Western Civilization: Sources Images and Interpretations Volume 2 Since 1660

by Sherman, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780077382407
• ISBN10: 0077382404
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780073284743
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-08
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
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Summary

This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and hundreds of years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries--drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspectives and approaches--offer valuable insight into the work of historians and provide the context that helps students understand the texts' full historical significance.

Table of Contents

Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century

Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources: Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism

Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism

The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia

Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France

Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power

Visual Sources

Using Visual Sources: The Early Modern Chateau

The Early Modern Chateau (photo)

Maternal Care (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Using Secondary Sources: Absolutism: Myth and Reality

Absolutism: Myth and Reality

The English Revolution, 1688-1689

The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family

Childhood in Early Modern Times

The Scientific Revolution

Primary Sources

The Discourse on Method

Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture

The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Visual Sources

A Vision of the New Science (illustration)

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific Revolution

Nature as a Machine: The Clock

The Alchemist

No Scientific Revolution for Women

Politics and Society in the Ancien Regime

Primary Sources

Frederick the Great, Political Testament

The Complete English Tadesman

Anonymous, The Slave Trade

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letter to Lady R., 1716: Women and the Aristocracy

Women of the Third Estate

Visual Sources

Happy Accidents of the Swing (illustration)

Act of Humanity (illustration)

The Battle of Fontenoy (text and illustration)

The Atlantic Slave Trade (chart)

Secondary Sources

Slavery--White, Black, Muslim, Christian

The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities

The Resurgent Aristocracy

Lords and Peasants

Women's Work in Preindustrial Europe

The Enlightenment

Primary Sources

What is Enlightenment

The System of Nature

Prospectus for the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences

The Philosophe

Voltaire, Philisophical Dictionary: The English Model

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Age of Reason: Deism

The Social Contract

Visual Sources

Frontispiece of the Encyclopedie (illustration)

Experiment with an Air Pump (illustration)

The Secularization of European Thought

Joseph II of Austria, Propoganda and the Enlightened Monarch (text and illustration)

Secondary Sources

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

Women in the Salons

The Nineteenth Century

The French Revolution

Primary Sources

Travels in France: Signs of Revolution

The Cashiers: Discontents of the Third Estate

What is the Third Estate?

Revolutionary Legislation: Abolition of the Feudal System

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Declaration of the Rights of Women

The Declaration of Independence

Maximilien Robespierre, Speech to the National Convention--February 5, 1794: The Terror Justified

A Soldier's Letters to His Mother:

Revolutionary Nationalism

Visual Sources

Allegory of the Revolution (illustration)

Henri de la Rochjacquelein (illustration)

Internal Disturbances and the Reign of Terror (maps and charts)

Secondary Sources

The Coming of the French Revolution

The Revolution of the Notables

Loaves and Liberty: Women in the French Revolution

An Evaluation of the French Revolution

The Age of Napoleon

Primary Sources

Memoirs: Napoleon's Appeal

Memoirs: Napoleon's Secret Police

Napoleon's Diary

Visual Sources

Napoleon Crossing the Alps (illustration)

Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Napoleon: The Authoritarian Statesman

Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution

Women and the Napoleon Code

Industrialization and Social Change

Primary Sources

Testimony for the Factory Act of 1833: Working Condition in England

Sybil, or the Two Nations: Mining Towns

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Self-Help: Middle-Class Attitudes

Father Goriot: Money and the Middle Class

Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character

Visual Sources

Gare Saint Lazare (illustration)

Iron and Coal (illustration)

Illustration from Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong (illustrations)

Industrialization and Demographic Change (maps)

Secondary Sources

The Making of Economic Society: England, the First to Industrialize

The Industrial Revolution in Russia

Early Industrial Society: Progress or Decline?

The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe

Reaction, Reform, Revolution, and Romanticism: 1815-1848

Primary Sources

Secret Memorandum to Tsar Alexander I, 1820: Conservative Principals

The Carlsbad Decrees, 1819: Conservative Repression

English Liberalism

The Economist, 1851, Liberalism: Progress and Optimism

The First Chartist Petition: Demands for Change in England

Annual Register, 1848, An Eyewitness Account of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany

The Tables Turned: The Glories of Nature

Visual Sources

Abbey Graveyard in the Snow (illustration)

The Genius of Christianity (text)

Liberty Leading the People: Romanticism and Liberalism (illustration)

Working Class Disappointments: Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834 (illustration)

Secondary Sources

The Congress of Vienna

Western Liberalism

The European Revolutions, 1848-1851

The Revolutions of 1848

The National State, Nationalism, and Imperialism: 1850-1914

Primary Sources

Speeches on Pragmatism and State Socialism

The Duties of Man

Militant Nationalism

Does Germany need Colonies?

