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Worlds of History, Volume 2

A Comparative Reader, Since 1400Seventh Edition ©2020 Kevin Reilly

Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each chapter pres...

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Cover: Worlds of History, Volume 2, 7th Edition by Kevin Reilly

A comparative, skills-building approach to primary and secondary sources that teaches critical and independent thinking.

Worlds of History offers a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a variety of teaching approaches and helps students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully compiled by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each chapter presents a wide array of primary and secondary sources arranged around a major theme — such as universal religions, the environment and technology, or gender and family — across two or more cultures, along with pedagogy that builds students’ capacity to analyze and interpret sources, and think critically and independently

Features

A thematic and comparative approach allows students to discern common patterns and important differences. Each chapter explores a topic or theme as experienced by two or more cultures. Students can trace parallel developments in separate regions, such as the development of society in ancient Greece and India in Chapter 3, Identity in Caste and Territorial Societies, or the advent of nationalism in Japan and India in Chapter 23, World War I and Its Consequences: Europe and the World. In other cases, students can examine the enduring effects of contact and exchange between cultures, as in the chapter on Mongol and Viking raiding and settlements from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries, or Volume 2’s chapter on the scientific revolution in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, China, Japan, and the Americas. Even the normally divergent study of the Cold War can be expanded, as documents in Chapter 26 relating to the superpowers’ fight to control the emerging "Third World" show.

Thinking Historically exercises build students’ historical thinking skills. Each chapter begins with a "Historical Context" introduction that sets the stage for directed comparisons among the chapter’s readings. The "Thinking Historically" section follows, which introduces a particular critical thinking skill — such as asking about author, audience, and agenda or distinguishing causes of change — that is designed to mine the chapter’s selections. Introductions preceding each selection provide additional context, while document-specific "Thinking Historically" content poses questions to encourage close analysis of the selections using the critical thinking skill introduced at the beginning of the chapter. Explanatory gloss notes and pronunciation guides throughout help ensure comprehension of the readings. A set of "Reflections" that both summarizes and extends the chapter’s lessons concludes each chapter.

A wide array of primary and secondary sources offers an abundance of material to work with. Primary sources, which make up two thirds of the readings, range from The Book of the City of Ladies, by Christine de Pizan, to On Care for Our Common Home, by Pope Francis. The secondary sources include both essential classic works and current research with such thought-provoking selections as "Women and Marriage in Europe and China," by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner; Aromas of Tang China, Edward H. Schafer; and "Globalization’s Backlash Is Here, at Just the Wrong Time," by Neil Irwin.

New to This Edition

New primary and secondary documents – over 20% in each volume - offer new perspectives, topics, and a broader geographical coverage.

New visuals include three statues from Mesopotamia, 2475-2300 B.C.E., a series of classical images of Persephone rising from the underworld in spring, an Egyptian Aphrodite/Venus, and a lingam with the face of Shiva. Brand new primary sources include the bittersweet story of the lovesick Buddhist monk, Chosin; the haunting Pu Songling, The Lady Knight Errant; as well as the classic Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies. An excerpt from E.M. Foster’s classic, Passage to India, is also a new addition, as well as a selection from R. K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma, Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, René Maran’s Batouala, and Bui Hien’s Jealousy. New primary sources add a different dimension to an old story with the inclusion of an award-winning, newly translated Viking account that challenges clichés; Sojourner Truth confronts forces of slavery and racism; Abu Talib Khan reveals aspects of English technology in 1810; Nikolai Novikov telegrams Moscow in response to George Kennan; and Osama bin Laden responds to George W. Bush. Two new secondary sources explore the impact of Zheng He and Columbus: Mara Hvistendahl, Rebuilding a Treasure Ship and Edmund S. Morgan, Columbus’ Confusion About the New World. The last chapter on globalization adds two current and thought-provoking essays: Justin Sandefur’s "Is the Elephant Graph Flattening out?" which highlights global convergence with the dramatic exception of the top one percent; and Neil Irwin’s "Globalization’s Backlash Is Here, at Just the Wrong Time" that adds a counterpoint.

Two entirely new chapters are sure to engage students.

New chapters – one in each volume - feature timely and interesting topics sure to engage students. Volume I includes a new chapter that explores The Smell of the Past (Chapter 13), and Volume II includes a new chapter on Climate Change and Global Warming (Chapter 27). The first springs from new historical research on the history of the senses. The second new chapter answers the question: what is the contemporary historical development that students need and want most to understand about climate change and global warming?

New Thinking Historically exercises in each volume help students build critical thinking skills.

New topics include, "Analyzing Cultural Differences," and "Discovering and Representing the Invisible," in Volume I; and "Using Literature in History," and "Keeping the Individual in the Global," in Volume II. These and the other Thinking Historically exercises focus on developing a specific analytical skill appropriate for the documents and themes in each chapter.

