Documents in World History: The Modern Centuries : From 1500 to the Present

by Stearns, Peter N.; Gosch, Stephen S.; Grieshaber, Erwin P.; Stearns, Peter N.; Gosch, Stephen S.

• ISBN13: 9780321038579
• ISBN10: 0321038576
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This popular collection offers original sources on many areas, periods, and topics in World history, including a number of unusual sources not commonly available in other collections.

Table of Contents

Geographical Contents	ix
Topical Contents	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
Section One The Early Modern Period, Centuries of Dramatic Change: 1500-1750	9	(62)
Western Civilization
New Tensions in the Western Political Tradition: Absolutism and Parliament	11	(4)
Bishop Bossuet
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: New Intellectual Standards in the West	15	(6)
Isaac Newton
John Locke
Cesare Beccaria
Russian Society
Peter the Great Reforms Russia	21	(5)
New Empires in Asia
Suleiman the Lawgiver and Ottoman Military Power	26	(6)
Suleiman
Ambassador Busbecq
Babur and the Establishment of Mughal Rule in India	32	(6)
Confucian Ideals in Ming China: A Set of Family Instructions	38	(7)
Latin American Civilization
Economy and Society in Latin America	45	(4)
Antonio Vasquez de Espinosa
Political Styles in Latin America: Colonial Bureaucracy	49	(3)
Jorge Juan
Antonio De Ulloa
Baroque Culture in Latin America	52	(5)
Sister Juana Inez de la Cruz
Carlos de Siguenzay Gongora
Sub-Saharan Africa
Global Contacts: Africa and the European Slave Trade	57	(5)
Monsieur Morice
J. Crassons de Medeuil
Global Contacts: The Columbian Exchange in the Early Modern Period	62	(9)
Bernardino de Sahagun
Antonio Vasquez de Espinosa
John Locke
Robert Boyle
Adam Smith
Section Two The Long Nineteenth Century: 1750--1914	71	(80)
Western Civilization and New Outposts
Work and Workers in the Industrial Revolution	73	(6)
Max Lotz
The Expansion of Frontier Societies	79	(7)
Henry Eno's
Brigham Young
John McCance's
Russia
Russian Peasants: Serfdom and Emancipation	86	(5)
Alexander Radischev
Asia
China and the West: Opium and ``Self-Strengthening''	91	(7)
Lin Tse-hsu
Feng Kuei-fen
Language, Religion, and National Identity in India	98	(5)
Rammohun Roy
Maulvi Syed Kutb Shah Sahib
The Tanzimat Reforms in the Ottoman Empire	103	(5)
Latin America
Independence and Consolidation of New States (1810--1914)	108	(9)
Simon Bolivar
Gabino Barreda
Profirio Diaz
Economy and Society of Latin America: ``Slavery'' on the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan	117	(4)
Channing Arnold
Frederick Tabor Frost
Literature and Cultural Values: ``Civilization and Barbarism''	121	(5)
Domingo Sarmiento
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Decades of Imperialism in Africa	126	(5)
Swahili
John Noble
Lewis Michell
Forces of Change
The Spread of Mass Education: Sources and Comparisons	131	(9)
Horace Mann
Noah Webster
Yukichi Fukuzawa
Global Contacts: Nineteenth-Century Sports	140	(11)
Pierre de Coubertin
Ana W. Amelia
Section Three The Twentieth Century	151	(2)
Western Civilization
The Twentieth-Century Western State	153	(6)
Adolf Hitler
The Feminist Revolt	159	(5)
Simone de Beauvoir
Soviet Society
Lenin and the Russian Revolution	164	(5)
Lenin
Stalin and the Soviet Union During the 1930s: Progress and Terror	169	(6)
Joseph Stalin
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The Collapse of the Soviet Union	175	(10)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Middle East
Ziya Gokalp: Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization	185	(6)
Ziya Gokalp
Middle Eastern Dreams in Conflict: The Views of an Early Zionist and a Palestinian Refugee	191	(5)
Nahum Goldman
Fawaz Turki
The Resurgence of Islam	196	(6)
Hasan al-Banna
Ayatullah Murtada Mutahhari
East Asia
Chinese Revolutionaries: Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong	202	(6)
Sun Yat-sen
Mao Zedong
A Chinese Peasant Maps His Road to Wealth	208	(5)
Wang Xin
Changing Gender Relations in Modern Japan	213	(5)
Higuchi Keiko
India
Gandhi and Modern India	218	(5)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Jinnah and the Founding of Pakistan	223	(4)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Love and Marriage in Modern India	227	(7)
Madhu Kishwar
Latin America
Twentieth-Century Latin American Politics: The Revolutionary Challenge	234	(7)
Emiliano Zapata
Peronist Unions
Fidel Castro
Searching for the Soul of the Latin American Experience	241	(5)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sub-Saharan Africa
African Nationalism	246	(7)
Marcus Garvey
Jomo Kenyatta
Kwame Nkrumah
Changes in African Culture and Society	253	(13)
Chinua Achebe
Perdita Huston
Ifi Amadiume
Forces of Change
The Environment in the Twentieth Century: A Disaster Story	266	(7)
Grigorii Medvedev
Global Contacts: The Emergence of Multinational Companies	273