Sources for Western Society, Volume 2
From the Age of Exploration to the PresentThirteenth Edition ©2020
Sources for Western Society provides a variety of primary sources to accompany A History of Western Society, Thirteenth Edition. With over thirty new selections – including several compelling visual sources – and enhanced pedagogy throughout, students are given the tools to engage...
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Sources for Western Society provides a variety of primary sources to accompany A History of Western Society, Thirteenth Edition. With over thirty new selections – including several compelling visual sources – and enhanced pedagogy throughout, students are given the tools to engage critically with canonical and lesser known sources. Each chapter includes a "Sources in Conversation" feature that asks students to analyze aspects of differing views on key topics.
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Table of Contents
Please Note: Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16, Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30, and Since 1300 includes Chapters 11-30.
CHAPTER 14 European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650
14-1 Columbus Sets the Context for His Voyage
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Diario (1492)
14-2 Cortés Describes the Conquest of the Aztecs
Hernán Cortés, Two Letters to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs (1521)
Sources in Conversation
The Slave Trade in Africa
14-3 ALVISE DA CA’DA MOSTO, Description of Capo Bianco and the Islands Nearest to It: Fifteenth- Century Slave Trade in West Africa (1455-1456)
14-4 KING NZINGA MBEMBA AFFONSO OF CONGO, Letters on the Slave Trade (1526)
14-5 Circumnavigating the Globe
Navigation and Voyage Which Ferdinand Magellan Made from Seville to Maluco in the Year 1519 (1519-1522)
14-6 A Critique of European "Superiority"
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Of Cannibals (1580)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 15 Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589-1725
15-1 A French King Establishes Limited Religious Toleration
HENRY IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)
15-2 An Argument for the Divine Right of Kings
JEAN DOMAT, Of the Government and General Policy of a State (1689)
15-3 The English Place Limits on Monarchical Power
The Bill of Rights (1689)
15-4 A Tsar Imposes Western Styles on the Russians
PETER THE GREAT, Edicts and Decrees (1699-1723)
Sources in Conversation
The Commonwealth and the State of Nature
15-5 THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan (1651)
15-6 JOHN LOCKE, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution (1690)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 16 Toward a New Worldview, 1540-1789
16-1 A New Model of the Solar System
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1542)
16-2 A Defense of Science
FRANCIS BACON, On Superstition and the Virtue of Science (1620)
16-3 A Defense of a Sun-Centered Universe
GALILEO GALILEI, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany (1615)
Sources in Conversation
Monarchical Power and Responsibility
16-4 CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers (1748)
16-5 JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will (1762)
16-6 A Philosophe Argues for Religious Toleration
VOLTAIRE, A Treatise on Toleration (1763)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 17 The Expansion of Europe, 1650-1800
17-1 The "Potato Revolution"
WILLIAM SALMON, The Family Dictionary, or Household Companion (1695) and THOMAS RUGGLES, Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts (1792)
17-2 Defining and Defending Mercantilism
THOMAS MUN, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)
17-3 Critiquing Mercantilism
ADAM SMITH, The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Sources in Conversation
The Moral Implications of Expansion
17-4 OLAUDAH EQUIANO, A Description of the Middle Passage (1789)
17-5 ROBERT, FIRST BARON CLIVE, Speech in the House of Commons on India (1772)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 18 Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650-1800
18-1 The Dangers of Eighteenth-Century Life
EDMOND WILLIAMSON, Births and Deaths in an English Gentry Family (1709-1720)
18-2 Embracing Innovation in Medicine
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, On Smallpox Inoculations (ca. 1717)
18-3 Shaping Young Minds and Bodies
JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Sources in Conversation
The Challenge to Established Religion in the 1700s
18-4 JOHN WESLEY, The Ground Rules for Methodism (1749)
18-5 THOMAS PAINE, The Age of Reason (1794)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 19 Revolutions in Politics, 1775-1815
19-1 An Englishman Describes the Suffering of the Third Estate
ARTHUR YOUNG, Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 (1787-1789)
Sources in Conversation
Imagining a New France
19-2 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
19-3 The Law of 22 Prairial (1794)
19-4 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, The Napoleonic Code (1804)
19-5 Challenging the Limits of Equality
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
19-6 The Revolution in the French Colonies
FRANÇOIS DOMINIQUE TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE, A Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti (1797)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 20 The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780-1850
20-1 Predicting a Population Catastrophe
THOMAS MALTHUS, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
Sources in Conversation
Life as an Industrial Worker at Midcentury
20-2 FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 (1844)
20-3 Factory Rules in Berlin (1844)
20-4 NED LUDD, Yorkshire Textile Workers Threaten a Factory Owner (ca. 1811-1812)
20-5 Creating an Industrial Utopia
ROBERT OWEN, A New View of Society (1813)
20-6 Child Labor in an Industrial Age
The Child of the Factory (1842)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 21 Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850
21-1 Touting the Values of Industrial Technology
ANDREW URE, The Philosophy of the Manufacturers (1835)
Sources in Conversation
Conservatism, Liberalism, and Socialism
21-2 KLEMENS VON METTERNICH, Political Confession of Faith (1820)