The White Man's Burden

Controlling Africa: The Standard Treaty

Melancholia

Visual Sources

Imperialism Glorified (illustration)

American Imperialism in Asia: Independence Day 1899 (illustration)

Imperialism in Africa (maps)

Secondary Sources

A Sterner Plan for Italian Unity: Nationalism, Liberalism, and Conservatism

The Age of Empire

Imperialism as Nationalistic Phenomenon

The Tools of Empire

Gender and Empire

Culture, Thought, and Society: 1850-1914

Primary Sources

The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

Social Statics: Liberalism and Social Darwinism

On Liberty

Our Sisters, Women as Chemists [Pharmacists]

The Communist Manifesto

Socialist Women: Becoming a Socialist

Why We Are Militant

Syllabus of Errors

Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: Racism

Judaism in Music: Anti-Semitism

Visual Sources

The hatch Family: The Upper Middle Class (illustration)

The Ages of Woman (illustration)

Lunch Hour: The Working Class (illustration)

The Stages of a Workers' Life (illustration)

The City (illustration)

Secondary Sources

The Decline of Political Liberalism

The Unfinished Revolution: Marxism Interpreted

Understanding Nineteenth-Century Industrialization and Urban Life

European Women

The Twentieth Century: 1914 to The Present

War and Revolution: 1914-1920

Primary Sources

The Home Front

Dulce et Decorum Est: Disillusionment Program of the Provisional Government in Russia

April Theses: The Bolshevik Opposition

Speech to the Petrograd Soviet--November 8, 1917: The Bolsheviks in Power

The Fourteen Points

Visual Sources

World War I: The Front Lines (photo)

The Paths of Glory (figure)

World War II: The Home Front and Women (photo and charts)

Revolutionary Propaganda (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Germany and the Coming of War

The Outbreak of the First World War

The Revolution in War and Diplomacy

Women, Work, and World War I

Peace and Diplomacy

The Russian Revolution

Democracy, Depression, and Instability: The 1920s and 1930s

Primary Sources

The Road Back

Restless Days

With Germany's Unemployed Program of the Popular Front--January 11, 1936

The Revolt of the Masses

Civilization and Its Discontents

Visual Sources

Decadence in the Weimar Republic (illustration)

Unemployment and Politics in the Weimar Republic (charts)

Unemployment during the Great Depression, 1930-1938 (chart)

Unemployment and the Appeal to Women (illustration)

Secondary Sources

The Generation of 1914: Dissillusionment

Government and the Governed: The Interwar Years

The Great Depression in Europe

Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism

Primary Sources

The Doctrine of Fascism

Mein Kampf

Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet

The German Woman and National Socialism [Nazism]

The Theory and Practice of Hell: The Nazi Elite

The Informed Heart: Nazi Concentration Camps

Witness to the Holocaust

Problems of Agrarian Policy in the U.S.S.R.: Soviet Collectivization

Report to the Congress of Soviets, 1936: Soviet Democracy

Visual Sources

Nazi Mythology (illustration)

Socialist Realism (illustration)

Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism, 1919-1937 (map)

Secondary Sources

Fascism in Western Europe

The Rise of Fascism

Hitler and Nazism

Dictatorship in Russia: Stalin's Purges

Nazism and Communism

World War II and the Postwar World

Primary Sources

The Battle of Britain

A German Soldier at Stalingrad

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

The Cold War: A Soviet Perspective

The Berlin Wall

British Labor's Rise to Power

The General Assembly of the United Nations, Declaration Against Colonialism

The Balfour Declaration, U.N. Resolution 242, and A Palestinian Memoir: Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East

The Second Sex

Redstockings, A Feminist Manifesto

Visual Sources

The Destruction of Europe (map)

The Cold War and European Integration (map)

Decolonization in Asia and Africa (map)

Televised Violence (photo)

Number 1 (illustration and text)

Secondary Sources

Appeasement at Munich Attacked

The Origins of the Second World War: Appeasement Defended

A World at Arms

Origins of the Cold War

The Collapse of European Empires

Life and Death in the Third Reich

The Wretched of the Earth

The Present in Perspective

The Short Century--It's Over

The End of the Cold War

After Communism: Causes for the Collapse

War in Bosnia and Ethnic Cleansing

Modernization: The Western and Non-Western Worlds (photo)

Terrorism and the Clash of Civilizations

The Future after 9-11-01

Religious Terrorism

The War in Iraq

The Middle East and Iraq, 2003 (map)

Global Warming

The Rise of China

Globalization

Ecological Threats

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