Primary Source Reader for World History, Volume II Since 1500

by Nystrom, Elsa

• ISBN13: 9780495006107
• ISBN10: 0495006106
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-24
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Save money with PRIMARY SOURCE READER FOR WORLD HISTORY, VOLUME II, SINCE 1500! Brief and inexpensive, this primary source reader gives you a broad perspective of the history of the world. Readings are divided into parts covering eras and are organized according to themes such as religion, law and government, and everyday life. Each individual reading has a head note and study questions to guide your reading and understanding of the content.

Table of Contents

PART III RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY---1500-1750 CE
Religion and Philosophy---1500-1750 CE	263	(36)
From In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus---1509	264	(4)
From The Freedom of a Christian by Martin Luther---1520	268	(4)
From Spiritual Exercises by Ignatius Loyola---1541	272	(3)
From Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin---1534	275	(6)
From Royal Commentaries of the Inca by Garcilaso de la Vega---1609	281	(3)
From Relation of the Things of Yucatan by Bishop Diego de Landa---16th century	284	(2)
A Muslim Explains the Hindu Religion by Abul Fazl Akbarnama---16th century	286	(5)
From The Life of St. Teresa---1611	291	(4)
``On the Necessity of the Wager'' From Pensees by Blaise Pascal---1660	295	(4)
Law, Government, and War---1500-1750 CE	299	(22)
From The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli---1513	300	(2)
From Turkish Letters by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq---1589	302	(2)
Rules for Peasant Life in Japan---1619	304	(2)
Laws Governing the Military Households by Tokugawa Hidetada---1615	306	(3)
Russian Law Code---1649	309	(3)
From Self-Portrait of a Chinese Emperor by K'ang Hsi---1654--1722	312	(4)
The Ideal Muslim Prince, Aurangzeb---1658-1707	316	(5)
Science, Medicine, and Technology---1500-1750 CE	321	(24)
From The Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei---1638	322	(4)
``Problems of Medical Research'' From De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius---1543	326	(6)
On the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds by Ambroise Pare---1575	332	(4)
The Art of Printing in China by Matteo Ricci---16th century	336	(2)
Prescriptions for Mrs. Lucia Troute by William Harvey---1652	338	(3)
From Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton---1704	341	(4)
Daily Life in the Age of Change---1500-1750 CE	345	(16)
From A General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes---1535-1537	346	(2)
``Marriage Customs in 16th Century Russia'' From Notes on Russia by Sigismund von Herberstein---1549	348	(2)
From History and Description of Africa by Leo Africanus---1550	350	(1)
Turkish Women, Turkish Letters by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq---1555-1561	351	(2)
On Marriage by Martin Luther---1566	353	(2)
African Women in 17th Century Benin by Samuel Blommaart---1688	355	(2)
From The Book of the Samurai (Hagakure) by Tsunetomo Yamamoto---1716	357	(4)
Arts and Culture Age of Change---1500-1750 CE	361	(18)
Four Poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti---16th century	362	(2)
From L'Envoi by Giordano Bruno---16th Century	364	(1)
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare---ca. 1600	365	(2)
From ``The Anatomy of the World'' by John Donne---1611	367	(2)
From Book of Travels by Evliya Celebi---17th century	369	(3)
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift---1729	372	(7)
Religion and Philosophy---1750-1914 CE	379	(32)
From The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau---1762	380	(4)
Treatise on Toleration by Voltaire---1763	384	(3)
On Crimes and Punishment by Cesare Beccaria---1764	387	(4)
From The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith---1776	391	(4)
From The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel---1832	395	(4)
From The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels---1848	399	(5)
Life at High Pressure by W.R. Greg---1875	404	(7)
Law, Government, Revolution, and War---1750-1914 CE	411	(28)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man---1789	412	(2)
The Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges---1791	414	(4)
Jamaican Letter by Simon Bolivar---1815	418	(4)
