The Heritage of World Civilizations

by Craig, Albert M.; Graham, William A.; Kagan, Donald; Ozment, Steven E.; Turner, Frank M.

• ISBN13: 9780130124586
• ISBN10: 0130124583
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Table of Contents

The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars
Christopher Columbus: The Letters of Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabel	175	(2)
Erasmus, Julius II Excluded	177	(2)
Martin Luther: Ninety-Five Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences	179	(4)
Luther vs. Erasmus: A reformer's attack on free will	183	(2)
John Calvin and the Elect: The cool logic of salvation	185	(3)
Africa
Ibn Battuta in Mali	188	(1)
Martin Fernandez de Figueroa, Confronting the Moors in Somalia	189	(2)
Kilwa, Mombasa, and the Portugese: Realities of empire	191	(3)
Sundiata	194	(6)
Conquest and Exploitation: The development of the Transatlantic Economy
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of Mexico	200	(1)
Bartholomew De Las Casas: Amerindians and the ``Garden of Eden''	201	(1)
Christopher Columbus, Journal of First Voyage to America	202	(1)
Bartholomew De Las Casas: Destruction of the Indies and The Only Method of Converting the Indians	203	(1)
Olaudah Equiano: The Life Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African	204	(2)
Commerce, Slavery and Religion in North Africa	206	(4)
East Africa in the Late Traditional Era
Dynastic change in China tears a family apart	210	(2)
Cheng Ho [Zheng He]: Ming maritime expeditions	212	(1)
Wu Chengen: from Monkey	213	(4)
Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji	217	(6)
No Theatre, Atsumori	223	(6)
European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict
James I: from Anglicanism	229	(1)
Thomas Macauley: from History of England, Volume I	230	(4)
G. M. Trevelyan: Chapter I from History of England Volume I	234	(2)
Louis XIV: Memoires for the Instruction of the Dauphin	236	(1)
Peter the Great: Correspondence with His son	237	(1)
Parliament takes control: England's Bill of Rights of 1689	238	(3)
European Society Under the Old Regime
G. M. Trevelyan: Chapter XIII from English Social History	241	(4)
Jonathan Swift: A Description of a City Shower	245	(1)
Mary Astell: from Some Reflections Upon Marriage	245	(5)
The Last Great Islamic Empires
The Ottomans: Empire-builders at the crossroads of three continents	250	(1)
Konstantin Mihailovic, Memorirs of a Janissary	251	(2)
Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror	253	(3)
Shah Abbas the Great: The resurgence of the Persian Empire	256	(2)
Albert Hourani: Changing relations with Europe	258	(2)
The Age of European Enlightenment
John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government	260	(2)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract	262	(2)
Adam Smith: from The Theory of Moral Sentiments	264	(2)
Charles Montesquieu: Book 4 from The Spirit of the Laws	266	(2)
Catherine the Great, The Instruction to the Commissioners for Composing a New Code of Laws	268	(3)
Revolutions in the Transatlantic World
Edmund Burke: from Speech on Conciliation with America	271	(1)
Thomas Paine: from Common Sense	272	(2)
John Adams: Thoughts on Government	274	(3)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789	277	(1)
Robespierre's Theory of Revolutionary Government, 1793	278	(1)
Edmund Burke: The Moral Imagination	278	(3)
Europe and North America 1815-1850: Political Reform, Economic Advance, and Social Unrest
Thomas MacAulay: A Radical War-Song	281	(1)
Alexis de Tocqueville: The New Social Morality	282	(1)
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits	283	(2)
Thomas Carlyle: from Signs of the Times	285	(3)
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto	288	(3)
Political Consolidation in Europe and North America
Guiseppe Mazzini: Global rebirth through Risorgimento	291	(2)
``Napoleon the Little'': A revised agenda for Bonapartism	293	(4)
Isaiah Berlin: Alexander Herzen	297	(10)
John Henry Newman: Who's to Blame?	307	(4)
Benjamin Disraeli: Utilitarian Follies	311	(2)
Irish National Identity and Destiny: Three Views	313	(3)
