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| The West in Transformation (1350-1700) | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| Petrarch: Rules for a Successful Ruler, c. 1350 | |
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| Advice to Lorenzo de Medici: On Wifely Duties, 1416 | |
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| Lorenzo Valla Skewers the Supposed "Donation of Constantine", c. 1440 | |
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| Marriage in the Renaissance: A Serious Business, 1464-1465 | |
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| Niccolo Machiavelli: From the Discourses on Livy, 1513-1517 | |
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| Benvenuto Cellini: The Life of an Artist, 1558-1562 | |
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| Reformations and Counter-Reformations | |
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| The Act of Supremacy, 1534 | |
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| The Council of Trent, 1545-1563 | |
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| Anonymous, "The Execution of Archbishop Cranmer", 1556 | |
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| "Letter to Ludwig Rabus", 1556-1558 | |
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| Acts of Uniformity, 1559 | |
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| Anonymous Government Agent, "Arrest of Edmund Campion and his Associates", 1581 | |
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| The Edict of Nantes, 1598 | |
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| The Development of Early-Modern States and Societies | |
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| Six Books of the Commonwealth, "The True Attributes of Sovreignty." | |
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| selections from On the Law of War and Peace | |
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| The Leviathan | |
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| The Treaty of Westphalia, 1743 | |
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| The Poor Laws | |
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| "The Battle of Schellenberg" | |
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| Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis" | |
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| Expanding Worlds | |
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| Letter from the Kings of Portugal to the King of the Kongo | |
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| Bartolome de Las Casas, Very Brief Report on the Destruction of the Indians | |
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| Jamestown Charter | |
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| "Letter to Father and Mother" | |
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| "The Letters of Columbis to Ferdinand and Isabel" | |
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| "The Chronicle of Peru" | |
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| Anonymous, "The English Describe Pawatah's People" "The Code Noir" | |
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| Thought and Culture in Early Modern Europe | |
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| from Novum Organum | |
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| Address to the Royal College of Physicians | |
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| Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method and Metaphysical Meditations, "I Think, Therefore I Am" | |
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| Little Red Riding Hood | |
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| from Optiks | |
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| Pilgrim's Progress | |
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| Enlightenments and Revolutions (1700-1850) | |
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| Economy and Society in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| "Letter Regarding The Small Pox Vaccination" | |
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| "Midwives" | |
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| "The Carpenter" | |
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| Leeds Woolen Workers, "Petition" | |
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| from A Treastise of the Scurvy, 1753 | |
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| The Creation of the Steam Loom | |
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| excerpt from Principles of Political Economy and Taxation | |
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| On Wages, "The Law of Iron Wages" | |
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| selection from The Complete English Tradesman | |
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| Europe and the World in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| from A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts | |
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| "To the Right and Honourable William, Early of Dartmouth..." | |
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| "Common Sense" | |
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| Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | |
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| Benjamin Franklin and the British Parliament, "Proceedings Regarding the Stamp Act" | |
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| Five African American Spirituals | |
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| excerpt from "Observations of the ... Maroon Negroes of the Island of Jamaica" | |
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| Instructions to the Overseer of a Cotton Plantation | |
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| Thought on Government | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| excerpt from The Spirit of the Laws | |
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| passage from Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind | |
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| Catherine the Great, "Instructions for a New Law Code" | |
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| On Crimes and Punishments | |
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| A Muslim Indian's Reactions to the West | |
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| Revolutions in the Atlantic World | |
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| The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | |
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| Rights of Man | |
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| Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen | |
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| The Haitian Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804 | |
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| Napoleon and the Age of Romanticism | |
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| Autobiography | |
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| excerpt from Frankenstein | |
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| Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napolean Bonaparte | |
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| The West Ascendant (1800-1914) | |
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| Nationalism and State-Building in the West | |
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| Democracy in America | |
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| from Minute on Education, 1835 | |
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| Sentiments of the Nation | |
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| Karl con Clausewitz, On War, Arming the Nation | |
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| Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini | |
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| "Address to Second National Congress" | |
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| Industrialization in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures | |
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| The Sadler Report: Child Labor in the United Kingdom, 1832 | |
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| from The Communist Manifesto | |
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| Summary from the Poor Law Commissioners | |
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| Chartist Movement: The People's Petition of 1838 | |
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| British Parliament: "Inquiry: Labor in Mines" | |
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| British Parliament: "Inquiry: Child Labor" | |
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| "Principles and Organization of the International Brotherhood" | |
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| Society and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| excerpts from On Liberty | |
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| Souls of Black Folk, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others" | |
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| Mrs. Warren's Profession | |
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| Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments" | |
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| "Finding Work: Women Factory Workers" | |
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| Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Movarum (Of New Things) | |
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| John Stuart Mill, the Subjection of Women | |
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| "Review: Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft" | |
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| "Industrial Education for the Negro" | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Culture and Thought | |
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| from Pragmatism | |
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| excerpt from The Theory of Leisure Class | |
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| Beyond Good and Evil | |
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| Frederick Winslow Taylor, "A Piece Rate System" | |
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| Autobiography | |
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| European Imperialism | |
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| "Confession of Faith" | |
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| "A Manifesto of German Colonization" | |
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| The Black Man's Burden | |
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| Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839 | |
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| Travels in West Africa | |
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| Letters of a Javanese Princess | |
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| from Le Tonkin et La Mere-Patrie | |
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| The Modern World (1914-Present) | |
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| World War I | |
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| The Balfour Declaration | |
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| Letter to Ali ibn Husain, 1915 | |
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| Siegfried Sassoon, They | |
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| "Dead Man's Dump" | |
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| The Fourteen Points, 1918 | |
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| International Congress of Women, "Manifesto" | |
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| The West Between Wars | |
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| Soviet Union, "Law Code on Marriage" and "Law Code on Motherhood" | |
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| Five Year Plan | |
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| Chicago Commission on Race Relations, "The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot" | |
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| Transcript of the Rape of Nanjing Sentencing, 1947 | |
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| "The Obersalzberg Speech", 1939 | |
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| World War II | |
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| "Their Finest Hour" | |
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| "Speech to SS Officers" | |
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| "Call for Sacrifice" | |
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| "The Atlantic Charter" | |
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| American Investigators, from The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| The Charter for the United Nations, 1945 | |
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| The Cold War | |
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| from "The Iron Curtain Speech" | |
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| "The Marshall Plan", 1947 | |
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| "The Truman Doctrine", 1947 | |
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| "The Schuman Declaration" | |
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| Speech to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
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| "Address to the Twentieth Congress" | |
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| excerpts from "The Soviet Victory" Speech, 1946 | |
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| Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1961 | |
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| Identity and Power in a Decolonizing World | |
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| The United Nations, "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," 1948 | |
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| The United Nations, "Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples" | |
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| from Facing Mt. Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gokuyu | |
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| Gamal Abdel Nasser, Speech on the Suez Canal | |
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| Freedom, Conflict, and New Directions | |
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| Treaty on European Union | |
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| Addresses | |
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| A Constitution for Europe | |