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Chapter 13 — The World the Mongols Made Primary Sources 

Rashid al-Din Mongol Government WH873 5 pp. William of Rubruck A Mission to the Great Khan WH429 9 pp. Ibn Battuta A Traveler's Account of the Delhi

Sultanate WH851 7 pp.

Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur

The Moghul Empire of India WH880 7 pp.

Nizam ud-din Auliya Morals for the Heart WH917 11 pp. Zia ud-din Barni Fatawa-yi-Jahandari WH918 17 pp. Marco Polo On Kubilai Khan WH155 7 pp. St. Francis of Assisi The Rule of St. Francis WH416 6 pp. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law WH422 13 pp. Roger Bacon A Plea for the Study of Languages WH431 5 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction On the Trail of Marco Polo WHS014 2 pp. Frances Wood Where Did Marco Polo Go? WHS014-1 21 pp. Peter Jackson The Trouble with Marco Polo's Travels WHS014-2 27 pp.1

Chapter 14 — The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century

Primary Sources D. T. Niane From Sundiata: En Epic of Old Mali WH018 10 pp. Henry Knighton The Impact of the Black Death WH418 6 pp. William Langland The Peasant’s Life WH424 8 pp. Christine de Pizan Just and Unjust War WH432 13 pp. Margery Kempe A Chaste Life WH433 9 pp. Thomas à Kempis The Blessed Sacrament WH434 12 pp. Leon Battista Alberti The Value of Marriage and Family WH435 15 pp.

Chapter 15 — Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Primary Sources

Gomes de Azurara Henry the Navigator's Search for New Lands

WH436 4 pp.

Alvise da Cadamosto A Venetian Describes the Portuguese West African Trade

WH437 11 pp.

Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage WH439 16 pp.

Chapter 15 Continued Anonymous Vasco da Gama Explores the Indian

Ocean WH438 19 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction Aztec Human Sacrifice WHS016 2 pp. Jacques Soustelle The Man, World and Time WHS016-1 8 pp. Michael J. Harner The Ecological Basis for Aztec Sacrifice WHS016-2 10 pp. Inga Clendinnen Aztecs: An Interpretation WHS016-3 6 pp. Chapter Introduction Ottoman Origins: Holy Warriors or

Tribal Pasture-Seekers WHS046 2 pp.

Paul Wittek The Rise of the Ottoman Empire WHS046-1 18 pp. Cemal Kafadar Between Two Worlds: The Construction

of the Ottoman State WHS046-3 16 pp.

Chapter 16 — Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries Primary Sources

Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur

The Moghul Empire of India WH880 7 pp.

Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi Selections from Maktubat WH922 5 pp. Thomas Roe A British Ambassador to the Great

Mughal WH905 7 pp.

François Bernier A French Physician Describes the Mughal Empire

WH906 8 pp.

Ananda Ranga Pillai A Hindu Servant of the French WH907 10 pp. Hernán Cortés The Second Letter: A Conquistador

Describes the Capital of Mexico WH441 11 pp.

Hernán Cortés The Third Letter: The Spaniards Fight Indians in Suchimilco

WH706 5 pp.

Amerigo Vespucci A Florentine Explorer Discovers a New Continent

WH440 17 pp.

Spanish Justification for Violence

Requerimiento WH713 3 pp.

Spanish Protection of the Indians

The Laws of Burgos WH714 15 pp.

The Aztec Account of the Conquest

The Broken Spears

WH708 3 pp.

Rodrigo de Albuquerque Encomienda: Land and Labor in Early Colonial Spanish America

WH715 3 pp.

Francisco de Vitoria The Evangelization of Unbelievers WH712 11 pp. Fray Diego Durán The Construction of a Great Empire:

The Aztec Ruler Motecuchzoma I WH703 14 pp.

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda Just War

WH709 7 pp.

Bartolomé de las Casas Originator of the Black Legend WH710 6 pp. Friar Diego de Landa The Maya Civilization WH702 11 pp. Bernal Díaz del Castillo The Discovery and Conquest of

Mexico WH707 7 pp.

