Primary Source Reader for World History, Volume II Since 1500

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Save money with PRIMARY SOURCE READER FOR WORLD HISTORY, VOLUME II, SINCE 1500! Brief and inexpensive, this primary source reader gives you a broad perspective of the history of the world. Readings are divided into parts covering eras and are organized according to themes such as religion, law and government, and everyday life. Each individual reading has a head note and study questions to guide your reading and understanding of the content.

PART III RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY---1500-1750 CE

Religion and Philosophy---1500-1750 CE

263

(36)

From In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus---1509

264

(4)

From The Freedom of a Christian by Martin Luther---1520

268

(4)

From Spiritual Exercises by Ignatius Loyola---1541

272

(3)

From Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin---1534

275

(6)

From Royal Commentaries of the Inca by Garcilaso de la Vega---1609

281

(3)

From Relation of the Things of Yucatan by Bishop Diego de Landa---16th century

284

(2)

A Muslim Explains the Hindu Religion by Abul Fazl Akbarnama---16th century

286

(5)

From The Life of St. Teresa---1611

291

(4)

``On the Necessity of the Wager'' From Pensees by Blaise Pascal---1660

295

(4)

Law, Government, and War---1500-1750 CE

299

(22)

From The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli---1513

300

(2)

From Turkish Letters by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq---1589

302

(2)

Rules for Peasant Life in Japan---1619

304

(2)

Laws Governing the Military Households by Tokugawa Hidetada---1615

306

(3)

Russian Law Code---1649

309

(3)

From Self-Portrait of a Chinese Emperor by K'ang Hsi---1654--1722

312

(4)

The Ideal Muslim Prince, Aurangzeb---1658-1707

316

(5)

Science, Medicine, and Technology---1500-1750 CE

321

(24)

From The Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei---1638

322

(4)

``Problems of Medical Research'' From De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius---1543

326

(6)

On the Treatment of Gunshot Wounds by Ambroise Pare---1575

332

(4)

The Art of Printing in China by Matteo Ricci---16th century

336

(2)

Prescriptions for Mrs. Lucia Troute by William Harvey---1652

338

(3)

From Opticks by Sir Isaac Newton---1704

341

(4)

Daily Life in the Age of Change---1500-1750 CE

345

(16)

From A General and Natural History of the Indies by Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes---1535-1537

346

(2)

``Marriage Customs in 16th Century Russia'' From Notes on Russia by Sigismund von Herberstein---1549

348

(2)

From History and Description of Africa by Leo Africanus---1550

350

(1)

Turkish Women, Turkish Letters by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq---1555-1561

351

(2)

On Marriage by Martin Luther---1566

353

(2)

African Women in 17th Century Benin by Samuel Blommaart---1688

355

(2)

From The Book of the Samurai (Hagakure) by Tsunetomo Yamamoto---1716

357

(4)

Arts and Culture Age of Change---1500-1750 CE

361

(18)

Four Poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti---16th century

362

(2)

From L'Envoi by Giordano Bruno---16th Century

364

(1)

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare---ca. 1600

365

(2)

From ``The Anatomy of the World'' by John Donne---1611

367

(2)

From Book of Travels by Evliya Celebi---17th century

369

(3)

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift---1729

372

(7)

Religion and Philosophy---1750-1914 CE

379

(32)

From The Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau---1762

380

(4)

Treatise on Toleration by Voltaire---1763

384

(3)

On Crimes and Punishment by Cesare Beccaria---1764

387

(4)

From The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith---1776

391

(4)

From The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel---1832

395

(4)

From The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels---1848

399

(5)

Life at High Pressure by W.R. Greg---1875

404

(7)

Law, Government, Revolution, and War---1750-1914 CE

411

(28)

The Declaration of the Rights of Man---1789

412

(2)

The Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges---1791

414

(4)

Jamaican Letter by Simon Bolivar---1815

418

(4)

Account of the Emancipation of the Serfs by Prince Kropotkin---1861-1862

422

(2)

The Meiji Constitution---1889

424

(7)

On the Russian Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin---1899-1917

431

(2)

The Plan of Ayala by Emiliano Zapata---1911

433

(3)

Early Zionist Thought by Nahum Goldman---1913

436

(3)

Science, Medicine, and Technology---1750-1914 CE

439

(20)

