Sources for World in the Making Volume 2: Since 1300

Edited by the authors of World in the Making and designed specifically to complement the text, this two-volume sourcebook includes more than 100 sources that give voice to both notable figures and everyday individuals. Every chapter includes an introduction and approximately six sources representing both major works and fresh perspectives. The "Contrasting Views" feature presents sources with divergent perspectives to foster comparative analysis.

Bonnie G. Smith is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University.

Marc Van De Mieroop is Professor of History at Columbia University.

Richard von Glahn is Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles.

Kris Lane is the France Vinton Scholes Chair in Colonial Latin American History at Tulane University.

Contents
Preface
Introduction to Students

Part 2: Crossroads and Cultures, 500 -1450 C.E.

Chapter 14: Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450
14.1 | The Plague in Florence and Its Economic Effects
Marchionne di Coppo Buonaiuti, Florentine Chronicle (c. 1370-1380)
14.2 | The English Peasant Revolt
Jean Froissart, Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries (1400)
14.3 | The Ming Emperor's Rules for Village Government
Emperor Hongwu, The Placard of the People's Instructions (1398)
14.4 | Religious Allegory in Persian Manuscript Illuminations
Prince Humay Meets the Lady Humayun in Her Garden by Moonlight (Early Fifteenth Century)
14.5 | The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks
Nestor-Iskander, Tale of the Capture of Constantinople (c. 1500)
14.6 | The Sultan of Mali
Ibn Battuta, Rihla (1356)
14.7 | Glorious Venice
Marin Sanudo, In Praise of the City of Venice (1493)

Part 3: The Early Modern World, 1450-1750

Chapter 15: Empires and Alternatives in the Americas, 1430-1530
15.1 | Aztec Sacrifice
Florentine Codex (c. 1540-1560)
15.2 | Aztec Child Rearing
Codex Mendoza (c. 1540)
15.3 | The Inca Huayna Capac's Final Days
Juan de Betanzos, Narrative of the Incas (1557?)
15.4 | Andean Religion
Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1600)
15.5 | Jesuit Views on Huron Society
Jesuit Relations (1632-1637)

Chapter 16: The Rise of an Atlantic World, 1450-1600
16.1 | "How They Sailed to the Land of the Blacks"
Gomes Eannes de Azurara, During the Conquest of Guinea (1453)
16.2 | Fearing Carib Cannibals
Michele de Cuneo, News of the Islands of the Herperian Ocean (1495)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
Native Peoples and Conquistadors Narrate the Conquest of Mexico
16.3 | Nahua Elders of Tlatelolco, Account of the Conquest of Mexico (c. 1540s)
16.4 | Hernando Cortés, A letter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Charles 1 of Spain) (1519)
16.5 | Bernal Díaz del Castillo, A Foot Soldier Recalls the March to Tenochtitlan (c. 1560)
16.6 | Native Allies with a Grievance
Nahua Nobles of Xochimilco, Letter to the King of Spain (1563)
16.7 | A Captive in Brazil
Hans Staden, True History (1557)

Chapter 17: Western Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1800
17.1 | The Powerful Mali Dynasty
Al-Sa'di, Mali and Its Provinces (c. 1655)
17.2 | The Kebbi Kingdom
Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur of Morocco, Letter to Kanta Dawud of Kebbi (c. 1591)
17.3 | The Splendor of Benin
Pieter de Marees, Description of the Situation and Character of the Great City of Benin (1602)
17.4 | Thoughts on the Slave Trade
Tomás de Mercado, On the Trade in the Blacks of Cape Verde (1569)
17.5 | Observations of the Congo, Loango, and Angolan Kingdoms
Pieter van den Broecke, Journal of Voyages (c. 1630)
Alonso de Sandoval, On Restoring Ethiopian Salvation (1627)