This is the book that shows what a World History course can and should be. It is not about coverage of separate histories of many places; it is about understanding the world as interconnected systems. The readers thematic and comparative structure helps students see the historically and socially constructed nature of many things they otherwise take for granted. The mix of primary and secondary sources and the editorial introductions and reflections help students think about what it is that historians do, and about the production of historical knowledge. Mary G. Strasma, Eastern Michigan University

I chose this reader because I liked its thematic and comparative approach, and the way it combines primary and secondary sources. Also, Reilly does a great job of contextualizing the readings for students, with his introductions, questions, and reflections. The price is also right. Charles Briggs, University of VT

I like that it is not just a primary source reader, but it also helps students to learn how to analyze secondary sources. In addition, I really like that each chapter teaches students an important historical thinking skill. Kate McGrath, Central Connecticut State University

The chapters are very well organized and edited, and each section has an informative prologue that helps students to ask important questions and read critically. Shane Strate, Kent State University

I particularly liked the way Worlds of History juxtaposes primary and secondary sources, so that students get a sense of how primary sources inform historical analysis.A. Martin Wainwright, University of Akron

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Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Geographic Contents

15. Overseas Expansion in the Early Modern Period: Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, 1400-1600

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Reading Primary and Secondary Sources

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

16. Atlantic World Encounters: Europeans, Americans, and Africans, 1500-1850

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Comparing Primary Sources

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

Buying Slaves in Africa, Late 1700s or Early 1800s

Plantation Work, Martinique, 1826

Slave Market, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1830s

Slaves Awaiting Sale, New Orleans, 1861

8. Venture Smith, Life and Adventures, 1798

9. Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, 1850, 1875

Reflections

17. Women, Marriage, and Family: China and Europe, 1550-1700

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Making Comparisons

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

18. The Scientific Revolution: Europe, the Ottoman Empire, China, Japan, and the Americas, 1600-1800

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Distinguishing Change from Revolution

1. Images of Anatomy, Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Skeleton Drawing, from the Latin Munich MS Codex, fourteenth century

Woodcut of a Skeleton, from Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543

2. Francis Bacon, The New Organon or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature, 1620

3. Roger Coates, 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

19. Enlightenment and Revolution: Europe and the Americas, 1650-1850

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Close Reading and Interpretation of Texts

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. Olympia 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

20. Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution: Europe and the World, 1750-1900

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Distinguishing Historical Processes

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, 18486. 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

21. Colonized and Colonizers: Europeans in Africa and Asia, 1850-1930

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Using Literature in History

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. Foster, A Passage to India, 1924

5. George Orwell, Burmese Days, 1934

6. R.K. Narayan, Waiting for the Mahatma, 1955

7. Bui Hen, Jealousy, [[DATE TK]]

Reflections

22. Westernization and Nationalism: Japan, India, and the West, 1820–1939

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Appreciating Contradictions

1. Fukuzawa Yukichi, Good-bye Asia, 1885

2. Images from Japan: Views of Westernization, Late Nineteenth Century

Monkey Show Dressing Room

The Exotic White Man

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

23. World War I and Its Consequences: Europe and the World, 1914-1920

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Understanding Causes and Consequences

1. The "Willy-Nicky" Telegrams, 1914

2. World War I Propaganda Posters, 1915-1918

Recruiting Poster for U.S. Army, 1917

Recruiting Poster for German Army, 1915-1916

French War Bond Poster, 1900

Propaganda Poster, United States, 1917-1918

Poster recruiting women to munitions jobs, date TK

Poster using mother and children to evoke emotion, date TK

German poster using mother and children for emotional appeal, date TK

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

24. World War II and Mass Killing: Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States, 1926-1945

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Empathetic Understanding

1. Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, 1932

2. Adolph 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

25. The Cold War and the Third World: Vietnam, Cuba, the Congo, and Afghanistan, 1945-1989

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Detecting Ideological Language

1. Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain Speech, 1946

2. Telegram from Nikolai Novikov, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., 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

26. New Democracy Movements: The World, 1977 to the Present

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Finding Connections and Context

1. Hebe de Bonafini and Matilde Sánchez, The Madwomen at the Plaza de Mayo,

1977/2002

2 Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika and Glasnost, 2

3. George W. Bush, Remarks at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy, 2003

4. Osama bin Laden, Letter to America, 2002

5. Hagai El-Ad, "Israel’s Charade of Democracy," 2015

6 Occupy Wall Street, 2011

7. Javier C. Hernandez, Chinese Leaders Confront an Unlikely Foe: Ardent Young Communist, 2018

Reflections

27. Global Warming and Climate Change, The World, 1990 to the Present

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Keeping the Individual in the Global

1. Ian Sample, Arrhenius: the father of climate change in 1896, 2005

2. Margaret Thatcher, Speech to the 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

Reflections

28. Globalization, The World, 1990 to the Present

Historical Context

Thinking Historically: Understanding Process

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, 2s

"Inequality SeeSaw" date TK

Global imbalance of water use date TK

"Attention Q-Mart Shoppers" date TK

"You Undocumented Workers Have to Leave." date TK

"I Don’t Mean to Hurry You." date TK

Reflections

LIST OF MAPS

Map 15.1 Chinese Naval Expeditions, 1405–1433

Map 15.2 European Overseas Exploration, 1430s–1530s

Map 15.3 Columbus’s First Voyage, 1492–1493

Map 16.1 The Atlantic Slave Trade

Map 19.1 Latin American Independence, 1804-1830

Map 21.1 European Colonialism in Africa and Asia,

1880-1914

Map 23.1 Allied Power and Central Powers in World War I

Map 24.1 Eastern Europe, c. 1942

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Kevin Reilly

Kevin Reilly is a professor of humanities at Raritan Valley College and has taught at Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. Cofounder and first president of the World History Association, Reilly has written numerous articles on the teaching of history, and has edited a number of works in world history including The Introductory History Course for the AHA and the World History syllabus collection. A specialist in immigration history, Reilly incorporated his research in creating the "Modern Global Migrations" globe at Ellis Island. His work on the history of racism led to the editing of Racism: A Global Reader. He was a Fulbright scholar in Brazil and Jordan and a NEH fellow in Greece, Oxford UK, and India. Awards include the Community College Humanities Association’s Distinguished Educator of the Year and the World History Associations Pioneer Award. He has also served the American Historical Association in various capacities, including the governing Council. He is currently writing a global history of racism.

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