Sources of Crossroads and Cultures, Volume II: Since 1300 : A History of the World's Peoples
ISBN: 9780312559861 | 0312559860
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 1/30/2012
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Designed to complement the cultural and global approach of Crossroad and Cultures: A History of the World's Peoples, this two-volume primary source reader gathers together the voices of both notable figures and everyday individuals. Compiled by the authors of its parent text, Sources of Crossroads and Cultures reflect the geographic breadth and the key social, cultural, and political developments in each textbook chapter. Every... MORE
Designed to complement the cultural and global approach of Crossroad and Cultures: A History of the World's Peoples, this two-volume primary source reader gathers together the voices of both notable figures and everyday individuals. Compiled by the authors of its parent text, Sources of Crossroads and Cultures reflect the geographic breadth and the key social, cultural, and political developments in each textbook chapter. Every... MORE
| Preface | p. iii |
| Introduction for Students | p. xiv |
| Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450 | p. 1 |
| The Plague in Florence and Its Economic Effects | |
| Marchionne di Coppo Buonaiuti, Florentine Chronicle (c. 1370-1380) | p. 1 |
| The English Peasant Revolt | |
| Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries (1400) | p. 5 |
| The Ming Emperor's Rules for Vil... MORE | |
| The Placard of the People's Instructions (1398) | p. 8 |
| Religious Allegory in Persian Manuscript Illuminations | |
| Prince Humay Meets the Lady Humayun in Her Garden by Moonlight (Early Fifteenth Century) | p. 12 |
| The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks | |
| Tale of the Capture of Constantinople (c. 1500) | p. 14 |
| The Sultan of Mali | |
| Rihla (1356) | p. 17 |
| Glorious Venice | |
| In Praise of the City of Venice (1493) | p. 21 |
| The Early Modern World, 1450-1750 | |
| Empires and Alternatives in the Americas, 1430-1530 | p. 25 |
| Aztec Sacrifice | |
| Florentine Codex (c. 1540-1560) | p. 25 |
| Aztec Child Rearing | |
| Codex Mendoza (c. 1540) | p. 29 |
| The Inca Huayna Capac's Final Days | |
| Narrative of the Incas (1557) | p. 32 |
| Andean Religion | |
| Huarochiri Manuscript (c. 1600) | p. 35 |
| Jesuit Views on Huron Society | |
| Jesuit Relations (1632-1637) | p. 38 |
| The Fall of Native American Empires and the Rise of an Atlantic World, 1450-1600 | p. 41 |
| "How They Sailed to the Land of the Blacks" | |
| Gomes Eannes de Azurara, During the Conquest of Guinea (1453) | p. 41 |
| Fearing Carib Cannibals | |
| Michele da Cuneo, News of the Islands of the Hesperian Ocean (1495) | p. 45 |
| Contrasting Views: Native Peoples and Conquistadors Narrate the Conquest of Mexico | |
| Nahua Elders of Tlatelolco, Account of the Conquest of Mexico (c. 1540s) | p. 48 |
| Hernando Cortes, A Letter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain) (1519) | p. 51 |
| Bernal Dfaz del Castillo, A Foot Soldier Recalls the March to Tenochtitlan (c. 1560) | p. 55 |
| Native Allies with a Grievance | |
| Nahua Nobles of Xochimiico, Letter to the King of Spain (1563) | p. 59 |
| A Captive in Brazil | |
| True History (1557) | p. 61 |
| Western Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1800 | p. 66 |
| The Powerful Mali Dynasty | |
| Al-Sa'di, Mali and Its Provinces (c. 1655) | p. 66 |
| The Kebbi Kingdom | |
| Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur of Morocco, Letter to Kanta Dawud of Kebbi (c. 1591) | p. 68 |
| The Splendor of Benin | |
| Description of the Situation and Character of the Great City of Benin (1602) | p. 70 |
| Thoughts on the Slave Trade | |
| Tomás de Mercado, On the Trade in the Blacks of Cape Verde (1569) | p. 75 |
| Observations of the Congo, Loango, and Angolan Kingdoms | |
| Journal of Voyages (c 1630) | p. 80 |
| On Restoring Ethiopian Salvation (1627) | p. 83 |
| Trade and Empire in the Indian Ocean and South Asia, 1450-1750 | p. 88 |
| The Portuguese Reach Sofala, Mozambique | |
| Martín Fernández de Figueroa, A Spaniard in the Portuguese \ | |
| Indies (1505) | p. 88 |
