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Documents in World History Vol. 2 : The Modern Centuries - From 1500 to the Present
ISBN: 9780205619474 | 0205619479
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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This book offers a range of documents to illustrate characteristic features of key civilizations during major stages of world history - from the beginnings of written records to the start of the modern age around 1500 C.E. - including contrasts and comparisons among major societies. Revised and updated with fourteen new documents and four new visual sources, the fifth edition ofDocuments in World Historyretains its global emphasis while improving its standard selections and political coverage, as well as expanding its coverage of Africa and the... MORE
| Geographical | |
| Topical | |
| Preface to the New Edition | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| The Early Modern Period | |
| Centuries of Dramatic Change: 1400s 1700s | |
| Introduction | |
| Global Contacts | |
| The Maritime System | |
| Columbus and others | |
| The Columbian Exchange in the Early Modern Pe... MORE | |
| Waiting for chapter before determining sub-head | |
| Africa and the Slave Trade | |
| African and Western Interaction | |
| Western Europe and Russia | |
| The Italian Renaissance | |
| The Letters of Petrarch | |
| The Protestant Reformation | |
| The Works of Martin Luther | |
| Protestantism and Women | |
| Conservative and Reformist Views | |
| The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | |
| New Intellectual Standards in the West | |
| From the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment | |
| Visual Source: Science in Renaissance Art | |
| Peter The Great Reforms Russia | |
| Peter the Great | |
| New Empires in Asia | |
| The Rise of the Ottoman Empire | |
| The Reign of Suleiman | |
| Visual Source: The Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul | |
| Conquering and Ruling India: Babur and Akbar | |
| Mughal Documents | |
| Visual Source: Portrait of Babur | |
| Confucianism and Popular Protest in China | |
| Ming and Qing Documents | |
| Visual Source: Confucian Architecture | |
| Early Modern Japan | |
| Tokugawa Documents | |
| Visual Source: The Art of the "Floating World" | |
| Latin American Civilization | |
| Economy and Society in Latin America | |
| Latin American Working Conditions | |
| Visual Source: Silver Mine at Potosi | |
| Political Styles in Latin America: Colonial Bureaucracy | |
| Don Jorge Juan and Don Antionio De Ulloa | |
| Baroque Culture in Latin America | |
| Samplings of Baroque Culture in Mexico, latter 17th Century | |
| Visual Source: Baroque Church | |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| East Africa and Portugal | |
| Gaspar de Santo Barnadino's Itinerario da India | |
| The Long 19th Century: 1750 - 1914 | |
| Introduction | |
| Western Civilization | |
| The French Revolution and its Aftermath | |
| Classic Documents of the Revolution | |
| Work and Workers in the Industrial Revolution | |
| Industrial Revolution Documents | |
| Global Contacts | |
| World Migrations: 19th and 20th Centuries | |
| Documents on the United States, Brazil and Manchuria | |
| European Imperialism | |
| Documents by Lugard, Ferry and Kipling | |
| Russia | |
| The Russian Frontier Society | |
| John Ledyard on Siberia | |
| Russian Peasants: Serfdom and Emancipation | |
| Russian Documents | |
| Asia | |
| The Opium War: China and the West | |
| Correspondence Between China and England | |
| Visual Source: Chinese and British Images of Lin Zexu | |
| Heavenly Kingdom or Reform?: China's Descent | |
| Taiping and Reform Documents | |
| The Meiji Restoration in Japan | |
| Meiji Documents | |
| Visual Source: Photographs of the Meiji Emperor | |
| The 1857 Uprising in India | |
| British and Indian Documents | |
| Visual Source: British Images of the Indian Uprising | |
| Middle Eastern Responses to the West | |
| Middle Eastern Documents | |
| Latin America | |
| Independence and Consolidation of New States (1791 - 1910) | |
| Documents by Jean Jacques Dessallines, Sim=n Bolivar, and Profirio Diaz | |
| Economy and Society of Latin America | |
| PlantationLife in Cuba | |
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