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CHAPTER 14 A CENTURY OF CRISIS FOR EARLY MODERN EUROPE (1560-1660)
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42
JEAN BODIN
FROM On Sovereignty
2
6
ON THE PLAGUE
From Instructions of the Health Board of Florence
8
3
GIANFRANCESCO MOROSINI
FROM A Venetian Ambassador's Report on Spain
11
3
REGINALD SCOT
FROM Discoverie of Witchcraft
14
8
BLAISE PASCAL
FROM Pensees
22
3
JOHN DONNE
FROM The First Anniversarie
25
3
HANS JAKOB CHRISTOPH VON GRIMMELSHAUSEN
FROM Simplicissimus
28
5
THOMAS HOBBES
FROM Leviathan
33
6
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE
FROM It is Folly to Measure the True and False by Our Own Capacity
39
4
CHAPTER 15 THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE
43
33
LORENZO BERNARDO
FROM A Venetian Ambassador's Report on the Ottoman Empire
45
12
THOMAS MUN
FROM Discourse on England's Treasure by Forraign Trade
47
5
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN (MOLIERE)
FROM The Citizen Who Apes the Nobleman
52
5
ROBERT FILMER
FROM Patriarcha
57
4
JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT
A Memorandum, 1669 and A Memorandum, 1670
61
3
ANNE ROBERT JACQUES TURGOT
FROM Reflections on the Accumulation and Distribution of Wealth
64
8
WILLIAM GOUDGE
FROM Of Domesticall Duties
72
1
Vauban and Platelle
72
4
CHAPTER 16 THE AGE OF ABSOLUTISM (1660-1789)
76
41
LOUIS XIV
FROM Revocation of the Edict on Nantes and FROM Letter to His Heir; and Due de Saint-Simon, FROM Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon; and FROM Declaration of the Gallican Church
77
3
JOHN LOCKE
FROM Two Treatises on Government
80
10
JACQUES-BENIGNE BOSSUET
FROM Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
90
9
DUC-DE SAINT-SIMON
FROM Historical Memoirs of the Due de Saint-Simon
99
6
FREDERICK II THE GREAT
FROM Antimachiavell
105
6
HUGO GROTIUS
FROM On the Law of War and Peace
111
6
CHAPTER 17 THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT
117
69
FRANCIS BACON
FROM The Great Instauration
118
6
GALILEO GALILEI
FROM The Starry Messenger and The Assayer
124
3
BLAISE PASCAL
FROM Pensees
127
5
RENE DESCARTES
FROM Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
132
8
ISAAC NEWTON
FROM Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
140
2
VOLTAIRE
FROM Letters Concerning the English Nation
142
4
BARON DE LA BREDE ETDE MONTESQUIEU
FROM The Spirit of the Laws
146
7
IMMANUEL KANT
What Is Enlightenment?
153
4
DAVID HUME
FROM A Treatise of Human Nature
157
3
JEANNE MANON
PHILIPON ROLAND DE LA PLATIERE
FROM Memoirs
160
4
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET
FROM Outline of a Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
164
8
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
FROM The Social Contract
172
14
CHAPTER 18 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
186
38
ARTHUR YOUNG
FROM Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
187
3
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Declaration of Independence
190
3
ABBE EMMANUEL SIEYES
FROM What Is the Third Estate?
