Sources for a History of Western Society Since 1300

by Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.; Crowston, Clare Haru; Perry, Joe; McKay, John P.

• ISBN13: 9781319265878
• ISBN10: 1319265871
• Edition: 13th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-09-09
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Sources for Western Society provides a variety of primary sources to accompany A History of Western Society, Thirteenth Edition. With over thirty new selections – including several compelling visual sources – and enhanced pedagogy throughout, students are given the tools to engage critically with canonical and lesser known sources. Each chapter includes a Sources in Conversation feature that asks students to analyze aspects of differing views on key topics.

Sources for Western Society is included with the LaunchPad for A History of Western Society. In LaunchPad for A History of Western Society, 13e, which combines ebooks for A History of Western Society and Sources for Western Society in a central course space, innovative auto-graded exercises accompanying the reader’s documents and visuals supply a distinctive and sophisticated pedagogy that not only helps students understand the sources but think critically about them. Sources for Western Society is also available to customize through Bedford Select.

Table of Contents

Please Note: Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16, Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30, and Since 1300 includes Chapters 11-30.

CHAPTER 11 The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450

11-1 The Psychological and Emotional Impact of the Plague

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, The Decameron: The Plague Hits Florence (ca. 1350)

11-2 A Town Chronicler Describes the Black Death

AGNOLO DI TURA, Sienese Chronicle (1348-1351)

11-3 Social and Economic Unrest in England

The Anonimalle Chronicle: The English Peasants’ Revolt (1381)

11-4 Popular Religious Responses to the Plague

Flagellants in the Netherlands Town of Tournai (1349)

Sources in Conversation

Women and Power

11-5 CATHERINE OF SIENA, Letter to Gregory XI (1372)

11-6 The Debate over Joan of Arc’s Clothes (1429)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 12 European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550

12-1 An Italian Admirer of the Classical Past

PETRARCH, Letter to Livy (1350)

12-2 Power Politics During the Italian Renaissance

NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, The Prince (1513)

12-3 A Description of the Ideal Courtier

BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, The Book of the Courtier (1528)

12-4 A Humanist Prescription for the Education of Princes

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516)

12-5 A Female Author Argues for the Education of Women

CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, The Book of the City of Ladies: Against Those Men Who Claim It Is Not Good for Women to Be Educated (1404)

Sources in Conversation

A Female Painter Tells Stories About Women

12-6 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Susannah and the Elders (1610)

12-7 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Judith and Holofernes (1612)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 13 Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500-1600

13-1 Martin Luther Takes a Stand

MARTIN LUTHER, Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences (1517)

13-2 Reformation Propaganda

HANS HOLBEING THE YOUNGER, Luther as the German Hercules (ca. 1519)

Sources in Conversation

The War on Witches

13-3 HEINRICH KRAMER, Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) (1487)

13-4 JEAN BODIN, On the Demon-Mania of Witches (1580)

13-5 Calvin Defines His Protestant Vision

JOHN CALVIN, The Institutes of Christian Religion (1559)

13-6 Training the Soldiers of Christ

IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Rules for Right Thinking (1548)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 14 European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650

14-1 Columbus Sets the Context for His Voyage

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Diario (1492)

14-2 Cortés Describes the Conquest of the Aztecs

Hernán Cortés, Two Letters to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs (1521)

Sources in Conversation

The Slave Trade in Africa

14-3 ALVISE DA CA’DA MOSTO, Description of Capo Bianco and the Islands Nearest to It: Fifteenth- Century Slave Trade in West Africa (1455-1456)

14-4 KING NZINGA MBEMBA AFFONSO OF CONGO, Letters on the Slave Trade (1526)

14-5 Circumnavigating the Globe

Navigation and Voyage Which Ferdinand Magellan Made from Seville to Maluco in the Year 1519 (1519-1522)

14-6 A Critique of European "Superiority"

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Of Cannibals (1580)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 15 Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589-1725

15-1 A French King Establishes Limited Religious Toleration

HENRY IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)

15-2 An Argument for the Divine Right of Kings

JEAN DOMAT, Of the Government and General Policy of a State (1689)

15-3 The English Place Limits on Monarchical Power

The Bill of Rights (1689)

15-4 A Tsar Imposes Western Styles on the Russians

PETER THE GREAT, Edicts and Decrees (1699-1723)

Sources in Conversation

The Commonwealth and the State of Nature

15-5 THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan (1651)

15-6 JOHN LOCKE, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution (1690)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 16 Toward a New Worldview, 1540-1789

