Part 3: The West in Transformation (1350-1700) Chapter 9: The Renaissance Petrarch: Rules for a Successful Ruler, c. 1350 Advice to Lorenzo de Medici: On Wifely Duties, 1416 Lorenzo Valla Skewers the Supposed Donation of Constantine, c. 1440 Marriage in the Renaissance: A Serious Business, 1464-1465 Niccolo Machiavelli: From the Discourses on Livy, 1513-1517 Benvenuto Cellini: The Life of an Artist, 1558-1562 Chapter 10: Reformations and Counter-Reformations The Act of Supremacy, 1534 The Council of Trent, 1545-1563 Anonymous, The Execution of Archbishop Cranmer, 1556 Catherine Zell, Letter to Ludwig Rabus, 1556-1558 Acts of Uniformity, 1559 Anonymous Government Agent, Arrest of Edmund Campion and his Associates, 1581 The Edict of Nantes, 1598 Chapter 11: The Development of Early-Modern States and Societies Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth, The True Attributes of Sovreignty. Hugo Grotius, selections from On the Law of War and Peace Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan The Treaty of Westphalia, 1743 The Poor Laws La Colonie, The Battle of Schellenberg Peter the Great, Correspondence with Alexis Chapter 12: Expanding Worlds Letter from the Kings of Portugal to the King of the Kongo Bartolome de Las Casas, Very Brief Report on the Destruction of the Indians Jamestown Charter Richard Frethorne, Letter to Father and Mother Christopher Columbus, The Letters of Columbis to Ferdinand and Isabel Cieza de Leon, The Chronicle of Peru Anonymous, The English Describe Pawatah's People The Code Noir Chapter 13: Thought and Culture in Early Modern Europe Francis Bacon, from Novum Organum William Harvey, Address to the Royal College of Physicians Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method and Metaphysical Meditations, I Think, Therefore I Am Charles Perrault, Little Red Riding Hood Isaac Newtown, from Optiks John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress Part 4: Enlightenments and Revolutions (1700-1850) Chapter 14: Economy and Society in the Eighteenth Century Wortley Montagu, Letter Regarding The Small Pox Vaccination Auguste Tissot, Midwives Hannah More, The Carpenter Leeds Woolen Workers, Petition James Lind, from A Treastise of the Scurvy, 1753 Richard Guest, The Creation of the Steam Loom David Ricardo, excerpt from Principles of Political Economy and Taxation David Ricardo, On Wages, The Law of Iron Wages Daniel Defoe, selection from The Complete English Tradesman Chapter 15: Europe and the World in the Eighteenth Century Willem Bosman, from A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea Divided into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts Phillis Wheatley, To the Right and Honourable William, Early of Dartmouth... Thomas Paine, Common Sense Olaudah Equiano, Excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Benjamin Franklin and the British Parliament, Proceedings Regarding the Stamp Act Five African American Spirituals Bryan Edwards, excerpt from Observations of the ... Maroon Negroes of the Island of Jamaica Alexander Telfair, Instructions to the Overseer of a Cotton Plantation John Adams, Thought on Government Chapter 16: The Enlightenment Baron de Montesquieu, excerpt from The Spirit of the Laws Marquis de Condorcet, passage from Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind Catherine the Great, Instructions for a New Law Code Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments Abu Taleb Khan, A Muslim Indian's Reactions to the West Chapter 17: Revolutions in the Atlantic World The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Thomas Paine, Rights of Man Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen The Haitian Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804 Chapter 18: Napoleon and the Age of Romanticism Sir Harry Smith, Autobiography Mary Shelley, excerpt from Frankenstein Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Memoirs of Napolean Bonaparte Part 5: The West Ascendant (1800-1914) Chapter 19: Nationalism and State-Building in the West Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Thomas Babington Macaulay, from Minute on Education, 1835 Jose Maria Morelos, Sentiments of the Nation Karl con Clausewitz, On War, Arming the Nation Joseph Mazzini, Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini Simon Bolivar, Address to Second National Congress Chapter 20: Industrialization in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures The Sadler Report: Child Labor in the United Kingdom, 1832 Karl Marx and Friederich Engels, from The Communist Manifesto Edwin Chadwick, Summary from the Poor Law Commissioners Chartist Movement: The People's Petition of 1838 British Parliament: Inquiry: Labor in Mines British Parliament: Inquiry: Child Labor Michael Bakunin, Principles and Organization of the International Brotherhood Chapter 21: Society and Social Change in the Nineteenth Century John Stuart Mill, excerpts from On Liberty W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments Adelheid Popp, Finding Work: Women Factory Workers Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Movarum (Of New Things) John Stuart Mill, the Subjection of Women George Eliot, Review: Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft Booker T. Washington's, Industrial Education for the Negro Chapter 22: Nineteenth-Century Culture and Thought William James, from Pragmatism Thorstein Veblen, excerpt from The Theory of Leisure Class Friederich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Frederick Winslow Taylor, A Piece Rate System Charles Darwin, Autobiography Chapter 23: European Imperialism Cecil Rhodes, Confession of Faith Carl Peters, A Manifesto of German Colonization Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden Lin Zexu, Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839 Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa Raden Ayu Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess Jules Ferry, from Le Tonkin et La Mere-Patrie Part 6: The Modern World (1914-Present) Chapter 24: World War I The Balfour Declaration Sir Henry McMahon, Letter to Ali ibn Husain, 1915 Siegfried Sassoon, They Isaac Resenberg, Dead Man's Dump Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points, 1918 International Congress of Women, Manifesto Chapter 25: The West Between Wars Soviet Union, Law Code on Marriage and Law Code on Motherhood Joseph Stalin, Five Year Plan Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot Transcript of the Rape of Nanjing Sentencing, 1947 Adolf Hitler, The Obersalzberg Speech, 1939 Chapter 26: World War II Winston Churchill, Their Finest Hour Heinrich Himmler, Speech to SS Officers Franklin D. Roosevelt, Call for Sacrifice Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, The Atlantic Charter American Investigators, from The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki The Charter for the United Nations, 1945 Chapter 27: The Cold War Winston Churchill, from The Iron Curtain Speech George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, 1947 Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine, 1947 Robert Schuman, The Schuman Declaration Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita S. Krushchev, Address to the Twentieth Congress Joseph Stalin, excerpts from The Soviet Victory Speech, 1946 John F. Kennedy, Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1961 Chapter 28: Identity and Power in a Decolonizing World The United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 The United Nations, Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples Jomo Kenyatta, from Facing Mt. Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gokuyu Gamal Abdel Nasser, Speech on the Suez Canal Chapter 29: Freedom, Conflict, and New Directions Treaty on European Union George W. Bush, Addresses A Constitution for Europe
