Sources in Patterns of World History: Volume Two: Since 1400

by Von Sivers, Peter; Desnoyers, Charles A.; Stow, George B.

• ISBN13: 9780199846184
• ISBN10: 0199846189
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Each volume of Sources for Patterns of World History includes approximately 200 text and visual sources in world history, organized to match the chapter organization of Patterns of World History. Each source is accompanied by a headnote and reading questions. FREE in a bundle, contact your Oxford University Press representative for details, or call 800-280-0280.

Table of Contents

Primary Sources: How to Read Them and Why They Are Important in World History	p. 1
The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550	p. 6
The Founding of Tenochtitlán	p. 6
Human Sacrifice by the Aztecs	p. 8
Machu Picchu	p. 9
The Inca Census	p. 10
The Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle and European Overseas Expansion, 1450-1600	p. 12
The Tribute of Children	p. 12
A European Ambassador Reports on the Ottomans	p. 14
An Ottoman Travel Journal	p. 15
The Journal of Christopher Columbus	p. 18
Renaissance, Reformation, and the New Science in Europe, 1450-1700	p. 20
Marsilio Ficino, "Letter to Paul of Middelburg"	p. 21
Laura Cereta to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza	p. 21
John Calvin, Prayer from Commentary on Hosea	p. 22
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems	p. 24
Antony van Leeuwenhoek's "Animalcules"	p. 25
Galileo's Views of the Moon	p. 26
Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis, 1715	p. 27
New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800	p. 30
Aztecs Recount the Beginning of the War with the Conquistadors	p. 30
Letter from Hernando de Soto	p. 31
Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza	p. 33
Increase Mather on King Philip's Death	p. 35
Reasons for Colonizing North America	p. 36
African Kingdoms, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Origins of Black America, 1450-1800	p. 38
Leo Africanus on Timbuktu	p. 38
"Krotoa" from the Journal of Jan van Riebeeck	p. 40
The Arab Slave Trade	p. 41
An Account of the Atlantic Slave Trade	p. 42
Phillis Wheatly, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth…"	p. 43
Slave Market, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1824	p. 44
The Mughal Empire: Muslim Rulers and Hindu Subjects, 1400-1750	p. 45
The Ain-i-Akbari	p. 46
The Journey to the Court of Akbar	p. 47
Jahangir Debates with the Hindus	p. 48
Summary of the Reasons Which Led Akbar to Renounce Islam	p. 49
Akbar on Proper Behavior	p. 50
The Habits and Manners of Aurangzeb	p. 51
Regulating the "Inner" and the "Outer" Domains of China and Japan, 1500-1800	p. 53
Buddhist World Map, 1710	p. 53
The Seclusion of Japan	p. 55
The Philosophy of Wang Yang-Ming	p. 56
Qianlong, Letter to George III	p. 57
Nation-States and Patterns of Culture in Europe and North America, 1750-1871	p. 61
Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract	p. 61
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen	p. 63
Charles Maurice Talleyrand to Louis XVIII	p. 68
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address	p. 70
Proclamation of the German Empire	p. 72
Victor Emmanuel and the Catholic Church	p. 73
Industrialization and its Discontents, 1750-1914	p. 75
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations	p. 75
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty	p. 76
Frederich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England	p. 76
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield	p. 77
Parliamentary Report on English Female Miners, 1842	p. 78
Advertisment for a Vitascope, 1896	p. 80
Friedrich Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil	p. 83
The Challenge of Modernity: East Asia, 1750-1910	p. 85
The Nanjing Treaty	p. 85
A Chinese Traveler on the Marvels of Western Technology	p. 87
Jesuits in China	p. 87
The "Opening" of Japan	p. 88
The King of Siam to President Buchanan	p. 90
The Challenge of Modernity: The Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1683-1908	p. 92
Peter the Great's Decree on Western Dress	p. 93
Petyr Chaadaev, "Philosophical Letters"	p. 94
A British Diplomat Comments on the Ottoman Army	p. 95
The Gulhane Decree	p. 95
"Mr. Sansonov"	p. 96
The Iranian and Turkish Constitutional Revolutions of 1906 and 1908	p. 97
The New Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century	p. 100
Dadabhai Naoroji on the Benefits Detriments of British Rule in India	p. 100
The Diamond Fields of South Africa, 1872	p. 102
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"	p. 103
Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden	p. 104
Raden Ayu Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess	p. 107
Teapickers, northern India	p. 110
Creoles and Caudillos: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century	p. 111
Alexander Von Humboldt on New Spain	p. 112
Simón de Bolivar, His Message to the Congress of Angostura	p. 113
Pope Leo XIII, In Plurimis	p. 114
Jose Marti, "Our America"	p. 115
United States Recognition of Cuban Independence	p. 118
World War and Competing Visions of Modernity to 1945	p. 119
Theodore Roosevelt, "War for Righteousness"	p. 119
Joseph Stalin on Liquidating the Kulaks	p. 121
Critics of Industrialization: The Southern Agrarians	p. 122
Mohandas Gandhi and the Quit India Movement	p. 124
Mussolini Repudiates on Political Liberalism, 1923	p. 125
Adolf Hitler, German Economic Goals and the Jewish Question	p. 126
Korean "Comfort Girls"	p. 127
Reconstruction, the Cold War, and Decolonization, 1945-1962	p. 130
The Marshall Plan	p. 131
Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Suez Crisis	p. 133
Cuban Missile Crisis	p. 134
Jawaharlal Nehru, "Why India is Non-Aligned"	p. 137
Juan Perón, excerpt from The Voice of Perón	p. 139
Jomo Kenyatta, from Facing ML Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu	p. 141
Babies Being Weighed, North Korea, 1955	p. 144
The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World, 1963-1991	p. 145
The US Civil Rights Act of 1964	p. 145
National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose	p. 146
The Yom Kippur/Ramadan War	p. 149
Postcolonialism in Africa	p. 150
Mikhail Gorbachev on the Arms Race Between the USSR and the US	p. 151
The Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989: a Poet Remembers	p. 153
A Fragile Democratic-Capitalist World Order, 1991-Present	p. 157
Tim Berners Lee, "Enquire Within Upon Everything"	p. 158
"Death by Government"	p. 159
Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring	p. 161
The Sovereign Debt Crisis	p. 161
James Tooley, from The Beautiful Tree	p. 163
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