Chapter 18: Trade and Empire in the Indian Ocean and South Asia, 1450-1750
18.1 | The Portugese Reach Sofala, Mozambique
Martín Fernández de Figueroa, A Spaniard in the Portuguese Indies (1505)
18.2 | A Thriving Kingdom in South India
Duarte Barbosa,Description of Vijayanagara (1518)
18.3 | The Founder of the Mughal Empire
Emperor Babur, The Baburnama (1499-1519)
18.4 | "Scenes from My Life"
Emperor Jahangir, The Jahangirnama (1612-1621)
18.5 | Makassar's Kingdom of Talloq: Islam, Guns, and a Golden Age
Talloq Chronicle (c. 1660)
18.6 | From London with Love
English East India Company, Letters to Princes in Sumatra and Borneo (1734, 1740, 1744)

Chapter 19: Consolidation and Conflict in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean, 1450-1750
19.1 | Gunpowder and High Stakes: Ottomans Versus Prince Dracula
Konstantin Mihailovic, Memoirs of a Janissary (1462)
19.2 | Two Accounts of a Conflagration
Marcantonio Barbaro, Fire Engulfs Istanbul (1569)
Rabbi Yitzhaq ben Avraham 'Aqrish, Three Interpretations of Canticum Canticorum (c. 1575)
19.3 | The Battle of Baghdad
Iskander Munshi, History of Shah 'Abbas the Great (1625-1626)
19.4 | The Global Spread of Scientific Knowledge
Galileo Galilei, The Discovery of Jupiter's Moons (1610)
Alvaro Alonso Barba, On the Number of Metals, and Places Where They Are Begotten (1640)
19.5 | Life in an Early Modern German-Jewish Community
Glücel of Hameln, Memoirs (1690)
19.6 | Venice on a Ducat a Day
Peter Tolstoi, Travel Diary (1698)

Chapter 20: Expansion and Isolation in Asia, 1450-1750
20.1 | Moscow in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
Heinrich von Staden, The Land and Government of Muscovy (1578-1579)
20.2 | Mountain Travels
Hsü Hsia-k'o, Travel Diaries (1616)
20.3 | China Under Siege
Wang Xiuchu, The Qing Attack on Yangzhou (1645)
20.4 | A German Visitor Describes Japan
Engelbert Kaempfer, People You Meet on the Road in Japan andThe Prostitutes' Quarter of Nagasaki (1691)
20.5 | Notes from a Korean Queen's Diary
Lady Hong, Diary (c. 1750)
20.6 | Manila: Global Commercial Crossroads
Antonio de Morga, Account of the Philippine Islands (c. 1600)

Chapter 21: Transforming New Worlds: The American Colonies Mature, 1600-1750
21.1 | Arrival of the Japanese Embassy in Mexico City
Domingo Chimalpahin,Annals (1610)
21.2 | The Wealth of Spanish America
María de Carranza and Nicolás de Guevara, Letters from the Spanish Indies (1589-1590)
21.3 | Life in a Peruvian Convent
Ursula de Jesús, Visions of the World to Come (c. 1650)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
Exploitation or Opportunity in the Peruvian Andes?
21.4 | Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle (c. 1610)
21.5 | Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Defense of the Western Conquests (1618)
21.6 | Description of Quebec City and a Christian Huron Village
Pehr Kalm, Travels into North America (1749)
21.7 | Runaway Slaves
John G. Stedman, A Surinam Maroon Described (1790)

Part 4: The World from 1750 to the Present

Chapter 22: Atlantic Revolutions and the World, 1750-1830
22.1 | The Enlightenment Among Artisans
Jacques-Louis Ménétra, Journal of My Life (1764-1802)
22.2 | The Spread of Enlightenment
Sugita Gempaku, A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan (1771)
22.3 | An Egyptian's View of Napoleon and the French Invasion
'Abd-al-Rahmân 'al-Jabarti, Diary (1798-1801)
22.4 | Haiti and the Revolutionary Tradition
The Haitian Constitution (1801)
22.5 | Why an Argentine Lawyer Joined the Revolution Against Spain
Manuel Belgrano, Autobiography (1814)

