How to Read a Primary Source
Chapter 15 The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 CE
15.1. The Temple of the Jaguars, Chichén Itzá, c. 850-1000 CE
15.2. Skeletons in a Wari royal tomb site, El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru, c. 600-1000 CE
15.3. Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain, c. 1568
15.4. Pedro Cieza de León, on Incan roads, 1541-1547
15.5. Garcilaso de la Vega, The Walls and Gates of Cuzco, 1609-1616
Chapter 16 The Western European Overseas Expansion and Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle, 1450-1650
16.1. Christopher Columbus, The Book of Prophecies, 1501-1502
16.2. Thomas the Eparch and Joshua Diplovatatzes, The Fall of Constantinople, 1453
16.3. Evliya Çelebi, A Procession of Artisans at Istanbul, c. 1638
16.4. Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, The Court of Suleiman the Magnificent, 1581
16.5. Janissaries' Muskets, c. 1750-1800
Chapter 17 The Renaissance, New Sciences, and Religious Wars in Europe, 1450-1750
17.1. Examination of Lady Jane Grey, London, 1554
17.2. Sebastian Castellio, Concerning Whether Heretics Should be Persecuted, 1554
17.3. Duc de Saint-Simon, The Daily Habits of Louis XIV at Versailles, c. 1715
17.4. Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarotti, 1550
17.5. Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina de' Medici, 1615
Chapter 18 New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800
18.1. Hernán Cortés, Second Letter from Mexico to Emperor Charles V, 1522
18.2. Marina de San Miguel's Confessions before the Inquisition, Mexico City, 1598-1599
18.3. Nahuatl Land Sale Documents, Mexico, c. 1610s
18.4. The Jesuit Relations, French North America, 1649
18.5. The Salem Witch Trials, British North America, 1692
Chapter 19 African Kingdoms, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Origins of Black America, 1450-1800
19.1. Abd al-Rahman al-Saadi, on the Scholars of Timbuktu, c. 1655
19.2. Letter of Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) of Kongo to the King of Portugal, 1526
19.3. Documents concerning the slave ship Sally, Rhode Island, 1765
19.4. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789
19.5. Castas Paintings, Mexico, 18th century
Chapter 20 The Mughal Empire: Muslim Rulers and Hindu Subjects, 1400-1750
20.1. Babur, The Baburnama, c. 1528
20.2. Muhammad Dara Shikuh, The Mingling of Two Oceans, c. 1650s
20.3. Edicts of Aurangzeb, 1666-1679
20.4. Muhammad Ghawth Gwaliori, The Five Jewels, c. 1526
20.5. Calico textile, c. 1806
Chapter 21 Regulating the "Inner" and "Outer" Domains: China and Japan, 1500-1800
21.1. Treaty between Koxinga and the Dutch government, Formosa, 1662
21.2. Matteo Ricci, China in the Sixteenth Century, c. 1600
21.3. Emperor Qianlong's Imperial Edict to King George III, 1793
21.4. Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Goban Taiheiki, 1710
21.5. Honda Toshiaki, "Secret Plan for Managing the Country," 1798
Chapter 22 Patterns of Nation-State Formation in the Atlantic World, 1750-1871
22.1. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, August 26, 1789
22.2. Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, September 1791
22.3. Voltaire, "Torture" from the Philosophical Dictionary, 1769
22.4.Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
22.5. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791
Chapter 23 Creoles and Caudillos: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century, 1790-1917
23.1. Memoirs of General Antonio López de Santa Anna, 1872
23.2. Simón Bolívar, "The Jamaica Letter," September 6, 1815
23.3. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Travels in the United States in 1847, 1849
23.4. Amulet containing passages from the Qur'an, worn by Muslim slaves who rioted in Bahia, Brazil, 1835
23.5. Photograph of an enslaved Chinese "coolie", Peru, 1881
Chapter 24 The Challenge of Modernity: East Asia, 1750-1910
24.1. Lin Zexu's Letter to Queen Victoria of Great Britain, August 27, 1839
24.2. Narrative of the British ship Nemesis during the First Opium War, 1845
24.3. A Boxer Rebel and a British Family Killed during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900
24.4. The Meiji Constitution of the Empire of Japan, 1889
24.5. Natsume Soseki, Kokoro, 1914
Chapter 25 Adaptation and Resistance: The Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1683-1908
25.1. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters from the Levant, April 1, 1717
25.2. Imperial Edict of the Rose Garden, November 3, 1839
25.3. Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, c. 1880s
25.4. Tsar Alexander II's Abolition of Serfdom, February 19, 1861
25.5. Nikolai Chernyshevsky, What is to be Done?, 1863
Chapter 26 Industrialization and Its Discontents, 1750-1914
26.1. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, 1854
26.2. The Death of William Huskisson, first casualty of a railroad accident, September 15, 1830
26.3. Young Miners Testify to the Ashley Commission, 1842
26.4. Karl Marx, "Wage Labour and Capital," 1847
26.5. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1859
Chapter 27 The New Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914
27.1. The Azamgarh Proclamation, in the Delhi Gazette, September 29, 1857
27.2. Ismail ibn 'Abd al-Qadir, The Life of the Sudanese Mahdi, c. 1884
27.3. Edward Wilmot Blyden, Liberian Independence Day Address, July 26, 1865
27.4. Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden," 1899
27.5. Mark Twain, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness," 1901
Chapter 28 World Wars and Competing Visions of Modernity, 1900-1945
28.1. ANZAC troops at Gallipoli in August 1915, 1941
28.2. Vera Brittain, "Perhaps" and Testament of Youth, 1933
28.3. Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile, "Foundations and Doctrine of Fascism," 1932
28.4. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1925
28.5. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Undelivered Address Planned for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945
Chapter 29 Reconstruction, Cold War, and Decolonization, 1945-1962
29.1. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948
29.2. Winston Churchill, "The Iron Curtain Speech," March 5, 1946
29.3. Letters on the Cuban Missile Crisis, between Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev, October 28 and 30, 1962
29.4. Ho Chi Minh, "The Path Which Led Me to Leninism," April 1960
29.5. Indira Gandhi, "What Educated Women Can Do," November 23, 1974
Chapter 30 The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World, 1963-1991
30.1. Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World, 1987
30.2. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," August 28, 1963
30.3. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949
30.4. Coverage of the Tiananmen Square Protests, 1989
30.5. Salvador Allende, "Last Words to the Nation," September 11, 1973
Chapter 31 A Fragile Capitalist-Democratic World Order, 1991-2014
31.1. Osama bin Laden, "Fatwa," August 23, 1996
31.2. Vladimir Putin, Address to the Duma concerning the annexation of Crimea, March 19, 2014
31.3. Mohammed Bouazizi triggers the Arab Spring, Tunisia, January 2011
31.4. Arundhati Roy, "Capitalism: A Ghost Story," March 26, 2012
31.5. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Copenhagen, 2009
