World Civilizations: Sources, Images and Interpretations, Volume 1

by Sherman, Dennis; Grunfeld, A. Tom; Rosner, David

• ISBN13: 9780073127590
• ISBN10: 0073127590
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-25
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

Photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, and texts are celebrating the arrival of a larger size and beautiful colors to the fourth edition of World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations. This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for world history survey courses offers a broad introduction to the materials historians use and the interpretations historians make.This text also provides introductions, commentaries, guides, and questions, making it a truly valuable source for world history courses. The selections and accompanying notes, drawn from a vast spectrum of approaches, provide insight into how historians work and place the material in a context that furthers readers' understanding.

Table of Contents

Topical Contents	xv
Preface	xxi
Using This Book	xxiii
A Note on Chinese Romanization	xxvi
Early Civilizations of Southwestern Asia and Northeastern Africa	1	(18)
Primary Sources
Using Primary Sources: The Laws of Hammurabi	2	(1)
The Epic of Gilgamesh	3	(1)
The Laws of Hammurabi	4	(2)
Hymn to the Pharaoh	6	(1)
Harkhuf, Egypt's Southern Neighbors	6	(1)
The Old Testament---Genesis and Exodus	7	(1)
The Aton Hymn and Psalm 104: The Egyptians and the Hebrews	8	(1)
Visual Sources
Using Visual Sources: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur	9	(1)
Sumer: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur (Illustration)	9	(2)
Egyptian Wall Paintings from the Tomb of Menna (Illustration)	11	(1)
The Environment and the Rise of Civilization in Southwestern Asia and Northeastern Africa (Maps)	12	(2)
Secondary Sources
Using Secondary Sources: The Agricultural Revolution	14	(1)
The Agricultural Revolution	15	(1)
Robert J. Braidwood
The Process of Civilization	16	(1)
William H. McNeill
Freedom in the Ancient World: Civilization in Sumer	17	(1)
Herbert J. Muller
Women of Egypt and the Ancient Near East	18	(1)
Barbara S. Lesko
India, to C.E. 500	19	(12)
Primary Sources
The Lawbook of Manu: The Caste System	20	(1)
The Mahabharata	20	(1)
The Lawbook of Manu: Marriage and Sexual Activity	21	(1)
The Kamasutra	22	(1)
The Book of Sermons: The Teachings of Jainism	22	(1)
The Book of Later Instructions: Jainian Ideals	23	(1)
The Life of Buddha: The Origins of Buddhism	23	(1)
The Mahayana Tradition: The Compassion of a Bodhisattva	24	(1)
Visual Sources
Gateway at Sanchi (Illustration)	25	(1)
Geography and Linguistic Divisions: The Indian Subcontinent (Map)	25	(1)
Secondary Sources
The Ancient City of Harappa	26	(1)
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture	27	(2)
A. L. Basham
Cultural Continuity in India	29	(2)
W. Norman Brown
China, to C.E. 500	31	(14)
Primary Sources
The Analects: The Confucian School	32	(1)
A Confucian Poem: The Role of Women	33	(1)
Buddhist Song: The Stages of a Woman's Life	33	(1)
How to Be a Good Ruler	34	(1)
Mencius
Han Fei Zi (Han Fei Tzu), Eminence in Learning: The Legalist School	35	(2)
Daoist Writings: ``The Wise Judge'' and ``Social Connections''	37	(2)
Visual Sources
Salt Mining (Illustration)	39	(1)
A Chinese House (Illustration)	39	(1)
Chinese Bureaucracy (Chart)	40	(1)
China's Warring States (Map)	41	(1)
Secondary Sources
Kinship in Chinese Culture	42	(1)
Evelyn S. Rawski
China's Cultural Heritage	43	(2)
Richard J. Smith
The Mediterranean Basin: Greek Civilization	45	(16)
Primary Sources
