Selections From Longman World History

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ISBN: 9780321098474 | 0321098471
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Selections from Longman World History: Primary Sources and Case Studies presents the best of the thought-provoking primary sources and case studies found in the new Longmanworldhistory.com website. This collection encourages students to analyze the themes, issues, and complexities of world history in a meaningful, exciting, and informative way.

The Transition to Modern Times
The West: The Reformation
Sermon at the Castle Pleissenburg
Rules for Thinking with the Church
James I on the Divine Right of Kings
Machiavelli's The Prince
Eastern Europe and Russia 1450-1750
"On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres."
An Ambassador's Report on the Ottoman Empire, 1555
A Foreign Traveler in Russia
"On the Corruption of Morals in Russia."
Latin America 1450-1750: Conflicts in the Contact Zone
The Second Letter of Herman Cortez to King CHarles V of Spain (1519)
Excerpts from the "Account of Alva Ixtlilxochiltl."
Excerpt from BartolomÃ© de las Casas' "In Defense of the Indians."
Sor Juana InÃ©z de la Cruz, from "La Respuesta."
East Asia in Transition, 1450-1700
Matteo Ricci's Journals
A Chinese View of Ricci
"Closed Country Edict of 1636" and "Exclusion of the Portuguese, 1639"
A Ming Naal Expedition
Foreign Rulers in South Asia, 1450-1750
Abu Taleb on the West and Western Influence
Akbar and the Jesuits
Aurangzeb, Mughal the Ruler
African Kingdoms and Early European Contacts Between 1450-1750
"Voyage From Lisbon to the Island of SÃño ThomÃ©" by an Anonymous Portuguese Pilot
"A Defense of the Slave Trade," a letter published in London Magazine
"The Land of Prester John."
The Middle East: 1450-1750
Kritovoulous, on Mehmed II
Venetian Observations on the Ottoman Empire
The Decline of the Ottomans
Comparative Case Study Part III: Battlefields to Court Rooms
Conflict and Agency in the Americas
The Century of Western Ascendance
The Nineteenth-Century West
The Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The Seneca Falls Convention
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions
Eastern Europe and Russia, 1750-1914
Catherine the Great's Constitution
Excerpts from The Books of the Polish Nation
The Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria
The Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, 28 June 1914
Revolution!: Contested Identities in Latin America, 1750-1914
Agustin de Iturbide, The Plan of Iguala
The Plan of Iguala
Reflections on Revolutions (JosÃ© Rufino Echenique)
Symbolism and Contested Identities in Argentina
Canudos: Millenarianism in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil
East Asia Faces Challenge and Crisis
Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
The Treaty of Nanjing
A Comic Dialogue, 1855
The Meiji Constitution, 1889
South Asia, 1750-1914: The Making of the British Raj
Arrival of the British in the Punjab (Prakash Tandon)
Thomas Babington Macaulay's "Minute on Education."
An Indian Nationalist on Hindu Women and Education
An Indian Moslem Visits London (Syed Ahmed Khan)
Africa, 1750-1914: The West Imposes
An African Pamphleteer Attacks Slavery
Mary Prince, from The History of Mary Prince
Mary Kingsley and the Bubi of Fernando Po
The Middle East in the Age of European Expansion, 1750-1914
The William Knox D'Arcy Oil Concession in Persia, May 29, 1901
The Young Turk Revolution, 1908
Religious Minorities in the Middle East
Political Opposition in the Ottoman Empire
Comparative Case Study Part IV: All Men Are Created Equal?
The Twentieth Century
The Modern West Emerges
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est."
The Great Depression: An Oral Account
The Holocaust: Memoirs from the Commandant of Auschwitz
An Eyewitness to Hiroshima
Russia and Eastern Europe: The Dream Becomes a Nightmare
Lenin Calls for Electrification of All Russia
Stalin Demands Rapid Industrialization of the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev on the Need for Economic Reform
Scientists Examine Russia's Economy and Environment, 1991-1993
Twentieth-Century Latin America
Plan de Ayala
Juan Peron and Post-War Populism
Fidel Castro Defends the Revolution
Camilo Torres and Liberation Theology
East Asia and the Pacific Rim in the Twentieth Century
The Constitution of Japan, 1947
China's One-Child Family Policy
North and South Korean Accord, June 2000
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
South Asia: Freedom and State-Building in India and Pakistan
Gandhi Speaks against the Partition of India
Jinnah, the "Father" of Pakistan
The Tandon Family at Partition
Women in Karimpur, India
Twentieth Century Africa: From Colonies to Countries
The Wretched of the Earth
Kwame Nkrumah on African Unity
A Liberal White Journalist on Apartheid
World Bank Supported Day Care Programs in Uganda
The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
The Six Arrows of Kemalism: The Principles of the Republican People's Party (RRP), 1935
The Saudi-Aramco "50/50" Agreement, December 30, 1950
Islam and the State in the Middle East: Ayatollah Khomeini's Vision of Islamic Government
Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, September 13, 1993
Comparative Case Study Part V: The Constitution of Japan, Two Versions
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