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Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 2 (From 1600 to the Present)
ISBN: 9780205568406 | 0205568408
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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Sources of the Westpresents a well-balanced selection of readings that integrate coverage of social, economic, religious, and cultural history within a traditional, political framework. The text includes constitutional documents, political theory, philosophy, imaginative literature, and social description that raise significant issues for classroom discussions or lectures. By reading the voices of the past, students can connect them to the present; learn to understand and respect other cultures; and think critically about history.
| Preface | p. ix |
| How to Read a Document | p. xiii |
| The Ancient Régime | p. 1 |
| The Wars of Religion | p. 3 |
| The Edict of Nantes (1598) | p. 3 |
| The Political Testament (1638) | p. 5 |
| Simplicissimus (1669) | p. 8 |
| Subjects and Sovereigns | p. 13 |
| True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598) | p. 13 |
| A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) | ... MORE |
| The Putney Debates (1647) | p. 23 |
| Leviathan (1651) | p. 29 |
| Second Treatise of Government (1689) | p. 32 |
| The English Bill of Rights, (1689) | p. 36 |
| Memoirs (1694-1723) | p. 42 |
| Science and Commerce | p. 46 |
| Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) | p. 46 |
| Discourse on Method (1637) | p. 50 |
| England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) | p. 54 |
| The Wealth of Nations (1776) | p. 59 |
| Enlightened Monarchy | p. 63 |
| Catherine the Great, Memoirs (ca. 1755) | p. 63 |
| Testament (1749-1750) | p. 66 |
| The Idea of a Patriot King (1749) | p. 70 |
| The Enlightenment | p. 73 |
| Voltaire, Candide (1759) | p. 73 |
| The Social Contract (1762) | p. 77 |
| Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws (1748) | p. 81 |
| Journals (1769) | p. 85 |
| Notes on the French Slave Trade (1784-1785) | p. 89 |
| The Declaration of Independence (1776) | p. 94 |
| On Crimes and Punishments (1764) | p. 97 |
| The Progress of the Human Mind (1793) | p. 100 |
| The French Revolution | p. 103 |
| What Is the Third Estate? (1789) | p. 103 |
| The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789); Olympe de Gouges; The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) | p. 108 |
| Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) | p. 113 |
| The Age of Reform | p. 117 |
| Industrialization in Britain | p. 119 |
| The Iron Law of Population Growth (1798) | p. 119 |
| Self-Help (1859) | p. 125 |
| Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor (1842) | p. 129 |
| The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) | p. 134 |
| Nineteenth-Century Society and Culture | p. 139 |
| Pride and Prejudice (1813) | p. 139 |
| Memoirs (1820-1843) | p. 143 |
| Modern Housewife (1850); Isabella Beeton,Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) | p. 147 |
| Documents of the Irish Potato Famine (1845-1849) | p. 151 |
| Political Critiques | p. 158 |
| On Liberty (1859) | p. 158 |
| What Is Property? (1840) | p. 162 |
| The Great Charter (1842) | p. 166 |
| Letter to the Shogun (1844);Bakufu, Reply to the Government of Holland (1845) | p. 170 |
| The Communist Manifesto (1848) | p. 174 |
| The Emancipation of the Serfs (1861) | p. 178 |
| Reflections and Reminiscences (1898);Speech to the Reichstag (1879) | p. 181 |
| Rerum Novarum (The Condition of Labor) (1891) | p. 186 |
| Emancipating the Mind and the Body | p. 194 |
| The Descent of Man (1871) | p. 194 |
| Beyond Good and Evil (1886) | p. 197 |
| The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) | p. 202 |
| On the Nature of the Psyche | p. 206 |
| History of the Suffrage Movement (1912) | p. 209 |
| Thoughts on Empire | p. 214 |
| Imperialism (1902) | p. 214 |
| Confession of Faith (1877) | p. 217 |
| Social Life of the Swahilis (late 19th century) | p. 220 |
| "The White Man's Burden" (1899) | p. 226 |
| "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) | p. 227 |
| Twentieth-Century Europe | p. 233 |
| War and Revolution | p. 235 |
| Voices from the Battle of the Somme (1916) | p. 235 |
| Storm of Steel (1920) | p. 241 |
| The Fourteen Points (1918) | p. 244 |
| What Is to Be Done? (1902) | p. 247 |
| The Second World War | p. 251 |
| The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) | p. 251 |
| Women and a Changing Civilization (1934) | p. 254 |
| Fascist Doctrine (1932) | p. 258 |
| Mein Kampf (1923) | p. 262 |
| Memories of the Holocaust (1938-1945) | p. 266 |
| Speeches (1940) | p. 272 |
| The Last Christmas of the War (1971) | p. 275 |
| Testimony (1961) | p. 280 |
| The Twentieth-Century Imagination | p. 284 |
| A Room of One's Own (1929) | p. 284 |
| One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) | p. 289 |
| Existentialism (1946) | p. 293 |
| The Second Sex (1949) | p. 297 |
| The Transformation of Eastern Europe | p. 302 |
| "The Iron Curtain" (1946) | p. 302 |
| Report to the Communist Party Congress (1961) | p. 306 |
| Perestroika (1987) | p. 310 |
| The End of History? (1989) | p. 315 |
| Toward a New World | p. 322 |
| Charter of the United Nations (1946) | p. 322 |
| The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (1974) | p. 326 |
| Report on the Fall of Srebrenica (1999) | p. 331 |
| Report of the 9/11 Commission (2004) | p. 340 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 347 |
| Photo Credits | p. 353 |
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