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| Preface | |
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| Introduction for Students | |
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| Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450 | |
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| The Plague in Florence and Its Economic Effects | |
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| Marchionne di Coppo Buonaiuti, Florentine Chronicle (c. 1370-1380) | |
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| The English Peasant Revolt | |
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| Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries (1400) | |
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| The Ming Emperor's Rules for Village Government | |
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| The Placard of the People's Instructions (1398) | |
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| Religious Allegory in Persian Manuscript Illuminations | |
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| Prince Humay Meets the Lady Humayun in Her Garden by Moonlight (Early Fifteenth Century) | |
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| The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks | |
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| Tale of the Capture of Constantinople (c. 1500) | |
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| The Sultan of Mali | |
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| Rihla (1356) | |
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| Glorious Venice | |
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| In Praise of the City of Venice (1493) | |
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| The Early Modern World, 1450-1750 | |
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| Empires and Alternatives in the Americas, 1430-1530 | |
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| Aztec Sacrifice | |
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| Florentine Codex (c. 1540-1560) | |
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| Aztec Child Rearing | |
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| Codex Mendoza (c. 1540) | |
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| The Inca Huayna Capac's Final Days | |
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| Narrative of the Incas (1557) | |
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| Andean Religion | |
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| Huarochiri Manuscript (c. 1600) | |
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| Jesuit Views on Huron Society | |
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| Jesuit Relations (1632-1637) | |
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| The Fall of Native American Empires and the Rise of an Atlantic World, 1450-1600 | |
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| "How They Sailed to the Land of the Blacks" | |
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| Gomes Eannes de Azurara, During the Conquest of Guinea (1453) | |
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| Fearing Carib Cannibals | |
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| Michele da Cuneo, News of the Islands of the Hesperian Ocean (1495) | |
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| Contrasting Views: Native Peoples and Conquistadors Narrate the Conquest of Mexico | |
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| Nahua Elders of Tlatelolco, Account of the Conquest of Mexico (c. 1540s) | |
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| Hernando Cortes, A Letter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Charles I of Spain) (1519) | |
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| Bernal Dfaz del Castillo, A Foot Soldier Recalls the March to Tenochtitlan (c. 1560) | |
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| Native Allies with a Grievance | |
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| Nahua Nobles of Xochimiico, Letter to the King of Spain (1563) | |
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| A Captive in Brazil | |
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| True History (1557) | |
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| Western Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1800 | |
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| The Powerful Mali Dynasty | |
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| Al-Sa'di, Mali and Its Provinces (c. 1655) | |
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| The Kebbi Kingdom | |
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| Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur of Morocco, Letter to Kanta Dawud of Kebbi (c. 1591) | |
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| The Splendor of Benin | |
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| Description of the Situation and Character of the Great City of Benin (1602) | |
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| Thoughts on the Slave Trade | |
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| Tom�s de Mercado, On the Trade in the Blacks of Cape Verde (1569) | |
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| Observations of the Congo, Loango, and Angolan Kingdoms | |
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| Journal of Voyages (c 1630) | |
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| On Restoring Ethiopian Salvation (1627) | |
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| Trade and Empire in the Indian Ocean and South Asia, 1450-1750 | |
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| The Portuguese Reach Sofala, Mozambique | |
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| Mart�n Fern�ndez de Figueroa, A Spaniard in the Portuguese \ | |
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| Indies (1505) | |
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| A Thriving Kingdom in South India | |
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| Description of Vijayanagara (1518) | |
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| The Founder of the Mughal Empire | |
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| Emperor Babur, The Baburnama (1499-1519) | |
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| "Scenes from My Life" | |
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| Emperor Jahangir, The Jahangirnama (1612-1621) | |
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| Makassar's Kingdom of Talloq: Islam, Guns, and a Golden Age | |
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| Talloq Chronicle (c. 1660) | |
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| From London with Love | |
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| English East India Company, Letters to Princes in Sumatra and Borneo (1734, 1740, 1744) | |
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| Consolidation and Conflict in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean, 1450-1750 | |
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| Gunpowder and High Stakes: Ottomans Versus Prince Dracula | |
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| Memoirs of a Janissary (1462) | |
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| Two Accounts of a Conflagration | |
