| Expanding Horizons, 1500-1750 | |
| Expanding Global Encounters in the 14th-16th Centuries Ibn Battuta's Travels in the Islamic World Reading | |
| Ibn Battuta, My Travels (1355) The Chinese Naval Expeditions of Zheng He Reading | |
| Zheng He, Inscription of World Voyages Vasco da Gama's Voyage to Africa and India Reading | |
| A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama Columbus' First Voyage to the `New World' Reading | |
| Christopher Columbus, Prologue to the Logbook of the First Voyage Reading | |
| Christopher Columbus, Letter Describing His First Voyage Maps | |
| Global Expeditions and Encounters in the 14th - 16th Centuries | |
| Ibn Battuta's Travels | |
| The Naval Expeditions of Zheng He | |
| Vasco da Gama's First Voyage to Africa and India | |
| Columbus' First Voyage to the New World | |
| Cross-Cultural Perceptions in the New World An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico Reading | |
| Bernardino de Sahagun, The General History of New Spain A Spanish Account of the Conquest of Mexico Reading | |
| Bernaz Diaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain Images of the Conquest | |
| Massacre at Cholula | |
| Massacre of the Mexica Nobility | |
| Battle of Tenochtitlan Maps | |
| Cortés' Route to Tenochtitlan | |
| Perspectives on the Atlantic Slave Trade Perspective of a Slave Trader Reading | |
| Jacques Barbot, The Slaving Voyage of the Albion-Frigate Perspective of a Slave Reading | |
| Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Perspective of a Slave Owner Reading | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia Maps | |
| General Patterns in Atlantic Trade | |
| West Africa, 17th- 18th centuries | |
| Illustrations | |
| Barbot presents himself to the King of Sestro, 1681 | |
| Diagram of a Slave Ship | |
| Olaudah Equiano | |
| Paths to Enlightenment René Descartes' Deductive Method of Inquiry Reading | |
| Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method The Empirical Reasoning of John Locke Reading | |
| John Locke, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" The Enlightened Path of Wang Yang-ming Reading | |
| Wang Yang-ming, "Inquiry on The Great Learning" | |
| Great Men and Virtues of Leadership Sundiata | |
| Founder of the Malian Empire Reading | |
| Sundiata, An Epic of of Old Mali Akbar of Mughal India, Rulings on Temporal Government, in Sources of Indian Tradition, Reading | |
| Barni, "Rulings on Temporal Government" Reading | |
| Father Antonio Monserrate, Commentary on his Journey to the Court of Akbar Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty in China Reading | |
| Kangxi, "On Ruling" Reading: Kangxi, "Valedictory" Peter the Great of Russia Reading | |
| "Decree on the Invitation to Foreigners" Reading | |
| "Decrees on the Building of St. Petersburg" Reading | |
| "Prohibition on Kneeling" Reading | |
| "Order to the Army Before the Battle of Poltava" Reading | |
| "Peter's Conception of Imperial Authority" Reading | |
| "An Old Believer Manuscript from Solotevsky Monastery" Reading | |
| "A Nineteenth-Century Assessment of Peter the Great" | |
| The Age of Revolution, Industrialization, and Nationalsim, 1750-1898 | |
| Liberty and Revoultion in the Atlantic World, 1776-1850 The American Revolution | |
| The Revolutionary Ideals of Jefferson, 1776 Reading: Thomas Jefferson, Declaratino of Independence | |
| The Fears of the Founding Fathers, 1787-1788 Reading: James Madison, Federalist No. 10 | |
| An Argument for Democratic Reform, 1835 Reading: George Bancroft, "The Office of the People in Art, Government, and Religion" | |
| A Critique of American Liberty from a Former Slave, 1852 Reading: Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?" The French Revolution | |
| A Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 Reading: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | |
| A Feminist Perspective of the Revolution, 1791 Reading: Declaration of the Rights of Women | |
| Terror in Defense of Liberty, 1794 Reading: Maximillien Robespierre, "The Moral and Political Principle" Revolutions in the Caribbean and Latin America | |
| The Haitian Revolution, 1793-1800 Reading: Toussaint L'Ouverture, Speeches and Letters on the Haitian Revolution | |
| The Liberator of South America, 1815 Reading: Simon Bolivar, "The Jamaican Letter" | |
| The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Work, Wealth, and Power | |
| The Rationality and Benefits of Industrial Capitalism and Economic Liberalism Reading | |
| Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations Two Perspectives on the Factory System in England, 1830s Reading | |
| Testimony of Matthew Crabtree from the Sadler Committee Report (1832) Reading | |
| Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures | |
| The Marxist Critique of Industrial Capitalism and the Communist Alternative Reading Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth Reading | |
| Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth" Wealth, Power, and Conspicuous Consumption in America Reading | |
| Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class Industrialization in Imperial Russia Reading: Sergei Witte, Secret Memorandum on Industrialization | |
| The Frontier Experience and Cultural Self-Images The Frontier in American History | |
| The Frontier and American identity Reading | |
| Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" Reading | |
| Chief Joseph of Nez Perce, Selected Statements, Speeches and Letters | |
| Myths of the American West Reading: Owen Wister, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains | |
| The Frontier Remembered Reading: Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Completion of the Fourth Mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia | |
| The Frontier in South African History | |
| The Frontier War and the Rise of the Zulu Reading: Jantshi Ka Nongila, The History of Shaka | |
| Shaka Remembered: A Different Story Reading: Mazisi Kunene, Emperor Shaka the Great: A Zulu Epic (Oxford: Heinemann, 1979), 98-99; 185-187 | |
| The Frontier and the Afrikaner ‘Great Trek' Reading: Piet Retief, "Manifesto of the Emigrant Farmers" Reading: Sarel Cilliers, The Battle of Blood River | |
| The Trek Remembered Reading: Daniel Malan, "The Second Great Trek" Illustrations Fig. 8.1 John Gast, `American Progress' (1872) | |
| The American Frontier | |
| The South African Frontier | |
| The World Encounters the West Chinese Responses to Imperialism | |
| An Imperial Response to the British King, 1793 Reading: The Qianlong Emperor, Letters to George III | |
| The Anti-Foreign Boxer Uprising, 1900 Reading: Proclamation of the Boxers United in Righteousness Indian Responses to Imperialism | |
| The View of an Indian Modernizer Reading: Ram Mohun Roy, Letter to Lord Amherst on Education | |
| A Critique of British Exploitation, 1904 Reading: Ramesh Dutt, India in the Victorian Age African Responses to Imperialism | |
| An African Missionary Promotes Christian Conversion, 1854 Reading: Samuel Crowther, Letter to the Rev. H. Venn | |
| A View of Village Life in British Kenya, 1920s Reading: Oginda Odinga, At the Feet of the Villag | |
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