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Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History

by: Overfield, James H.

Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History

by: Overfield, James H.

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9780395904077
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0395904072
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Copyright: 09/10/2001
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This primary source reader, designed to supplement twentieth-century world history courses, contains both textual and visual sources from around the world. Strong pedagogical learning aids ensure that students are equipped with the information they need to understand and appreciate each document. The book contains a general introduction, as well as part, chapter, section, and source introductions.

Preface

Prologue: Primary Sources and How To Read Them

PART ONE The World in an Era of Transformation and Western Dominance, 1880--1914

(68)

Global Interaction in an Era of Imperialism and Migration

(32)

Imperialism: Western Justifications

(6)

A Defense of French Imperialism

(1)

Jules Ferry, Speech Before the French Chamber of Deputies, 1883

(2)

Imperialism and the Life of Manly Courage

(1)

Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life

(3)

The Economics of Imperialism

(8)

Cotton Growing and Rebellion in German East Africa

(1)

Records of the Maji-Maji Uprising

(3)

Indian Railroads and the People's Welfare

(1)

G.V. Joshi, The Economic Results of Free Trade and Railway Extension

(4)

Responses to Western Domination

(9)

China and the Foreign Devils

(1)

Two Proclamations of The Boxer Rebellion

(2)

``Freedom is My Birthright''

(1)

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Speech to the Indian National Congress, 1907

(3)

A Blueprint for Japanese Military Modernization

(1)

Yamagata Aritomo, Opinion on Military Affairs and Conscription

(3)

Migrants and Their Experiences

(7)

Indian Merchants in South Africa and Their Problems

(1)

Abdool Rehman, Memorandum to Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of Transvaal, October 1905

(3)

``The Gates Should No Longer Be Left Unguarded''

(1)

Henry Cabot Lodge, Speech to the United States Senate, March 16, 1896

(3)

Seeds of Change: Politics, Society, and Culture

(32)

Revolutionaries and Revolutions in the Early 1900s

(12)

A Revolutionary Formula for China's Revival

(1)

Sun Yat-Sen, The Three People's Principles and The Future of the Chinese People

(4)

A Marxist Blueprint for Russia

(1)

Platform of the Russian Social Democratic Party, 1903

(4)

Agrarian Reform and Revolution in Mexico

(1)

The Plan of Ayala

(3)

The New Voice of Women in the Early Twentieth Century

(10)

An Early Voice of Arab Feminism

(1)

Bahithat al-Badiya, A Lecture in the Club of the Umma Party, 1909

(3)

``Race Decadence'' and the U.S. Women's Movement

(1)

Anna Howard Shaw, Presidential Addresses at the Conventions of National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1905, 1906

(3)

An Attack on Foot-binding in China

(1)

Qiu Jin, An Address to Two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen

(2)

New Trends in Western Culture and Thought

(9)

``God Is Dead. . .We Have Killed Him''

(1)

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science and On The Genealogy of Morals

(3)

Aesthetics for the Machine Age

(1)

Excerpts from Futurist Manifestos, 1909--1914

(4)

PART TWO Decades of War, Economic Upheaval, and Revolution, 1914--1939

(166)

World War I and Its Global Significance

(36)

The Trauma of the Trenches

(10)

The Romance of War

(1)

Popular Art and Poster Art from Germany, England, Australia, and France

(4)

The Reality of War in Verse

(1)

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est and Disabled

(2)

The Reality of War in Art

(1)

Christopher Nevinson, The Harvest of Battle; Otto Dix, Storm Troop Advancing Under Gas

(3)

The Century's First Genocide

(7)

Caravans of Death

(1)

Mary L. Graffam, Letter from Turkey, Summer 1915

(3)

An Official Version of the Deportations

(1)

Talaat Pasha, Posthumous Memoirs

(3)

The Russian Revolution and the Beginnings of the Soviet State

(7)

Lenin's Call for Revolution

(1)

Lenin, April Theses

(2)

Forging the Soviet State

(1)

Communist Decrees and Legislation, 1917--1918

(4)

The Peace That Failed

(11)

The Allies' ``Last Horrible Triumph''

(1)

Comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the Conditions of Peace, October 1919

(4)

The Betrayal of Arab Nationalism

103

(1)

General Syrian Congress of Damascus, Resolution of July 2, 1919

103

(2)

