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| Preface | |
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| The Acceleration of Global Contact, 1450-1600 | |
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| Zheng He, Stele Inscription , 1431� | |
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| Viewpoints: Exploration and Its Material Advantages | |
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| Christopher Columbus, Letter from the Third Voyage, 1493 | |
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| King Dom Manuel of Portugal, Grant of Rights of Trade, 1500 | |
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| Bartolom� de Las Casas, From Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies, 1542 | |
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| Bernal D�az del Castillo, From The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 1568 | |
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| From The Florentine Codex, ca. 1577-1580 | |
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| Matteo Ricci, From China in the Sixteenth Century, ca. 1607 | |
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| European Power and Expansion, 1500-1750 | |
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| Viewpoints: Thoughts on Government | |
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| Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, On Divine Right , ca. 1675-1680 | |
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| Thomas Hobbes, From Leviathan: "Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity and Misery," 1651 | |
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| John Locke, From Two Treatises of Government: " Of the Ends of Political Society and Government," 1690 | |
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| �Duc de Saint-Simon, From Memoirs of Louis XIV: "On the Early Life of Louis XIV," ca. 1730-1755 | |
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| Catherine II of Russia, Two Decrees , 1762, 1765 | |
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| Emilian Ivanovich Pugachev, A Decree and a Manifesto , 1773, 1774 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| New Worldviews and Ways of Life, 1540-1790 | |
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| Galileo Galilei, From a Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina and "To the Discerning Reader" from Dialog Concerning the Two Chief World-Systems, 1615, 1632� | |
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| Viewpoints: Changing Ideas of Science | |
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| Francis Bacon, From The Great Restoration: "History of Life and Death," 1623 | |
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| Peter the Great and Gottfried Leibniz, Items from the Rule of Peter the Great , ca. 1712-1718 | |
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| Voltaire, From Dictionnaire Philosophique: " Theist," 1764 | |
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| Immanuel Kant, "What Is Enlightenment?" 1784 | |
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| Philip Stanhope, From Letters to His Son, 1748 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Africa and the World, 1400-1800 | |
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| Nzinga Mbemba (Alfonso I), From Letters to the King of Portugal , 1526� | |
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| Osei Bonsu, An Asante King Questions British Motives in Ending the Slave Trade , 1820 | |
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| Leo Africanus, A Description of Timbuktu , 1526 | |
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| Viewpoints: The Slave Trade | |
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| Anna Maria Falconbridge, From Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, 1794 | |
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| Olaudah Equiano, From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, 1789� | |
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| Louis Ohier de Grandpr�, From Voyage to the West Coast of Africa, 1801� | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Islamic World Powers, 1300-1800 | |
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| Sultan Selim I, From a Letter to Shah Ismail of Persia , 1514� | |
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| Antonio Monserrate, From The Commentary of Father Monserrate: On Mughal India , ca. 1580� | |
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| Farid Ud-Din Attar and Habiballah, Exce rpt from and Illustration of The Conference of the Birds , 1600 | |
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| Nuruddin Salim Jahangir, From the Memoirs of Jahangir , ca. 1580-1600 | |
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| Viewpoints: Economics Micro and Macro | |
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| Halime Hatun, Record of Two Petitions , 1702 | |
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| The Dutch East India Company and Shah Abbas, Correspondences on Persian Trade , 1647, 1648 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Continuity and Change in East Asia, 1400-1800 | |
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| Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Letter to His Wife , 1587 | |
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| Huang Zongxi, From Waiting for the Dawn: "On the Prince" and "On Ministership," 1662 | |
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| Engelbert Kaempfer, From History of Japan, 1727 | |
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| Viewpoints: Gender in East Asia | |
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| Kaibara Ekiken and Kaibara To”ken, Co mmon Sense Teachings for Japanese Children and Greater Learning for Women , ca. 1700 | |
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| A Japanese Sake Brewer's Female Antipollution Pass , ca. 1603-1868 | |
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| Li Ruzhen (Li Ju-Chen), From Flowers in the Mirror (Jing Hua Yuan), 1827� | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 1775-1815 | |
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| From The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, 1776 | |
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| Viewpoints: Defining the Citizen | |
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| The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen , 1789� | |
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| Olympe de Gouges, From the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791 | |
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| Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary Speech , 1794� | |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792� | |
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| The Haitian Declaration of Independence , 1804� | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1760-1860� | |
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| Thomas Robert Malthus, From "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798� | |
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| Viewpoints: The Realities of Manufacturing | |
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| �Robert Owen, From Observations of the Effect of the Manufacturing System, 1815 | |
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| Sadler Committee and Ashley Commission, Testi monies Before Parliamentary Committees on Working Conditions in England , 1832, 1842� | |
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| Chartism: The People's Petition , 1838 | |
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| The Treaty of Balta-Liman | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Ideologies of Change in Europe, 1815-1914� | |
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| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, From The Communist Manifesto, 1848� | |
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| Viewpoints: Visions of the Nation | |
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| Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Address to the German Nation , 1808 | |
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| Max Nordau, On Zionism , 1905 | |
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| Giuseppe Garibaldi, Speech to His Soldiers , 1860 | |
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| Munich Bar Kochba Association , 1902 | |
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| Beatrice Webb, From My Apprenticeship: "Why I Became a Socialist," 1926 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Africa, Southwest Asia, and the New Imperialism, 1800-1914 | |
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| Sultan Abdul Mejid, Imperial Rescript , 1856� | |
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| An Ottoman Government Decree on the "Modern" Citizen, 1870� | |
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| Viewpoints: The Colonial Encounter in Africa | |
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| Cecil Rhodes, From "Confession of Faith," ca. 1877 | |
