Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, A Concise History Volume II: Since 1340

by Hunt, Lynn; Martin, Thomas R.; Rosenwein, Barbara H.; Hsia, R. Po-chia; Smith, Bonnie G.; Lualdi, Katharine J.

• ISBN13: 9780312416942
• ISBN10: 0312416946
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-26
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Sources of the Making of the West, A Concise History, Second Edition offers more options for working with sources. Each chapter now includes five sources that are tightly integrated with the text and that echo the narrative's balance of people and places. With 35% more documents, including new visual images, the companion reader offers instructors maximum flexibility for document-based teaching. New comparative questions help students draw connections across documents. Free when packaged with the text.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction: Working with Historical Sources	vii
CHAPTER 11 Crisis and Renaissance, 1340-1500	1	(15)
1. The Black Death (Fourteenth Century)	1	(4)
2. Thomas Walsingham, Peasant Rebels in London (1381)	5	(3)
3. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)	8	(2)
4. Bernardino of Siena, An Italian Preacher: Sins against Nature (1380-1444)	10	(2)
5. Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Chronicle of the Discovery of Guinea (c. 1453)	12	(4)
CHAPTER 12 Struggles over Beliefs, 1500-1648	16	(22)
1. Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520)	16	(2)
2. Saint Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553)	18	(3)
3. Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of a Simpleton (1668-1669)	21	(3)
4. Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)	24	(3)
5. Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)	27	(4)
6. The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652)	31	(7)
CHAPTER 13 State Building and the Search for Order, 1648-1690	38	(14)
1. Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694-1723)	38	(3)
2. British Parliament, The English Bill of Rights (1689)	41	(2)
3. Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670)	43	(3)
4. A True and Exact Relation of the Raising of the Siege of Vienna (1683)	46	(3)
5. Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves (1678)	49	(3)
CHAPTER 14 The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1690-1740	52	(18)
1. Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789)	52	(3)
2. Tsar Peter I, Letter to His Son, Alexei (October 11, 1715); and Alexei's Response (October 31, 1715)	55	(3)
3. Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)	58	(2)
4. Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706)	60	(5)
5. Pietist Spiritual Songbook (1705)	65	(5)
CHAPTER 15 The Promise of Enlightenment, 1740-1789	70	(15)
1. Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin and M. d'Alembert, The Salon of Madame Geoffrin (1765)	70	(3)
2. Jacques-Louis Ménétra, Journal of My Life (1764-1802)	73	(2)
3. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)	75	(4)
4. Frederick II, Political Testament (1752)	79	(2)
5. Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776	81	(4)
CHAPTER 16 The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815	85	(18)
1. Abbé Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789)	85	(5)
2. National Assembly, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)	90	(2)
3. Olympe de Gouges, Letters on the Trial (1793)	92	(4)
4. Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Napoleon in Egypt (1798)	96	(3)
5. Napoleon Bonaparte, Instructions and Letters (1805-1809)	99	(4)
CHAPTER 17 Industrialization and Social Ferment, 1815-1850	103	(16)
1. T.B. Macaulay, Speech on Parliamentary Reform (1831)	103	(4)
2. Joseph Mazzini, Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini (1805-1872)	107	(2)
3. Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)	109	(2)
4. Friedrich Engels, Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith (1847)	111	(5)
5. Sándor Petofi, "National Song" of Hungary (1848)	116	(3)
CHAPTER 18 Constructing the Nation-State, c. 1850-1880	119	(18)
1. Rudolf von Ihering, Two Letters (1866)	119	(3)
2. Peter Kropótkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1899)	122	(2)
3. Krupa Sattianadan, Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life (1887-1888)	124	(4)
4. Edgar Degas, Notebooks (1863-1884)	128	(3)
5. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)	131	(6)
CHAPTER 19 Empire, Modernity, and the Road to War, c. 1880-1914	137	(20)
1. Jules Ferry, Speech before the French National Assembly (1883)	137	(4)
2. Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden (1899)	141	(4)
3. Ernest Edwin Williams, Made in Germany (1896)	145	(4)
4. Emmeline Pankhurst, Speech from the Dock (1908)	149	(3)
5. Sigmund Freud, Infantile Sexuality (1905)	152	(5)
CHAPTER 20 War, Revolution, and Reconstruction, 1914-1929	157	(16)
1. Fritz Franke and Siegfried Sassoon, Two Soldiers' Views of the Horrors of War (1914-1918)	157	(3)
2. L. Doriat, Women on the Home Front (1917)	160	(3)
3. Vladimir Ilych Lenin, Letter to Nikolai Aleksandrovich Rozhkov (January 29, 1919)	163	(1)
4. Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)	164	(5)
5. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)	169	(4)
CHAPTER 21 An Age of Catastrophes, 1929-1945	173	(19)
1. Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet (1930)	173	(3)
2. Neville Chamberlain, Speech on the Munich Crisis (1938)	176	(3)
3. Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez, La Pasionaria's Farewell Address (November 1, 1938)	179	(3)
4. Sam Bankhalter and Hinda Kibort, Memories of the Holocaust (1938-1945)	182	(6)
5. Harry S. Truman, Truman Announces the Dropping of the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima (1945)	188	(4)
CHAPTER 22 Remaking Europe in the Shadow of Cold War, c. 1945-1965	192	(17)
1. The Formation of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) (1947)	192	(4)
2. National Security Council, Paper Number 68 (1950)	196	(3)
3. Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam (1945)	199	(3)
4. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)	202	(3)
5. Béla Lipták, Birth of MEFESZ (1956)	205	(4)
CHAPTER 23 Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1965-1989	209	(17)
1. Josef Smrkovský, What Lies Ahead (February 9, 1968)	209	(4)
2. Student Voices of Protest (1968)	213	(3)
3. Nick Ut, Children Fleeing from a Napalm Attack in South Vietnam (June 8, 1972)	216	(1)
4. U.S. Embassy, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Ban on Oil Shipments to the United States (October 23, 1973)	217	(3)
5. Glasnost and the Soviet Press (1988)	220	(6)
CHAPTER 24 The New Globalism: Opportunities and Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present	226
1. Zlata Filipovic, A Child's Life in Sarajevo (October 6, 1991—June 29, 1992)	226	(8)
2. African National Congress, Introductory Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (August 19, 1996)	234	(4)
3. Leif Zetterling, Klasskamrater (Classmates) Cartoon (January 22, 2001)	238	(2)
4. Petra Kelly, Fighting for Hope (1983)	240	(2)
5. Amartya Sen, A World Not Neatly Divided (November 23, 2001)	242