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| Prologue: Primary Sources and How We Read Them What Is History? | |
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| Primary Sources: Their Value and Limitations Examining the Sources You and the Sources Interpreting Columbus's Letter Unwritten Sources Interpreting the Woodcut | |
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| The World in the Era of Western Expansion: 1500-1650 | |
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| Europe in an Age of Conflict and Expansion Protestant Revolt and Catholic Response Luther's Views of Christianity and Society | |
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| Martin Luther, Table Talk A Blueprint for Catholic Revival | |
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| Decrees of the Council of Trent Art as Protestant Propaganda | |
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| Lucas Cranach the Younger, Two Kinds of Preaching, and Mattias Gerung, The Chariot of the Pope and the Turk Spanish Perspectives on the New World The Uncivilized Have Been Justly Conquered | |
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| Juan Gin?s de Sep?lveda, Democrates Secundus, or The Just Causes of War Against the Indians "They Are Our Brothers" | |
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| Bartolom? de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians Women's Roles in Early Modern Europe A Woman of Virtue and Piety | |
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| John Mayer, "A Pattern for Women" Two Sixteenth-Century Images of Women | |
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| Anton Woensam, Allegory of a Wise Woman and Erhard Sch?n, No More Precious Treasure Is on the Earth Than a Gentle Wife Who Longs for Honor Midwives and Their Duties | |
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| Nuremberg Ordinances Concerning Midwives, 1522, 1579 An Expanding Intellectual Universe Who Is the True Barbarian? | |
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| Michel de Montaigne, On Cannibals Science and the Claims of Religion | |
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| Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina | |
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| Africa and the Americas The Diversity of African Societies Africa's Sudanic Kingdoms | |
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| Leo Africanus, History and Description of Africa Africa's Cosmopolitan East Coast | |
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| Duarte Barbosa, An Account of the Countries Bordering the Indian Ocean The Portuguese in Africa An African Voice of Protest | |
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| Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I), Letters to the King of Portugal The Zimba and the Portuguese | |
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| Jo?o dos Santos, Eastern Ethiopia Images of Europeans in the Art of Benin | |
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| A Benin-Portuguese Saltcellar and A Benin Wall Plaque Encounters in the Americas The Battle for Tenochtitl?n | |
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| Bernardino de Sahag?n, General History of the Things of New Spain Amerindian Perspectives on French Civilization | |
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| A Mi'kmaq Elder's Speech to French Settlers Land and Labor in Spanish America Exploitation Versus Amerindian Rights in the Encomienda System | |
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| Encomienda Regulations in Paraguay The "Mountain of Silver" and the Mita System | |
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| Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa, Compendium and Description of the West Indies The Evils of Cochineal | |
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| Deliberations of the Tlaxcalan Municipal Council, March 1553 | |
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| The Islamic Heartland and India Rulers and Their Challenges in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires A European Diplomat's Impressions of Suleiman I | |
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| Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Turkish Letters A Carmelite Friar's View of Shah Abbas I | |
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| Father Paul Simon, Report to Pope Paul V A Self-Portrait of Jahangir | |
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| Jahangir, Memoirs Religion and Society in South and Southwest Asia Sunni Versus Shi'ite in the Early Sixteenth Century | |
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| Sultan Selim I, Letter to Shah Ismail of Persia A Muslim's Description of Hindu Beliefs and Practices | |
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| Abu'l Fazl, Akbarnama Women in Ottoman Society | |
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| Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Turkish Letters The Beginnings of Sikhism in India | |
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| Nanak, Sacred Hymns from the Adi-Granth | |
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| Continuity and Change in East and Southeast Asia Confucianism in China and Japan "Doing Good" in Seventeenth-Century China | |
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| Meritorious Deeds at No Cost Teaching the Young in Tokugawa Japan | |
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| Kaibara Ekiken, Common Sense Teachings for Japanese Children and Greater Learning for Women Chinese Merchants in a Confucian World | |
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| Wan Daokun, Biographies of Zhu Jiefu and Gentleman Wang Humanity and Nature in Chinese Painting | |
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| Zhang Hung, Landscape of Shixie Hill, and Sheng Maoye, Scholars Gazing at a Waterfall Political Decline and Recovery in China and Japan Symptoms of Ming Decline | |
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| Yang Lien, Memorial to Emperor Ming Xizong Concerning Eunuch Wei Zhongxian The Tokugawa Formula for Japan | |
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| Tokugawa Hidetada, Laws Governing the Military Households Europeans in East and Southeast Asia The Seclusion of Japan | |
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| Tokugawa Iemitsu, Closed Country Edict of 1635 Siamese-Dutch Tensions in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Letter to the Dutch East India Company Board of Directors | |
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| A World of Transformation and Tradition: From the Mid Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Century | |
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| Europe and the Americas in an Age of Science, Economic Growth, and Revolution Science, Reason, and Progress The Promise of Science | |
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| Francis Bacon, The New Organon Two Images of Seventeenth-Century Science | |
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| S?bastien Le Clerc, The Royal Academy and Its Protectors and A Dissection at the Jardin des Plantes An Affirmation of Human Progress | |
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| Marquis de Condorcet, Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind From Mercantilism to Laissez-Faire The Advantages of Mercantilism | |