Alonso de Zorita Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico WH704 13 pp. The Asiento: Monopoly Slave Trade in

the Americas WH716 7 pp.

Father Antonio Vieira Condemning Indian Slavery WH711 6 pp. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz The Answer WH717 7 pp. Bernadino de Sahagún The Conquest of New Spain WH705 4 pp.

Chapter 16 Continued Acarete du Biscay, Potosí A Mining Town in the Seventeenth

Century WH718 9 pp.

Abul Fazul A Mughal Treatise on Government WH904 11 pp. Secondary Sources

Muzaffer Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

From the Introduction to the Mughal State, 1526–1750

WHS027-2 44 pp.

Chapter Introduction The Black Legend/White Legend WHS015 2 pp. Lewis Hanke More Heat and Some Light on the

Spanish Struggle for Justice in the Conquest of America

WHS015-1 7 pp.

Benjamin Keen The Black Legend Revisited: Assumptions and Realities

WHS015-2 5 pp.

Chapter Introduction The Myths of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs

WHS017 1 p.

Camilla Townsend No One Said It was Quetzalcoatl: Listening to the Indians in Conquest of Mexico

WHS017-1 13 pp.

Inga Cledinnen "Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty": Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico

WHS017-2 12 pp.

Friedrich Katz The End of Aztec Rule WHS017-3 13 pp. Chapter 17 — The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Primary Sources Kangxi An Emperor Bids Farewell WH173 7 pp.

Secondary Sources Kenneth J. Andrien Andean Culture and Society under

Colonial Rule WHS039-1 21 pp.

Chapter 18 — Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Primary Sources St. Francis Xavier A Jesuit Missionary Gives his First

Impressions of Japan WH448 8 pp.

St. Luis Frois Oda Nobunaga and Mt. Hiei WH189 3 pp. Erasmus The Unity of Classical and Christian

Learning WH444 9 pp.

Martin Luther Christian Freedom WH446 15 pp. John Calvin Free Will and Predestination WH447 8 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction What Was the Reformation? WHS037 2 pp. Robert M. Kingdon Was the Protestant Reformation a

Revolution? The Example of Geneva WHS037-1 26 pp.

Steven Ozment The Revolution of the Pamphleteers WHS037-2 26 pp. Chapter Introduction Protestantism and the Rise of

Capitalism WHS038 2 pp.

Kurt Samuelsson Religion and Economic Action WHS038-2 32 pp. Kemper Fullerton Calvinism and Capitalism: An

Explanation of the Weber Thesis WHS038-1 26 pp.

Chapter Introduction Cannons and Christianity: Jesuits and Western Technology in China

WHS010 2 pp.

Joanna Waley-Cohen God and Guns in Qing China WHS010-1 21 pp. Jonathan Spence To God Through the Stars WHS010-2 28 pp. Chapter Introduction Framing the Scientific Revolution WHS040

Chapter 18 Continued Margaret J. Osler Galileo, Motion, and Essences WHS040-1 11 pp. Lesley B. Cormack “Good Fences Make Good

Neighbors”: Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England

WHS040-2 25 pp.

Lewis S. Feuer from The Scientific Intellectual: The Psychological and Sociological Origins of Modern Science

WHS040-3 17 pp.

Chapter 19 — States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Primary Sources

Andreas Josua Ulsheimer Concerning Guinea WH016 6 pp. Anonymous Footbinding and Sexuality in Jin Ping

Mei WH153 8 pp.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi Hideyoshi's Sword Hunt WH195 2 pp. Toyotomi Hideyoshi Hideyoshi and Japan's Social Hierarchy WH196 3 pp. Valentyn The Closing of Japan WH179 4 pp. Anonymous Japanese Warnings about Christianity

Denial of Faith in Tokugawa Japan WH169 5 pp.