Account of the Emancipation of the Serfs by Prince Kropotkin---1861-1862	422	(2)
The Meiji Constitution---1889	424	(7)
On the Russian Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin---1899-1917	431	(2)
The Plan of Ayala by Emiliano Zapata---1911	433	(3)
Early Zionist Thought by Nahum Goldman---1913	436	(3)
Science, Medicine, and Technology---1750-1914 CE	439	(20)
The Anatomy Lesson by Genpaku Sugita---1815	440	(3)
The First Surgical Operation Under Ether by Crawford Long---1842	443	(2)
From The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin---1859	445	(6)
Child-Bed Fever by Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis---1861	451	(3)
From The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud---1899	454	(5)
Daily Life in the Age of Revolution and Empire---1750-1914 CE	459	(22)
The Hai Lu, A Chinese Seaman's Account of Europe by Hsieh Ch'ing Kao---1783-1797	460	(3)
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano---1789	463	(4)
An Indian Scholar Describes Calcutta by Nawab Muhabat Khan---ca. 1800	467	(3)
Modernizing Japan's Economy by Shibusawa Eiichi---1873	470	(3)
From On Japanese Women by Fukuzawa Yukichi---1885	473	(4)
Things Falls Apart by Chinua Achebe---1900	477	(4)
Arts and Culture---1750-1914 CE	481	(20)
The Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Ch'in---18th century	482	(5)
Of Women's Hair by Lafcadio Hearn---1894	487	(4)
``The White Man's Burden'' by Rudyard Kipling---1899	491	(2)
``Prayer to Thunder,'' a Navajo Night Chant---20th century	493	(4)
A Mother to Her First Born (Lango, Uganda)---Not determined	497	(4)
Religion and Philosophy---1914-Present	501	(28)
From ``Existentialism and Humanism'' by Jean-Paul Sartre---1948	502	(5)
From The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir---1949	507	(5)
The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz---1961	512	(3)
A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez---1973	515	(4)
Liberation Theology by Archbishop Oscar Romero---1979	519	(3)
The Nobel Peace Prize Address by Mother Teresa---1979	522	(7)
Law, Government, Revolution, and War---1914-Present	529	(34)
The Doctrine of the Sword by Mohandas K. Gandhi---1920	530	(3)
On African Nationalism by Marcus Garvey---1923	533	(2)
``Strength means to excel in the profession of death. . .'' by Sami Shawkat---1933	535	(2)
The First Arab Students' Congress Manifesto---1938	537	(2)
Problems of China's Revolutionary War by Mao Zedong---1936	539	(5)
From Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler---1924	544	(3)
Britain Converts to a Welfare State---1942-1948	547	(3)
The Resurgence of Islam by Hasan Al-Bana---ca. 1940s	550	(2)
The Kenya Africa Union Is Not the Mau Mau by Jomo Kenyatta---1952	552	(3)
Program for Cuba by Fidel Castro---1956	555	(2)
My vision for South Africa by Desmond Tutu---1979	557	(3)
The Resurgence of Islam by Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari---ca. 1980s	560	(3)
Science, Medicine, and Technology---1914-Present	563	(20)
The First Poison Gas Attack---1915	565	(4)
The Bombing of Hiroshima---1945	569	(4)
Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident by Richard P. Feynman---1988	573	(1)
Silent Spring---1962---Rachel Carson	574	(3)
From A Scenario for America and the World by Herman Kahn, William Brown, and Leon Martel---1976	577	(6)
Daily Life in the Postmodern World---1914-Present	583	(24)
Memories of Childhood by Yevgeny Yevtushenko---1938	584	(2)
A Palestinian Exile Remembers by Fawzi Turki---1948	586	(2)
The Age of Women in Japan by Keiko Higuchi---1980	588	(5)
The Revolution that Failed Women by Zand Dokht---1981	593	(2)
A Chinese Peasant Maps His Road to Wealth by Wang Xin---1984	595	(4)
Traditional Versus Nuclear Families in Modern India---1985	599	(4)
The Women of Uganda by Jane Perlez---1991	603	(4)
Arts and Culture in the Post Modern World---1914-Present	607
``Munition Wages,'' a Musical Parody by Madeline Ida Bedford---1917	608	(1)
``Counter-Attack'' by Siegfried Sassoon---1918	609	(2)
From The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger---1920	611	(4)
From All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque---1929	615	(4)
From Wild Grass by Lu Xun---1927	619	(3)
Poems by Leopold Sedar Senghor---1950s	622	(4)
I Lived to Tell the Horrors of Treblinka---1944	626	(3)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn---1962	629