The Building of Northern Transatlantic Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I
Sarah Stickney Ellis 1799-1872 from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits [The Influence of Women]	316	(2)
John Stuart Mill: from The Subjection of Women	318	(2)
Bernard Shaw: Act III from Mrs. Warren's Profession	320	(4)
Gertrude Himmelfarb: from Poverty and Compassion	324	(2)
Oscar Wilde: from The Soul of Man Under Socialism	326	(3)
The Birth of Contemporary Western Thought
Charles Darwin: from The Descent of Man	329	(2)
Auguste Comte: from The Age of Ideology	331	(5)
Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum	336	(3)
Friedrich Nietzsche: from Beyond Good and Evil	339	(4)
David Friedrich Strauss: from The Life of Jesus Critically Examined	343	(2)
Wollestonecraft's torch: Emmeline Pankhurst and militant suffragism	345	(6)
Latin America: From Independence to the 1940s
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: from Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants	351	(2)
Jose Hernandez from The Gaucho Martin Fierro	353	(2)
An exiled idealist ignites the Mexican Revolution	355	(3)
Ariel: The dualistic nature of the Americas	358	(5)
India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa: The Encounter with the Modern West (1800-1945)
Lord William Bentinck: Comments on ritual murder and the limits of religious toleration	363	(1)
Gandhi: Facing the British in India	364	(1)
Rudyard Kipling, ``The White Man's Burden''	365	(1)
Gandhi: The gentle violence of ``Soul Force''	366	(5)
Jawaharlal Nehru: The second ``Founding-Father''	371	(1)
Zulu War: The fury of resistence to imperialism	372	(2)
Modern East Asia
The Taiping Rebellion	374	(1)
The Chinese Boxer uprising: Atrocities of frustration	375	(6)
Manifesto of the Chinese United League	381	(2)
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung: Chapter 1, Little Red Book	383	(1)
Ito Hirobumi: Reminiscences on the Drafting of the New Constitution	384	(2)
Tojo Makes Plea of Self-Defense	386	(2)
Imperialism and World War I
Selected Poetry	388	(1)
The perversion of technology: War in ``No Man's Land''	389	(8)
World War I: A Frenchman's Recollections	397	(1)
Sir Henry McMahon: Letter to Ali Ibn Husain	398	(1)
The Balfour Declaration	399	(1)
Woodrow Wilson, Speech on the Fourteen Points	399	(2)
Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal
V.I. Lenin: Tasks of the Youth Leagues: Bourgeois and Communist Morality	401	(2)
Nodezhda K. Krupskaya: What a Communist Ought to Be Like	403	(2)
Anna Akhmatova: Requiem	405	(3)
Benito Mussolini: from The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism	408	(1)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Praising the First Hundred Days and Boosting the NRA	409	(4)
World War II
Adolph Hitler: The Obsersalzberg Speech	413	(1)
Winston Churchill: Their Finest Hour-House of Commons, 18 June 1940	414	(4)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Call for Sacrifice-28 April 1942	418	(4)
Eleanor Roosevelt: from My Day	422	(1)
Hidecki Tojo's Imperial War Conference: Casting the die	423	(5)
The Atlantic Charter	428	(2)
The West Since World War II
Whitaker Chambers: Foreward in the Form of a Letter to My Children	430	(2)
George Kennan: from Memoirs: 1925-1950	432	(2)
Address by President Kennedy on the Cuban Missile Crisis	434	(3)
Murray Kempton: from Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events	437	(1)
Francis Fukuyama: from The End of History	438	(5)
Pope John Paul II: Centesimus Annus	443	(3)
East Asia in the Late Twentieth Century
Postwar Japan	446	(3)
Mao Zedong: Poems	449	(1)
Beijing 1989: The square of shattered hopes	450	(2)
Mang Ke: Ape Herd	452	(4)
Marguerite Higgins: An interview with Ngo Dinh Diem	456	(1)
Views of a Viet Cong Official	457	(2)
The Emerging Nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Since 1945
Kwame Nkrumah, I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology	459	(1)
Amilcar Cabral: the force of the intellect	460	(3)
Julius Nyerere's path of Ujamaa	463	(3)
Nelson Mandela: The ultimate conquest	466	(1)
African Women: An overlooked factor?	467	(4)
Moncada: The beginnings of Fidelismo	471