Western Civilization Volume II Since 1660:Sources, Images, and Interpretations

by Sherman, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780073284743
• ISBN10: 0073284742
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780072565652, 9780077382407
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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

Preface	p. xv
Using this Book	p. xvii
The Early Modern Period
Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Sources
Using Primary Sources: Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism	p. 4
Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism	p. 5
The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia	p. 6
Memoires: The Aristocracy Undermined in France	p. 6
Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power	p. 7
Visual Sources
Using Visual Sources: The Early Modern Chateau 8
The Early Modern Chateau (figure)	p. 9
Maternal Care (figure)	p. 9
Secondary Sources
Using Secondary Sources: Absolutism: Myth And Reality	p. 10
Absolutism: Myth and Reality	p. 11
The English Revolution, 1688-1689	p. 12
Centuries of Childhood	p. 13
The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family	p. 13
The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
The Discourse on Method	p. 16
Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture	p. 16
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned	p. 17
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy	p. 18
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (figure)	p. 18
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (figure)	p. 18
Secondary Sources
Why Was Science Backward in the Middle Ages?	p. 19
Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific Revolution	p. 21
No Scientific Revolution for Women	p. 22
Politics and Society in the Ancien Regime
Primary Sources
Political Testament	p. 24
The Complete English Tradesman	p. 25
The Slave Trade	p. 26
Letter to Lady R., 1716: Women and the Aristocracy	p. 27
Women of the Third Estate	p. 28
Visual Sources
Happy Accidents of the Swing (figure)	p. 28
Act of Humanity (figure)	p. 29
The Battle of Fontenoy (text and figure)	p. 29
The Atlantic Slave Trade (chart)	p. 30
Secondary Sources
Slavery-White, Black, Muslim, Christian	p. 31
The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities	p. 32
The Resurgent Aristocracy	p. 32
Lords and Peasants	p. 33
Women's Work in Preindustrial Europe	p. 34
The Enlightenment
Primary Sources
What Is Enlightenment?	p. 38
The System of Nature	p. 39
Prospectus for the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences	p. 39
The Philosophe	p. 40
Philosophical Dictionary: The English Model	p. 41
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	p. 42
The Age of Reason: Deism	p. 42
The Social Contract	p. 43
Visual Sources
Frontispiece of the Encyclopedie (figure)	p. 44
Experiment with an Air Pump (figure)	p. 44
Propaganda and the Enlightened Monarch (text and figure)	p. 45
Secondary Sources
The Age of Enlightenment	p. 47
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers	p. 48
Women in the Salons	p. 49
The Problem of Enlightened Absolutism	p. 49
The Nineteenth Century
The French Revolution
Primary Sources
Travels in France: Signs of Revolution	p. 54
The Cahiers: Discontents of the Third Estate	p. 55
What Is the Third Estate?	p. 55
Revolutionary Legislation: Abolition of the Feudal System	p. 56
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	p. 57
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen	p. 58
The Declaration of Independence	p. 59
Speech to the National Convention-February 5, 1794: The Terror Justified	p. 60
A Soldier's Letters to His Mother: Revolutionary Nationalism	p. 61
Visual Sources
Allegory of the Revolution (figure)	p. 61
Henri de la Rochjacquelein (figure)	p. 62
Internal Disturbances and the Reign of Terror (maps and charts)	p. 63
Secondary Sources
The Coming of the French Revolution	p. 65
