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West in Global Context From 1500 to the Present

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ISBN-10: 0134852109

ISBN-13: 9780134852102

Edition: 1997

Authors: George B. Kirsch, Frederick M. Schweitzer, George L. Mahoney, Wolodymyr Stojko

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Blending elements of European, United States, and World history into a coherent examination of the past five hundred years, this rich anthology provides an extensive collection of primary source documents that will deepen readers' understanding of history and the global village in which they live their personal and professional lives. Focuses on seven major currents of modern history that have originated in the western world, but which have had global consequences: The Age of Exploration and Discovery, the Age of the Democratic Revolutions, Industrial Revolution, Nationalism and Imperialism, World War I and Its Aftermath, World War II and Its Consequences, and the New World Order. Examines…    
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List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 5/31/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386

Marvin Perry is Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is author of An Intellectual History of Modern Europe.Frederick M. Schweitzer is Professor Emeritus of History and Director of the Holocaust Research Center at Manhattan College. He is author of A History of The Jews Since The First Century A. D.They are coauthors of Antisemitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present.

The Age Of Exploration And Discovery
Two Accounts of the Spanish Encounter with the Aztecs, 1519
A Discourse Concerning Western Planting, 1584
A View of the Present State of Ireland, 1596
Narrative of Early Virginia, 1607 - 1609
Jesuit Report on Sixteenth-Century China
Muscovy's Conquests in Asia, Seventeenth Century
Edict Closing Japan, 1636
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Age Of Democratic Revolutions
The Instrument of Government, 1653
The English Bill of Rights, 1689
Common Sense, 1776
The Declaration of Independence in Congress, July 4, 1776
The Constitution of the United States, 1787
What Is the Third Estate? 1789
Grievances of the Third Estate, 1789
Declarations of Rights and Preamble to French Constitution
Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
Leveacute;e en Masse and Law of Suspects, 1793
Maximilien Robespierre, On Revolutionary Government, 1793
Address to the Second National Congress of Venezuela, 1819
Equal Rights for Women in the United States, 1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Constitutional Government in Japan
The Industrial Revolution
The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Friedrich List, The National System of Political Economy, 1841 - 1844
On the Principles of Population, 1798, 1803
Regulations of the Foundry and Engineering Works of the Royal Overseas Trading Company, 1844
Parliamentary Inquiries into Working Conditions, 1832, 1842
The Philosophy of Manufactures, 1835
Transcendental Wild Oats
Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848
Proposals for the Economic Development of Argentina, 1852
Nationalism And Imperialism
The Cultural Basis of Nationality
Young Italy, 1831
The Theory of Official Nationality
Abraham Lincoln