The Anatomy Lesson by Genpaku Sugita---1815

440

(3)

The First Surgical Operation Under Ether by Crawford Long---1842

443

(2)

From The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin---1859

445

(6)

Child-Bed Fever by Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis---1861

451

(3)

From The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud---1899

454

(5)

Daily Life in the Age of Revolution and Empire---1750-1914 CE

459

(22)

The Hai Lu, A Chinese Seaman's Account of Europe by Hsieh Ch'ing Kao---1783-1797

460

(3)

From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano---1789

463

(4)

An Indian Scholar Describes Calcutta by Nawab Muhabat Khan---ca. 1800

467

(3)

Modernizing Japan's Economy by Shibusawa Eiichi---1873

470

(3)

From On Japanese Women by Fukuzawa Yukichi---1885

473

(4)

Things Falls Apart by Chinua Achebe---1900

477

(4)

Arts and Culture---1750-1914 CE

481

(20)

The Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Ch'in---18th century

482

(5)

Of Women's Hair by Lafcadio Hearn---1894

487

(4)

``The White Man's Burden'' by Rudyard Kipling---1899

491

(2)

``Prayer to Thunder,'' a Navajo Night Chant---20th century

493

(4)

A Mother to Her First Born (Lango, Uganda)---Not determined

497

(4)

Religion and Philosophy---1914-Present

501

(28)

From ``Existentialism and Humanism'' by Jean-Paul Sartre---1948

502

(5)

From The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir---1949

507

(5)

The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz---1961

512

(3)

A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutierrez---1973

515

(4)

Liberation Theology by Archbishop Oscar Romero---1979

519

(3)

The Nobel Peace Prize Address by Mother Teresa---1979

522

(7)

Law, Government, Revolution, and War---1914-Present

529

(34)

The Doctrine of the Sword by Mohandas K. Gandhi---1920

530

(3)

On African Nationalism by Marcus Garvey---1923

533

(2)

``Strength means to excel in the profession of death. . .'' by Sami Shawkat---1933

535

(2)

The First Arab Students' Congress Manifesto---1938

537

(2)

Problems of China's Revolutionary War by Mao Zedong---1936

539

(5)

From Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler---1924

544

(3)

Britain Converts to a Welfare State---1942-1948

547

(3)

The Resurgence of Islam by Hasan Al-Bana---ca. 1940s

550

(2)

The Kenya Africa Union Is Not the Mau Mau by Jomo Kenyatta---1952

552

(3)

Program for Cuba by Fidel Castro---1956

555

(2)

My vision for South Africa by Desmond Tutu---1979

557

(3)

The Resurgence of Islam by Ayatollah Murtada Mutahhari---ca. 1980s

560

(3)

Science, Medicine, and Technology---1914-Present

563

(20)

The First Poison Gas Attack---1915

565

(4)

The Bombing of Hiroshima---1945

569

(4)

Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident by Richard P. Feynman---1988

573

(1)

Silent Spring---1962---Rachel Carson

574

(3)

From A Scenario for America and the World by Herman Kahn, William Brown, and Leon Martel---1976

577

(6)

Daily Life in the Postmodern World---1914-Present

583

(24)

Memories of Childhood by Yevgeny Yevtushenko---1938

584

(2)

A Palestinian Exile Remembers by Fawzi Turki---1948

586

(2)

The Age of Women in Japan by Keiko Higuchi---1980

588

(5)

The Revolution that Failed Women by Zand Dokht---1981

593

(2)

A Chinese Peasant Maps His Road to Wealth by Wang Xin---1984

595

(4)

Traditional Versus Nuclear Families in Modern India---1985

599

(4)

The Women of Uganda by Jane Perlez---1991

603

(4)

Arts and Culture in the Post Modern World---1914-Present

607

``Munition Wages,'' a Musical Parody by Madeline Ida Bedford---1917

608

(1)

``Counter-Attack'' by Siegfried Sassoon---1918

609

(2)

From The Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger---1920

611

(4)

From All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque---1929

615

(4)

From Wild Grass by Lu Xun---1927

619

(3)

Poems by Leopold Sedar Senghor---1950s

622

(4)

I Lived to Tell the Horrors of Treblinka---1944

626

(3)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn---1962

629

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Primary Source Reader for World History, Volume II Since 1500

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