World Civilizations: Sources, Images and Interpretations, Volume 2

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

• ISBN13: 9780073133386
• ISBN10: 0073133388
• 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

Preface

Using this Book

A Note on Chinese Romanization

13. Global Encounters and Cultures in Conflict, 1500-1700

Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources: The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

Azurara, The Chronicle of the discovery and Conquest of Guinea

Afonso I of Kongo, Africa and Europe: The Problems of Alliances

Tom Pires, The Suma Oriental

Francesco Carletti, Women and Poverty in Japan

Diego Munoz Camargo, The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Laws of the Burgos: the Spanish Colonize Central and South America

David Pietersz, Voyages from Holland to America: The Dutch Colonize North America

Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, A Voyage to South America: Caste and Race in Latin America

Visual Sources

Using Visual Sources: Exploration, Global Encounters, and Politics

Exploration, Expansion, and Politics

A Buddhist Temple: European Views of Asia

The Conquest of Mexico as Seen by the Aztecs

Secondary Sources

Using Secondary Sources: The Expansion of Europe

Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe

William Cronon, The Changing Ecology of New England

Morris Rossabi, Muslims in Ming China

John K. Fairbank and Ssu-yu Teng, Chinas Response to the West

Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Europeans Arrive in Japan

M. L. Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World

14. Europes Early Modern Era, 1500-1789

Primary Sources

Martin Luther, Justification by Faith

James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England

The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England

Peter the Great, Decree on the Invitation of Foreigners

Visual Sources

Luther and the New Testament

Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate

Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform

Pieter Brueghel, the Elder, The Harvesters

Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory

Jean-Honor Fragonard, Happy Accidents of the Swing

Secondary Sources

Euan Cameron, What Was the Reformation?

Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation

Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family

Jerome Blum, Lords and Peasants

John Roberts, The Ancien Rgime: Ideals and Realities

15. Asia, 1500-1700

Primary Sources

Yamaga Sok, The Way of the Samurai

Ekiken Kaibara, Greater Learning for Women

Habbah Khtn: A Womans Voice in India

Franois Bernier, Travels in the Mogul Empire: Politics and Society in India

Village Life and Government in China

Ghiselin de Busbeceq, The Ottoman Social Order

Visual Sources

Tulsi the Elder, Bandi, and Madhu the Younger, Akbar Inspecting the Construction of Fatehpur-Sikri

Architecture and the Imperial City

Expansion of the Ottoman Empire, 1520-1639

Secondary Sources

V. P. S. Raghuvanshi, Marriage, Caste, and Society in India

Peter Mansfield, The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors

Jonathan Spence, Hard Times and the Fall of Chinas Ming Dynasty

16. A World of Reason and Motion: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment in the West, 1600-1800

Primary Sources

Ren Descartes, The Discourse on Method

Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment?

Denis Diderot, Prospectus for the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

Visual Sources

Frontispiece to Marco Vincenzo Coronellis Atlas, 1691

Joseph Wright, Experiment with an Air Pump

Secondary Sources

Dick Teresi, Islamic and Western Science and An Ottoman Observatory

Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, Women and the Scientific Revolution

Lester G. Crocker, The Age of Enlightenment

17. Revolution, Nationalism, and the State in Europe 1789-1914

Primary Sources

The Cahiers: Discontents of the Third Estate

Women of the Third Estate

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Maximilien Robespierre, Speech to the National ConventionFebruary 5, 1794: The Terror Justified

Madame de Remusat, Memoirs: Napoleons Appeal

Prince Klemens von Metternich, Secret Memorandum to Tsar Alexander I, 1820: Conservative Principles

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

The First Chartist Petition: Demands for Change in England

Heinrich von Treitschke, Militant Nationalism

Visual Sources

Jeaurat de Bertray, Allegory of the Revolution

Internal Disturbances and the Reign of Terror

Antoine-Jean Ghos, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa

Secondary Sources

Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution

Donald M. G. Sutherland, The Revolution of the Notables

William Doyle, An Evaluation of the French Revolution

Bonnie G. Smith, Women and the Napoleonic Code

John Weiss, The Revolutions of 1848

18. Industrialism, Social Change, and Culture in the West

Primary Sources

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

The Knights of Labor: Unionization

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Samuel Smiles, Self-Help: Middle-Class Attitudes