The Iliad	46	(1)
Homer
Semonides of Amorgos, Poem on Women	47	(1)
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians	48	(1)
Xenophon
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Athens during the Golden Age	49	(2)
Thucydides
Antigone	51	(1)
Sophocles
The Republic	52	(1)
Plato
Medicine and Magic	53	(1)
Hippocrates
Visual Sources
Trade, Culture, and Colonization (Illustration)	54	(1)
Migration and Colonization (Maps)	55	(1)
The Women's Quarters (Illustration)	56	(1)
Secondary Sources
The Greeks: Slavery	57	(1)
Anthony Andrews
Greek Realities	58	(3)
Finley Hooper
The Mediterranean Basin: Roman Civilization and the Origins of Christianity	61	(12)
Primary Sources
Histories: The Roman Constitution	62	(1)
Polybius
Diodorus of Sicily, The Ethiopians	63	(1)
Pliny the Younger, Letters: The Daily Life of a Roman Governor	64	(1)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew	65	(1)
The Fall of Rome	66	(1)
St. Jerome
Visual Sources
The Geographic and Cultural Environment (Map)	66	(1)
Commerce and Culture East and West (Map)	67	(2)
Carved Gemstone: Augustus and the Empire Transformed (Illustration)	69	(1)
Tomb Decoration: Death and Roman Culture (Illustration)	70	(1)
Secondary Sources
Roman Women	70	(1)
Gillian Clark
The World of Ancient Times: The Appeal of Christianity	71	(1)
Carl Roebuck
The Later Roman Empire	71	(2)
A. H. M. Jones
The Rise of Islam	73	(12)
Primary Sources
The Qur'an	74	(1)
Letter to 'Umar II: Islamic Asceticism	74	(1)
Hasan al-Basri
Autobiography of an Islamic Scholar	75	(2)
Avicenna
Memoirs: Cultural Interactions	77	(1)
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh
Visual Sources
Manuscript Illuminations: Scenes from the Life of Muhammad (Illustrations)	77	(2)
The Spread of Islam in Africa (Map)	79	(1)
Secondary Sources
The Expansion of Islam	80	(1)
Ira Lapidus
The Muslim Pattern of Conquest	81	(1)
W. Montgomery Watt
The Islamic World	81	(1)
Albert Hourani
The Eastern Orientation of Islam	82	(3)
Peter Brown
India and Southeast Asia, 500--1500	85	(12)
Primary Sources
The Key to Paradise: Islam in India	86	(1)
Muhammad Mujir Wajib Adib
The Four Legs of the Realm	87	(1)
Muhammad Baquir Khan
Governmental Appointments	88	(1)
Barni
Sikhism	88	(1)
Guru Nanak
Traditional Vietnam	89	(1)
Nguyen Khac Vien
Zhou Daguan (Chou Ta-Kuan), An Account of Cambodia	90	(1)
Visual Sources
Trade along the Shores of the Indian Ocean (Map)	91	(1)
The Borobudur Stupa: An Oceangoing Ship (Illustration)	92	(1)
Women and the Sultan (Illustration)	93	(1)
Secondary Sources
Islam in India	93	(1)
Percival Spear
India the ``Honey Jar'' and the Lure of Trade	94	(1)
Richard Eaton
The Traditional Burmese Legal System	95	(2)
Than Tun
China and Japan, 500--1500	97	(16)
Primary Sources
Wang Daokun (Wang Tao-k'un), The Biography of Zhu Jiefuy (Chu Chieh-Fu): Merchants in China	98	(1)
The Lady Who Was a Beggar: Women in Chinese Society	99	(2)
Secret Societies in China	101	(1)
The Records of the Legitimate Succession of the Divine Sovereigns: Japanese Uniqueness	102	(1)
Kitabatake Chikafusa
Tales of Uji: Dishonest Priests	103	(1)
Ban Zhao (Pan Chao), Lessons for Women	103	(1)
Visual Sources
Culture, Politics, and Power in Tang China, 618--907 (Map)	104	(1)
Zhang Zeduan (Chang Tse-tuan), Riverside Scene in Qing Ming (Ch'ing Ming) Festival (Illustration)	105	(1)
The Glory of the Samurai (Illustration)	105	(2)
Secondary Sources
Daily Life in China in the 13th Century	107	(1)
Jacques Gernet
The Imperial Examination System	108	(1)
Ichisada Miyazaki
Women in Early Japan	109	(1)
Jeffrey P. Mass
The Maritime Expeditions	110	(3)
Philip Snow