The Chinese May Fourth Movement and the Versailles Treaty

105

(1)

Deng Yingchao, Memoirs

105

(4)

Decades of Crisis in the Western World and the Soviet Union

109

(34)

Modernism and Mass Culture Between the Wars

111

(8)

The Look of Modernity

112

(1)

Walter Gropius, Dessau Bauhaus --- Principles of Bauhaus Construction; Examples of Bauhaus Design

112

(5)

Perils of Mass Culture: The Threat to Morality

117

(1)

Senator Henry L. Myers, U.S. Senate Speech, June 29, 1922

117

(2)

The Impact of the Great Depression

119

(7)

The Victims of the Depression in Germany

120

(1)

H. Hessel Tiltman, Slump! A Study of Stricken Europe Today

120

(3)

Government Promises a ``New Deal''

123

(1)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Annual Address to Congress, January 4, 1935

123

(3)

Nazism in Theory and Practice

126

(9)

The Dreams of the Fuhrer

127

(1)

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

127

(5)

Motherhood, Duty, and the Nazi Ideal

132

(1)

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Speech to the National Socialist Women's Association, September, 1935

132

(3)

The Stalin Revolution in the Soviet Union

135

(8)

The Soviet Model of Economic Planning

135

(1)

Joseph Stalin, The Results of the First Five-Year Plan

135

(4)

The Abortion Debate Under Stalin

139

(1)

Letters to Izvestiya on the Abortion Issue, May-June 1936

139

(4)

Latin America in an Era of Economic Challenge and Political Change

143

(24)

New Social and Political Currents: Feminism and Indigenismo

145

(8)

Costs and Benefits of Latin American Feminism

147

(1)

Amanda Labarca, Where is Woman Going?

147

(2)

The Indian in Peru: A Marxist Perspective

149

(1)

Jose Carlos Mariategui, The Problem of the Indian and the Problem of the Land

149

(4)

Political Responses to the Great Depression

153

(7)

Economic Nationalism in Mexico

154

(1)

Lazaro Cardenas, Speech to the Nation

154

(3)

Brazilian Mass Politics and the Estado Novo

157

(1)

Getulio Vargas, Excerpts from Speeches and Interviews, 1937--1940

157

(3)

The Mexican Muralists and the Revolution in Mexican Art

160

(7)

The Beginnings of the Mexican Muralist Movement

161

(1)

Jose Clemenre Orozco, Autobiography

161

(2)

Political Visions of the Mexican Muralists

163

(1)

Jose Clemente Orozco, Hispanic-American Society, and Diego Rivera, Imperialism

163

(4)

Africa Under Colonial Rule

167

(28)

European Perspectives on Africa's Future

169

(7)

Blacks in a White Man's Africa

170

(1)

Jan Smuts, Rhodes Memorial Lectures

170

(3)

Colonialism as Trusteeship

173

(1)

Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, The Keystone

173

(3)

African Society and Identity Under Colonial Rule

176

(8)

Eagles into Chickens

177

(1)

James Aggrey, Parable of the Eagle

177

(1)

The Value of African Religion

178

(1)

Kabaka Daudi Chwa, Education, Civilization, and ``Foreignization'' in Buganda

178

(3)

White Rule, African Families

181

(1)

Charlotte Maxeke, Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls

181

(3)

Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Anticolonialism

184

(11)

Colonialism and West Africa's Educated Elite

185

(1)

Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa, 1920

185

(3)

A Plea to the World for Racial Equality

188

(1)

1921 Pan-African Congress, London Manifesto

188

(3)

African Militancy in the 1930s

191

(1)

Gilbert Coka, The African Liberator, Our Message

191

(4)

Asia in an Era of Nationalism and Revolution

195

(40)

Political and Religious Currents in the Middle East

197

(14)

Secularism and Nationalism in Republican Turkey

198

(1)

Mustafa Kemal, Speech to the Congress of the People's Republican Party

198

(5)

The Meaning of Zionism

203

(1)

Hayyin Nahman Bialik, Speech at the Inauguration of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

203

(4)

A Call for Islamic Social and Political Action

207

(1)

The Muslim Brotherhood, Toward the Light

207

(4)

Anticolonialism in India and Southeast Asia

211

(10)

Gandhi's Hopes for India

212

(1)

Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Home Rule

212

(4)