Elizabeth Poole Sandford, Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character

Emmeline Pankhurst, Why We Are Militant

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species and the Descent of Man

Visual Sources

Industrialization and Demographic Change

Illustration from Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong

William Bell Scott, Iron and Coal

Claude Monet, Gare St. Lazare

Eastman Johnson, The Hatch Family: The Upper Middle Class

Lon Frdric, The Stages of a Workers Life

Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey Graveyard in the Snow: Visual Romanticism

Secondary Sources

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

Peter N. Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in Russia

Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People without History: Labor Migrations

Michael Anderson, The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe

Eleanor S. Riemer and John C. Fout, European Women

19. The Americas, 1700s-1914

Primary Sources

The Declaration of Independence

Simon Bolivar, Independence in South America

Henry Koster, Travels in Brazil: Religion and Slavery in Brazil

William Lyon Mackenzie, Call to Revolution in Canada

Andrew Jackson, The Removal of Native Americans in the United States

Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments: Womens Rights in the United States

Emiliano Zapata: For Land and Liberty

United States House of Representatives, Banning Chinese Immigration to the United States

Visual Sources

John Gast, Manifest Destiny

Diego Rivera, The Mexican Revolution

The Western Hemisphere, 1770 and 1830

Secondary Sources

Merrill Jensen, Democracy and the American Revolution

Robert N. Burr, By Reasonable Force: Power Politics and International Relations in South America

Gilberto Freyre, The Mansions and the Shanties: The Making of Modern Brazil

Barbara Welter, The Cult of True Womanhood

20. Africa, 1500-1880

Primary Sources

Johann Peter Oettinger, Voyage to Guinea: The European Slave Trade in Africa

John Barbot, Government, Taxes, and War in Benin

Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Urban Life and Women in West Africa

Robert Moffat, The Ndebele Nation in Central Africa

Moshweshewe, Letter to Sir George Grey: Conflict and Diplomacy in South Africa

Ernest Linant de Fellefonds, Culture and Imperialism in East Africa

Visual Sources

The Oba of Benin

Indigenous States in Sub-Saharan Africa to the Nineteenth Century

Secondary Sources

John K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680: The Atlantic Slave Trade

Robin Law, Disruption in the Yoruba Kingdom of Oyo

Susan Herlin Broadhead, Beyond Decline: The Kingdom of the Kongo in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

21. Asia, 1700-1914

Primary Sources

Confessions of Taiping Rebels: The Chinese People Rebel

Sun Yat-sen, Manifesto of the United League

Tokugawa Nariaki, Japan, Reject the Westerners

Proclamation of the Young Turks

Visual Sources

Gountei Sadahide, Foreigners at Yokohama

Ghulam Ali Khan, Rauneah, A Village in the Punjab

The Weakening of China, 1839-1895

Secondary Sources

Susan Naguin and Evelyn S. Rawski, Being Chinese

Bernard Lewis, Minorities in the Ottoman Empire

Nemai Sadan Bose, Stifling the Voice of Protest in India

22. Imperialism and New Global Entanglements, 1880-1914

Primary Sources

Frederich Fabri, Does Germany Need Colonies?

Rudyard Kipling, the White Mans Burden

Imperial Edict, 1885, Nationalism and Colonialism in Vietnam

Raden Ajeng Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess

Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Corollary: American Imperialism

Jose Marti, A Vindication of Cuba

Visual Sources

George Harcourt, Imperialism Glorified

Charles Edwin Fripp, The Colonial Battlefield

American Imperialism in Asia: Independence Day 1899

Imperialism and the Looting of Cultures

Imperialism in Africa

Secondary Sources

Eric. J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire

M. E. Chamberlain, The Scramble for Africa

Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Empire

Manuel Maldonado-Denis, Imperialism in the Americas

23. War, Revolution, and Authoritarianism in the West

Primary Sources

Reports from the Front: The Battle for Verdun, 1916

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est: Disillusionment

Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points

V. I. Lenin, April Theses, The Bolshevik Strategy

Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism

Guida Diehl, The German Woman and National Socialism [Nazism]