Chapter 23: Industry and Everyday Life, 1750-1900
23.1 | The Experience of Japanese Factory Life
Song of the Living Corpses (1890s)
23.2 | The Chinese Case Against Opium
Edict of Commissioner Lin Zexu (1839)
23.3 | Cholera Strikes Railway Workers in India
Official Report to the British Government (c. 1889)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
Debates Over Industrialization
23.4 | Adam Smith, Of the Division of Labor (1776)\
23.5 | Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)
23.6 | José Manuel Balmaceda, On the Need to Develop National Industry (1880s)
23.7 | Li Hung-Chang, A Report to the Emperor: Problems of Industrialization (1872)

Chapter 24: Nation-States and Their Empires, 1830-1900
24.1 | Nation Building in the United States
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)
24.2 | Imagining the Perfect Nation
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Sultana's Dream (1905)
24.3 | A Place in the Sun
Kaiser William II of Germany, Speech to the North German Regatta Association (1901)
24.4 | Working for the Imperialists
Roger Casement, Report on the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (1903)
24.5 | Amar Singh, Diary (1898-1901)

Chapter 25: Wars, Revolutions, and the Birth of Mass Society, 1900-1929
25.1 | Revolutionary Plans for the Mexican Future
The Plan de Ayala (1910)
25.2 | An Australian Soldier Fights for Britain
E. P. F. Lynch, War Memoir (1916-1919)
25.3 | Proclaiming the Soviet Alternative to War-Weary Russians
V. I. Lenin, April Theses (1917)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
The Postwar Middle East
25.4 | Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
25.5 | The Balfour Declaration (1917)
25.6 | Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus (1919)
25.7 | The Mandate System Under the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919)
25.8 | An Ally Critiques Atatürk
Halide Edib Adivar, Dictatorship and Reform in Turkey (1929)

Chapter 26: Global Catastrophe: The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
26.1 | Authoritarian Man of the People
Getulio Vargas, New Year's Address (1938)
Factory Worker Joana de Masi Zero, Reminiscences (1930s)
26.2 | The Fate of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie, Appeal to the League of Nations (1936)
Kwame Nkrumah, Autobiography (1957)
26.3 | India's Push for Independence
Mohandas Gandhi, Quit India Declaration (1942)
26.4 | The Battle of Stalingrad
Vera Ivanovna Malakhova, Interview (1990s)
26.5 | Hope for the Postwar Future
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

Chapter 27: The Emergence of New Nations in a Cold War World, 1945-1970
27.1 | Decolonizing the Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users' Association (1956)
27.2 | A Meeting of Emerging Nations
President Sukarno of Indonesia, Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference (1955)
Richard Wright, The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (1956)
27.3 | Consumerism and the Cold War
British Advertisement (1950s) and Soviet Fashion Spread (1957)
27.4 | Literature after Empire
Flora Nwapa Efuru (1966)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
The Cold War and Latin America
27.5 | Dean Acheson, Waging Peace in the Americas (1949)
27.6 | Nikita Khrushchev, Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress (1960)
27.7 | John F. Kennedy, The Lesson of Cuba (1961)
27.8 | Fidel Castro, Second Declaration of Havana (1962)

Chapter 28: A New Global Age, 1980s to the Present
28.1 | A New Regime in Iran
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Uprising of Khurdad 15 (1979)
28.2 | The Collapse of Communism
Dirk Philipsen, Interviews with Industrial Workers (1990)
28.3 | The Toll of AIDS on Africa
Justice Edwin Cameron, The Deafening Silence of AIDS (2000)
28.4 | Sweatshop Warriors
Rojana Cheunchujit, Interview (1990s)
28.5 | Wangari Maathai and Mary Robinson, Women Can Lead the Way in Tackling Development and Climate Challenges Together
(2010)

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