World Civilizations: Sources, Images and Interpretations, Volume 1

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

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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.

Topical Contents

Preface

xxi

Using This Book

xxiii

A Note on Chinese Romanization

xxvi

Early Civilizations of Southwestern Asia and Northeastern Africa

(18)

Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources: The Laws of Hammurabi

(1)

The Epic of Gilgamesh

(1)

The Laws of Hammurabi

(2)

Hymn to the Pharaoh

(1)

Harkhuf, Egypt's Southern Neighbors

(1)

The Old Testament---Genesis and Exodus

(1)

The Aton Hymn and Psalm 104: The Egyptians and the Hebrews

(1)

Visual Sources

Using Visual Sources: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur

(1)

Sumer: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur (Illustration)

(2)

Egyptian Wall Paintings from the Tomb of Menna (Illustration)

(1)

The Environment and the Rise of Civilization in Southwestern Asia and Northeastern Africa (Maps)

(2)

Secondary Sources

Using Secondary Sources: The Agricultural Revolution

(1)

The Agricultural Revolution

(1)

Robert J. Braidwood

The Process of Civilization

(1)

William H. McNeill

Freedom in the Ancient World: Civilization in Sumer

(1)

Herbert J. Muller

Women of Egypt and the Ancient Near East

(1)

Barbara S. Lesko

India, to C.E. 500

(12)

Primary Sources

The Lawbook of Manu: The Caste System

(1)

The Mahabharata

(1)

The Lawbook of Manu: Marriage and Sexual Activity

(1)

The Kamasutra

(1)

The Book of Sermons: The Teachings of Jainism

(1)

The Book of Later Instructions: Jainian Ideals

(1)

The Life of Buddha: The Origins of Buddhism

(1)

The Mahayana Tradition: The Compassion of a Bodhisattva

(1)

Visual Sources

Gateway at Sanchi (Illustration)

(1)

Geography and Linguistic Divisions: The Indian Subcontinent (Map)

(1)

Secondary Sources

The Ancient City of Harappa

(1)

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture

(2)

A. L. Basham

Cultural Continuity in India

(2)

W. Norman Brown

China, to C.E. 500

(14)

Primary Sources

The Analects: The Confucian School

(1)

A Confucian Poem: The Role of Women

(1)

Buddhist Song: The Stages of a Woman's Life

(1)

How to Be a Good Ruler

(1)

Mencius

Han Fei Zi (Han Fei Tzu), Eminence in Learning: The Legalist School

(2)

Daoist Writings: ``The Wise Judge'' and ``Social Connections''

(2)

Visual Sources

Salt Mining (Illustration)

(1)

A Chinese House (Illustration)

(1)

Chinese Bureaucracy (Chart)

(1)

China's Warring States (Map)

(1)

Secondary Sources

Kinship in Chinese Culture

(1)

Evelyn S. Rawski

China's Cultural Heritage

(2)

Richard J. Smith

The Mediterranean Basin: Greek Civilization

(16)

Primary Sources

The Iliad

(1)

Homer

Semonides of Amorgos, Poem on Women

(1)

Constitution of the Lacedaemonians

(1)

Xenophon

The History of the Peloponnesian War: Athens during the Golden Age

(2)

Thucydides

Antigone

(1)

Sophocles

The Republic

(1)

Plato

Medicine and Magic

(1)

Hippocrates

Visual Sources

Trade, Culture, and Colonization (Illustration)

(1)

Migration and Colonization (Maps)

(1)

The Women's Quarters (Illustration)

(1)

Secondary Sources

The Greeks: Slavery

(1)

Anthony Andrews

Greek Realities

(3)

Finley Hooper

The Mediterranean Basin: Roman Civilization and the Origins of Christianity

(12)

Primary Sources

Histories: The Roman Constitution

(1)

Polybius

Diodorus of Sicily, The Ethiopians

(1)

Pliny the Younger, Letters: The Daily Life of a Roman Governor

(1)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

(1)

The Fall of Rome

(1)

St. Jerome

Visual Sources

The Geographic and Cultural Environment (Map)

(1)

Commerce and Culture East and West (Map)

(2)

Carved Gemstone: Augustus and the Empire Transformed (Illustration)

(1)

Tomb Decoration: Death and Roman Culture (Illustration)

(1)

Secondary Sources

Roman Women

(1)

Gillian Clark

The World of Ancient Times: The Appeal of Christianity

(1)

Carl Roebuck

The Later Roman Empire

(2)

A. H. M. Jones

The Rise of Islam

(12)

Primary Sources

The Qur'an

(1)

Letter to 'Umar II: Islamic Asceticism

(1)

Hasan al-Basri

Autobiography of an Islamic Scholar

(2)

Avicenna

Memoirs: Cultural Interactions

(1)

Usamah Ibn-Munqidh

Visual Sources

Manuscript Illuminations: Scenes from the Life of Muhammad (Illustrations)

(2)

The Spread of Islam in Africa (Map)

(1)