Bruno Bettelheim, The Informed Heart: Nazi Concentration Camps

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

Political Constitution of the United States of Mexico, Labor and Social Welfare

Lazlo Cardenas, Mexico Nationalizes Its Oil Industry

Letters from Workers to the US Government, Slaves of the Depression

R. B. Bennett, Canada and the Great Depression

Visual Sources

World War I: The Home Front and Women

Richard Spitz: Nazi Mythology

Revolutionary Propaganda

K. I. Finogenov, Socialist Realism

Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism

Secondary Sources

Roland Stromberg, The Origins of World War I: Militant Patriotism

Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, Women, Work, and World War I

Amanda LaBarca Hubertson, Women in Latin America

Robert Service, The Russian Revolution

James Laux, The Great Depression in Europe

F. L. Carsten, The Rise of Fascism

Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms

Daniel J. Goldhagen, Hitlers Willing Executioners

24. Asia and Africa between World Wars I and II

Primary Sources

Hashimoto Kingoro, Japanese Nationalism and Expansionism

Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), The Chinese Communist Party Mobilizes the Masses

Shan-fei and Agnes Smedley, Women and Chinese Communism

Ho Chi Minh, Letter from Abroad: Revolutionary Nationalism in Vietnam

Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hindus, Muslims, and Nationalism in India

The Balfour Declaration and the Churchill White Paper of 1922

Jesse Chilula Chipenda, Africans and the Colonial State

Obafemi Awolowo, Resentment in Colonial Nigeria

Visual Sources

Xu Beihong (Hs Pei-hung), The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountain

Western Technology and Christianity in Colonial Africa

The Expansion of Japan

Secondary Sources

L. M. Panikkar, Asia in World War I

Vera Schwarcz, Chinese Intellectuals as Agents of Enlightenment

Amal Vinogradov, The Creation of Iraq

John W. Dower, Propaganda and Racism in the Pacific War

Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, The Politics of Race, Class, and Nationalism in 20th-Century South Africa

Martin Chanock, African Women and the Law

25. Global Transformations and the Struggles of Superpowers: The Post-World War II Era, 1945-89

Primary Sources

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

B. N. Ponomaryov, The cold War: A Soviet Perspective

Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung), Communism in China

Chinas Marriage Law: New Rules for the Women of China

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

The General Assembly of the United Nations, Declaration against Colonialism

From Independence to Statehood: Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria

Assia Djebar, Growing up in Algeria

Camilo Torres, Christianity, Communism, and Revolution in Latin America

Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail: The Civil Rights Movement in the United States

Redstockings, A Feminist Manifesto

James Cameron, The Vietnam War: A Reporter with the Vietcong

Visual Sources

The Cold War and European Integration

Decolonization in Asia and Africa

Rent Collection Courtyard: Art and Politics in China

Secondary Sources

James L. Gormly, Origins of the Cold War

Hasegawa Nyozekan, The Last Japan

D. K. Fieldhouse, Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development in Africa

Hernando de Soto, Inequality, Repression, and Rebellion in Latin America

The War in Vietnam

26. The Present in Perspective and the Beginnings of the 21st Century

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

Communiqu of the Central Committee, December 1978, Communist China, The Four Modernizations

Raymond L. Garthoff, The End of the Cold War

Robert Heilbroner, After Communism, Causes for the Collapse

Robert J. Donia, War in Bosnia and Ethnic Cleansing

Thomas B. Gold, Economic Revitalization of East Asia

John Lukacs, The Short CenturyIts Over

Alan Riding, Revolution and the Intellectual in Latin America

Ali A. Mazrui and Michael Tidy, Reviving African Culture

Nelson Mandela, Democracy in South Africa

Noboru Kawasaki, Football Hawk: The Japanese Comic Book (illustration)

The Growth of Cities (map)

Global Environmental Problems (map)

Edward O. Wilson, Ecological Threats

The AIDS Epidemic (map and chart)

Thomas L. Friedman, Globalization

Niall Ferguson, The Future After 9-11-01

Bahgot Korany, Islam and Democracy

The Middle East and Iraq, 2003

Mark Juergensmeyer, Religious Terrorism

Michael Ignatieff, The War in Iraq