193
3
THIRD ESTATE OF DOURDAN
FROM Grievance Petitions
196
3
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
The Tennis Court Oath
199
1
FROM Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
200
2
NATIONAL CONVENTION
FROM The Law of Suspects
202
1
FROM Decree Establishing the French Era and FROM Decree Establishing the Worship of the Supreme Being
203
3
OLYMPE DEGOUGES
FROM Declaration of the Rights of Woman
206
3
NATIONAL CONVENTION
FROM The National Convention Outlaws Clubs and Popular Societies of Women
209
3
Opposing Views of the Revolution: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine
212
5
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
FROM The Prelude
217
2
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
FROM Letters
219
3
VICTOR HUGO
To the Napoleon Column
222
2
CHAPTER 19 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
224
32
ADAM SMITH
FROM An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
225
5
ANDREW URE
FROM The Philosophy of Manufactures
230
3
THOMAS MALTHUS
FROM Essay on the Principle of Populations
233
3
Rules of a Factory in Berlin
236
2
FRIEDRICH LIST
FROM Promotion of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway
238
2
FRIEDRICH LIST
FROM National System of Political Economy
240
4
THOMAS BANFIELD
FROM Industry on the Rhine
244
3
CLAUDE HENRI DE ROUVROY
COMTE DE ST. SIMON
The Incoherence and Disorder of Industry
247
1
ROBERT OWEN
A New View of Society
248
3
KARL MARX
FROM Estranged Labor
251
5
CHAPTER 20 CONSEQUENCES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: URBANIZATION AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
256
35
ANONYMOUS
An Address by a Journeyman Cotton Spinner
258
2
ANONYMOUS
FROM The Life & History of Captain Swing, the Kent Rick Burner, Written By Himself
260
5
RICHARD OASTLER
Yorkshire Slavery
265
2
FLORA TRISTAN
FROM London Journal
267
2
FRIEDRICH ENGELS
FROM The Condition of the English Working Class
269
3
LOUIS BLANC
FROM History of Ten Years, 1830-1840
272
3
FRANCIS PLACE
The People's Charter and National Petition
275
3
HEINRICH HEINE
The Silesian Weavers
278
1
KARL MARX
FRIEDRICH ENGELS
FROM Manifesto of the Communist Party
279
4
SAM SMILES
FROM Thrift
283
2
ISABELLA BEETON
FROM The Book of Household Management
285
3
ELIZABETH POOLE SANFORD
FROM Woman in her Social and Domestic Character
288
3
CHAPTER 21 THE RISE OF LIBERALISM
291
34
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET
FROM A Sketch for the Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind
292
3
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
FROM The Vindication of the Rights of Women
295
4
BENJAMIN CONSTANT
FROM The Principles of Politics
299
2
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH
Letter, 24 June 1832
301
3
W.J. FOX
FROM Speech on Corn Laws
304
3
ALEXANDER HERZEN
FROM From the Other Shore
307
2
JOHN STUART MILL
FROM On Liberty
309
5
ALEXANDER II
FROM Manifesto Emancipating the Serfs
314
3
JULES FERRY
FROM The State Must Be Secular and Letter to Teachers
317
2
POPE LEO XIII
FROM Rerum Novarum (About New Things)
319
6
CHAPTER 22 NATIONALISM AND NATION-BUILDING
325
32
JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER
FROM Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind
327
3
CLAUDE-JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE
La Marseillaise
330
1
NATIONAL CONVENTION
Levee en Masse Edict
331
2
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE
FROM Speeches to the German Nation
333
3
HEINRICH VON GAGERN
FROM Letter to His Father, 17 June 1818
336
2
LORD BYRON
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
338
1
ADAM MICKIEWICZ
FROM The Books of the Polish Nation
339
3
ALEXI STEPANOVICH KHOMYAKOV
FROM To the Serbs: An Epistle from Moscow
342
2
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI
FROM Duties of Man
344
2
THOMAS DAVIS
FROM Letters of a Protestant on Repeal
348
2
OTTO VON BISMARCK
FROM The Memoirs
350
2
MAURICE BARRES
The Nancy Program
352
5
CHAPTER 23 THE PROGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIALIZATION AND COMPETITION (1870-1914)
357
29
E.D. HOWARD
FROM The Cause and Extent of the Recent Industrial Progress of Germany
359
2
E.LEVASSEUR
The Paris Department Store
361
2
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR
FROM The Principles of Scientific Management
363
3
EDUARD BERNSTEIN
FROM Evolutionary Socialism
366
3
FRIEDRICH FABRI
FROM Does Germany Need Colonies?
