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- Copyright: 10/4/2011
Denis Gainty (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is a professor of history at Georgia State University. He is the author of several pieces on Tokugawa and Meiji social history, including a book chapter on the inclusion of martial arts in the modern Japanese public school curriculum. He is currently writing his first book, Martialing the National Body.
16-6 From The Florentine Codex, ca. 1577-1580
16-7 Matteo Ricci, From China in the Sixteenth Century, ca. 1607 17 European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750
Viewpoints: Thoughts on Government
17-1 Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, On Divine Right, ca. 1675-1680
17-2 Thomas Hobbes, From Leviathan: “Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery,” 1651
17-3 John Locke, From Two Treatises of Government: “Of the Ends of Political Society and Government,” 1690
17-4 Duc de Saint-Simon, From Memoirs of Louis XIV: “On the Early Life of Louis XIV,” ca. 1730-1755
17-5 Catherine II of Russia, Two Decrees, 1762, 1765
17-6 Emilian Ivanovich Pugachev, A Decree and a Manifesto, 1773, 1774
Comparative Questions 18 New Worldviews and Ways of Life, 1540-1790
18-1 Galileo Galilei, From a Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina and “To the Discerning Reader” from Dialog Concerning the Two Chief World-Systems, 1615, 1632
Viewpoints: Changing Ideas of Science
18-2 Francis Bacon, From The Great Restoration: “History of Life and Death,” 1623
18-3 Peter the Great and Gottfried Leibniz, Items from the Rule of Peter the Great, ca. 1712-1718
18-4 Voltaire, From Dictionnaire Philosophique: “Theist,” 1764
18-5 Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?” 1784
18-6 Philip Stanhope, From Letters to His Son, 1748
Comparative Questions 19 Africa and the World, 1400-1800
19-1 Nzinga Mbemba (Alfonso I), From Letters to the King of Portugal, 1526
19-2 Osei Bonsu, An Asante King Questions British Motives in Ending the Slave Trade, 1820
19-3 Leo Africanus, A Description of Timbuktu, 1526
Viewpoints: The Slave Trade
19-4 Anna Maria Falconbridge, From Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, 1794
19-5 Olaudah Equiano, From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, 1789
19-6 Louis Ohier de Grandpré, From Voyage to the West Coast of Africa, 1801
Comparative Questions 20 The Islamic World Powers, 1300-1800
20-1 Sultan Selim I, From a Letter to Shah Ismail of Persia, 1514
20-2 Antonio Monserrate, From The Commentary of Father Monserrate: On Mughal India, ca. 1580
20-3 Farid Ud-Din Attar and Habiballah, Excerpt from and Illustration of The Conference of the Birds, 1600
20-4 Nuruddin Salim Jahangir, From the Memoirs of Jahangir, ca. 1580-1600
Viewpoints: Economics Micro and Macro
20-5 Halime Hatun, Record of Two Petitions, 1702
20-6 The Dutch East India Company and Shah Abbas, Correspondences on Persian Trade, 1647, 1648
Comparative Questions
21 Continuity and Change in East Asia, 1400-1800
21-1 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Letter to His Wife, 1587
22-2 Huang Zongxi, From Waiting for the Dawn: “On the Prince” and “On Ministership,” 1662
22-3 Engelbert Kaempfer, From History of Japan, 1727
Viewpoints: Gender in East Asia
22-4 Kaibara Ekiken and Kaibara To¯ken, Common Sense Teachings for Japanese Children and Greater Learning for Women, ca. 1700
22-5 A Japanese Sake Brewer's Female Antipollution Pass, ca. 1603-1868
22-6 Li Ruzhen (Li Ju-Chen), From Flowers in the Mirror (Jing Hua Yuan), 1827
Comparative Questions 22 Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1815
22-1 From The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, 1776
Viewpoints: Defining the Citizen
22-2 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789
22-3 Olympe de Gouges, From the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
22-4 Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary Speech, 1794
22-5 Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
21-6 The Haitian Declaration of Independence, 1804
Comparative Questions 23 The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1760-1860
23-1 Thomas Robert Malthus, From “An Essay on the Principle of Population,” 1798
Viewpoints: The Realities of Manufacturing
23-2 Robert Owen, From Observations of the Effect of the Manufacturing System, 1815
23-3 Sadler Committee and Ashley Commission, Testimonies Before Parliamentary Committees on Working Conditions in England, 1832, 1842
23-4 Chartism: The People's Petition, 1838
23-5 The Treaty of Balta-Liman
Comparative Questions 24 Ideologies of Change in Europe, 1815-1914
24-1 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, From The Communist Manifesto, 1848
Viewpoints: Visions of the Nation
24-2 Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Address to the German Nation, 1808
24-3 Max Nordau, On Zionism, 1905
24-4 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Speech to His Soldiers, 1860
24-5 Munich Bar Kochba Association, 1902
24-6 Beatrice Webb, From My Apprenticeship: “Why I Became a Socialist,” 1926
Comparative Questions 25 Africa, Southwest Asia, and the New Imperialism, 1800-1914
25-1 Sultan Abdul Mejid, Imperial Rescript, 1856
25-2 An Ottoman Government Decree on the “Modern” Citizen, 1870
Viewpoints: The Colonial Encounter in Africa
25-3 Cecil Rhodes, From “Confession of Faith,” ca. 1877
25-4 Ndansi Kumalo, On the British Incursion in Zimbabwe, 1932
25-5 Roger Casement and David Engohahe, Victims of Belgian Atrocities, ca. 1904-1905
