Worlds Of History, Volume 2: A Comparative Reader, Since 1400

About this Book
	Cover Page
	Inside Front Cover
	Title Page
	Copyright Page
	Preface
	Introduction for Students
	Contents
	List of Maps
	Geographic Contents
Chapter 15. Overseas Expansion in the Early Modern Period, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1400–1600
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Mara Hvistendahl, Rebuilding a Treasure Ship, 2008
	2. Ma Huan, On Calicut, India, 1433
	3. Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1498
	4. Christopher Columbus, Letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, 1493
	5. Edmund S. Morgan, Columbus’ Confusion about the New World, 2009
	Reflections
Chapter 16. Atlantic World Encounters, Europeans, Americans, and Africans, 1500–1850
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	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. European Views of Native Americans, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
	4. Nzinga Mbemba, Appeal to the King of Portugal, 1526
	5. Captain Thomas Phillips, Buying Slaves in 1693
	6. J. B. Romaigne, Journal of a Slave Ship Voyage, 1819
	7. Images of African-American Slavery, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
	8. Venture Smith, Life and Adventures, 1798
	9. Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1850
	Reflections
Chapter 17. Women, Marriage, and Family, China and Europe, 1550–1700
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Qing Law Code on Marriage, 1644–1810
	2. Pu Songling, The Lady Knight-Errant, 1679
	3. Anna Bijns, “Unyoked Is Best! Happy the Woman without a Man,” 1567
	4. A European Family from Flanders, c. 1610
	5. A Chinese Family, Eighteenth Century
	6. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton, 1645–1657
	7. Diary of the Countess de Rochefort, 1689
	8. Court Case on Marriage in High Court of Aix, 1689
	9. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner, Women and Marriage in Europe and China, 2001
	Reflections
Chapter 18. The Scientific Revolution, Europe, the Ottoman Empire, China, Japan, and the Americas, 1600–1800
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Images of Anatomy, Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
	2. Francis Bacon, The New Organon or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature, 1620
	3. Roger Cotes, Preface to Newton’s Principia, 1729
	4. Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, Women and Science, 1988
	5. Image of Anatomy in China, Early Eighteenth Century
	6. Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Letter on Turkish Smallpox Inoculation, 1717
	7. Lynda Norene Shaffer, China, Technology, and Change, 1986–1987
	8. Sugita Gempaku, A Dutch Anatomy Lesson in Japan, 1771
	9. Benjamin Franklin, Letter on a Balloon Experiment in 1783
	Reflections
Chapter 19. Enlightenment and Revolution, Europe and the Americas, 1650–1850
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	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. Olympe De Gouges, French Declaration of Rights for Women, 1791
	7. Toussaint L’Ouverture, Letter to the Directory, 1797
	8. Simón Bolívar, Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of This Island (Jamaica), 1815
	Reflections
Chapter 20. Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, Europe and the World, 1750–1900
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Arnold Pacey, Asia and the Industrial Revolution, 1990
	2. Abu Talib Khan, Science of Mechanics in England, 1810
	3. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
	4. The Sadler Report of the House of Commons, 1832
	5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
	6. Serge Witte, Secret Memo to Nicholas II, 1899
	7. Mary Antin, The Promised Land, 1894/1912
	8. Italians in Two Worlds: An Immigrant’s Letters from Argentina, 1901
	Reflections
Chapter 21. Colonized and Colonizers, Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1850–1930
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. George Alfred Henty, With Clive in India: Or, the Beginnings of an Empire, 1884
	2. Olive Schreiner, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)
	3. René Maran, Batouala, 1921
	4. E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924
	5. George Orwell, Burmese Days, 1934
	6. R. K. Narayan, Waiting for the Mahatma, 1955
	7. Bùi Hién, Jealousy
	Reflections
Chapter 22. Westernization and Nationalism, Japan, India, and the West, 1820–1939
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Fukuzawa Yukichi, Good-bye Asia, 1885
	2. Images from Japan: Views of Westernization, Late Nineteenth Century, Images from Japan: Views of Westernization, Late Nineteenth Century
	3. Kakuzo Okakura, The Ideals of the East, 1904
	4. Rammohun Roy, Letter on Indian Education, 1823
	5. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education, 1835
	6. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj, 1921
	7. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi, 1936
	Reflections
Chapter 23. World War I and Its Consequences, Europe and the World, 1914–1920
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. The “Willy-Nicky” Telegrams, 1914
	2. World War I Propaganda Posters, 1915–1918, World War I Propaganda Posters, 1915–1918
	3. Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est, 1917
	4. Memories of Senegalese Soldiers, 1914–1918/1981–1999
	5. Zimmermann Telegram, 1917
	6. V. I. Lenin, War and Revolution, 1917
	7. Rosa Luxemburg, The Problem of Dictatorship, 1918
	8. Syrian Congress Memorandum, 1919
	9. Algemeen Handelsblad Editorial on the Treaty of Versailles, June 1919
	Reflections
Chapter 24. World War II and Mass Killing, The World, 1926–1945
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932
	2. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1926
	3. Heinrich Himmler, Speech to the SS, 1943
	4. Rudolf Hoess, Testimony at Nuremburg, 1946
	5. Timothy Snyder, Holocaust: The Ignored Reality, 2009
	6. Dr. Robert Wilson, Letters from Nanking, 1937–1938
	7. Akihiro Takahashi, Memory of Hiroshima, 1945/1986
	Reflections
Chapter 25. The Cold War and the Third World, Vietnam, Cuba, the Congo, and Afghanistan, 1945–1989
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain Speech, 1946
	2. Nikolai Novikov, Telegram from Nikolai Novikov, Soviet Ambassador to the US, to the Soviet Leadership, September 27, 1946
	3. The Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945
	4. Edward Lansdale, Report on CIA Operations in Vietnam, 1954–1955
	5. Roger Cranse, “Baguettes and the Forever War,” 2018
	6. Patrice Lumumba, Interview with Russian News Agency TASS, July 1960
	7. United States Summary of Congo Crisis, December 1960
	8. Soviet Telegram on Cuba, September 7, 1962
	9. Telephone Transcript: Soviet Premier and Afghan Prime Minister, 1979
	Reflections
Chapter 26. New Democracy Movements, The World, 1977 to the Present
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Uki Goñi, The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo, 1977/2017
	2. Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost, 2000
	3. George W. Bush, Remarks at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy, 2003
	4. Osama Bin Laden, Letter to the American People, 2002
	5. Hagai El-Ad, “Israel’s Charade of Democracy,” 2015
	6. Occupy Wall Street, 2011
	7. Javier C. Hernandez, “China’s Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communists,” 2018
	Reflections
Chapter 27. Global Warming and Climate Change, The World, 1900 to the Present
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	1. Ian Sample, Arrhenius: The Father of Climate Change in 1896, 2005
	2. Margaret Thatcher, Speech to United Nations on Global Environment, 1989
	3. John H. Cushman Jr., Harvard Study Finds Exxon Misled Public about Climate Change, 2017
	4. Pope Francis, On Care for Our Common Home, 2015
	5. Naomi Klein, “How Science Is Telling Us All to Revolt,” 2013
	6. Coral Davenport, “Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040,” 2018
	Reflections
Chapter 28. Globalization, The World, 1990 to the Present
	Historical Context
	Thinking Historically
	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. Justin Sandefur, Is the Elephant Graph Flattening Out? 2018
	5. Neil Irwin, “Globalization’s Backlash Is Here, at Just the Wrong Time,” 2018
	6. Cartoons on Globalization, 2000s
	Reflections
Acknowledgments, Volume Two
About the Author
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