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Documents of Western Civilization

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Documents of Western Civilization

by: Archer,Janice

ISBN 13:
9780314221001
ISBN 10:
031422100X
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 08/31/1998
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Contains a broad selection of carefully chosen documents. This reader can accompany any Western civilization text. (Package item ONLY.)

Discovery and Crisis

(7)

European Exploration

(3)

From the Diary of Columbus' First Voyage to America, 1492-93

(3)

The Gold of the Indies, 1559

(1)

Michele Soriano

Disorderly Women and Witchcraft

(4)

Innocent VIII: The Witch-Bull of 1484

(1)

Malleus Maleficarum, 1486

(2)

Heinrich Kramer

Jacob Sprenger

Absolute and Limited Monarchies

(30)

The Growth of Absolutism

(16)

Letters from France

(1)

Busbecq

The Edict of Nantes, 1598

(2)

The Demolition of Feudal Castles, 1626

(1)

The Political Testament, 1638

(2)

Cardinal Richelieu

Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 1685

(2)

from ``Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture''

(2)

Bossuet

Letter to the Officials of Marseilles, 1664

(1)

Louis XIV

from the Memoires of the Duke of St. Simon

(2)

Renewed Persecution, 1707

(1)

Isabel Charras

The Condition of the French Army, 1710

(2)

Fenelon

The Struggle for Power in Seventeenth Century England

(14)

James I on the Divine Right of Kings, 1609

(1)

from ``The Petition of Right'', 1628

(1)

A Pamphlet on the Civil War

(1)

Wallington's Account of the Battle of Edgehill

(1)

Death Warrant of Charles I, 1649

(1)

At His Execution, 1649

(1)

Charles I

The Act Abolishing the Office of King in England and Ireland, March 17, 1649

(1)

A Leveler's Petition to Cromwell, 1652

(1)

from The Diary of John Evelyn, 1652-1655

(1)

Excerpts from the Memoires of Reresby and the Diary of Evelyn regarding James II, 1685-1686

(1)

The Glorious Revolution of 1688: The Bill of Rights, 1689

(1)

Leviathan, 1651

(3)

Thomas Hobbes

Two Treatises on Civil Government, 1690

(2)

John Locke

The Search for ``Truth'' in the Seventeenth Century

(16)

The Scientific Revolution

(16)

Letters to Johannes Kepler

(2)

Galileo Galilei

From Galileo: Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World, 1632

(1)

The Papal Inquisition of Galileo and His Abjuration, 1633

(3)

Discourse on Method, 1637

(4)

Rene Descartes

Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy, 1687

(1)

Sir Isaac Newton

General Scholium, 1687

(2)

Sir Isaac Newton

The Methods of the Witch Persecutions, 1631

(4)

Friedrich von Spee

The Enlightenment

(21)

``The Best of All Possible Worlds'': The European Quest for a New World

(21)

from Candide, 1759

(6)

Voltaire

from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

(3)

Voltaire

``Women'', from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

(1)

Voltaire

On Crimes and Punishments, 1764

(2)

Cesare Beccaria

Social Contract and Emile, 1762

(5)

Jean Jaques Rousseau

The Wealth of Nations, 1776

(1)

Adam Smith

The Progress of the Human Mind, 1793

(3)

Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet

The Eighteenth Century

(14)

Society: Elite and Ordinary

(8)

The Political Testament of Frederick II, 1752

(1)

Catherine the Great: ``Instructions to the Commissioners,'' 1768

(3)

On Penal Law in Russia, 1777

(1)

John Howard

On Empress Catherine, 1858

(1)

Alexander Herzen

from Memoirs of Marie Antoinette

(2)

Madame Campan

Travels in France, 1787-89

(1)

Arthur Young

Capital, Commerce, and Human Cargoes

(2)

from The Complete English Tradesman, 1727

(2)

Daniel Defoe

Bringing Up Baby: Family and Education in the Old Regime

(4)

Earl of Chesterfield: from Letters to His Son

(2)

On The Education of Noble Women in Russia, 1777

(2)

John Howard

The French Revolution

(17)

Prelude to the Revolution

(2)

Protest by the Cour des Aides, 1775

(2)

The Revolution

(13)

The Cahiers de doleances

(8)

The Abolition of Feudalism, August 4-11, 1789

100

(2)

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, August 26, 1789

102

(2)

The Revolution Devours its Children

104

(2)

``Upon Becoming Consul,'' November 10, 1799

104

(2)

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact

106

(14)

Machines, Muscles and Merchants

106

(14)

``On Tolls in Germany''

106

(1)

Hodgskin

``On Road Maintenance in Russia''

107

(2)

Marquis de Custine

``Increasing the Productive Power of Labor,'' 1904

109

(1)

Adam Smith

from Self Help

110

(1)

Samuel Smiles

from The Working Class in England in 1844

111

(2)

Friedrich Engels

``What Cost Progress?'' from Hard Times

113

(2)

Charles Dickens

Evidence Given Before The Sadler Committee and Ashley's Mines Commission, 1831-1842

115

(4)

from The Curse of the Factory System, 1836

119

(1)