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| Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Memorandum on English Alliances and Memorandum to the King on Finances Capitalism's Prophet | |
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| Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations Russia and the West in the Eighteenth Century Peter the Great's Blueprint for Russia | |
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| Peter the Great, Edicts and Decrees A Russian Critic of Westernization | |
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| Mikail Shcherbatov, On the Corruption of Morals in Russia Revolutions in England and France The Foundations of Parliamentary Supremacy in England | |
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| English Bill of Rights A Program for Revolutionary Change in France | |
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| Cahier of the Third Estate of the City of Paris Women's Issues on the Eve of the French Revolution | |
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| Petition of Parisian Women of the Third Estate to Louis XVI Anticolonialism and Revolution in the Americas "Simple Facts, Plain Arguments, and Common Sense" | |
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| Thomas Paine, Common Sense Bol?var's Dreams for Latin America | |
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| Sim?n Bol?var, The Jamaica Letter | |
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| Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Africa's Curse: The Slave Trade The Path to Enslavement in America | |
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| Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself The Economics of the Slave Trade | |
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| James Barbot, A Voyage to the New Calabar River Rules for Slaves and Masters | |
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| The Black Code Political Change in the Islamic World Ottoman Decline: An Insider's View | |
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| Mehmed Pasha, The Book of Counsel for Viziers and Governors Fatal Flaws of the Mughal Empire | |
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| Fran?ois Bernier, Letter to Jean-Baptiste Colbert on the Mughal Empire The Continuing Vitality of Islam A Call to Recapture Islam's Purity | |
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| 'Abdullah Wahhab, The History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis Jihad in the Western Sudan | |
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| Usman dan Fodio, Selections from His Writings | |
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| Change and Continuity in East Asia and Oceania China's Revival under the Qing Emperor Kangxi Views His World | |
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| Kangxi, Self-Portrait China Rejects Increased Western Trade | |
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| Emperor Qianlong, Letter to King George III Social and Economic Change in Tokugawa Japan A Japanese Merchant Views His World | |
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| Mitsui Takafusa, Some Observations on Merchants The Social Ills of Tokugawa Japan | |
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| Honda Toshiaki, A Secret Plan of Government The Opening of Oceania Early Reports from New Zealand | |
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| Committee of Church of England Missionary Society, Memorandum to the Earl of Bathurst, Secretary of State of the Colonies The Plight of the Tasmanians | |
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| George A. Robinson, Report to the Lieutenant Governor-General of Tasmania | |
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| The World in the Age of Western Dominance: 1800-1914 | |
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| The West in the Age of Industrialization and Imperialism Middle Class and Working Class in Early Industrial Europe English Workers in the Early Industrial Revolution | |
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| Testimony Before Parliamentary Committees on Working Conditions in England Middle-Class Success and How to Achieve It | |
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| Samuel Smiles, Self-Help and Thrift The Marxist Critique of Industrial Capitalism | |
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| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto Middle-Class Women in Emerging Industrial Society Women's "Separate Sphere" | |
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| Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Wives of England American Women Demand Equality | |
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| Ohio Women's Convention of 1850, Resolutions Nationalism and Imperialism in the Late Nineteenth Century Racism, Militarism, and the New Nationalism | |
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| Heinrich Von Treitschke, Extracts from History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century and Historical and Political Writings A Defense of French Imperialism | |
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| Jules Ferry, Speech Before the French National Assembly Images of Imperialism in Great Britain | |
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| Advertisements and Illustrations from British Books and Periodicals Europeans on the Move: Nineteenth-Century Migrations The Lures and Pitfalls of Migration | |
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| Gottfried Menzel, The United States of North America, with Special Reference to German Emigration "The Gates Should No Longer Be Left Unguarded" | |
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| Henry Cabot Lodge, Speech to United States Senate, March 16, 1896 | |
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| Western Pressures, Nationalism, and Reform in Africa, Southwest Asia, and India in the 1800s The European Assault on Africa "With the View of Bettering...Our Country" | |
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| Royal Niger Company, Standard Treaty The Fate of the Ndebele | |
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| Ndansi Kumalo, His Story Imperialist Economics and Rebellion in German East Africa | |
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| Records of the Maji-Maji Rebellion Southwest Asia under Seige Ottoman Reforms of the Tanzimat Era | |
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| Sultan Abdul Mejid, Imperial Rescript Persian Opposition to the Tobacco Concession | |
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| Sayyid Jamal ad-Din, Letter to Hasan Shirazi A Turkish Nationalist Statement | |
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| Proclamation of the Young Turks The Beginnings of Arab Nationalism | |
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| Announcement to the Arabs, Sons of Qathan India Under British Domination A Plea for Western Schools | |
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| Rammohun Roy, Letter to Lord Amherst Indian Railroads and the People's Welfare | |
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| G.V. Joshi, The Economic Results of Free Trade and Railway Extension | |
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| East Asia Confronts the West The Disintegration of Imperial China The Curse of Opium | |
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| Lin Zexu, Letter to Queen Victoria The Plight of the Emperor's Subjects | |
