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| Preface | |
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| How to Read a Document | |
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| The Ancient Rgime | |
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| The Wars of Religion | |
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| Henry IV, The Edict of Nantes(1598) | |
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| Cardinal Richelieu, The Political Testament (1638) | |
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| Hans von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (1669) | |
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| Subjects and Sovereigns | |
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| James I, True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598) | |
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| Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) | |
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| Sir William Clarke, The Putney Debates (1647) | |
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| Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) | |
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| John Locke, The Second Treatise Concerning Government | |
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| Moliare, The Would-Be Gentleman (1670) | |
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| Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694-1723) | |
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| Science and Commerce | |
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| Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) | |
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| Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637) | |
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| Thomas Mun, England 's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) | |
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| Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776) | |
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| Enlightened Monarchy | |
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| Catherine the Great, Memoirs (ca. 1755) | |
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| Maria Theresa, Testament (1749-50) | |
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| Viscount Bolingbroke, The Idea of a Patriot King (1749) | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Voltaire, Candide (1759) | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) | |
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| Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws (1748) | |
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| James Cook, Journals (1769) | |
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| Joseph Crassons de Medeuil, Notes on the French Slave Trade (1784-1785) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence(1776) | |
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| Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764) | |
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| Marquis de Condorcet, The Progress of the Human Mind (1793) | |
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| The French Revolution | |
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| Abbe de Sieyas, What Is the Third Estate? (1789) | |
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| The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789); Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) | |
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| Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) | |
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| The Age of Reform | |