Fielden

An Era of ISMS: Conservatism, Liberalism, Nationalism, and Romanticism

120

(19)

The Conservative Backlash

120

(7)

Reflections on the French Revolution, 1790

120

(5)

Edmund Burke

from Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions, 1814

125

(2)

Joseph de Maistre

The Many Faces of Liberalism

127

(6)

On Liberty, 1859

127

(5)

John Stuart Mill

from Hard Times, 1854

132

(1)

Charles Dickens

People and Their Homelands: The Dream of National Self-Determination

133

(3)

from On the Duties of Man, 1864

133

(3)

Giuseppe Mazzini

Storm and Strife: The Romantic Sensibility

136

(3)

``The Tables Turned,'' 1798

136

(1)

William Wordsworth

``England in 1819''

137

(1)

Percy Bysse Shelley

``Beethoven's Instrumental Music,'' 1813

137

(2)

E.T.A. Hoffman

Europe in an Age of Realism, 1850-1871

139

(9)

To Show Things as They Really Are

139

(9)

The Communist Manifesto, 1848

139

(4)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

The Origin of Species, 1871

143

(3)

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man, 1871

146

(2)

Charles Darwin

Europe's ``Age of Progress,'' 1871-1894

148

(15)

The Industrial Revolution, Take Two

148

(8)

Industrial Progress in Germany, 1907

148

(6)

Earl Dean Howard

The Principles of Scientific Management, 1915

154

(2)

Frederick Winslow Taylor

The ``Woman Question'': The Debate Regarding Women in the Nineteenth Century

156

(7)

``A Petition to the King'', 1836

157

(1)

Madeline Poutret de Mauchamps

The Separation of Mother and Child Considered, 1838

158

(2)

Caroline Sheridan Norton

The Communist Manifesto, 1848

160

(1)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

``To the Citizens of France,'' 1949

161

(2)

Jeanne Deroin

Europe on the Eve of World War I

163

(14)

Europe on the Eve of World War I

163

(14)

Bloody Sunday: Father Gapon's Petition to Nicholas II, January 22, 1905

163

(3)

Siberia and the Exile System

166

(5)

George Kennan

``The White Man's Burden,'' 1899

171

(1)

Rudyard Kipling

``The Black Man's Burden,'' 1920

172

(1)

Edmund D. Morel

``Political Significance of Imperialism,'' 1902

173

(4)

J.A. Hobson

World War and Revolution

177

(8)

The Great War and its Aftermath

177

(8)

The Black Hand: Bylaws, 1911

177

(2)

The Treaty of Versailles, May 29, 1919

179

(3)

German Observations on the Treaty of Paris, May 29, 1919

182

(3)

Europe During the Interwar Years, 1919-1939

185

(16)

Thunder on the Right: Germany, Hitler, and the Rise of Nazism

185

(16)

from Judaism in Music, 1850

185

(1)

Richard Wagner

On the German Character, c. 1900

186

(3)

Heinrich von Treitschke

``Overwrought Nerves,'' 1923

189

(1)

Friedrich Kroner

The Nazi Party Program, 1920

190

(3)

Extracts from Mein Kampf, 1924

193

(2)

Adolf Hitler

Elections to the German Reichstag, 1924-1932

195

(1)

``The Nazi Conspiracy,'' 1945

196

(5)

Raymond H. Geist

World War II and the Holocaust, 1939-1945

201

(24)

``The Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed'': World War II

201

(6)

The Atlantic Charter

201

(1)

Request for Declaration of War, December 7, 1941

202

(1)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey: On the Effects of Bombing, 1945 and 1948

203

(4)

``Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?'' The Holocaust

207

(18)

The Nuremberg Laws, 1935

207

(3)

``The Jews Are to Blame!'' 1941

210

(2)

Joseph Goebbels

``Detailed Statement on the Murdering of Ill and Aged People in Germany,'' 1941

212

(1)

Dr. T. Lang

Estimated Savings From the T-4 Program

213

(1)

``Order Regarding a Total Solution to the Jewish Problem,'' July 31, 1941

214

(1)

Hermann Goring

Minutes of the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942

214

(2)

Affidavit Regarding the Operation of Auschwitz, 1946

216

(2)

Rudolf Hoss

On Medical Experiments at Dachau, 1942

218

(1)

Dr. S. Rascher

``Combating the Gypsy Nuisance,'' December 8, 1938

219

(1)

Heinrich Himmler

from Death Dealer, 1992

220

(2)

Rudolf Hoss

``Speech of the Reichsfuehrer-SS at the Meeting at Posen,'' 1943

222

(1)

Heinrich Himmler

from ``Political Testament,'' 1945

223

(2)

Adolf Hitler

The Postwar World, 1945-1970

225

(9)

The Bitter Harvest

225

(9)

The Yalta Conference, February 1945

225

(1)

The Truman Doctrine

226

(5)

The Marshall Plan

231

(2)

``Report on Italy,'' April 15, 1952

233

(1)

Daniel Goldy

``The Sources of Soviet Conduct,'' July 1947

234

George Kennan

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