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| Fire Engulfs Istanbul (1569) | |
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| Three Interpretations of Canticum Canticorum (c. 1575) | |
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| The Battle of Baghdad | |
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| History of Shah 'Abbas the Great (1625-1626) | |
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| The Global Spread of Scientific Knowledge | |
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| The Discovery of Jupiter's Moons (1610) | |
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| On the Number of Metals, and Places Where They Are Begotten (1640) | |
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| Life in an Early Modern German-Jewish Community | |
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| Gluckel of Hameln, Memoirs (1690) | |
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| Venice on a Ducat a Day | |
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| Travel Diary (1698) | |
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| Expansion and Isolation in Asia, 1450-1750 | |
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| Moscow in the Time of Ivan the Terrible | |
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| The Land and Government of Muscovy (1578-1579) | |
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| Mountain Travels | |
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| Travel Diaries (1616) | |
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| China Under Siege | |
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| The Qing Attack on Yangzhou (1645) | |
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| A German Visitor Describes Japan | |
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| People You Meet on the Road in Japan and The Prostitutes' Quarter of Nagasaki (1691) | |
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| Notes from a Korean Queen's Diary | |
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| Diary (c. 1750) | |
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| Manila: Global Commercial Crossroads | |
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| Account of the Philippine islands (c. 1600) | |
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| Transforming New Worlds: The American Colonies Mature, 1600-1800 | |
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| Arrival of the Japanese Embassy in Mexico City | |
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| Annals (1610) | |
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| The Wealth of Spanish America | |
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| Marfa de Carranza and Nicolas de Guevara, Letters from the Spanish Indies (1589-1590) | |
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| Life in a Peruvian Convent | |
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| Visions of the World to Come (c. 1650) | |
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| Contrasting Views Exploitation or Opportunity in the Peruvian Andes? | |
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| Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle (c 1610) | |
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| Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Defense of the Western Conquests (1618) | |
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| Description of Quebec City and a Christian Huron Village | |
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| Travels into North America (1749) | |
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| Runaway Slaves | |
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| A Surinam Maroon Described (1790) | |
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| The World from 1750 to the Present | |
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| Atlantic Revolutions and the World, 1750-1830 | |
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| The Enlightenment Among Artisans | |
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| Journal of My Life (1764-1802) | |
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| The Spread of Enlightenment | |
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| A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan (1771) | |
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| An Egyptian's View of Napoleon and the French Invasion | |
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| Diary (1798-1801) | |
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| Haiti and the Revolutionary Tradition | |
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| The Haitian Constitution (1801) | |
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| Why an Argentine Lawyer Joined the Revolution Against Spain | |
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| Autobiography (1814) | |
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| Industry and Everyday Life, 1750-1900 | |
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| The Experience of Japanese Factory Life | |
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| Song of the Living Corpses (1890s) | |
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| The Chinese Case Against Opium | |
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| Edict of Commissioner Lin Zexu (1839) | |
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| Cholera Strikes Railway Workers in India | |
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| Official Report to the British Government (c. 1889) | |
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| Contrasting Views: Debates Over Industrialization | |
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| Adam Smith, Of the Division of Labor (1776) | |
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| Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844) | |
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| Jose Manuel Balmaceda, On the Need to Develop National Industry (1880s) | |
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| Li Hung-Chang, A Report to the Emperor: Problems of Industrialization (1872) | |
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| The Rise of Modern Nation-States, 1850-1900 | |
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| A Russian Serf's Struggle for Freedom | |
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| Diary (1824,1841) | |
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| Nation Building in the United States | |
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| First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861) | |
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| Legal Nation Building in Japan | |
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| Japan's Charter Oath (1868) | |
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| Imagining the Perfect Nation | |
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| Sultana's Dream (1905) | |
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| Imperial Order and Disorder, 1850-1914 | |
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| A Place in the Sun | |
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| Kaiser William II of Germany, Speech to the North German Regatta Association (1901) | |