A Muslim's View of India's Future

216

(1)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Speech to the Muslim League, 1940

216

(2)

Revolution and Oppression in Vietnam

218

(1)

Nguyen Thai Hoc, Letter to the French Chamber of Deputies, 1930

218

(3)

Intellectual Ferment and Revolution in China

221

(8)

The New Culture Movement and the West

222

(1)

Hu Shi, Our Attitude Toward Modern Civilization of the West

222

(3)

Basic Tenets of Chinese Communism

225

(1)

Mao Zedong, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan; Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War

225

(4)

Nationalism and Militarism in Japan

229

(6)

The Agenda of Ultranationalism

230

(1)

The Black Dragon Society, Anniversary Statement, 1930

230

(3)

Foreign Policy Priorities on the Eve of the China War

233

(1)

Fundamental Principles of National Policy, 1936

233

(2)

PART THREE From World War II to the Early 1970s: Decades of Conflict, Decolonization, and Economic Recovery

235

(136)

World War II and Its Aftermath

239

(38)

Appeasement and the Origins of World War II in Europe

241

(7)

The Search for ``Peace in our Time''

242

(1)

Neville Chamberlain, Excerpts from Correspondence, Diary, and Speeches

242

(3)

``A Disaster of the First Magnitude''

245

(1)

Winston Churchill, Speech to Parliament, October 5, 1938

245

(3)

The Final Solution: Perpetrators and Victims

248

(8)

``Fuhrer, You Order, We Obey''

249

(1)

Rudolf Hoss, Memoirs

249

(4)

Evil

253

(1)

``B.F.'', Recollections

253

(3)

The Dawn of the Atomic Age

256

(10)

Scientists' Warnings

257

(1)

The Franck Report

257

(3)

``The Face of War Is the Face of Death''

260

(1)

Henry L. Stimson, The Decision To Use the Atomic Bomb

260

(3)

August 6, 1945

263

(1)

Iwao Nakamura and Atsuko Tsujioka, Recollections

263

(3)

From World War II to the Cold War

266

(11)

The Sources of Soviet Conduct

267

(1)

George Kennan, The Long Telegram

267

(4)

U.S. Drive for World Supremacy

271

(1)

Nikolai Novikov, Telegram, September 27, 1947

271

(6)

The Industrialized West in an Era of Economic Growth and Social Change

277

(38)

The End of Empires

279

(10)

Great Britain Lets Go of India

280

(1)

Debate in the House of Commons, March 1947

280

(5)

France Lets Go of Algeria

285

(1)

Charles de Gaulle, Comments on Algeria, April 11, 1961

285

(4)

Discontent in the Midst of Prosperity: The United States in the 1950s and Early 1960s

289

(12)

``The Problem That Has No Name''

290

(1)

Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

290

(3)

A Cry for Racial Justice

293

(1)

Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail

293

(3)

The Beginnings of Modern Environmentalism

296

(1)

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

296

(5)

The Late 1960s: Years of Protest and Polarization

301

(14)

From Civil Rights to Black Power

303

(1)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, We Want Black Power

303

(3)

The Emergence of Militant Feminism

306

(1)

Feminist Manifestoes from the Late 1960s

306

(4)

Campus Outrage

310

(1)

Three Student Pamphlets from the University of Paris

310

(5)

Worlds Apart: The USSR, the Soviet Bloc, and China

315

(24)

Dissent and Repression in the Soviet Union

317

(5)

A Plea for Democratic Reform

318

(1)

Andrei Sakharov, Roy Medvedev, and Valentin Turchin, Letter to Comrades Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Podgorny

318

(3)

The Dissidents' Adversary

321

(1)

Secret KGB Report, December 21, 1970

321

(1)

Unrest in Eastern Europe and Soviet Response

322

(6)

Socialism with a Human Face

324

(1)

Ludvik Vaculik, Two Thousand Words to Workers, Farmers, Scientists, Artists, and Everyone

324

(2)

The Brezhnev Doctrine

326

(1)

Leonid Brezhnev, Speech to the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party

326

(2)

Utopian Dreams in Mao's China

328

(11)

Industrial Heroism in the Great Leap Forward

329

(1)

Tan Manni, Lushan's Pig-Iron ``Sputnik''

329

(3)

Creating a New China in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

332

(1)

One Hundred Items for Destroying the Old and Establishing the New

332

(3)