Comparative Questions 26 Asia in the Era of Imperialism, 1800-1914
Viewpoints: Reactions to Imperialism and Modernity
26-1 Lin Zexu, From a Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
26-2 Two Proclamations of the Boxer Rebellion, 1898, 1900
26-3 Saigo Takamori, Letter on the Korean Question, 1873
26-4 Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, Letter to Lieutenant-Governor J. Colvin, June 13, 1857
26-5 Sun Yat-Sen, On the Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, 1906
26-6 Moorfield Storey and Julian Codman, On American Imperialism in the Philippines, 1902
Comparative Questions 27 Nation Building in the Americas and Australia, 1770-1914
27-1 Simòn Bolivar, Jamaica Letter, 1815
27-2 Alexis de Tocqueville, From Democracy in America, 1840
Viewpoints: Federal Dispossession in the United States and Australia
27-3 Cherokee Nation Versus the State of Georgia, 1831
27-4 From Aborigines Protection Act, 1909-1943
27-5 N.C. Adossides, “Villa, the Bandit General,” 1914
27-6 Advertisement for the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1883
Comparative Questions 28 World War and Revolution, 1914-1929
28-1 From A War Nurse's Diary, 1918
28-2 Correspondence of Evelyn and Fred Albright, 1917
28-3 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, “All Power to the Soviets!” 1917
28-4 The Zionist Organization, Memorandum to the Peace Conference in Versailles: On the Establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine, February 3, 1919
Viewpoints: Zionist, German, and Japanese Views on the End of WWI
28-5 German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, On the Conditions of Peace, October 1919
28-6 Konoe Fumimaro, “Against a Pacifism Centered on England and America,” 1918
Comparative Questions 29 Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939
29-1 Mary L. Graffam, An Account of Turkish Violence against Armenians, 1915
29-2 Arthur James Balfour, Debating the Balfour Declaration: The British Government Supports a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1917
29-3 Sarojini Naidu, From “The Agony and Shame of the Punjab”: An Indian Nationalist Condemns the British Empire, 1920
Viewpoints: Prescriptions for National Improvement in China and Siam
29-4 Jiang Jieshi, “The New Life Movement,” 1934
29-5 King Vajiravudh, On the Siamese Nation, 1914, 1917, 1920
29-6 Claudie Beaucarnot, Vacation Diary, July 1943
Comparative Questions 30 The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
30-1 Woody Guthrie, “Do Re Mi,” 1937
30-2 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Speech to the National Socialist Women's Association, 1935
30-3 The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation, 1935
30-4 Letters to Izvestiya: On the Issue of Abortion, 1936
Viewpoints: Atomic Warfare Realized
30-5 Harry S. Truman, White House Press Release on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
30-6 Toshiko Saeki, Interview with a Survivor of Hiroshima, 1986
Comparative Questions 31 Global Recovery and Division Between Superpowers, 1945 to the Present
31-1 United Nations General Assembly, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, December 14, 1960
Viewpoints: Clashes and Reforms Among Cold War Superpowers
31-2 Harry S Truman, The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947
31-3 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, “On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences,” 1956
31-4 Mikhail Gorbachev, From Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World, 1986
31-5 George C. Wallace, “Statement and Proclamation”: School House Door Speech, June 11, 1963
31-6 Male Japanese Citizens, “Ikigai,” 2003
Comparative Questions 32 Independence, Progress, and Conflict in Asia and the Middle East, 1945 to the Present
32-1 Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 1945
32-2 Jawaharlal Nehru, The Partitioning of the Punjab, 1947
Viewpoints: Transitions in Modern China
32-3 Former Red Guard, “Away from Madness,” 1996
32-4 Deng Ziaoping, “Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,” June 30, 1984
32-5 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Suez Canal Nationalization Speech, September 15, 1956
32-6 Unya Shavit, Arab and Israeli Soccer Players Discuss Ethnic Relations in Israel, November 3, 2000
Comparative Questions 33 The Global South: Latin America and Africa, 1945 to the Present
33-1 Pablo Neruda, “Standard Oil Co.” and “United Fruit Co.,” 1950
33-2 Fidel Castro, Interview with Dan Rather, September 30, 1979
33-3 Charles de Gaulle, Comments on Algeria, April 11, 1961
33-4 Kwame Nkrumah, Speech on the Tenth Anniversary of the Convention People's Party, 1960
Viewpoints: Race and Power in South Africa
33-5 National Party of South Africa, “The National Party's Colour Policy,” March 29, 1948
33-6 Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court, April 20, 1964
Comparative Questions 34 A New Era in World History
Viewpoints: Defining Arabic and Islamic Identities
34-1 George Tarabishi, A Roundtable Discussion of Globalization and Its Impact on Arab Culture, October 26, 2000
34-2 Osama (Usama) bin Laden, A Call on Muslims to Take Up Arms Against America, 1998
34-3 John Yoo, Memoranda Regarding U.S. Military Interrogations, 2002, 2003
34-4 Carolina Sic, From an Interview with Women United for Worker Justice, 2005
34-5 Al Gore, On Solving the Climate Crisis, September 18, 2006
34-6 Jonas Bendiksen, “New Settlement”: A Slum in Caracas, Venezuela, ca. 2007
Comparative Questions
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