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| Working for the Imperialists | |
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| Report on the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (1903) | |
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| The Civilizing Mission in Action | |
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| My Life Story (1880s-1890s) | |
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| Contrasting Views: On Imperialists and Imperialism | |
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| Reminiscences of 1896 (1930s) | |
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| Diary (1898-1901) | |
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| Newspaper Editorial, Mexico Needs Foreign Capital (1897) | |
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| Count Shigenobu Okuma, The Rise of Japan Was Not Unexpected (1904) | |
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| Wars, Revolutions, and the Birth of Mass Society, 1910-1929 | |
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| Revolutionary Plans for the Mexican Future | |
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| The Plan de Ayala (1910) | |
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| An Australian Soldier Fights for Britain | |
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| War Memoir (1916-1919) | |
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| Proclaiming the Soviet Alternative to War-Weary Russians | |
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| April Theses (1917) | |
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| Contrasting Views: The Postwar Middle East | |
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| Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) | |
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| The Balfour Declaration (1917) | |
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| Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus (1919) | |
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| The Mandate System Under the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919) | |
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| An Ally Critiques Ataturk | |
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| Dictatorship and Reform in Turkey (1929) | |
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| Global Catastrophe: The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945 | |
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| Authoritarian Man of the People | |
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| Getulio Vargas, New Year's Address (1938) | |
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| Factory Worker Joana de Masi Zero, Reminiscences (1930s) | |
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| The Fate of Ethiopia | |
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| Appeal to the League of Nations (1936) | |
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| Autobiography (W57) | |
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| India's Push for Independence | |
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| Quit India Declaration (1942) | |
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| The Battle of Stalingrad | |
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| Interview (1990s) | |
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| Hope for the Postwar Future | |
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| United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) | |
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| The Emergence of New Nations in a Cold War World, 1945-1970 | |
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| Decolonizing the Suez Canal | |
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| Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users' Association (1956) | |
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| A Meeting of Emerging Nations | |
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| President Sukarno of Indonesia, Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference (1955) | |
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| The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (1956) | |
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| Torture and Decolonization | |
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| Testimony of a Torture Victim (1960) | |
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| Consumerism and the Cold War | |
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| British Advertisement (1950s) and Soviet Fashion Spread (1957) | |
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| Contrasting Views: The Cold War and Latin America | |
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| Waging Peace in the Americas (1949) | |
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| Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress (1960) | |
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| The Lesson of Cuba (1961) | |
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| Second Declaration of Havana (1962) | |
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| Technological Transformation and the End of Cold War, 1960-1992 | |
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| A Life Caught Up in Warfare | |
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| When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (1981) | |
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| Official Propagandizing of Children in Cambodia | |
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| Khmer Rouge Song for Children (1975-1979) | |
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| A New Regime in Iran | |
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| The Uprising of Khurdad 15 (1979) | |
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| The Collapse of Communism | |
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| Interviews with Industrial Workers (1990) | |
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| A New Global Age, 1989 to the Present | |
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| Rules for Women's Conduct | |
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| The Taliban, Decrees (1996) | |
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| The Toll of AIDS on Africa | |
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| The Deafening Silence of AIDS (2000) | |
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| Sweatshop Warriors | |
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| Interview (1990s) | |
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| Contrasting Views The Environment | |
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| The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (1997) | |
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| Resolution of the 105th Congress on Rejecting the Kyoto Protocol (1997) | |
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| I Julian Simon, Address at the University of Navarra (1998) | |
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| Women Can Lead the Way in Tackling Development and Climate Challenges Together (2010) | |
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