Sources for the History of Western Civilization

Michael Burger is a professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery.

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction for Students　

How to Analyze a Primary Source　

1 Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Body Politic

2 Desiderius Erasmus, Letters
2.1 To Anne of Borselle, Marchioness of Veer
2.2 To Jacobus Battus
2.3 To Pope Leo
2.4 To Lambertus Grunnius
2.5 Lambertus Grunnius’s Reply
2.6 To Cardinal Wolsey
2.7 To Henry Bullock

3 Martin Luther, Letters
3.1 To George Spalatin
3.2 To Paul Speratus
3.3 To George Spalatin
3.4 To Wolfgang Reissenbusch
3.5 To George Spalatin

4 Articles of the Catholic Leaue

5 Book Twelve of The Florentine Codex

6 Michel de Montaigne, Essays
6.1 On Cannibals
6.2 That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity

7 Sir Edward Coke, The Petition of Right

8 The Code Noir

9 John Locke, Second Treatise of Government

10 Isaac Newton, The Principia

11 Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs

12 Population and Gross Domestic Product of Select Countries
12.1 Population of Select Countries, ca. 1500 to the Present
12.2 Gross Domestic Product of Select Countries, ca. 1500 to the Present

13 Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology

14 Decree Abolishing the Feudal System

15 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

16 Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen　

17 Simón Bolívar, Addresses
17.1 Speech before the Caracas Assembly
17.2 Proclamation

18 Constitutional Charter of France of 1814 　

19 Art, Architecture, and Design in the Eighteenth Century
19.1 François Boucher, Toilet of Venus (1751)
19.2 Robert Adam, Tapestry Room, Croome Court, London (1760–1781)
19.3 Robert Adam, Dining Room, Landsdowne House, London (1765–1768)
19.4 Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (1787)
19.5 Workshop of Jean Antoine Houdon, Statuette of Voltaire (Late Eighteenth Century)
19.6 Marie Victoire Lemoine, Studio of Madame Vigée Le Brun (1796)
19.7 The Parthenon (Athens, Fifth Century BC)
19.8 The Capitol, Washington, DC (1793–1803)
19.9 Stuart Gilbert, George Washington (1800–1803)

20 Interviews with Witnesses Concerning British Factories
20.1 Interview with Mark Best
20.2 Interview with Stephen Binns

21 Speeches from the Debate on a Factory Regulations Bill in the British Parliament, March 16, 1832
21.1 Speech of Michael Thomas Sadler
21.2 Speech of Charles Villiers

22 William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned: An Evening on the Same Subject

23 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

24 Emily Brontë, No Coward Soul Is Mine

25 Report on The Affairs of The Indians In Canada　

26 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

27 Treaty Between the British East India Company and Maharajah Dulleep Singh Bahadoor　

28 Frederick Douglass, What to The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?

29 "The Coloured People And The Common Schools" and a Reply
29.1 "The Coloured People and the Common Schools"
29.2 Diogenes, "A Reply"

30 Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: A Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

31 Reports to the International Council of Women, 1888
31.1 Paper on the Danish Woman’s Union for the Protection of Young Girls and Lonely Women
31.2 Paper on the Danish Woman’s Association
31.3 Ada M. Frederiksen, Paper on Woman’s Education in Denmark
31.4 Fanny Zampini Salazaro, Paper on the "Condition of Women in Italy"

32 An Appeal Against Female Suffrage and a Reply
32.1 Appeal against Female Suffrage
32.2 M.M. Dilke, Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply
33 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Speeches
33.1 Speech on the Opening of the Reichstag
33.2 Speech to the Students at the University of Bonn33.3 Speech at Aix, at the Site of Charlemagne’s Palace
33.4 Notice Regarding Twenty-Five Years of German Labor Legislation
33.5 Toast to Prince Henry on His Departure to Command Germany’s Naval Squadron in Asia

34 George Washington Carver, Feeding Acorns

35 Joseph Chamberlain, Toast at the Annual Royal Colonial Institute Dinner

36 Karl Pearson, On the Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics

37 Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj　

38 Proceedings of The All-Russian Central Committee of SovietsoOf Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies: Fifth Session, November 4, 1917

39 Letters from German Soldiers In World War I
39.1 From Karl Aldag
39.2 From Fritze Meese
39.3 From Richard Schmieder
39.4 From Ernst Franke
39.5 From Max Bässler
39.6 From Max Görler
39.7 From Otto Heinebach
39.8 From Helmut Zschuppe 　

40 Wilfred Owen, Two Letters and "A Terre"
40.1 Letter to Susan Owen, from 2nd Manchester Regiment, B.E.F.
40.2 Letter to Susan Owen, from Advanced Horse Transport Depot, Abbeville
40.3 "A Terre"

41 Adolf Hitler, On the Jews and Germany　

42 Nazi Party Platform　

43 Adolf Hitler, Speech to the Reichstag on March 23, 1933　

44 Newspaper Article and Nazi Party Instructions Regarding One-Pot Sunday
44.1 Newspaper Article
41.2 Instructions Regarding One-Pot Sunday

45 Benito Mussolini, My Autobiography

46 Plínio Salgado, Integralist Manifesto

47 Verdict of The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union in the Special Investigation into the Case Of the Counter-Revolutionary Organization, "The Industrial Party," Moscow, December 8, 1930

48 Letters to R.B. Bennett
48.1 Letter of Thomas M. Gibbs
48.2 Letter of a Nanaimoite
48.3 Letter of Mrs. Ernest Ferguson
48.4 Brief Presented by the Unemployed of Edmonton to the Hon. R.B. Bennett
48.5 Letter of P.R. Mulligan
48.6 Letter of Miss Elizabeth McCrae
48.7 Letter of L.M. Himmer

49 Winston Spencer Churchill, The Sinews of Peace

50 United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: Draft, Amendments, and Adopted Version　

51 Robert S. Mcnamara, Major National Security Problems Confronting the United States　

52 Articles from The Georgia Straight
52.1 "Turn On, Tune In, Take Over"
52.2 "Grass in Class"
52.3 Dara [Culhane], "Education – For What?"
52.4 Chris MacLeod, "Learning to Live without Schools"
52.5 Bill Tait, "Easter Be-In"

53 Sayyid Qutb, Milestones

54 Interview with Huey Newton　

55 Betty Friedan, Our Revolution is Unique

56 Margaret Thatcher, Speeches

56.1 Speech to The Conservative Party Conference

56.2 The Fourth Nicholas Ridley Memorial Lecture

57 Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

58 Architecture and Design in the Twentieth Century
58.1 Domestic Library, Morningside (1850s)
58.2 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, "Tugendhat" Coffee Table (1930)
58.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951): Exterior
58.4 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York (1958)
58.5.1 Thomas Gordon Smith, Tuscan House and Laurentian House, Livermore, California (1979)
58.5.2 Thomas Gordon Smith, Tuscan House and Laurentian House, Livermore, California (1979)
58.5.3 Thomas Gordon Smith, Laurentian House, Livermore, California (1979)
58.6 Michael Graves, Portland Building, Portland, Oregon (1979–1982)
58.7 Shiro Kuramata, "Miss Blanche" Chair (1989)
58.8 Rotary Telephone, 1960s
58.9 Touchtone Telephone, 1980s
58.10 Michael Graves, Telephone, 2000

59 Tony Blair, Speeches
59.1 "Security in a World of Change: The New Politics of the Left"
59.2 "New Community, New Individualism"　

60 Viktor Orbán, Hungary and The Crisis of Europe

61 Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook

62 Joe Biden, Speech Before Independence Hall, Philadelphia, September 1, 2022

Sources

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