Civilizations Past & Present, Volume 2 (from 1300)

12.The Great Dynastic Empires of Eurasia, 1300–1650

New Polities in Eurasia

The Ottoman Empire

The Safavid Empire in Iran

The Mughal Empire in South Asia

Networks of Trade and Communication

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The World Map of Piri Reis

DOCUMENT

 The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold

DOCUMENT

 The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Religious Tolerance Under Akbar

 

 

13. East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300–1650

China: The Ming Dynasty

Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society

Japan: The Era of ShMguns and Warring States

Southeast Asia: States Within a Region

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Map of China’s Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.

DOCUMENT

 Zhang Han’s Essay on Merchants

DOCUMENT

 Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese NM Play

DOCUMENT

 A Traveller’s Account of Siam

SEEING CONNECTIONS

A Giraffe in the Ming Court

 

14. European Cultural and Religious Transformations

The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300–1600 

An Era of General Crisis

The Italian Renaissancen

Italian Renaissance Art

The Northern Renaissance

The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300–1517

Luther and the German Reformation

Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation

Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland

Reform in the Catholic Church

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

The Lagoon of Venice 

DOCUMENT

Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy 

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Marco Polo’s Book of Wonders

DOCUMENT

Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr 

 

15. State Development in Europe:

Western and Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans to 1650

Western and Central Europe, 1300-1500

Politics, Diplomacy, and the Wars of Religions, 1556–1598

The Austrian Hapsburgs and the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648

Russia: From the Tatar Yoke to the Romanovs

The Balkans: Byzantine Collapse and Ottoman Rule

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The Battle of Kahlenberg

DOCUMENT

 Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Fall of Constantinople

 

16. Global Encounters:

Europe and the New World Economy, 1400–1650 



The Iberian Golden Age

The Portuguese and Africa

The Growth of New Spain

Iberian Systems in the New World

Beginnings of Northern European Expansion

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster’s Map of Africa

DOCUMENT

 Portuguese Encounters with Africans

DOCUMENT

 Disease and the Spanish Conquest omen

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Portuguese in Benin

 

17. Absolutism and Limited Central Power in Europe, 1650–1774:

 Politics during the First Age of Capitalism 

Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism

The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism

Holland and England: Limited Central Power

Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War: 1650–1774

The Decline of European Absolutism, the Example of Louis XV: 1715–1774

Capitalism and the Forces of Change

Social Crises During the Capitalist Revolution

 

DOCUMENT

 Catherine II on Life in St. Petersburg in 1750

DOCUMENT

 Conditions Among Eighteenth-Century French Peasants

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The Elegant Destruction of Poland

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 A New Product from the New World: Tobacco

 

18. New Ideas and Their Political Consequences:

The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions 

Discovering the Laws of Nature: the Scientific Revolution

The Age of Reason and the Ancien Régime

The Failure of Monarchical Reform

The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789–1799

The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799–1815

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus

The Widening Scope of Scientific Discovery

DOCUMENT

 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

DOCUMENT

 Olympe de Gouges on the Rights of Women

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Benjamin Franklin in Paris

 

19. Africa in the World Economy, 1650–1850

The Atlantic Slave Trade

The End of the Slave Trade in West Africa

Islamic Africa

Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa

African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The Myth of the Empty Land

DOCUMENT

 A Slave’s Memoir

DOCUMENT

 Usman dan Fodio on Women and Islam 

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Moshoeshoe in European Dress

 

20. Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650–1815

The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era

Muslim Politics in Persia

  Early Modern India Under the Mughals

The Qing Dynasty Before the Opium War

Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period

Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions

Europeans in the New Pacific Frontiers

 

DOCUMENT

 Lady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of “Orient”

DOCUMENT

 Lan Dingyuan, County Magistrate: Depraved Religious Sects Deceive People

DOCUMENT

 Ihara Saikaku: “The Umbrella Oracle”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Jesuits in the Ming Court

 

21. The Americas, 1650–1825:

From European Dominance to Independence

The Iberian Colonies: 1650–1789

The West Indies

Breaking Away: The Creation of the United States of America

Haiti: The First Successful Slave Revolution

The Latin American Revolutions

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 The Island of California

DOCUMENT

 Letter from Abigail Adams

DOCUMENT

 Simón Bolívar, Proclamation to the People of Venezuela

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Gold and Precious Stones in Brazil

 

22. Industrialization:

Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations 

The Industrial Revolution: British Phase

Industrialization: Continental Phase

The Workers:  The Manchester Microcosm

Socialism and Industrialization

The Middle Classes

Science, Technology, and the Second Industrial Revolution

Cultural Responses to the Age

DOCUMENT

 Child Labor 

DOCUMENT

 Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861) 

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Singer Sewing Machines in Zululand

 

23. Europe, 1815-1914:

Political Change and Diplomatic Failure

Reassembling Europe, 1815-1850

1848: The Revolutionary Year

Prussia, German Unification, and the Second Reich

The Decline of Austria

Italy to 1914

France: The Second Empire and the Third Republic

The United Kingdom: Reform and Stability

Russia: Reform and Revolution

The “Eastern Question” and the Failure of European Diplomacy to 1914

 

DOCUMENT

 Bismarck and the Ems Dispatch

DOCUMENT

 Emmeline Pankhurst, from “My Own Story…”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 French and German Rivalry

 

24. Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European Imperialism

European Conquest of Africa

European Technology and the African Response to Conquest

The Mineral Revolution in South Africa and the Anglo-Boer War

Colonial Rule in Africa

The Growth of Christianity and Islam in Africa

The Ottoman Empire Refashioned

Iran and the Great Power Struggle

 

DOCUMENT

 That Was No Brother

DOCUMENT

 General von Trotha’s Extermination Order

DOCUMENT

 A Middle Eastern Vision of the West

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Suez Canal

 

25. Imperialism and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific, 1815–1914:

India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Oceania

India

Southeast Asia

China: The Long Nineteenth Century

Japan: Modernity and Imperialism

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands

 

DOCUMENT

 The Great Revolt of 1857–1858

DOCUMENT

 Lin Zexu on the Opium Trade

DOCUMENT

 “The Beefeater”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Western Houses in Tokyo

 

26. The Americas, 1825-1914;

The Challenges of Independence

Challenges to Latin American States After Independence

Latin America, 1875-1914

The United States

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 An American View of the World in the 1820s

DOCUMENT

 Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Brazil

DOCUMENT

 José Marti’s Observations on the United States and Cuba

DOCUMENT

 Susan Anthony, On Women’s Right to Vote

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Paris of the Pampas

 

27. World War I and Its Economic and Political Consequences

World War I

The Allied Peace Settlement

Economic Disasters

Politics in the Democracies

The Western Tradition in Transition: Changing Certainties

DOCUMENT

 The Western Front: Christmas 1914 

DOCUMENT

 John Maynard Keynes on Clemenceau

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 African American recipients of the Croix de Guerre

 

28. The Failure of the Liberal Model and the Rise of Authoritarianism:

Japan, Italy, Germany, and the USSR, 1917-1940 

Japan: From Budding Democracy to Militarist State

A European Response to Liberal Decline: Fascism

Italy and Mussolini

The German Tragedy

Revolutions in Russia: 1917 and 1928-1939

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Wishful Thinking: A Nazi Tourism Map

DOCUMENT

 The New German Woman

DOCUMENT

 Stalin and State Terror

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Mussolini and Imperial Destiny

 

29. Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910–1950

China: Revolution and Republic

Korea: From Monarchy to Colony

Nationalism in Southeast Asia

India: The Drive for Independence

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 What’s in a Name? Siam or Thailand?

DOCUMENT

 Lu Xun and China’s May Fourth Generation

DOCUMENT

 Gandhi and “Truth-Force”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Gandhi the Civil Rights Leader

 

30. National Movements and the Drive for Independence in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950s

The Middle East Divided

The Challenge to Colonial Rule in Africa

Pan-Africanism

World War II and Its Aftermath

Decolonization

 

 DOCUMENT

 We Have Not Come as Conquerors, But as Liberators

DOCUMENT

 The Color Line Belts the World

DOCUMENT

 Pass Laws and African Women in South Africa

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Hashimite Family

 

31. World War II:

Origins and Consequences, 1919–1946

The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s

Epoch of the Aggressors

World War II

Postwar Settlements

 

 DOCUMENT

 Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back

DOCUMENT

 The Hossbach Memorandum

DOCUMENT

 The Nazi Death Camps

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Modern Civilization and Mass Killing

 

32. Europe and the United States Since 1945:

The Cold War and After

The Cold War: The US and The USSR in Global Competition to 1991

The Soviet Union and the Russian Republic

 Eastern Europe: From Soviet Control to Independence

 Western Europe

The United States

 

DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Massive Retaliatory Power, 1954

DOCUMENT

 Khrushchev’s Address to the Twentieth Party Congress

DOCUMENT

 Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence"

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 JFK and Khrushchev

 

33. The Middle East and Africa Since 1945:

The Struggle for Survival

The Middle East: Religion and Politics

Africa: The Search for National Identities

 

 DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS

 Borders and Identities: The UN Partition Plan

DOCUMENT

 The Village That Has “Eaten Itself Limb by Limb”

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Ayatollah Khomeini

 

34. Latin America Since 1910:

Reform, Repression, and Revolution

Latin America: 1910-1945

The Perils of the Post-War Era

South America

The Caribbean

Mexico

Central America

 

DOCUMENT

 President Hugo Chavez’s 2006 Address to the U.N. General Assembly

DOCUMENT

 Evita Speaks

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 Lucha Libre

 

35. Asia and the South Pacific since 1945:

Political, Economic, and Social Revolutions

The People’s Republic of China and Other Chinese Countries

Japan: From Defeat to Dominance to Doubt

Korea: A Nation Divided

Southeast Asia

The Subcontinent

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands

 

 DOCUMENT

 Mao on Communism in China

DOCUMENT

 Kora Rumiko, “When the War Ended”

DOCUMENT

 Benazir Bhutto at Harvard

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Transistor

 

36. Into the 21st Century: An Uncertain Future

An Uncertain Future

Economics: The Tension Between Dollars and Sense

The Promises and Perils of Technology

People on the Move in a Changing World

Toward a World Culture

Looming Challenges

Reasons for Hope

 

 DOCUMENT

 Muhammad Yunus’s Acceptance Speech for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

DOCUMENT

 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

DOCUMENT

 Wangari Maathai, A Matter of Life or Death

SEEING CONNECTIONS

 The Earth