16-1 A New Model of the Solar System

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1542)

16-2 A Defense of Science

FRANCIS BACON, On Superstition and the Virtue of Science (1620)

16-3 A Defense of a Sun-Centered Universe

GALILEO GALILEI, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany (1615)

Sources in Conversation

Monarchical Power and Responsibility

16-4 CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers (1748)

16-5 JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will (1762)

16-6 A Philosophe Argues for Religious Toleration

VOLTAIRE, A Treatise on Toleration (1763)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 17 The Expansion of Europe, 1650-1800

17-1 The "Potato Revolution"

WILLIAM SALMON, The Family Dictionary, or Household Companion (1695) and THOMAS RUGGLES, Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts (1792)

17-2 Defining and Defending Mercantilism

THOMAS MUN, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)

17-3 Critiquing Mercantilism

ADAM SMITH, The Wealth of Nations (1776)

Sources in Conversation

The Moral Implications of Expansion

17-4 OLAUDAH EQUIANO, A Description of the Middle Passage (1789)

17-5 ROBERT, FIRST BARON CLIVE, Speech in the House of Commons on India (1772)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 18 Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650-1800

18-1 The Dangers of Eighteenth-Century Life

EDMOND WILLIAMSON, Births and Deaths in an English Gentry Family (1709-1720)

18-2 Embracing Innovation in Medicine

MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, On Smallpox Inoculations (ca. 1717)

18-3 Shaping Young Minds and Bodies

JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

Sources in Conversation

The Challenge to Established Religion in the 1700s

18-4 JOHN WESLEY, The Ground Rules for Methodism (1749)

18-5 THOMAS PAINE, The Age of Reason (1794)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 19 Revolutions in Politics, 1775-1815

19-1 An Englishman Describes the Suffering of the Third Estate

ARTHUR YOUNG, Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 (1787-1789)

Sources in Conversation

Imagining a New France

19-2 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)

19-3 The Law of 22 Prairial (1794)

19-4 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, The Napoleonic Code (1804)

19-5 Challenging the Limits of Equality

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

19-6 The Revolution in the French Colonies

FRANÇOIS DOMINIQUE TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE, A Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti (1797)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 20 The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780-1850

20-1 Predicting a Population Catastrophe

THOMAS MALTHUS, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

Sources in Conversation

Life as an Industrial Worker at Midcentury

20-2 FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1844)

20-3 Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)

20-4 NED LUDD, Yorkshire Textile Workers Threaten a Factory Owner (ca. 1811-1812)

20-5 Creating an Industrial Utopia

ROBERT OWEN, A New View of Society (1813)

20-6 Child Labor in an Industrial Age

The Child of the Factory (1842)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 21 Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850

21-1 Touting the Values of Industrial Technology

ANDREW URE, The Philosophy of the Manufacturers (1835)

Sources in Conversation

Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism

21-2 KLEMENS VON METTERNICH, Political Confession of Faith (1820)

21-3 JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty (1859)

21-4 KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

21-5 Following Mademoiselle Liberté

EUGÈNE DELACROIX, Liberty Leading the People (1830)

21-6 Workers Demand the Vote

The People’s Charter (1838)

21-7 The Misery of the Potato Famine

WILLIAM STEUART TRENCH, Realities of Irish Life (1847)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 22 Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840-1914

22-1 Sanitation and Public Health

SIR EDWIN CHADWICK, Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Poor (1842)

22-2 Life in London’s East End

JACK LONDON, The People of the Abyss (1902)

Sources in Conversation

Separate Spheres

22-3 ISABELLA BEETON, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861)

22-4 Dressing the Respectable Woman (ca. 1890)

22-5 EMMELINE PANKHURST, My Own Story (1914)

22-6 A New Creation Story

CHARLES DARWIN, The Descent of Man (1871)

22-7 Weeding Out the Weak

HERBERT SPENCER, Social Statics: Survival of the Fittest Applied to Humankind (1851)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 23 The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914

23-1 Romantic Nationalism in Italy

A Good Offer (1860)

Sources in Conversation

Nationalism and the Conservative Order

23-2 GIUSEPPE MAZZINI, On Nationality (1852)

23-3 OTTO VON BISMARCK, Speech Before the Reichstag: On the Law for Workers’ Compensation (1884)

23-4 A Revolution in Paris

JOHN LEIGHTON, Paris Under the Commune (1871)

23-5 An Indictment of France’s Military Elite

ÉMILE ZOLA, "J’Accuse" the French Army (1898)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 24 The West and the World, 1815-1914