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| Ndansi Kumalo, On the British Incursion in Zimbabwe , 1932� | |
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| Roger Casement and David Engohahe, Victims of Belgian Atrocities , ca. 1904-1905 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Asia in the Era of Imperialism, 1800-1914� | |
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| Viewpoints: Reactions to Imperialism and Modernity | |
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| Lin Zexu, From a Letter to Queen Victoria , 1839 | |
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| Two Proclamations of the Boxer Rebellion , 1898, 1900� | |
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| Saigo Takamori, Letter on the Korean Question , 1873 | |
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| Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, Letter to Lieutenant-Governor J. Colvin , June 13, 1857� | |
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| Sun Yat-Sen, On the Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese People , 1906� | |
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| Moorfield Storey and Julian Codman, On American Imperialism in the Philippines , 1902 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Nation Building in the Americas and Australia, 1770-1914 | |
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| Sim�n Bolivar, Jamaica Letter , 1815 | |
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| Alexis de Tocqueville, From Democracy in America, 1840� | |
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| Viewpoints: Federal Dispossession in the United States and Australia | |
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| Cherokee Nation Versus the State of Georgia , 1831� | |
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| From Aborigines Protection Act, 1909-1943� | |
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| N.C. Adossides, "Villa, the Bandit General," 1914 | |
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| Advertisement for the Canadian Pacific Railway , 1883� | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| World War and Revolution, 1914-1929 | |
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| From A War Nurse's Diary, 1918 | |
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| Correspondence of Evelyn and Fred Albright , 1917 | |
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| Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, "All Power to the Soviets!" 1917� | |
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| The Zionist Organization, Memorandum to the Peace Conference in Versailles: On the Establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine , February 3, 1919 | |
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| Viewpoints: Zionist, German, and Japanese Views on the End of WWI | |
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| German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, On the Conditions of Peace , October 1919 | |
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| Konoe Fumimaro, "Against a Pacifism Centered on England and America," 1918 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939 | |
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| Mary L. Graffam, An Account of Turkish Violence against Armenians , 1915 | |
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| Arthur James Balfour, Deb ating the Balfour Declaration: The British Government Supports a Jewish Homeland in Palestine , 1917 | |
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| Sarojini Naidu, From "The Agony and Shame of the Punjab": An Indian Nationalist Condemns the British Empire , 1920 | |
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| Viewpoints: Prescriptions for National Improvement in China and Siam | |
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| Jiang Jieshi, "The New Life Movement," 1934 | |
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| King Vajiravudh, On the Siamese Nation , 1914, 1917, 1920 | |
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| Claudie Beaucarnot, Vacation Diary , July 1943 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945� | |
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| Woody Guthrie, " Do Re Mi," 1937 | |
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| Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Speech to the National Socialist Women's Association , 1935 | |
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| The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation , 1935� | |
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| Letters to Izvestiya: On the Issue of Abortion , 1936� | |
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| Harry S. Truman, White House Press Release on Hiroshima , August 6, 1945 | |
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| Toshiko Saeki, Interview with a Survivor of Hiroshima , 1986 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Global Recovery and Division Between Superpowers, 1945 to the Present� | |
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| United Nations General Assembly, De claration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples , December 14, 1960 | |
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| Viewpoints: Clashes and Reforms Among Cold War Superpowers | |
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| Harry S Truman, The Truman Doctrine , March 12, 1947� | |
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| Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences," 1956 | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev, From Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World, 1986�� | |
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| George C. Wallace, "Statement and Proclamation": School House Door Speech , June 11, 1963 | |
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| Male Japanese Citizens, "Ikigai," 2003 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| Independence, Progress, and Conflict in Asia and the Middle East, 1945 to the Present | |
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| Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam , September 1945 | |
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| Jawaharlal Nehru, The Partitioning of the Punjab , 1947 | |
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| Viewpoints: Transitions in Modern China | |
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| Former Red Guard, "Away from Madness," 1996 | |
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| Deng Ziaoping, "Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," June 30, 1984 | |
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| Gamal Abdel Nasser, Suez Canal Nationalization Speech , September 15, 1956 | |
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| Unya Shavit, Arab and Israeli Soccer Players Discuss Ethnic Relations in Israel , November 3, 2000� | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| The Global South: Latin America and Africa, 1945 to the Present | |
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| Pablo Neruda, "Standard Oil Co." and "United Fruit Co.," 1950 | |
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| Fidel Castro, Interview with Dan Rather , September 30, 1979 | |
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| Charles de Gaulle, Comments on Algeria , April 11, 1961 | |
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| Kwame Nkrumah, Speech on the Tenth Anniversary of the Convention People's Party , 1960 | |
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| Viewpoints: Race and Power in South Africa | |
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| National Party of South Africa, "The National Party's Colour Policy," March 29, 1948� | |
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| Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court , April 20, 1964 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |
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| A New Era in World History | |
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| Viewpoints: Defining Arabic and Islamic Identities | |
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| George Tarabishi, A Roundtable Discussion of Globalization and Its Impact on Arab Culture , October 26, 2000� | |
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| Osama (Usama) bin Laden, A Call on Muslims to Take Up Arms Against America , 1998� | |
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| John Yoo, Memoranda Regarding U.S. Military Interrogations , 2002, 2003 | |
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| Carolina Sic, From an Interview with Women United for Worker Justice , 2005 | |
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| Al Gore, On Solving the Climate Crisis , September 18, 2006 | |
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| Jonas Bendiksen, "New Settlement": A Slum in Caracas, Venezuela , ca. 2007 | |
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| Comparative Questions | |