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Documents in World History: The Modern Centuries : From 1500 to the Present

by: Stearns, Peter N.; Gosch, Stephen S.; Grieshaber, Erwin P.; Stearns, Peter N.; Gosch, Stephen S.

Documents in World History: The Modern Centuries : From 1500 to the Present

by: Stearns, Peter N.; Gosch, Stephen S.; Grieshaber, Erwin P.; Stearns, Peter N.; Gosch, Stephen S.

ISBN 13:
9780321038579
ISBN 10:
0321038576
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 12/01/1999
Publisher: Pearson College Div
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Summary

This popular collection offers original sources on many areas, periods, and topics in World history, including a number of unusual sources not commonly available in other collections.

Geographical Contents

Topical Contents

Preface

xiii

Introduction

(8)

Section One The Early Modern Period, Centuries of Dramatic Change: 1500-1750

(62)

Western Civilization

New Tensions in the Western Political Tradition: Absolutism and Parliament

(4)

Bishop Bossuet

The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: New Intellectual Standards in the West

(6)

Isaac Newton

John Locke

Cesare Beccaria

Russian Society

Peter the Great Reforms Russia

(5)

New Empires in Asia

Suleiman the Lawgiver and Ottoman Military Power

(6)

Suleiman

Ambassador Busbecq

Babur and the Establishment of Mughal Rule in India

(6)

Confucian Ideals in Ming China: A Set of Family Instructions

(7)

Latin American Civilization

Economy and Society in Latin America

(4)

Antonio Vasquez de Espinosa

Political Styles in Latin America: Colonial Bureaucracy

(3)

Jorge Juan

Antonio De Ulloa

Baroque Culture in Latin America

(5)

Sister Juana Inez de la Cruz

Carlos de Siguenzay Gongora

Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Contacts: Africa and the European Slave Trade

(5)

Monsieur Morice

J. Crassons de Medeuil

Global Contacts: The Columbian Exchange in the Early Modern Period

(9)

Bernardino de Sahagun

Antonio Vasquez de Espinosa

John Locke

Robert Boyle

Adam Smith

Section Two The Long Nineteenth Century: 1750--1914

(80)

Western Civilization and New Outposts

Work and Workers in the Industrial Revolution

(6)

Max Lotz

The Expansion of Frontier Societies

(7)

Henry Eno's

Brigham Young

John McCance's

Russia

Russian Peasants: Serfdom and Emancipation

(5)

Alexander Radischev

Asia

China and the West: Opium and ``Self-Strengthening''

(7)

Lin Tse-hsu

Feng Kuei-fen

Language, Religion, and National Identity in India

(5)

Rammohun Roy

Maulvi Syed Kutb Shah Sahib

The Tanzimat Reforms in the Ottoman Empire

103

(5)

Latin America

Independence and Consolidation of New States (1810--1914)

108

(9)

Simon Bolivar

Gabino Barreda

Profirio Diaz

Economy and Society of Latin America: ``Slavery'' on the Henequen Plantations of Yucatan

117

(4)

Channing Arnold

Frederick Tabor Frost

Literature and Cultural Values: ``Civilization and Barbarism''

121

(5)

Domingo Sarmiento

Sub-Saharan Africa

The Decades of Imperialism in Africa

126

(5)

Swahili

John Noble

Lewis Michell

Forces of Change

The Spread of Mass Education: Sources and Comparisons

131

(9)

Horace Mann

Noah Webster

Yukichi Fukuzawa

Global Contacts: Nineteenth-Century Sports

140

(11)

Pierre de Coubertin

Ana W. Amelia

Section Three The Twentieth Century

151

(2)

Western Civilization

The Twentieth-Century Western State

153

(6)

Adolf Hitler

The Feminist Revolt

159

(5)

Simone de Beauvoir

Soviet Society

Lenin and the Russian Revolution

164

(5)

Lenin

Stalin and the Soviet Union During the 1930s: Progress and Terror

169

(6)

Joseph Stalin

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

175

(10)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Middle East

Ziya Gokalp: Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization

185

(6)

Ziya Gokalp

Middle Eastern Dreams in Conflict: The Views of an Early Zionist and a Palestinian Refugee

191

(5)

Nahum Goldman

Fawaz Turki

The Resurgence of Islam

196

(6)

Hasan al-Banna

Ayatullah Murtada Mutahhari

East Asia

Chinese Revolutionaries: Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong

202

(6)

Sun Yat-sen

Mao Zedong

A Chinese Peasant Maps His Road to Wealth

208

(5)

Wang Xin

Changing Gender Relations in Modern Japan

213

(5)

Higuchi Keiko

India

Gandhi and Modern India

218

(5)

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Jinnah and the Founding of Pakistan

223

(4)

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Love and Marriage in Modern India

227

(7)

Madhu Kishwar

Latin America

Twentieth-Century Latin American Politics: The Revolutionary Challenge

234

(7)

Emiliano Zapata

Peronist Unions

Fidel Castro

Searching for the Soul of the Latin American Experience

241

(5)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sub-Saharan Africa

African Nationalism

246

(7)

Marcus Garvey

Jomo Kenyatta

Kwame Nkrumah

Changes in African Culture and Society

253

(13)

Chinua Achebe

Perdita Huston

Ifi Amadiume

Forces of Change

The Environment in the Twentieth Century: A Disaster Story

266

(7)

Grigorii Medvedev

Global Contacts: The Emergence of Multinational Companies

273

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