The Revolution of the Notables	p. 66
Loaves and Liberty: Women in the French Revolution	p. 67
An Evaluation of the French Revolution	p. 68
The Age of Napoleon
Primary Sources
Memoirs: Napoleon's Appeal	p. 72
Memoirs: Napoleon's Secret Police	p. 72
Napoleon's Diary	p. 73
Visual Sources
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (figure)	p. 74
Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa (figure)	p. 74
Secondary Sources
France Under Napoleon: Napoleon as Enlightened Despot	p. 75
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution	p. 77
Women and the Napoleonic Code	p. 78
Industrialization and Social Change
Primary Sources
Testimony for the Factory Act of 1833: Working Conditions in England	p. 82
Sybil, or the Two Nations: Mining Towns	p. 83
The Condition of the Working Class in England	p. 84
Self-Help: Middle-Class Attitudes	p. 85
Father Goriot: Money and the Middle Class	p. 86
Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character	p. 87
Women and the Working Class	p. 88
Visual Sources
Gare Saint Lazare (figure)	p. 88
Iron and Coal (figure)	p. 89
Illustration from Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong (figure)	p. 90
Industrialization and Demographic Change (maps)	p. 90
Secondary Sources
The Making of Economic Society: England, the First to Industrialize	p. 91
The Industrial Revolution in Russia	p. 92
Early Industrial Society: Progress or Decline!	p. 93
The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe	p. 94
Reaction, Reform, Revolution, and Romanticism: 1815-1848
Primary Sources
Secret Memorandum to Tsar Alexander I, 1820: Conservative Principles	p. 98
The Carlsbad Decrees, 1819: Conservative Repression	p. 99
English Liberalism	p. 100
The Economist, 1851, Liberalism: Progress and Optimism	p. 102
The First Chartist Petition: Demands for Change in England	p. 102
Annual Register, 1848, An Eyewitness Account of the Revolutions of 1848 in Germany	p. 103
The Tables Turned: The Glories of Nature	p. 104
Visual Sources
Abbey Graveyard in the Snow (figure)	p. 104
The Genius of Christianity (text)	p. 105
Liberty Leading the People: Romanticism and Liberalism (figure)	p. 106
Working Class Disappointments: Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834 (figure)	p. 107
Secondary Sources
The Congress of Vienna	p. 108
Western Liberalism	p. 108
The European Revolutions, 1848-1851	p. 109
The Revolutions of 1848	p. 110
The National State, Nationalism, and Imperialism: 1850-1914
Primary Sources
Speeches on Pragmatism and State Socialism 112 Giuseppe Mazzini	p. 114
Militant Nationalism	p. 115
Does Germany Need Colonies?	p. 116
The White Man's Burden	p. 117
Controlling Africa: The Standard Treaty	p. 118
Visual Sources
Imperialism Glorified (figure)	p. 119
American Imperialism in Asia: Independence Day 1899 (figure)	p. 120
Imperialism in Africa (maps)	p. 120
Secondary Sources
A Sterner Plan for Italian Unity: Nationalism, Liberalism, and Conservatism	p. 123
German Unification	p. 124
The Age of Empire	p. 125
Imperialism as a Nationalistic Phenomenon	p. 125
The Tools of Empire	p. 126
Gender and Empire	p. 127
Culture, Thought, and Society: 1850-1914
Primary Sources
The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man	p. 130
Social Statics: Liberalism and Social Darwinism	p. 131
On Liberty	p. 131
Our Sisters, Women as Chemists [Pharmacists]	p. 133
The Communist Manifesto	p. 133
Socialist Women: Becoming a Socialist	p. 135
Why We Are Militant	p. 136
Syllabus of Errors	p. 136
Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: Racism	p. 137
Judaism in Music: Anti-Semitism	p. 138
Visual Sources
The Hatch Family: The Upper Middle Class (figure)	p. 138
The Ages of Woman (figure)	p. 139
Lunch Hour: The Working Class (figure)	p. 139
The Stages of a Worker's Life (figure)	p. 140
The City (figure)	p. 141
Secondary Sources
The Decline of Political Liberalism	p. 141
The Unfinished Revolution: Marxism Interpreted	p. 142
European Women	p. 143