Visualizing the New China

335

(1)

Poster Art from The Cultural Revolution

335

(4)

The Emergence of a Third World

339

(32)

New Sources of Conflict in the Middle East

341

(6)

Palestine as an Arab Homeland

342

(1)

The Palestine National Charter

342

(3)

Palestine as a Jewish Homeland

345

(1)

Chaim Herzog, Speech to the United Nations General Assembly

345

(2)

Revolution and Reaction in Latin America

347

(9)

``Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams''

349

(1)

Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental Conference

349

(2)

The Fall of Allende and the CIA

351

(1)

Church Committee Report on Covert Actions in Chile, 1963--1973

351

(5)

Racism and Ethnic Conflict in Independent Africa

356

(8)

The Onset of Military Rule in Uganda

357

(1)

Statements from General Idi Amin and the Ugandan Army

357

(3)

Apartheid's Bitter Fruits

360

(1)

Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court

360

(4)

South and Southeast Asia After Colonialism

364

(7)

Nehru's Blueprint for India

365

(1)

Jawaharlal Nehru, Speeches and Writings, 1952--1955

365

(3)

Two Perspectives on the War in Vietnam

368

(1)

Ho Chi Minh-Johnson Correspondence, February 1967

368

(3)

PART FOUR Century's Close: From Cold War to Globalization

371

(82)

The 1970s and 1980s: Years of Challenge and Change

373

(50)

New Forces in the International Economy

375

(8)

Middle Eastern Politics and the Price of Oil

376

(1)

Mana Saeed al-Otaiba, The Arab Oil Weapon

376

(3)

Japan's Economic Miracle

379

(1)

Akio Morita, Made in Japan

379

(4)

Environmentalism, Economic Development, and Social Justice

383

(10)

Saving the Rain Forest in Brazil

385

(1)

Chico Mendes, Fight for the Forest

385

(4)

Yangzi! Yangzi!

389

(1)

Li Boning and Hou Xueyu, Views of China's Three Gorges Project

389

(4)

Religion and Politics in the 1970s and 1980s

393

(10)

Latin American Catholicism and the Theology of Liberation

394

(1)

Final Document of the Third General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate

394

(3)

A Platform for the Religious Right in the United States

397

(1)

Jerry Falwell, An Agenda for the 1980s

397

(3)

The Place of Hinduism in Modern India

400

(1)

Girilal Jain, Editorials

400

(3)

Third World Women Between Tradition and Change

403

(8)

Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution

404

(1)

Zand Dokht, The Revolution that Failed Women

404

(2)

An African Perspective on Female Circumcision

406

(1)

Association of African Women for Research and Development, A Statement on Genital Mutilation

406

(3)

The Impact of the Indian Dowry System

409

(1)

Editorial Against Dowry

409

(2)

Communism's Reform, Communism's Retreat

411

(12)

China's New Course

412

(1)

Deng Xiaoping, Speeches and Writings

412

(4)

Visualizing China in the Modernization Era

416

(1)

Chinese Poster Art from the 1980s

416

(2)

A Plan to Save Communism in the Soviet Union

418

(1)

Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika

418

(5)

The Century's Last Decade

423

(30)

The Debate on Free Trade and Economic Globalization

425

(7)

The Dangers of NAFTA, GATT and Free Trade

426

(1)

Ralph Nader, Free Trade and the Decline of Democracy

426

(3)

Formulas for Economic Success and Failure

429

(1)

David R. Henderson, Economic Miracles

429

(3)

The New Immigration and Its Critics

432

(8)

The Failure of Multiculturalism

433

(1)

Jorg Haider, The Freedom 1 Mean

433

(4)

Too Many Immigrants

437

(1)

Roy H. Beck, The Case Against Immigration

437

(3)

Ethnic Hatreds and Racial Reconciliation

440

(13)

Serbs, Bosnians, and Ethnic Cleansing

441

(1)

T.D. Allman, Serbia's Blood War

441

(4)

Genocide in Rwanda: 1994

445

(1)

Fergal Keane, Season of Blood

445

(4)

Let There Be Justice and Peace for All

449

(1)

Nelson Mandela, Presidential Inauguration Speech, May 10, 1994

449

(4)

Sources

453

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Sources of Twentieth-Century Global History

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9780395904077

0395904072

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