Sources in Conversation

Economic Imperialism and Military Expansion

24-1 COMMISSIONER LIN ZEXU, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)

24-2 EVELYN BARIN, EARL OF CROMER, Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882 (1908)

24-3 British Conquests in Africa

The Rhodes Colossus (1892)

24-4 A White Explorer in Black Africa

HENRY MORTON STANLEY, Autobiography (1909)

24-5 An Anti-Imperialist Pamphlet

MARK TWAIN, King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)

24-6 Questioning the Economics of Imperialism

J. A. HOBSON, Imperialism (1902)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 25 War and Revolution, 1914-1919

Sources in Conversation

World War I in the Trenches and in the Air

25-1 HENRI BARBUSSE, The Story of a Squad (1916)

25-2 Klaxon Horn Used to Warn of Gas Attacks (1917)

25-3 Is YOUR Home Worth Fighting For? (1915)

25-4 Women and the War

HELENA SWANWICK, The War in Its Effect upon Women (1916)

25-5 Preparing for the Coming Revolution

VLADIMIR I. LENIN, What Is to Be Done? (1902)

25-6 Making the World Safe for Democracy

WOODROW WILSON, The Fourteen Points (1918)

25-7 The Bitter Taste of Defeat

A Defeated Germany Contemplates the Peace Treaty (1919)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 26 The Age of Anxiety, 1880-1940

26-1 Discovering the Self

SIGMUND FREUD, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)

26-2 The Great Depression in America

Unemployed Men Arrive at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. (1932)

26-3 An Analysis of the Versailles Treaty

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)

26-4 Postwar Economic Crisis in Germany

Hyperinflation in Germany (1923)

Sources in Conversation

The Great Depression in Great Britain and Germany

26-5 OSCAR DE LACY AND LILY WEBB, Hunger March Speeches (1932)

26-6 HEINRICH HAUSER, With the Unemployed in Germany (1933)

26-7 German Communist Party Poster (1932)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 27 Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919-1945

27-1 A Culture of Paranoia and Coercion

VLADIMIR TCHERNAVIN, I Speak for the Silent (1930)

27-2 Stalin Touts the Successes of the Five-Year Plans

JOSEPH STALIN, Speech Given to the Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow (1946)

Sources in Conversation

Propaganda and the Totalitarian State

27-3 ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf: The Art of Propaganda (1924)

27-4 Soviet Propaganda Posters (1941 and 1945)

27-5 Freedom’s Last Line of Defense

WINSTON CHURCHILL, Speech Before the House of Commons (June 18, 1940)

27-6 Legislating Racial Purity

The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation (1935)

27-7 The First Steps Toward a "Final Solution"

ALFRED ROSENBERG, The Jewish Question as a World Problem (1941)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 28 Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945-1965

28-1 The United States Rebuilds Europe

GEORGE C. MARSHALL, An American Plan to Rebuild a Shattered Europe (June 5, 1947)

28-2 The Stalinist Gulag

ALEXANDER SOLHENITSYN, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Sources in Conversation

Debating the "Iron Curtain"

28-3 WINSTON CHURCHILL, "Sinews of Peace" Speech (March 5, 1946)

28-4 JOSEPH STALIN, Interview Regarding Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech (March 14, 1946)

28-5 An Argument for Women’s Equality

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, The Second Sex (1949)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 29 Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960-1991

Sources in Conversation

Reforming Socialist Societies

29-1 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, Perestroika: A Soviet Leader Calls for Change (1987)

29-2 VÁCLAV HAVEL, New Year’s Address to the Nation (1990)

29-3 Tiananmen Square: Resistance to the Power of the State

JEFF WIDENER, Tank Man (1989)

29-4 Women Demand Fundamental Change

BETTY FRIEDAN, Statement of Purpose of the National Organization for Women: Defining Full Equality (1966)

29-5 Resisting through Unionization

LECH WALESA, Letter to the Council of State (1986)

Comparative and Discussion Questions

CHAPTER 30 Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present

Sources in Conversation

Islam Versus the West?

30-1 AMARTYA SEN, A World Not Neatly Divided (November 23, 2001)

30-2 ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH, Militant Secularism (2007)

30-3 Protesting Globalization

A Greenpeace Activist at the G8 Summit (2001)

30-4 Arab Spring

A Tunisian Woman Casts Her Vote (2011)

30-5 Rising Nationalism: Britain Votes to Leave the European Union

NIGEL FARAGE AND OTHERS, Outcome of the Referendum in the United Kingdom (2016)

Comparative and Discussion Questions