| A Thriving Kingdom in South India | |
| Description of Vijayanagara (1518) | p. 92 |
| The Founder of the Mughal Empire | |
| Emperor Babur, The Baburnama (1499-1519) | p. 95 |
| "Scenes from My Life" | |
| Emperor Jahangir, The Jahangirnama (1612-1621) | p. 99 |
| Makassar's Kingdom of Talloq: Islam, Guns, and a Golden Age | |
| Talloq Chronicle (c. 1660) | p. 702 |
| From London with Love | |
| English East India Company, Letters to Princes in Sumatra and Borneo (1734, 1740, 1744) | p. 105 |
| Consolidation and Conflict in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean, 1450-1750 | p. 109 |
| Gunpowder and High Stakes: Ottomans Versus Prince Dracula | |
| Memoirs of a Janissary (1462) | p. 110 |
| Two Accounts of a Conflagration | |
| Fire Engulfs Istanbul (1569) | p. 112 |
| Three Interpretations of Canticum Canticorum (c. 1575) | p. 116 |
| The Battle of Baghdad | |
| History of Shah 'Abbas the Great (1625-1626) | p. 117 |
| The Global Spread of Scientific Knowledge | |
| The Discovery of Jupiter's Moons (1610) | p. 120 |
| On the Number of Metals, and Places Where They Are Begotten (1640) | p. 122 |
| Life in an Early Modern German-Jewish Community | |
| Gluckel of Hameln, Memoirs (1690) | p. 123 |
| Venice on a Ducat a Day | |
| Travel Diary (1698) | p. 128 |
| Expansion and Isolation in Asia, 1450-1750 | p. 134 |
| Moscow in the Time of Ivan the Terrible | |
| The Land and Government of Muscovy (1578-1579) | p. 134 |
| Mountain Travels | |
| Travel Diaries (1616) | p. 138 |
| China Under Siege | |
| The Qing Attack on Yangzhou (1645) | p. 139 |
| A German Visitor Describes Japan | |
| People You Meet on the Road in Japan and The Prostitutes' Quarter of Nagasaki (1691) | p. 144 |
| Notes from a Korean Queen's Diary | |
| Diary (c. 1750) | p. 147 |
| Manila: Global Commercial Crossroads | |
| Account of the Philippine islands (c. 1600) | p. 149 |
| Transforming New Worlds: The American Colonies Mature, 1600-1800 | p. 154 |
| Arrival of the Japanese Embassy in Mexico City | |
| Annals (1610) | p. 154 |
| The Wealth of Spanish America | |
| Marfa de Carranza and Nicolas de Guevara, Letters from the Spanish Indies (1589-1590) | p. 156 |
| Life in a Peruvian Convent | |
| Visions of the World to Come (c. 1650) | p. 159 |
| Contrasting Views Exploitation or Opportunity in the Peruvian Andes? | |
| Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle (c 1610) | p. 162 |
| Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Defense of the Western Conquests (1618) | p. 164 |
| Description of Quebec City and a Christian Huron Village | |
| Travels into North America (1749) | p. 165 |
| Runaway Slaves | |
| A Surinam Maroon Described (1790) | p. 169 |
| The World from 1750 to the Present | |
| Atlantic Revolutions and the World, 1750-1830 | p. 171 |
| The Enlightenment Among Artisans | |
| Journal of My Life (1764-1802) | p. 171 |
| The Spread of Enlightenment | |
| A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan (1771) | p. 173 |
| An Egyptian's View of Napoleon and the French Invasion | |
| Diary (1798-1801) | p. 176 |
| Haiti and the Revolutionary Tradition | |
| The Haitian Constitution (1801) | p. 180 |
| Why an Argentine Lawyer Joined the Revolution Against Spain | |
| Autobiography (1814) | p. 183 |
| Industry and Everyday Life, 1750-1900 | p. 188 |
| The Experience of Japanese Factory Life | |
| Song of the Living Corpses (1890s) | p. 188 |
| The Chinese Case Against Opium | |
| Edict of Commissioner Lin Zexu (1839) | p. 190 |
| Cholera Strikes Railway Workers in India | |
| Official Report to the British Government (c. 1889) | p. 194 |
| Contrasting Views: Debates Over Industrialization | |
| Adam Smith, Of the Division of Labor (1776) | p. 196 |
| Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844) | p. 198 |
| Jose Manuel Balmaceda, On the Need to Develop National Industry (1880s) | p. 799 |
| Li Hung-Chang, A Report to the Emperor: Problems of Industrialization (1872) | p. 200 |
| The Rise of Modern Nation-States, 1850-1900 | p. 203 |
| A Russian Serf's Struggle for Freedom | |
| Diary (1824,1841) | p. 203 |
| Nation Building in the United States | |
| First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861) | p. 207 |
