Contents
Preface
Introduction to Students
Part 2: Crossroads and Cultures, 500 -1450 C.E.
Chapter 14: Collapse and Revival in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450
14.1 | The Plague in Florence and Its Economic Effects
Marchionne di Coppo Buonaiuti, Florentine Chronicle (c. 1370-1380)
14.2 | The English Peasant Revolt
Jean Froissart, Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the Adjoining Countries (1400)
14.3 | The Ming Emperor's Rules for Village Government
Emperor Hongwu, The Placard of the People's Instructions (1398)
14.4 | Religious Allegory in Persian Manuscript Illuminations
Prince Humay Meets the Lady Humayun in Her Garden by Moonlight (Early Fifteenth Century)
14.5 | The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks
Nestor-Iskander, Tale of the Capture of Constantinople (c. 1500)
14.6 | The Sultan of Mali
Ibn Battuta, Rihla (1356)
14.7 | Glorious Venice
Marin Sanudo, In Praise of the City of Venice (1493)
Part 3: The Early Modern World, 1450-1750
Chapter 15: Empires and Alternatives in the Americas, 1430-1530
15.1 | Aztec Sacrifice
Florentine Codex (c. 1540-1560)
15.2 | Aztec Child Rearing
Codex Mendoza (c. 1540)
15.3 | The Inca Huayna Capac's Final Days
Juan de Betanzos, Narrative of the Incas (1557?)
15.4 | Andean Religion
Huarochirí Manuscript (c. 1600)
15.5 | Jesuit Views on Huron Society
Jesuit Relations (1632-1637)
Chapter 16: The Rise of an Atlantic World, 1450-1600
16.1 | "How They Sailed to the Land of the Blacks"
Gomes Eannes de Azurara, During the Conquest of Guinea (1453)
16.2 | Fearing Carib Cannibals
Michele de Cuneo, News of the Islands of the Herperian Ocean (1495)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
Native Peoples and Conquistadors Narrate the Conquest of Mexico
16.3 | Nahua Elders of Tlatelolco, Account of the Conquest of Mexico (c. 1540s)
16.4 | Hernando Cortés, A letter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Charles 1 of Spain) (1519)
16.5 | Bernal Díaz del Castillo, A Foot Soldier Recalls the March to Tenochtitlan (c. 1560)
16.6 | Native Allies with a Grievance
Nahua Nobles of Xochimilco, Letter to the King of Spain (1563)
16.7 | A Captive in Brazil
Hans Staden, True History (1557)
Chapter 17: Western Africa in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1450-1800
17.1 | The Powerful Mali Dynasty
Al-Sa'di, Mali and Its Provinces (c. 1655)
17.2 | The Kebbi Kingdom
Mulay Ahmad al-Mansur of Morocco, Letter to Kanta Dawud of Kebbi (c. 1591)
17.3 | The Splendor of Benin
Pieter de Marees, Description of the Situation and Character of the Great City of Benin (1602)
17.4 | Thoughts on the Slave Trade
Tomás de Mercado, On the Trade in the Blacks of Cape Verde (1569)
17.5 | Observations of the Congo, Loango, and Angolan Kingdoms
Pieter van den Broecke, Journal of Voyages (c. 1630)
Alonso de Sandoval, On Restoring Ethiopian Salvation (1627)
Chapter 18: Trade and Empire in the Indian Ocean and South Asia, 1450-1750
18.1 | The Portugese Reach Sofala, Mozambique
Martín Fernández de Figueroa, A Spaniard in the Portuguese Indies (1505)
18.2 | A Thriving Kingdom in South India
Duarte Barbosa,Description of Vijayanagara (1518)
18.3 | The Founder of the Mughal Empire
Emperor Babur, The Baburnama (1499-1519)
18.4 | "Scenes from My Life"
Emperor Jahangir, The Jahangirnama (1612-1621)
18.5 | Makassar's Kingdom of Talloq: Islam, Guns, and a Golden Age
Talloq Chronicle (c. 1660)
18.6 | From London with Love
English East India Company, Letters to Princes in Sumatra and Borneo (1734, 1740, 1744)
Chapter 19: Consolidation and Conflict in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean, 1450-1750
19.1 | Gunpowder and High Stakes: Ottomans Versus Prince Dracula
Konstantin Mihailovic, Memoirs of a Janissary (1462)
19.2 | Two Accounts of a Conflagration
Marcantonio Barbaro, Fire Engulfs Istanbul (1569)
Rabbi Yitzhaq ben Avraham 'Aqrish, Three Interpretations of Canticum Canticorum (c. 1575)
19.3 | The Battle of Baghdad
Iskander Munshi, History of Shah 'Abbas the Great (1625-1626)
19.4 | The Global Spread of Scientific Knowledge
Galileo Galilei, The Discovery of Jupiter's Moons (1610)
Alvaro Alonso Barba, On the Number of Metals, and Places Where They Are Begotten (1640)
19.5 | Life in an Early Modern German-Jewish Community
Glücel of Hameln, Memoirs (1690)
19.6 | Venice on a Ducat a Day
Peter Tolstoi, Travel Diary (1698)
Chapter 20: Expansion and Isolation in Asia, 1450-1750
20.1 | Moscow in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
Heinrich von Staden, The Land and Government of Muscovy (1578-1579)
20.2 | Mountain Travels
Hsü Hsia-k'o, Travel Diaries (1616)
20.3 | China Under Siege
Wang Xiuchu, The Qing Attack on Yangzhou (1645)
20.4 | A German Visitor Describes Japan
Engelbert Kaempfer, People You Meet on the Road in Japan andThe Prostitutes' Quarter of Nagasaki (1691)
20.5 | Notes from a Korean Queen's Diary
Lady Hong, Diary (c. 1750)
20.6 | Manila: Global Commercial Crossroads
Antonio de Morga, Account of the Philippine Islands (c. 1600)
Chapter 21: Transforming New Worlds: The American Colonies Mature, 1600-1750
21.1 | Arrival of the Japanese Embassy in Mexico City
Domingo Chimalpahin,Annals (1610)
21.2 | The Wealth of Spanish America
María de Carranza and Nicolás de Guevara, Letters from the Spanish Indies (1589-1590)
21.3 | Life in a Peruvian Convent
Ursula de Jesús, Visions of the World to Come (c. 1650)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
Exploitation or Opportunity in the Peruvian Andes?