1914 to the Present
War and Revolution: 1914-1920
Primary Sources
Reports from the Front: The Battle for Verdun, 1916	p. 148
Dulce et Decorum Est: Disillusionment	p. 148
The Home Front	p. 149
Program of the Provisional Government in Russia	p. 150
April Theses: The Bolshevik Opposition	p. 150
Speech to the Petrograd Soviet-November 8, 1917: The Bolsheviks in Power	p. 151
The Fourteen Points	p. 151
Visual Sources
World War I: The Front Lines (figure)	p. 153
The Paths of Glory (figure)	p. 153
World War I: The Home Front and Women (figure and charts)	p. 154
Revolutionary Propaganda (figure)	p. 156
Secondary Sources
The Origins of World War I: Militant Patriotism	p. 156
Germany and the Coming of War	p. 157
The Revolution in War and Diplomacy	p. 158
Women, Work, and World War I	p. 158
Peace and Diplomacy	p. 159
The Russian Revolution	p. 160
Democracy, Depression, and Instability: The 1920s and 1930s
Primary Sources
The Road Back	p. 162
Restless Days	p. 162
With Germany's Unemployed	p. 163
The Revolt of the Masses	p. 165
Civilization and Its Discontents	p. 165
Visual Sources
Decadence in the Weimar Republic (figure)	p. 167
Unemployment and Politics in the Weimar Republic (charts)	p. 167
Unemployment During the Great Depression, 1930-1938 (chart)	p. 168
Unemployment and the Appeal to Women (figure)	p. 169
Secondary Sources
The Generation of 1914: Disillusionment	p. 169
Government and the Governed: The Interwar Years	p. 170
The Great Depression in Europe	p. 171
Communism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism
Primary Sources
The Doctrine of Fascism	p. 174
Mein Kampf	p. 175
Nazi Propaganda Pamphlet	p. 177
The German Woman and National Socialism [Nazism]	p. 178
The Theory and Practice of Hell: The Nazi Elite	p. 178
The Informed Heart: Nazi Concentration Camps	p. 179
Witness to the Holocaust	p. 179
Problems of Agrarian Policy in the U.S.S.R.: Soviet Collectivization	p. 180
Report to the Congress of Soviets, 1936: Soviet Democracy	p. 181
Visual Sources
Nazi Mythology (figure)	p. 182
Socialist Realism (figure)	p. 182
Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism, 1919-1937 (map)	p. 182
Secondary Sources
Fascism in Western Europe	p. 184
The Rise of Fascism	p. 185
Hitler and Nazism	p. 186
Hitler's Willing Executioners	p. 187
Dictatorship in Russia: Stalin's Purges	p. 188
World War II and the Postwar World
Primary Sources
The Battle of Britain	p. 192
A German Solier at Stalingrad	p. 192
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan	p. 193
The Cold War: A Soviet Perspective	p. 194
The Berlin Wall	p. 195
British Labor's Rise to Power	p. 196
The General Assembly of the United Nations, Declaration Against Colonialism	p. 197
The Balfour Declaration, U.N. Resolution 242, and A Palestinian Memoir: Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East	p. 198
The Second Sex	p. 200
A Feminist Manifesto	p. 200
Visual Sources
The Destruction of Europe (map)	p. 202
The Cold War and European Integration (map)	p. 203
Decolonization in Asia and Africa (map)	p. 204
Televised Violence (figure)	p. 204
Number 1 (figure and text)	p. 205
Secondary Sources
Appeasement at Munich Attacked	p. 206
The Origins of the Second World War: Appeasement Defended	p. 207
A World at Arms	p. 207
Origins of the Cold War	p. 209
The Positive Role of the United Nations in a Split World	p. 209
The Wretched of the Earth	p. 210
The Present in Perspective
The Short Century--It's Over	p. 214
The End of the Cold War	p. 215
After Communism: Causes for the Collapse	p. 216
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe	p. 217
Modernization: The Western and Non-Western Worlds (figure)	p. 218
Terrorism and the Clash of Civilizations	p. 218
The Future after 9-11-01	p. 219
Religious Terrorism	p. 221
The War in Iraq	p. 222
War, Oil, and Instability in the Middle East (map)	p. 223
Globalization	p. 223
Ecological Threats (text and chart)	p. 224
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