| Legal Nation Building in Japan | |
| Japan's Charter Oath (1868) | p. 208 |
| Imagining the Perfect Nation | |
| Sultana's Dream (1905) | p. 209 |
| Imperial Order and Disorder, 1850-1914 | p. 214 |
| A Place in the Sun | |
| Kaiser William II of Germany, Speech to the North German Regatta Association (1901) | p. 214 |
| Working for the Imperialists | |
| Report on the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (1903) | p. 215 |
| The Civilizing Mission in Action | |
| My Life Story (1880s-1890s) | p. 218 |
| Contrasting Views: On Imperialists and Imperialism | |
| Reminiscences of 1896 (1930s) | p. 222 |
| Diary (1898-1901) | p. 223 |
| Newspaper Editorial, Mexico Needs Foreign Capital (1897) | p. 224 |
| Count Shigenobu Okuma, The Rise of Japan Was Not Unexpected (1904) | p. 225 |
| Wars, Revolutions, and the Birth of Mass Society, 1910-1929 | p. 228 |
| Revolutionary Plans for the Mexican Future | |
| The Plan de Ayala (1910) | p. 228 |
| An Australian Soldier Fights for Britain | |
| War Memoir (1916-1919) | p. 232 |
| Proclaiming the Soviet Alternative to War-Weary Russians | |
| April Theses (1917) | p. 236 |
| Contrasting Views: The Postwar Middle East | |
| Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) | p. 239 |
| The Balfour Declaration (1917) | p. 240 |
| Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus (1919) | p. 240 |
| The Mandate System Under the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) | p. 242 |
| An Ally Critiques Ataturk | |
| Dictatorship and Reform in Turkey (1929) | p. 244 |
| Global Catastrophe: The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945 | p. 249 |
| Authoritarian Man of the People | |
| Getulio Vargas, New Year's Address (1938) | p. 249 |
| Factory Worker Joana de Masi Zero, Reminiscences (1930s) | p. 252 |
| The Fate of Ethiopia | |
| Appeal to the League of Nations (1936) | p. 253 |
| Autobiography (W57) | p. 256 |
| India's Push for Independence | |
| Quit India Declaration (1942) | p. 257 |
| The Battle of Stalingrad | |
| Interview (1990s) | p. 259 |
| Hope for the Postwar Future | |
| United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) | p. 262 |
| The Emergence of New Nations in a Cold War World, 1945-1970 | p. 269 |
| Decolonizing the Suez Canal | |
| Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users' Association (1956) | p. 269 |
| A Meeting of Emerging Nations | |
| President Sukarno of Indonesia, Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference (1955) | p. 271 |
| The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (1956) | p. 273 |
| Torture and Decolonization | |
| Testimony of a Torture Victim (1960) | p. 276 |
| Consumerism and the Cold War | |
| British Advertisement (1950s) and Soviet Fashion Spread (1957) | p. 277 |
| Contrasting Views: The Cold War and Latin America | |
| Waging Peace in the Americas (1949) | p. 276 |
| Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress (1960) | p. 280 |
| The Lesson of Cuba (1961) | p. 281 |
| Second Declaration of Havana (1962) | p. 282 |
| Technological Transformation and the End of Cold War, 1960-1992 | p. 285 |
| A Life Caught Up in Warfare | |
| When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (1981) | p. 285 |
| Official Propagandizing of Children in Cambodia | |
| Khmer Rouge Song for Children (1975-1979) | p. 289 |
| A New Regime in Iran | |
| The Uprising of Khurdad 15 (1979) | p. 291 |
| The Collapse of Communism | |
| Interviews with Industrial Workers (1990) | p. 292 |
| A New Global Age, 1989 to the Present | p. 296 |
| Rules for Women's Conduct | |
| The Taliban, Decrees (1996) | p. 296 |
| The Toll of AIDS on Africa | |
| The Deafening Silence of AIDS (2000) | p. 299 |
| Sweatshop Warriors | |
| Interview (1990s) | p. 303 |
| Contrasting Views The Environment | |
| The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (1997) | p. 308 |
| Resolution of the 105th Congress on Rejecting the Kyoto Protocol (1997) | p. 309 |
| I Julian Simon, Address at the University of Navarra (1998) | p. 310 |
| Women Can Lead the Way in Tackling Development and Climate Challenges Together (2010) | p. 312 |
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