21-3 JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty (1859)
21-4 KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
21-5 Following Mademoiselle Liberté
EUGÈNE DELACROIX, Liberty Leading the People (1830)
21-6 Workers Demand the Vote
The People’s Charter (1838)
21-7 The Misery of the Potato Famine
WILLIAM STEUART TRENCH, Realities of Irish Life (1847)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 22 Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840-1914
22-1 Sanitation and Public Health
SIR EDWIN CHADWICK, Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Poor (1842)
22-2 Life in London’s East End
JACK LONDON, The People of the Abyss (1902)
Sources in Conversation
Separate Spheres
22-3 ISABELLA BEETON, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861)
22-4 Dressing the Respectable Woman (ca. 1890)
22-5 EMMELINE PANKHURST, My Own Story (1914)
22-6 A New Creation Story
CHARLES DARWIN, The Descent of Man (1871)
22-7 Weeding Out the Weak
HERBERT SPENCER, Social Statics: Survival of the Fittest Applied to Humankind (1851)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 23 The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914
23-1 Romantic Nationalism in Italy
A Good Offer (1860)
Sources in Conversation
Nationalism and the Conservative Order
23-2 GIUSEPPE MAZZINI, On Nationality (1852)
23-3 OTTO VON BISMARCK, Speech Before the Reichstag: On the Law for Workers’ Compensation (1884)
23-4 A Revolution in Paris
JOHN LEIGHTON, Paris Under the Commune (1871)
23-5 An Indictment of France’s Military Elite
ÉMILE ZOLA, "J’Accuse" the French Army (1898)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 24 The West and the World, 1815-1914
Sources in Conversation
Economic Imperialism and Military Expansion
24-1 COMMISSIONER LIN ZEXU, Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)
24-2 EVELYN BARIN, EARL OF CROMER, Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882 (1908)
24-3 British Conquests in Africa
The Rhodes Colossus (1892)
24-4 A White Explorer in Black Africa
HENRY MORTON STANLEY, Autobiography (1909)
24-5 An Anti-Imperialist Pamphlet
MARK TWAIN, King Leopold’s Soliloquy (1905)
24-6 Questioning the Economics of Imperialism
J. A. HOBSON, Imperialism (1902)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 25 War and Revolution, 1914-1919
Sources in Conversation
World War I in the Trenches and in the Air
25-1 HENRI BARBUSSE, The Story of a Squad (1916)
25-2 Klaxon Horn Used to Warn of Gas Attacks (1917)
25-3 Is YOUR Home Worth Fighting For? (1915)
25-4 Women and the War
HELENA SWANWICK, The War in Its Effect upon Women (1916)
25-5 Preparing for the Coming Revolution
VLADIMIR I. LENIN, What Is to Be Done? (1902)
25-6 Making the World Safe for Democracy
WOODROW WILSON, The Fourteen Points (1918)
25-7 The Bitter Taste of Defeat
A Defeated Germany Contemplates the Peace Treaty (1919)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 26 The Age of Anxiety, 1880-1940
26-1 Discovering the Self
SIGMUND FREUD, The Interpretation of Dreams (1900)
26-2 The Great Depression in America
Unemployed Men Arrive at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. (1932)
26-3 An Analysis of the Versailles Treaty
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)
26-4 Postwar Economic Crisis in Germany
Hyperinflation in Germany (1923)
Sources in Conversation
The Great Depression in Great Britain and Germany
26-5 OSCAR DE LACY AND LILY WEBB, Hunger March Speeches (1932)
26-6 HEINRICH HAUSER, With the Unemployed in Germany (1933)
26-7 German Communist Party Poster (1932)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 27 Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919-1945
27-1 A Culture of Paranoia and Coercion
VLADIMIR TCHERNAVIN, I Speak for the Silent (1930)
27-2 Stalin Touts the Successes of the Five-Year Plans
JOSEPH STALIN, Speech Given to the Voters of the Stalin Electoral District, Moscow (1946)
Sources in Conversation
Propaganda and the Totalitarian State
27-3 ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf: The Art of Propaganda (1924)
27-4 Soviet Propaganda Posters (1941 and 1945)
27-5 Freedom’s Last Line of Defense
WINSTON CHURCHILL, Speech Before the House of Commons (June 18, 1940)
27-6 Legislating Racial Purity
The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation (1935)
27-7 The First Steps Toward a "Final Solution"
ALFRED ROSENBERG, The Jewish Question as a World Problem (1941)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 28 Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945-1965
28-1 The United States Rebuilds Europe
GEORGE C. MARSHALL, An American Plan to Rebuild a Shattered Europe (June 5, 1947)
28-2 The Stalinist Gulag
ALEXANDER SOLHENITSYN, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
Sources in Conversation
Debating the "Iron Curtain"
28-3 WINSTON CHURCHILL, "Sinews of Peace" Speech (March 5, 1946)
28-4 JOSEPH STALIN, Interview Regarding Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech (March 14, 1946)
28-5 An Argument for Women’s Equality
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, The Second Sex (1949)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 29 Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960-1991
Sources in Conversation
Reforming Socialist Societies
29-1 MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, Perestroika: A Soviet Leader Calls for Change (1987)
29-2 VÁCLAV HAVEL, New Year’s Address to the Nation (1990)
29-3 Tiananmen Square: Resistance to the Power of the State
JEFF WIDENER, Tank Man (1989)
29-4 Women Demand Fundamental Change
BETTY FRIEDAN, Statement of Purpose of the National Organization for Women: Defining Full Equality (1966)
29-5 Resisting through Unionization
LECH WALESA, Letter to the Council of State (1986)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 30 Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present
Sources in Conversation
Islam Versus the West?
30-1 AMARTYA SEN, A World Not Neatly Divided (November 23, 2001)
30-2 ABDOLKARIM SOROUSH, Militant Secularism (2007)
30-3 Protesting Globalization
A Greenpeace Activist at the G8 Summit (2001)
30-4 Arab Spring
A Tunisian Woman Casts Her Vote (2011)
30-5 Rising Nationalism: Britain Votes to Leave the European Union
NIGEL FARAGE AND OTHERS, Outcome of the Referendum in the United Kingdom (2016)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
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