Western Civilizations Vol. 2 : Study Guide to Accompany

by Lerner, Robert E.; Meachem, Standish; Burns, Edward McNall

• ISBN13: 9780393972214
• ISBN10: 0393972216
• Edition: 13th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co

Summary

A study guide to accompany volume 2, thirteenth edition, of Western Civilizations. The primary purpose of this Study Guide is to assist students in mastering the material in the textbook and to supply them with a means whereby they can test their mastery. It also affords a convenient guide for review as well as a basis for classroom discussion and tests.

Table of Contents

Preface: To the Teacher and the Student	v
A Century of Crisis for Early-Modern Europe (c. 1560--c. 1660)
Exercises	1	(2)
Readings
On the Divine Right of Kings	3	(1)
James I
Reply of the House of Commons to James I	4	(1)
From Leviathan	4	(1)
Thomas Hobbes
From Pensees	5	(2)
Blaise Pascal
The Economy and Society of Early-Modern Europe
Exercises	7	(2)
Readings
Results of the Enclosure Movement	9	(1)
Sir Thomas More
Political Consequences of the Growth of Banking	9	(1)
R. H. Tawney
On the Principle of Mercantilism	10	(1)
Adam Smith
Life in Sixteenth-Century England	11	(2)
Erasmus
The Age of Absolutism (1660--1789)
Exercises	13	(2)
Readings
The Theory of Divine Right	15	(1)
Jacques Bossuet
Catherine the Great: The ``Instructions''	16	(1)
From Concerning Civil Government	17	(1)
John Locke
Extracts from the English Bill of Rights	18	(1)
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
Exercises	19	(2)
Readings
From Essay Concerning Human Understanding	21	(1)
John Locke
Voltaire, Personification of the Enlightenment	22	(1)
From the Age of Reason	23	(1)
Thomas Paine
The Encyclopedia: Man as the Reference Point for All Study	23	(1)
From the Progress of the Human Mind	23	(1)
Marquis de Condorcet
The Social Contract	24	(1)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The French Revolution
Exercises	25	(2)
Readings
The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen	27	(1)
The Republican Institutions	28	(1)
Saint-Just
The Retreat from Russia	28	(3)
Philippe-Paul de Segur
The Industrial Revolution
Exercises	31	(1)
Readings
The Factory Apprentice	32	(1)
T. S. Ashton
A Vigorous Defense of Mechanization	33	(1)
J. R. McCulloch
Britain and Europe at Mid-Century	33	(2)
David S. Landes
Parliamentary Investigations into Child Labor	35	(4)
Consequences of Industrialization: Urbanization and Class Consciousness (1800--1850)
Exercises	39	(2)
Readings
A Defense of Free Enterprise	41	(1)
William Graham Sumner
The Bases of Utopian Socialism	41	(1)
Robert Owen
On the Principle of Population	41	(1)
Thomas Malthus
The Labor Theory of Value	42	(1)
David Ricardo
The Rise of Liberalism (1815--1870)
Exercises	43	(2)
Readings
The Struggle for the First Reform Act	45	(1)
Justin McCarthy
The Aims of the Chartists	46	(1)
From On Liberty	46	(3)
John Stuart Mill
Nationalism and Nation-Building (1815--1870)
Exercises	49	(3)
Readings
Bismarck Contrives a War with France	52	(1)
The Federalist, No. 10	52	(3)
James Madison
International Industrialization and Imperialism (1870--1914)
Exercises	55	(3)
Readings
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism	58	(1)
John A. Hobson
A Captain of Industry	58	(1)
Alfred P. Sloan
The Voice of American Expansionism	59	(1)
Albert J. Beveridge
``The White Man's Burden''	59	(2)
Rudyard Kipling
The Middle Class Challenged
Exercises	61	(2)
Readings
From The Communist Manifesto	63	(1)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
An Exposition of Darwinism	64	(1)
Alfred Russel Wallace
The New Pscychology	64	(3)
Sigmund Freud
A Delicate Equilibrium (1870--1914)
Exercises	67	(2)
Readings
The Beginning of the Dreyfus Affair	69	(1)
Alfred Dreyfus
The Entente Cordiale, 1904	69	(1)
Mansion House Speech of July, 1911	70	(1)
David Lloyd George
The First World War
Exercises	71	(2)
Readings
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg: Germany's War Aims	73	(1)
The United States Enters the War	74	(1)
Woodrow Wilson
Speech on the Fourteen Points	74	(1)
Woodrow Wilson
Extracts from the Treaty of Versailles	75	(2)
Turmoil Between the Wars
Exercises	77	(2)
Readings
The Basic Philosophy of Fascism	79	(1)
Benito Mussolini
Theories of Race and German Expansion	79	(1)
Adolf Hitler
Theory of Communist Morality	80	(1)
V. I. Lenin
What Communism Really Means	80	(1)
V. I. Lenin
Existentialism	81	(2)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The Second World War
Exercises	83	(2)
Readings
``Peace in Our Time''	85	(1)
Neville Chamberlain
The Nazi-Soviet Pact: A Defense	86	(1)
V. Molotov
Radio Address to the German People, 1939	87	(1)
Neville Chamberlain
``The Dropping of the A-Bomb''	88	(3)
Barton J. Bernstein
The Postwar Years: Rivalry and Recovery
Exercises	91	(1)
Readings
Subversion Versus Revolution	92	(3)
Isaac Deutscher
Fragmentation and Change: The End of Postwar Certainties
Exercises	95	(1)
Readings
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence	96	(1)
Martin Luther King
The Revolution against Racism	97	(2)
Malcolm X
The Advent of Gorbachev	99	(1)
Vladimir Pozner
New Year's Address	99	(4)
Vaclav Havel
Problems of World Civilization
Exercises	103	(1)
Readings
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962	104	(3)
Robert F. Kennedy
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)	107	(3)
The Return of History	110	(1)
Freimut Duve
Blood and Belonging	111	(1)
Michael Ignatieff
The Fate of the Earth	112
Jonathan Schell