
Charles Darwin
The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)	550	(4)
Sigmund Freud
Controlling Latin America	554	(13)
Jamaican Letter (1815)	555	(3)
Simon Bolivar
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)	558	(4)
Two Views of Porfirio Diaz (1910--1912)	562	(5)
India under British Rule	567	(9)
A Description of Calcutta (ca. 1800)	568	(2)
Muhabbat Khan
On the Proposed East India Juries Bill (1833)	570	(3)
Ram Mohun Roy
The Azamgarh Proclamation (1857)	573	(3)
Japan's Opening to the West	576	(16)
The Anatomy Lesson (1815)	577	(2)
Gempaku Sugita
Advice About the Policy of Isolation (1853)	579	(3)
Naosuke Ii
Washington in 1860 (1860)	582	(2)
Norimasa Muragaki
Going into Business (1873)	584	(3)
Shibizawa Eiichi
The Meiji Constitution (1889)	587	(5)
Imperialism	592	(24)
Imperialism (1902)	593	(2)
J. A. Hobson
The White Man's Burden (1899)	595	(2)
Rudyard Kipling
Shooting an Elephant (1936)	597	(4)
George Orwell
A Commentary on the Commentator (1881)	601	(5)
Sayyid Jamal ad Din al-Afghani
Missionary Labors and Scenes in Southern Africa (1846)	606	(3)
Robert Moffat
Social Life of the Swahilis (late 19th century)	609	(7)
Carl Veltin
PART VI The Modern World
The First World War	616	(10)
Storm of Steel (1920)	617	(3)
Ernst Junger
The Fourteen Points (1918)	620	(2)
Woodrow Wilson
What Is to Be Done? (1902)	622	(4)
V. I. Lenin
East Meets West	626	(15)
Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria (1839)	627	(3)
Lin Tse-Hsu
Of Women's Hair (1894)	630	(3)
Lafcadio Hearn
On Japanese Women (1885)	633	(3)
Fukuzawa Yukichi
Fundamentals of National Reconstruction (1923)	636	(5)
Sun Yat-Sen
The Soviet Union	641	(19)
Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations (1921)	642	(5)
Alexandra Kollontai
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)	647	(4)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Iron Curtain (1946)	651	(5)
Winston Churchill
Report to the Communist Party Congress (1961)	656	(4)
Nikita Khrushchev
Generations of Cultural Protest	660	(16)
A Room of One's Own (1929)	661	(4)
Virginia Woolf
Existentialism (1946)	665	(3)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Second Sex (1949)	668	(4)
Simone De Beauvoir
Songs (1962--1965)	672	(4)
Bob Dylan
The Second World War	676	(13)
Mein Kampf (1923)	677	(4)
Adolf Hitler
Speeches (1940)	681	(4)
Winston Churchill
Charter of the United Nations (1946)	685	(4)
India and Independence	689	(14)
The Condition of India (1901)	690	(4)
Dadabhai Naoroji
Hind Swaraj (1938)	694	(5)
Mohandas Gandhi
Two Nations (1940)	699	(4)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Struggles for National Liberation	703	(44)
On Letting a Hundred Flowers Blossom (1957)	704	(4)
Mao Zedong
Selected Writings (1945, 1968)	708	(4)
Ho Chi Minh
A Republican Form of Government (1960)	712	(4)
Kwame Nkrumah
Revolution in the Revolution? (1967)	716	(3)
Regis Debray
The Arab-Israeli Conflict (1967)	719	(5)
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (1972)	724	(5)
Athol Fugard
My Vision for South Africa (1979)	729	(2)
Desmond Tutu
Ake (1981)	731	(6)
Wole Soyinka
Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (1974)	737	(5)
Report of the 9/11 Commission (2004)	742	(5)
The Japanese Miracle	747	(24)
The Constitution of Japan (1947)	748	(6)
An Ideal Portrait of Twentieth-Century Japan (1954)	754	(5)
Kamei Katsuichiro
Big Business in Japanese Politics (1968)	759	(3)
Chitoshi Yanaga
Japanese Rhythms (1984)	762	(3)
Donald Richie
Japan's Gross National Cool (2002)	765	(6)
Douglas McGray
Literary Credits	771	(8)
Photo Credits	779