The Mongols, the Turks, and the Middle East, 1000--1500	113	(14)
Primary Sources
al-Jahiz, Turks and Arabs	114	(1)
Mongol Gender Relations	114	(1)
William of Rubruck
Timur the Great Amir	115	(1)
Ahmed ibn Arabshah
Mehmed the Conqueror	116	(1)
Kritovoulos
Visual Sources
Cruelties of Conquest (Illustration)	117	(1)
Life in the Camp: The Nomadic Tent (Illustration)	117	(1)
Mir Sayyid 'Ali
Power in Central Asia and the Middle East (Maps)	117	(4)
Secondary Sources
Chinggis Khan	121	(1)
Charles Halperin
Mongol Imperialism	122	(1)
Thomas T. Allsen
The Status of Women under Mongol Rule	123	(1)
Morris Rossabi
Muslim Arabs and Others	124	(1)
Albert Habib Hourani
The Mongols and the Ottoman Turks	125	(2)
C. E. Bosworth
The Struggle for Order in the West: Europe's Middle Ages, 500--1300	127	(16)
Primary Sources
The Institutes of Justinian: Byzantium and the Legacy of Roman Law	128	(1)
Feudal Contracts and Obligations	129	(1)
Letters: Secular and Ecclesiastical Authority	130	(1)
Pope Gregory VII
Reginald of Durham, The Life of Saint Godric: A Merchant Adventurer	131	(1)
The Decretum: Medieval Women---Not in God's Image	131	(1)
Gratian
The Opening of the Crusades	132	(1)
Pope Urban II
St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis	133	(1)
Visual Sources
Illustration from a Gospel Book: Christianity and Early Medieval Culture (Illustration)	134	(1)
Medieval Life (Illustration)	135	(1)
Pol de Limbourg
Contraction and Expansion in the Middle Ages (Maps)	136	(3)
Secondary Sources
Mohammed and Charlemagne: The Beginnings of Medieval Civilization	139	(1)
Henri Pirenne
Sanctity and Power: The Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women	139	(1)
Jo Ann McNamara
Suzanne F. Wemple
Medieval Values	140	(1)
Jacques Le Goff
The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience	141	(1)
Robert Browning
Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change	142	(1)
David Herlihy
Transitions in the West, 1300--1500	143	(16)
Primary Sources
The Decameron: The Plague in Florence	144	(1)
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Goodman of Paris: Instructions on Being a Good Wife	145	(1)
A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism	146	(1)
Francesco Petrarch
On the Liberal Arts	147	(1)
Peter Paul Vergerio
The City of Ladies	148	(1)
Christine de Pizan
The Prince	149	(1)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Visual Sources
The Triumph of Death (Illustration)	150	(1)
Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (Illustration)	150	(1)
Hans Holbein
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (Illustration)	150	(4)
Jan van Eyck
Unrest in the Late Middle Ages (Map)	154	(1)
Food and Crime (Chart)	155	(1)
Secondary Sources
A Psychological Perspective of the Black Death	155	(1)
William L. Langer
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy	156	(1)
Jacob Burckhardt
The Myth of the Renaissance	157	(2)
Peter Burke
Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas, to 1500	159	(20)
Primary Sources
A Muslim's View of the African Kingdom of Mali	160	(1)
Ibn Battuta
Chronicles of an Ethiopian King	161	(1)
Ethiopia Oriental: Courtly Life in an African Kingdom	162	(1)
Joao dos Santos
Political Practices in West Africa	163	(1)
Pieter de Marees
The Chronicle of Peru: The Incas	164	(1)
Pedro Cieza de Leon
A Peruvian Chief's Description of Inca Society	165	(2)
Human Poma
Memoirs: The Aztecs	167	(1)
Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Visual Sources
West African Goldweights (Illustrations)	168	(1)
The Western Sudan in the 14th Century: Trade Routes and Politics (Map)	168	(1)
Mayan Woman and Children (Illustration)	169	(1)