Secondary Sources

The Expansion of Islam

(1)

Ira Lapidus

The Muslim Pattern of Conquest

(1)

W. Montgomery Watt

The Islamic World

(1)

Albert Hourani

The Eastern Orientation of Islam

(3)

Peter Brown

India and Southeast Asia, 500--1500

(12)

Primary Sources

The Key to Paradise: Islam in India

(1)

Muhammad Mujir Wajib Adib

The Four Legs of the Realm

(1)

Muhammad Baquir Khan

Governmental Appointments

(1)

Barni

Sikhism

(1)

Guru Nanak

Traditional Vietnam

(1)

Nguyen Khac Vien

Zhou Daguan (Chou Ta-Kuan), An Account of Cambodia

(1)

Visual Sources

Trade along the Shores of the Indian Ocean (Map)

(1)

The Borobudur Stupa: An Oceangoing Ship (Illustration)

(1)

Women and the Sultan (Illustration)

(1)

Secondary Sources

Islam in India

(1)

Percival Spear

India the ``Honey Jar'' and the Lure of Trade

(1)

Richard Eaton

The Traditional Burmese Legal System

(2)

Than Tun

China and Japan, 500--1500

(16)

Primary Sources

Wang Daokun (Wang Tao-k'un), The Biography of Zhu Jiefuy (Chu Chieh-Fu): Merchants in China

(1)

The Lady Who Was a Beggar: Women in Chinese Society

(2)

Secret Societies in China

101

(1)

The Records of the Legitimate Succession of the Divine Sovereigns: Japanese Uniqueness

102

(1)

Kitabatake Chikafusa

Tales of Uji: Dishonest Priests

103

(1)

Ban Zhao (Pan Chao), Lessons for Women

103

(1)

Visual Sources

Culture, Politics, and Power in Tang China, 618--907 (Map)

104

(1)

Zhang Zeduan (Chang Tse-tuan), Riverside Scene in Qing Ming (Ch'ing Ming) Festival (Illustration)

105

(1)

The Glory of the Samurai (Illustration)

105

(2)

Secondary Sources

Daily Life in China in the 13th Century

107

(1)

Jacques Gernet

The Imperial Examination System

108

(1)

Ichisada Miyazaki

Women in Early Japan

109

(1)

Jeffrey P. Mass

The Maritime Expeditions

110

(3)

Philip Snow

The Mongols, the Turks, and the Middle East, 1000--1500

113

(14)

Primary Sources

al-Jahiz, Turks and Arabs

114

(1)

Mongol Gender Relations

114

(1)

William of Rubruck

Timur the Great Amir

115

(1)

Ahmed ibn Arabshah

Mehmed the Conqueror

116

(1)

Kritovoulos

Visual Sources

Cruelties of Conquest (Illustration)

117

(1)

Life in the Camp: The Nomadic Tent (Illustration)

117

(1)

Mir Sayyid 'Ali

Power in Central Asia and the Middle East (Maps)

117

(4)

Secondary Sources

Chinggis Khan

121

(1)

Charles Halperin

Mongol Imperialism

122

(1)

Thomas T. Allsen

The Status of Women under Mongol Rule

123

(1)

Morris Rossabi

Muslim Arabs and Others

124

(1)

Albert Habib Hourani

The Mongols and the Ottoman Turks

125

(2)

C. E. Bosworth

The Struggle for Order in the West: Europe's Middle Ages, 500--1300

127

(16)

Primary Sources

The Institutes of Justinian: Byzantium and the Legacy of Roman Law

128

(1)

Feudal Contracts and Obligations

129

(1)

Letters: Secular and Ecclesiastical Authority

130

(1)

Pope Gregory VII

Reginald of Durham, The Life of Saint Godric: A Merchant Adventurer

131

(1)

The Decretum: Medieval Women---Not in God's Image

131

(1)

Gratian

The Opening of the Crusades

132

(1)

Pope Urban II

St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis

133

(1)

Visual Sources

Illustration from a Gospel Book: Christianity and Early Medieval Culture (Illustration)

134

(1)

Medieval Life (Illustration)

135

(1)

Pol de Limbourg

Contraction and Expansion in the Middle Ages (Maps)

136

(3)

Secondary Sources

Mohammed and Charlemagne: The Beginnings of Medieval Civilization

139

(1)

Henri Pirenne

Sanctity and Power: The Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women

139

(1)

Jo Ann McNamara

Suzanne F. Wemple

Medieval Values

140

(1)

Jacques Le Goff

The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience

141

(1)

Robert Browning

Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change

142

(1)

David Herlihy

Transitions in the West, 1300--1500

143

(16)

Primary Sources

The Decameron: The Plague in Florence

144

(1)

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Goodman of Paris: Instructions on Being a Good Wife

145

(1)

A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism

146

(1)

Francesco Petrarch

On the Liberal Arts

147

(1)

Peter Paul Vergerio

The City of Ladies

148

(1)

Christine de Pizan

The Prince

149

(1)