21.4 | Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle (c. 1610)
21.5 | Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Defense of the Western Conquests (1618)
21.6 | Description of Quebec City and a Christian Huron Village
Pehr Kalm, Travels into North America (1749)
21.7 | Runaway Slaves
John G. Stedman, A Surinam Maroon Described (1790)
Part 4: The World from 1750 to the Present
Chapter 22: Atlantic Revolutions and the World, 1750-1830
22.1 | The Enlightenment Among Artisans
Jacques-Louis Ménétra, Journal of My Life (1764-1802)
22.2 | The Spread of Enlightenment
Sugita Gempaku, A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan (1771)
22.3 | An Egyptian's View of Napoleon and the French Invasion
'Abd-al-Rahmân 'al-Jabarti, Diary (1798-1801)
22.4 | Haiti and the Revolutionary Tradition
The Haitian Constitution (1801)
22.5 | Why an Argentine Lawyer Joined the Revolution Against Spain
Manuel Belgrano, Autobiography (1814)
Chapter 23: Industry and Everyday Life, 1750-1900
23.1 | The Experience of Japanese Factory Life
Song of the Living Corpses (1890s)
23.2 | The Chinese Case Against Opium
Edict of Commissioner Lin Zexu (1839)
23.3 | Cholera Strikes Railway Workers in India
Official Report to the British Government (c. 1889)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
Debates Over Industrialization
23.4 | Adam Smith, Of the Division of Labor (1776)
23.5 | Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844)
23.6 | José Manuel Balmaceda, On the Need to Develop National Industry (1880s)
23.7 | Li Hung-Chang, A Report to the Emperor: Problems of Industrialization (1872)
Chapter 24: Nation-States and Their Empires, 1830-1900
24.1 | Nation Building in the United States
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)
24.2 | Imagining the Perfect Nation
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Sultana's Dream (1905)
24.3 | A Place in the Sun
Kaiser William II of Germany, Speech to the North German Regatta Association (1901)
24.4 | Working for the Imperialists
Roger Casement, Report on the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo (1903)
24.5 | Amar Singh, Diary (1898-1901)
Chapter 25: Wars, Revolutions, and the Birth of Mass Society, 1900-1929
25.1 | Revolutionary Plans for the Mexican Future
The Plan de Ayala (1910)
25.2 | An Australian Soldier Fights for Britain
E. P. F. Lynch, War Memoir (1916-1919)
25.3 | Proclaiming the Soviet Alternative to War-Weary Russians
V. I. Lenin, April Theses (1917)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
The Postwar Middle East
25.4 | Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
25.5 | The Balfour Declaration (1917)
25.6 | Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus (1919)
25.7 | The Mandate System Under the Covenant of the League of Nations (1919)
25.8 | An Ally Critiques Atatürk
Halide Edib Adivar, Dictatorship and Reform in Turkey (1929)
Chapter 26: Global Catastrophe: The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
26.1 | Authoritarian Man of the People
Getulio Vargas, New Year's Address (1938)
Factory Worker Joana de Masi Zero, Reminiscences (1930s)
26.2 | The Fate of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie, Appeal to the League of Nations (1936)
Kwame Nkrumah, Autobiography (1957)
26.3 | India's Push for Independence
Mohandas Gandhi, Quit India Declaration (1942)
26.4 | The Battle of Stalingrad
Vera Ivanovna Malakhova, Interview (1990s)
26.5 | Hope for the Postwar Future
United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Chapter 27: The Emergence of New Nations in a Cold War World, 1945-1970
27.1 | Decolonizing the Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser, Denouncement of the Proposal for a Canal Users' Association (1956)
27.2 | A Meeting of Emerging Nations
President Sukarno of Indonesia, Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference (1955)
Richard Wright, The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference (1956)
27.3 | Consumerism and the Cold War
British Advertisement (1950s) and Soviet Fashion Spread (1957)
27.4 | Literature after Empire
Flora Nwapa Efuru (1966)
CONTRASTING VIEWS
The Cold War and Latin America
27.5 | Dean Acheson, Waging Peace in the Americas (1949)
27.6 | Nikita Khrushchev, Speech to the RFSR Teacher's Congress (1960)
27.7 | John F. Kennedy, The Lesson of Cuba (1961)
27.8 | Fidel Castro, Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
Chapter 28: A New Global Age, 1980s to the Present
28.1 | A New Regime in Iran
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, The Uprising of Khurdad 15 (1979)
28.2 | The Collapse of Communism
Dirk Philipsen, Interviews with Industrial Workers (1990)
28.3 | The Toll of AIDS on Africa
Justice Edwin Cameron, The Deafening Silence of AIDS (2000)
28.4 | Sweatshop Warriors
Rojana Cheunchujit, Interview (1990s)
28.5 | Wangari Maathai and Mary Robinson, Women Can Lead the Way in Tackling Development and Climate Challenges Together
(2010)
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