Selections From Longman World History
by Jewsbury, George F.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): Longman Pub Group
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Summary
Selections from Longman World History: Primary Sources and Case Studies presents the best of the thought-provoking primary sources and case studies found in the new Longmanworldhistory.com website. This collection encourages students to analyze the themes, issues, and complexities of world history in a meaningful, exciting, and informative way.
Table of Contents
| The Transition to Modern Times | |
| The West: The Reformation | |
| Sermon at the Castle Pleissenburg | |
| Rules for Thinking with the Church | |
| James I on the Divine Right of Kings | |
| Machiavelli's The Prince | |
| Eastern Europe and Russia 1450-1750 | |
| "On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres." | |
| An Ambassador's Report on the Ottoman Empire, 1555 | |
| A Foreign Traveler in Russia | |
| "On the Corruption of Morals in Russia." | |
| Latin America 1450-1750: Conflicts in the Contact Zone | |
| The Second Letter of Herman Cortez to King CHarles V of Spain (1519) | |
| Excerpts from the "Account of Alva Ixtlilxochiltl." | |
| Excerpt from Bartolomé de las Casas' "In Defense of the Indians." | |
| Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz, from "La Respuesta." | |
| East Asia in Transition, 1450-1700 | |
| Matteo Ricci's Journals | |
| A Chinese View of Ricci | |
| "Closed Country Edict of 1636" and "Exclusion of the Portuguese, 1639" | |
| A Ming Naal Expedition | |
| Foreign Rulers in South Asia, 1450-1750 | |
| Abu Taleb on the West and Western Influence | |
| Akbar and the Jesuits | |
| Aurangzeb, Mughal the Ruler | |
| African Kingdoms and Early European Contacts Between 1450-1750 | |
| "Voyage From Lisbon to the Island of S̖o Thom̩" by an Anonymous Portuguese Pilot | |
| "A Defense of the Slave Trade," a letter published in London Magazine | |
| "The Land of Prester John." | |
| The Middle East: 1450-1750 | |
| Kritovoulous, on Mehmed II | |
| Venetian Observations on the Ottoman Empire | |
| The Decline of the Ottomans | |
| Comparative Case Study Part III: Battlefields to Court Rooms | |
| Conflict and Agency in the Americas | |
| The Century of Western Ascendance | |
| The Nineteenth-Century West | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | |
| The Seneca Falls Convention | |
| Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions | |
| Eastern Europe and Russia, 1750-1914 | |
| Catherine the Great's Constitution | |
| Excerpts from The Books of the Polish Nation | |
| The Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria | |
| The Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, 28 June 1914 | |
| Revolution!: Contested Identities in Latin America, 1750-1914 | |
| Agustin de Iturbide, The Plan of Iguala | |
| The Plan of Iguala | |
| Reflections on Revolutions (José Rufino Echenique) | |
| Symbolism and Contested Identities in Argentina | |
| Canudos: Millenarianism in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil | |
| East Asia Faces Challenge and Crisis | |
| Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839 | |
| The Treaty of Nanjing | |
| A Comic Dialogue, 1855 | |
| The Meiji Constitution, 1889 | |
| South Asia, 1750-1914: The Making of the British Raj | |
| Arrival of the British in the Punjab (Prakash Tandon) | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay's "Minute on Education." | |
| An Indian Nationalist on Hindu Women and Education | |
| An Indian Moslem Visits London (Syed Ahmed Khan) | |
| Africa, 1750-1914: The West Imposes | |
| An African Pamphleteer Attacks Slavery | |
| Mary Prince, from The History of Mary Prince | |
| Mary Kingsley and the Bubi of Fernando Po | |
| The Middle East in the Age of European Expansion, 1750-1914 | |
| The William Knox D'Arcy Oil Concession in Persia, May 29, 1901 | |
| The Young Turk Revolution, 1908 | |
| Religious Minorities in the Middle East | |
| Political Opposition in the Ottoman Empire | |
| Comparative Case Study Part IV: All Men Are Created Equal? | |
| The Twentieth Century | |
| The Modern West Emerges | |
| Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est." | |
| The Great Depression: An Oral Account | |
| The Holocaust: Memoirs from the Commandant of Auschwitz | |
| An Eyewitness to Hiroshima | |
| Russia and Eastern Europe: The Dream Becomes a Nightmare | |
| Lenin Calls for Electrification of All Russia | |
| Stalin Demands Rapid Industrialization of the USSR | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev on the Need for Economic Reform | |
| Scientists Examine Russia's Economy and Environment, 1991-1993 | |
| Twentieth-Century Latin America | |
| Plan de Ayala | |
| Juan Peron and Post-War Populism | |
| Fidel Castro Defends the Revolution | |
| Camilo Torres and Liberation Theology | |
| East Asia and the Pacific Rim in the Twentieth Century | |
| The Constitution of Japan, 1947 | |
| China's One-Child Family Policy | |
| North and South Korean Accord, June 2000 | |
| Vietnamese Declaration of Independence | |
| South Asia: Freedom and State-Building in India and Pakistan | |
| Gandhi Speaks against the Partition of India | |
| Jinnah, the "Father" of Pakistan | |
| The Tandon Family at Partition | |
| Women in Karimpur, India | |
| Twentieth Century Africa: From Colonies to Countries | |
| The Wretched of the Earth | |
| Kwame Nkrumah on African Unity | |
| A Liberal White Journalist on Apartheid | |
| World Bank Supported Day Care Programs in Uganda | |
| The Middle East in the Twentieth Century | |
| The Six Arrows of Kemalism: The Principles of the Republican People's Party (RRP), 1935 | |
| The Saudi-Aramco "50/50" Agreement, December 30, 1950 | |
| Islam and the State in the Middle East: Ayatollah Khomeini's Vision of Islamic Government | |
| Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, September 13, 1993 | |
| Comparative Case Study Part V: The Constitution of Japan, Two Versions | |
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