Niccolo Machiavelli

Visual Sources

The Triumph of Death (Illustration)

150

(1)

Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (Illustration)

150

(1)

Hans Holbein

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (Illustration)

150

(4)

Jan van Eyck

Unrest in the Late Middle Ages (Map)

154

(1)

Food and Crime (Chart)

155

(1)

Secondary Sources

A Psychological Perspective of the Black Death

155

(1)

William L. Langer

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

156

(1)

Jacob Burckhardt

The Myth of the Renaissance

157

(2)

Peter Burke

Civilizations of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas, to 1500

159

(20)

Primary Sources

A Muslim's View of the African Kingdom of Mali

160

(1)

Ibn Battuta

Chronicles of an Ethiopian King

161

(1)

Ethiopia Oriental: Courtly Life in an African Kingdom

162

(1)

Joao dos Santos

Political Practices in West Africa

163

(1)

Pieter de Marees

The Chronicle of Peru: The Incas

164

(1)

Pedro Cieza de Leon

A Peruvian Chief's Description of Inca Society

165

(2)

Human Poma

Memoirs: The Aztecs

167

(1)

Bernal Diaz del Castillo

Visual Sources

West African Goldweights (Illustrations)

168

(1)

The Western Sudan in the 14th Century: Trade Routes and Politics (Map)

168

(1)

Mayan Woman and Children (Illustration)

169

(1)

The Americas in 1490 (Map)

169

(3)

Secondary Sources

Developing West African States

172

(1)

Roderick James McIntosh

The Origins of Great Zimbabwe

173

(1)

Innocent Pikirayi

The Earliest Americans

174

(1)

John Noble Wilford

Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early America

175

(1)

Gary Nash

Indians of the Americas: A Geopolitical Analysis

176

(3)

Roxanne D. Ortiz

Global Encounters and Cultures in Conflict, 1500--1700

179

(20)

Primary Sources

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

180

(1)

Azurara

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

181

(1)

The Suma Oriental

182

(2)

Tome Pires

Women and Poverty in Japan

184

(1)

Francesco Carletti

The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

185

(1)

Diego Munoz Camargo

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

185

(1)

Voyages from Holland to America: The Dutch Colonize North America

186

(1)

David Pietersz de Vries

A Voyage to South America: Caste and Race in Latin America

187

(1)

Jorge Juan

Antonio de Ulloa

Visual Sources

Exploration, Expansion, and Politics (Map)

188

(1)

A Buddhist Temple: European Views of Asia (Illustration)

189

(1)

The Conquest of Mexico as Seen by the Aztecs (Illustration)

189

(1)

Secondary Sources

The Expansion of Europe

190

(1)

Richard B. Reed

Epidemics and Environmental Change in the Americas

191

(1)

Alan Taylor

Muslims in Ming China

192

(1)

Morris Rossabi

China's Response to the West

193

(1)

John K. Fairbank

Ssu-yu Teng

Europeans Arrive in Japan

194

(1)

Jean-Pierre Lehmann

The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World

195

(4)

M. L. Bush

Europe's Early Modern Era, 1500--1789

199

(16)

Primary Sources

Justification by Faith

200

(1)

Martin Luther

Constitution of the Society of Jesus

200

(1)

The Powers of the Monarch in England

201

(1)

James I

The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England

202

(1)

Peter the Great, Decree on the Invitation of Foreigners

203

(1)

Visual Sources

Luther and the New Testament (Illustration)

203

(1)

Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (Illustration)

203

(1)

Sebald Beham

Loyola and Catholic Reform (Illustration)

204

(1)

Peter Paul Rubens

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Harvesters (Illustration)

205

(1)

The Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (Illustration)

206

(2)

Thomas Hobbes

Happy Accidents of the Swing (Illustration)

208

(2)

Jean-Honore Fragonard

Secondary Sources

What Was the Reformation?

210

(1)

Euan Cameron

Women in the Reformation

210

(1)

Marilyn J. Boxer

Jean H. Quataert

The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family

211

(1)

Peter Laslett

Lords and Peasants

212

(1)

Jerome Blum

The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities

213

(2)

John Roberts

Asia, 1500--1700

215

(11)

Primary Sources

The Way of the Samurai

216

(1)

Yamaga Soko

Greater Learning for Women

217

(1)

Ekiken Kaibara

A Woman's Voice in India

218

(1)

Habbah Khatun

Travels in the Mogul Empire: Politics and Society in India

219

(1)

Francois Bernier

Village Life and Government in China

220

(1)

The Ottoman Social Order

221

(1)

Ghiselin de Busbecq

Visual Sources

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

221

(1)

Architecture and the Imperial City (Map)

222

(1)

Expansion of the Ottoman Empire, 1520--1639 (Map)

223

(1)

Secondary Sources

Marriage, Caste, and Society in India

224

(1)

V. P. S. Raghuvanshi

The Ottoman Empire and Its Successors

225

(1)

Peter Mansfield

Hard Times and the Fall of China's Ming Dynasty

226

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