369
2
DAVID LIVINGSTONE
FROM Cambridge Speech of 1857
371
2
EDWARD D. MOREL
FROM The Black Man's Burden
373
5
ERNEST EDWIN WILLIAMS
FROM Made in Germany
378
4
EYRE CROWE
FROM Memorandum on the Present State of British Relations with France and Germany
382
4
CHAPTER 24 THE MIDDLE CLASS CHALLENGED
386
35
HENRIK IBSEN
FROM A Doll's House
387
4
EMMELINE PANKHURST
FROM Why We Are Militant
391
4
GEORGES SOREL
FROM Reflections on Violence
395
3
HOUSTON STEWART CHAMBERLAIN
FROM Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
398
2
CHARLES DARWIN
FROM The Origin of Species
400
1
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
FROM Evolution and Ethics
401
5
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
FROM The Genealogy of Morals
406
4
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
FROM Notes from Underground
410
3
SIGMUND FREUD
FROM Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis
413
4
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE
FROM On Painting
417
4
CHAPTER 25 A DELICATE EQUILIBRIUM (1870-1914)
421
31
CLARA ZETKIN
FROM Women's Work and the Organization of Trade Unions
422
4
EDOUARD DRUMONT
FROM Jewish France
426
3
ELIZABETH ROBINS
FROM The Convert
429
4
KONSTANTIN POBEDONOSTSEV
FROM Reflections of a Russian Statesman
433
3
VLADIMIR LENIN
FROM Our Programme
436
3
Entangling Alliances: Great Power Treaties, 1870-1914
439
6
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI
FROM Germany and the Next War
445
4
FROM The Constitution of the Black Hand
449
3
CHAPTER 26 THE FIRST WORLD WAR
452
32
The Trench Poets of World War I
453
3
HENRI BARBUSSE
FROM Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
456
3
ERNST JUNGER
FROM Storm of Steel
459
4
R. SCOTLAND LIDDELL
FROM On the Russian Front
463
3
FROM Madame Lucie Gets Married
466
3
VERA BRITTAIN
FROM Testament of Youth
469
4
FROM The Versailles Treaty
473
6
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
FROM The Economic Consequences of the Peace
479
5
CHAPTER 27 TURMOIL BETWEEN THE WARS
484
33
JOHN REED
FROM Ten Days That Shook the World
485
4
ALEXANDRA KOLLONTAI
FROM The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
489
3
NADEZHDA MANDELSTAM
FROM Hope Against Hope
492
4
BENITO MUSSOLINI
FROM Born of a Need for Action
496
3
ADOLF HITLER
FROM Mein Kampf
499
5
GEORGE ORWELL
FROM The Road to Wigan Pier
504
3
SIGMUND FREUD
FROM Civilization and Its Discontents
507
3
ALBERT EINSTEIN
FROM Science and Religion
510
4
T.S. ELIOT
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
514
3
CHAPTER 28 THE SECOND WORLD WAR
517
37
CONSTANCIA DE LA MORA
FROM In Place of Splendor: The Autobiography of a Spanish Woman
518
4
FROM Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the Soviet Union (August 23,1939)
522
2
MARC BLOCH
FROM Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940
524
4
WINSTON CHURCHILL
FROM Wars Are Not Won by Evacuation
528
3
HILDE MARCHANT
FROM Women and Children Last: A Woman Reporter's Account of the Battle of Britain
531
3
VASSILY GROSSMAN
FROM In the Line of the Main Attack
534
4
ANNY LATOUR
FROM The Jewish Resistance in France, 1940-1944
538
2
TADEUSZ BOROWSKI
FROM This Way For The Gas, Ladies and Gentleman
540
4
FROM The Nuremberg Trials
544
4
TADATAKA KURIBAYASHI
FROM A Childs' Experience: My Experiences of the Atomic Bomb
548
4
FROM The United Nations Charter
552
2
CHAPTER 29 NEW POWER RELATIONSHIPS AND THE NEW EUROPE
554
35
WINSTON CHURCHILL
FROM The Sinews of Peace
554
3
GEORGE C. MARSHALL
FROM The Marshall Plan
557
3
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV
FROM On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences
560
4
French Students and Workers Unite in Protest
564
3
MARGARET THATCHER
FROM Speech to the Conservative Party Conference (10 October, 1975)
567
4
JEAN-YVES POTEL
FROM The Promise of Solidarity: Inside the Polish Workers' Struggle, 1980-82
571
4
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
FROM On Restructuring the Party's Personnel Policy
575
5
FROM Treaty on European Union (as amended on 7 February 1992)
580
3
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
FROM The Second Sex
583
3
REINHOLD WAGNLEITNER
FROM Coca-Colonization and the Cold War
586
3
CHAPTER 30 PROBLEMS OF WORLD CIVILIZATION
589
MAHATMA GANDHI
FROM The Doctrine of the Sword and FROM on Non-violence
590
4
FRANTZ FANON
FROM The Wretched of the Earth
594
3
RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI
FROM Islamic Government
597
3
THOMAS BORGE
FROM The New Education in the New Nicaragua
600
3
CHAI LING
FROM I Am Still Alive
603
4
THE UNITED NATIONS
FROM Global Outlook 2000
607
3
NIGEL HARRIS
FROM The New Untouchables: Immigration and the New World Worker
610
4
KATHRYN KOPINAK
FROM Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor
614
2
THE UNITED NATIONS FOURTH WORLD
CONFERENCE ON WOMEN
Platform for Action
616
5
LYUBOV SIROTA
FROM Chernobyl Poems
621
3
HOWARD H. FREDERICK
FROM Computer Networks and the Emergence of Global Civil Society: The Case for the Association for the Progressive Communications
624