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| Preface | |
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| The World of Travelers and Traders | |
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| Monarchy and Revolution | |
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| James I, True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598) | |
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| Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) | |
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| Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) | |
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| Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694-1723) | |
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| The New Science | |
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| Galileo Galilei, �The Two New Sciences� (1638) | |
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| Ren� Descartes, �Discourse on Method� (1637) | |
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| Empires of Goods | |
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| Anonymous, �The Rise and Decline of Flora� (ca. 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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| Asia Alone | |
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| Yamamoto Tsunetomo, �Hagakure� (The Book of the Samurai) (1716) | |
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| Honda Toshiaki, �A Secret Plan for Managing the Country� (1798) | |
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| Ferdinand Verbiest, Letter from China (1683) | |
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| K��ang-hsi, �A Eulogy for the Emperor� (1722) | |
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| Wu Ching-Tzu, �The Scholars� (1750) | |
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| The European Enlightenment | |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) | |
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| Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764) | |
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| Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) | |
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| Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws (1748) | |
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| Olympe de Gouges, Introduction to Black Slavery (1792) | |
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| The French Revolution | |
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| Abb� de Sieyes, �What Is the Third Estate?� (1789) | |
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| The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) and Woman (1791) | |
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| Edmund Burke, �Reflections on the Revolution in France� (1790) | |
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| Travelers to the East and West | |
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| Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688) | |
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| John Ovington, A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689 (16) | |
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| Hsieh Ch�ing Kao, The Hai-Lu (1783-1797) | |
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| Vasilii Galovnin, Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan (1811-1813) | |
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| Joseph Crassons de Medeuil, Notes on the French Slave Trade (1784-1785) | |
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| Vaclav (Remedius) Prutky, Travels in Ethiopia and Other Countries (1751) | |
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| Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) | |
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| Dean Mahomed, Social Customs of the Muslims (1794) | |
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| Abul Hassan, Journal at the Court of King George III (1809-1810) | |
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| Industrialism and Imperialism | |
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| The Industrial Revolution In Britain | |
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| Arthur Young, Political Arithmetic (1774) | |
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| Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859) | |
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| Sir Edwin Chadwick, Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor (1842) | |
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| Friederick Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) | |
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| Critiquing Industrial Society | |
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| John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) | |
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| Pierre Proudhon, What Is Property? (1840) | |
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| Karl Marx and Friederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848) | |
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| Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species (1859) | |
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| Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) | |
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| Japanese Factory Girls� Laments (ca. 1870s-1912) | |
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| Controlling Latin America | |
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| Simon Bolivar, Jamacian Letter (1815) | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine (1823) | |
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| Two Views of Porfirio D�az (1910-1912) | |
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| India under British Rule | |
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| Muhabbat Khan, A Description of Calcutta (ca. 1800) | |
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| Ram Mohun Roy, On the Proposed East India Juries Bill (1833) | |
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| The Azamgarh Proclamation (1857) | |
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| Japan�s Opening to the West | |
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| Gempaku Sugita, The Anatomy Lesson (1815) | |
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| Naosuke Ii, Advice about the Policy of Isolation (1853) | |
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| Norimasa Muragaki, Washington in 1860 (1860) | |
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| Shibizawa Eiichi, Going into Business (1873) | |
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| The Meiji Constitution (1889) | |
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| Imperialism | |
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| J. A. Hobson, Imperialism (1902) | |
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| Rudyard Kipling, The White Man�s Burden (1899) | |
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| George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant (1936) | |
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| Sayyid Jamal ad Din al-Afghani, A Commentary on the Commentator (1881) | |
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| Robert Moffat, Missionary Labors and Scenes in Southern Africa (1846) | |
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| Carl Veltin, Social Life of the Swahilis (1893-1896) | |
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| The Modern World | |
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| The First World War | |
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| Ernst J�nger, Storm of Steel (1920) | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918) | |
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| V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902) | |
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| East Meets West | |
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| Lin Tse-Hs�, Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria (1839) | |
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| Lafcadio Hern, On Women�s Hair (1894) | |
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| Fukuzawa Yukichi, On Japanese Women (1885) | |
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| Sun Yat-Sen, Fundamentals of National Reconstruction (1923) | |
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| The Soviet Union | |
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| Alexandra Kollontai, Theses on Communist Morality in the Sphere of Marital Relations (1921) | |
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| Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) | |
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| Winston Churchill, The Iron Curtain (1946) | |
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| Nikita Khrushchev, Report to the Communist Party Congress (1961) | |
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| Generations of Cultural Protest | |
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| Virginia Woolf, A Room of One�s Own (1929) | |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism (1946) | |
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| Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) | |
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| Bob Dylan, Songs (1962-1965) | |
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| The Second World War | |
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| Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (1923) | |
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| Winston Churchill, Speeches (1941) | |
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| Emperor Hirohito, The Imperial Rescript on Surrender and The Imperial Rescript to the Armed Forces (1945) | |
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| The Charter of the United Nations (1946) | |
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| India and Independence | |
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| Dadabhai Naoroji, The Condition of India (1901) | |
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| Mohandas Gandhi, Hind Swaraj (1938) | |
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| Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Two Nations (1940) | |
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| Struggles of National Liberation | |
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| Mao Zedong, On Letting a Hundred Flowers Blossom (1957) | |
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| Ho Chi Minh, Selected Writings (1945, 1968) | |
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| Kwame Nkrumah, A Republican Form of Government (1968) | |
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| Regis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution? (1967) | |
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| The Arab-Israeli Conflict (1967) | |
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| Athol Fugard, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (1972) | |
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| Desmond Tutu, My Vision for South Africa (1979) | |
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| Wole Soyinka, Ak� (1981) | |
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| The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (1974) | |
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| The Report of the 9/11 Commission (2004) | |
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| The Japanese Miracle | |
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| The Constitution of Japan (1947) | |
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| Kamei Katsuichiro, An Ideal Portrait of Twentieth-Century Japan (1954) | |
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| Chitoshi Yanaga, Big Business in Japanese Politics (1968) | |
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| Donald Richie, Japanese Rhythms (1984) | |
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| Douglas McGray, Japan�s Gross National Cool (2002) | |