VOLUME 2
15. Overseas Expansion in the Early Modern Period: Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1400-1600
Historical Context
Thinking Historically: Reading Primary and Secondary Sources
1. Nicholas D. Kristof, 1492: The Prequel, 1999
*2. Ma Huan, On Calicut, India
3. Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1498
4. Christopher Columbus, Letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, 1493
5. Kirkpatrick Sale, The Conquest of Paradise, 1991
Reflections
NOTE: Historical Context and Reflections sections appear in every chapter but have been omitted below for brevity.
16. Atlantic World Encounters: Europeans, Americans, and Africans, 1500-1850
Thinking Historically: Comparing Primary Sources
1. Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain, c. 1560
2. The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico, c. 1540s
3. Bartolomeo de Las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies, 1555
4. European Views of Native Americans, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century
5. Nzinga Mbemba, Appeal to the King of Portugal, 1526
6. Captain Thomas Phillips, Buying Slaves in 1693
*7. J. B. Romaigne, Journal of a Slave Ship Voyage, 1819
8. Images of African-American Slavery, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Buying Slaves in Africa, Late 1700s or Early 1800s
Plantation Work, Martinique, 1826
Slave Market, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1830s
Slaves Awaiting Sale, New Orleans, 1861
*9. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, 1861
17. State and Religion: Asian, Islamic, and Christian States, 1500-1800
*Thinking Historically: Appreciating Context
1. Jonathan Spence, Emperor Kangxi on Religion, 1661-1722
2. Japanese Edicts Regulating Religion, 1645 and 1665
3. Bada’uni, Akbar and Religion, 1595
*4. Martin Luther, Sermon on Religion and the State, 1528-40
5. Benjamin J. Kaplan, European Faiths and States, 2007
*6. Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing to Governor Stuyvesant, 1657
18. Women, Marriage, and Family: China and Europe, 1600-1750
1. Family Instructions for the Miu Lineage, Late Sixteenth Century
*2. Pu Songling, The Lady Knight-Errant, 1679
*3. Qing Law Code on Marriage, 1644-1810
4. Anna Bijns, "Unyoked Is Best! Happy the Woman without a Man," 1567
*5. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, 1645-1657
*6. Diary of the Countess de Rochefort, 1689
*7. Court Case on Marriage in High Court of Aix, 1689
8. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner, Women and Marriage in Europe and China, 2001
19. The Scientific Revolution: Europe, the Ottoman Empire, China, Japan, and the Americas, 1600-1800
Thinking Historically: Distinguishing Change from Revolution
1. Jack Goldstone, Why Europe? 2009
2. Images of Anatomy, Fourteenth and Sixteenth Century
Skeleton Drawing, from the Latin Munich MS Codex, fourteenth century
Muscular System of a Man, from the Rudnitz Five-Figure Series, 1399
Woodcut of Muscles, from Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543
Woodcut of a Skeleton, from Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543
3. Isaac Newton, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687
4. Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, Women and Science, 1988
5. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Letter on Turkish Smallpox Inoculation, 1717
6. Lynda Norene Shaffer, China, Technology, and Change, 1986-1987
7. Sugita Gempaku, A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan, 1771
8. Benjamin Franklin, Letter on a Balloon Experiment in 1783
20. Enlightenment and Revolution: Europe, the Americas, and India, 1650-1850
Thinking Historically: Close Reading and Interpretation of Texts
1. David Hume, On Miracles, 1748
2. Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762
3. The American Declaration of Independence, 1776
4. Abigail Adams and John Adams, Remember the Ladies, 1776
5. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789
*6. Olympia de Gouges, French Declaration of Rights for Women, 1791
7. Toussaint L’Ouverture, Letter to the Directory, 1797
8. Simón Bolívar, A Constitution for Venezuela, 1819
9. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Compassion and the Enlightenment, 2000
21. Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution: Europe and the World, 1750-1900
Thinking Historically: Distinguishing Historical Processes
1. Arnold Pacey, Asia and the Industrial Revolution, 1990
2. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
3. The Sadler Report of the House of Commons, 1832
4. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
5. Peter N. Stearns, The Industrial Revolution outside the West, 1993
*6. Mary Antin, The Promised Land, 1894/1912
7. Italians in Two Worlds: An Immigrant’s Letters from Argentina, 1901
22. Colonized and Colonizers: Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1850-1930
Thinking Historically: Using Literature in History
1. George Orwell, Burmese Days, 1934
2. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899
3. Chinua Achebe, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, 1975
*4. Chinua Achebe, From Things Fall Apart, 1958
5. Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden, 1899
23. Westernization and Nationalism: Japan, India, and the West, 1820–1939
Thinking Historically: Appreciating Contradictions
*1. Theodore von Laue, From The World Revolution of Westernization, 1987
2. Fukuzawa Yukichi, Good-bye Asia, 1885
3. Images from Japan: Views of Westernization, Late Nineteenth Century
Monkey Show Dressing Room
The Exotic White Man
*4. Kakuzo Okakura, The Ideals of the East, 1905
*5. Rammohan Roy, Letter on Indian Education, 1823
6. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, 1921
7. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi, 1936
24. World War I and Its Consequences: Europe and the World, 1914-1929
Thinking Historically: Understanding Causes and Consequences
*1. David Fromkin, Europe’s Last Summer, 2004
2. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929
3. World War I Propaganda Posters, 1915-1918
Recruiting Poster for U.S. Army
Italian Poster for National War Loan, 1917
Recruiting Poster for German Army, 1915-1916
Propaganda Poster, United States, 1916
German Appeal to Women: Gold for the War
English Appeal to Women: Munitions Work
"Your Bit Saves a Life"
4. Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est, 1917
5. Memories of Senegalese Soldiers, 1914-1918/1981-1999
6. V.I. Lenin, War and Revolution, 1917
*7. Rosa Luxemburg, The Problem of Dictatorship, 1918
8. Syrian Congress Memorandum, 1919
25. World War II and Mass Killing: Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States, 1931-1945
Thinking Historically: Thinking about the Unthinkable
*1. Adolph Hitler, From Mein Kampf , 1926
2. Heinrich Himmler, Speech to the SS, 1943
3. Jean-François Steiner, Treblinka, 1967
4. Timothy Snyder, Holocaust: The Ignored Reality, 2009
*5. Dr. Robert Wilson, Letters from Nanking, 1945
6 President Truman, Announcement of the Dropping of an Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, 1945
7. Akihiro Takahashi, Memory of Hiroshima, 1945/1986
26. The Cold War and the Third World: Vietnam, Cuba, Argentina, and Afghanistan, 1945-1989
*Thinking Historically: Detecting Ideological Language
*1. Heonik Kwon, Origins of the Cold War, 2010
2. The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945
3. Edward Lansdale, Report on CIA Operations in Vietnam, 1954-1955
4. Time Magazine, Nikita Khrushchev: "We Will Bury You," 1956
*5 New York Times, Khrushchev Tirade Again Irks Envoys, November 19, 1956
*6. Welles Hangen, Pravda Modifies Khrushchev Slur, November 20, 1956
7. Soviet Telegram on Cuba, September 7, 1962
*8. U.S Government Meeting Transcript and Telegram on Military Coup in Argentina, 1976
9. Telephone Transcript: Soviet Premier and Afghan Prime Minister, 1979
*27. New Democracy Movements: Argentina, Soviet Union, South Africa, Egypt, China, and the United States, 1977 to the Present
*Thinking Historically: Using Connections and Context to Interpret the Past
*1. Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde Sánchez, The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo, 1977/2002
*2 Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost, 2000
*3. Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize Address, 1993
*4. Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy, 2010
*5. Wael Ghonim, Revolution 2.0, 2012
*6. China’s "Charter 08," 2008
*7. Occupy Wall Street, 2011
28. Globalization: The World, 1990 to the Present
Thinking Historically: Understanding Process
1. Sherif Hetata, Dollarization, 1998
2. Philippe Legrain, Cultural Globalization is not Americanization, 2003
3. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, 2001
4. Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld, 1995
*5. The World Bank, World Development Report: Gender and Development, 2012
6. Cartoons on Globalization, 2000s
"As an Illegal Immigrant"
"Help is on the Way, Dude"
"Cheap Chinese Textiles"
"Keep the Europeans Out"
"I Don’t Mean to Hurry You"
*New to this edition