The Americas in 1490 (Map)	169	(3)
Secondary Sources
Developing West African States	172	(1)
Roderick James McIntosh
The Origins of Great Zimbabwe	173	(1)
Innocent Pikirayi
The Earliest Americans	174	(1)
John Noble Wilford
Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early America	175	(1)
Gary Nash
Indians of the Americas: A Geopolitical Analysis	176	(3)
Roxanne D. Ortiz
Global Encounters and Cultures in Conflict, 1500--1700	179	(20)
Primary Sources
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea	180	(1)
Azurara
Afonso I of Kongo, Africa and Europe: The Problems of Alliances	181	(1)
The Suma Oriental	182	(2)
Tome Pires
Women and Poverty in Japan	184	(1)
Francesco Carletti
The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico	185	(1)
Diego Munoz Camargo
Laws of the Burgos: The Spanish Colonize Central and South America	185	(1)
Voyages from Holland to America: The Dutch Colonize North America	186	(1)
David Pietersz de Vries
A Voyage to South America: Caste and Race in Latin America	187	(1)
Jorge Juan
Antonio de Ulloa
Visual Sources
Exploration, Expansion, and Politics (Map)	188	(1)
A Buddhist Temple: European Views of Asia (Illustration)	189	(1)
The Conquest of Mexico as Seen by the Aztecs (Illustration)	189	(1)
Secondary Sources
The Expansion of Europe	190	(1)
Richard B. Reed
Epidemics and Environmental Change in the Americas	191	(1)
Alan Taylor
Muslims in Ming China	192	(1)
Morris Rossabi
China's Response to the West	193	(1)
John K. Fairbank
Ssu-yu Teng
Europeans Arrive in Japan	194	(1)
Jean-Pierre Lehmann
The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World	195	(4)
M. L. Bush
Europe's Early Modern Era, 1500--1789	199	(16)
Primary Sources
Justification by Faith	200	(1)
Martin Luther
Constitution of the Society of Jesus	200	(1)
The Powers of the Monarch in England	201	(1)
James I
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England	202	(1)
Peter the Great, Decree on the Invitation of Foreigners	203	(1)
Visual Sources
Luther and the New Testament (Illustration)	203	(1)
Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (Illustration)	203	(1)
Sebald Beham
Loyola and Catholic Reform (Illustration)	204	(1)
Peter Paul Rubens
Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Harvesters (Illustration)	205	(1)
The Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (Illustration)	206	(2)
Thomas Hobbes
Happy Accidents of the Swing (Illustration)	208	(2)
Jean-Honore Fragonard
Secondary Sources
What Was the Reformation?	210	(1)
Euan Cameron
Women in the Reformation	210	(1)
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family	211	(1)
Peter Laslett
Lords and Peasants	212	(1)
Jerome Blum
The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities	213	(2)
John Roberts
Asia, 1500--1700	215	(11)
Primary Sources
The Way of the Samurai	216	(1)
Yamaga Soko
Greater Learning for Women	217	(1)
Ekiken Kaibara
A Woman's Voice in India	218	(1)
Habbah Khatun
Travels in the Mogul Empire: Politics and Society in India	219	(1)
Francois Bernier
Village Life and Government in China	220	(1)
The Ottoman Social Order	221	(1)
Ghiselin de Busbecq
Visual Sources
Tulsi the Elder, Bandi, and Madhu the Younger, Akbar Inspecting the Construction of Fatehpur-Sikri (Illustration)	221	(1)
Architecture and the Imperial City (Map)	222	(1)
Expansion of the Ottoman Empire, 1520--1639 (Map)	223	(1)
Secondary Sources
Marriage, Caste, and Society in India	224	(1)
V. P. S. Raghuvanshi
The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors	225	(1)
Peter Mansfield
Hard Times and the Fall of China's Ming Dynasty	226
Jonathan Spence