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| Zeng Guofan, Memorandum to Emperor Xianfeng A Revolutionary Formula for China's Revival | |
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| Sun Yat-sen, The Three People's Principles and The Future of the Chinese People The Emergence of Modern Japan Eastern Ethics and Western Science | |
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| Sakuma Shozan, Reflections on My Errors Patriotic Duty and Business Success | |
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| Iwasaki Yataro, Letter to Mitsubishi Employees Images of the West in Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan | |
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| Prints and Drawings, 1853-1887 Southeast Asia in the Era of Imperialism Reform from Above in Thailand | |
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| King Chulalongkorn, Edicts and Proclamations The Fall of Vietnam | |
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| Phan Thanh Gian, Letter to Emperor Tu Duc and Last Message to His Administrators | |
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| Global Society and Its Challenges in the Twentieth Century | |
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| The Industrialized World in Crisis The Trauma of World War I The Romance of War | |
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| Popular Art and Poster Art from Germany, England, Australia, and France The Reality of War in Verse | |
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| Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Disabled" The Reality of War in Art | |
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| C.R.W. Nevinson, The Harvest of Battle and Otto Dix, Shock Troops Advancing under Gas Attack The Russian Revolution and the Foundation of the Soviet State The Basic Tenets of Leninism | |
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| Lenin, What Is to Be Done? The Soviet Model of Economic Planning | |
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| "Joseph Stalin, The Results of First Five-Year Plan" Ultranationalism in Germany and Japan Hitler's Dreams | |
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| Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf The Destiny of Japan | |
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| The Way of Subjects The Legacy of World War II "F?hrer, You Order. We Obey" | |
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| Rudolf H?ss, Memoirs Scientists' Warnings on Atomic Warfare | |
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| The Franck Report "The Face of War Is the Face of Death" | |
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| Henry L. Stimson, The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb | |
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| Anticolonialism, Nationalism, and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and Latin America Political and Religious Currents in the Middle East Secularism and Nationalism in Republican Turkey | |
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| Mustafa Kemal, Speech to the Congress of the People's Republican Party The Meaning of Zionism | |
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| Hayyim Nahman Bialike, Speech at the Inauguration of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, January 4, 1925 A Call for Islamic Social and Political Action | |
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| The Muslim Brotherhood, Toward the Light Anticolonialism in India and Southeast Asia Ghandi's Vision for India | |
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| Mohandas Ghandi, Indian Home Rule A Vietnamese Condemnation of French Rule | |
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| Nguyen Thai Hoc, Letter to the French Chamber of Deputies Colonialism and the Beginnings of African Nationalism Eagles into Chickens | |
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| James Aggrey, Parable of the Eagle The Value of African Tradition | |
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| Kabaka Daudi Chwa, Education, Civilization, and "Foreignization" in Buganda White Rule and African Families in South Africa | |
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| Charlotte Maxeke, Social Conditions among Bantu Women and Girls Latin America in an Era of Economic Challenge and Political Change Economic Nationalism in Mexico | |
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| L?zaro C?rdenas, Speech to the Nation Brazilian Mass Politics and the Estado Novo | |
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| Get?lio Vargas, Excerpts from Speeches and Interviews, 1937-1940 China in an Era of Political Disintegration and Revolution Warlord Rule in China During the 1920s | |
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| The Corruption and Cruelty of Zhang Zongchan Who Destroyed the Country and Deceived the People The Maoist Variant of Marxism | |
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| Mao Zedong, Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan and Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War | |
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| The Global Community Since 1945 The End of a European-Dominated World Cold War Origins: A U.S. Perspective | |
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| George Kennan, The Long Telegram Cold War Origins: A Soviet Perspective | |
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| Nikolai Novikov, Telegram, September 27, 1946 Great Britain Lets Go of India | |
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| Debate in the House of Commons, March 1947 New Nations and Their Challenges The Challenge of Ethnic Tensions | |
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| C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Speeches and Writings The Challenge of Religious Conflict | |
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| Girilal Jain, Editorials The Challenge of Underdevelopment | |
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| World Bank, World Development Reports: 1978-2000 Women in the Modern World Women and Islamic Fundamentalism | |
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| Zand Dokht, "The Revolution That Failed Women" An African Perspective on Female Circumcision | |
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| Association of African Women for Research and Development, A Statement on Genital Mutilation A Chinese Woman's Life Story | |
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| Ming, Recollections Struggles for Racial Equality Apartheid's Bitter Fruits | |
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| Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court A Cry for Justice in the United States | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail Another New Era: The Failure of Communism and the End of the Cold War China's New Course | |
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| Deng Xiaoping, Speeches and Writings A Plan to Save Communism in the Soviet Union | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika The Earth's Future: Two Perspectives "There's Plenty of Good News" | |
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| Julian Simon, Opening Statement from 1992 Debate at Columbia University "Environmental Degradation Is Overtaking the Planet" | |
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| Norman Myers, Opening Statement from 1992 Debate at Columbia University | |