Niccolò Machiavelli The Constitutional Theory of a Realist WH442 12 pp. Niccolò Machiavelli Fortune is a Woman WH443 5 pp. Baldesar Castiglione A Disputation on the Dignity of

Women WH445 15 pp.

Francisco de Vitoria The Evangelization of Unbelievers WH712 11 pp. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda Just War WH709 7 pp. Michel de Montaigne Comparing the Old World and the

New WH449 11 pp.

James I The Divine Right of Kings WH450 8 pp. Galileo Galilei Science and Scripture WH451 7 pp. Thomas Hobbes The State of Nature and Natural Law WH453 9 pp. Margaret Cavendish Letters Critiquing Women’s Lack of

Power within the Family and the State

WH454 7 pp.

Sir William Clark The Putney Debates WH452 17 pp. John Locke On Resistance WH456 12 pp. Aphra Behn Slave in a New World WH455 10 pp. Thomas Fowell Buxton The African Slave Trade and Its

Remedy WH017 5 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction Footbinding in China WHS008 2 pp. Dorothy Ko The Body as Attire: The Shifting

Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth Century China

WHS008-1 22 pp.

Patricia Ebrey Gender and Sinology WHS008-2 35 pp. Fernand Braudel from "Food and Drink” WHS042-2 33 pp.

Chapter 20 — Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century Primary Sources

Thomas Malthus The Iron Law of Population Growth WH470 11 pp. Chapter 21 — The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of

the Eighteenth-Century Empires Primary Sources

Aphra Behn Slave in a New World WH455 10 pp. Olaudah Equiano from Chapter 2, “Kidnapped,” in

Equiano’s Travels WH020 7 pp.

Olaudah Equiano from Chapter 3, “The Slaveship,” in Equiano’s Travels

WH463 9 pp.

Father Brandão Jr. The Work Routine of a Maranhão (Brazil) Plantation in the Nineteenth Century

WH723 4 pp.

Alexander von Humboldt The State of the Mines of New Spain WH719 9 pp. Mary Prince The Horrors of Slavery WH475 14 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction The Nature of African Slavery WHS001 1 p. Suzanne Miers and Igor

Kopytoff Slavery in Africa WHS001-1 27 pp.

Claude Meillassoux The Anthropology of Slavery WHS001-2 23 pp. Chapter Introduction Slavery on the Guinea Coast WHS002 2 pp. Walter Rodney African Slavery and Other Forms of

Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave Trade

WHS002-1 18 pp.

J. D. Fage Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Context of West African History

WHS002-2 16 pp.

Chapter Introduction Continuity or Change: The Eighteenth Century in Indian History

WHS028 2 pp.

Irfan Habib The Eighteenth Century in Indian Economic History

WHS028-1 22 pp.

C. A. Bayly Knowing the Country: Empire and Information in India

WHS028-2 22 pp.

Chapter 22 — The Exchange of Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Thought Primary Sources

Voltaire The Glories of the English WH457 9 pp. Lady Mary Wortley

Montagu Turkish Letters WH461 15 pp.

Adam Smith The Fruits of the Division of Labor WH462 13 pp. Ignatius Sancho Colonialism Attacked WH466 7 pp. David Hume On the Existence of God WH458 15 pp. Immanuel Kant Universal History Olympe de Gouges Reflections on Negroes Edmund Burke Inherited Property WH468 4 pp. Mary Wollstonecraft A Radical Attack on Edmund Burke

Emphasizing the Inequities of Class and Private Property

WH469 22 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction The Enlightenment: Medieval or

Modern? WHS043 2 pp.

Peter Gay Carl Becker’s Heavenly City WHS043-2 12 pp.

Chapter 22 Continued Carl L. Becker The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-

Century Philosophers WHS043-1 13 pp.

Chapter Introduction The French Revolution: Origins, Meaning, Results

WHS051 2 pp.

William Doyle from Origins of the French Revolution WHS051-1 20 pp. Lynn Hunt from Origins of the French Revolution WHS051-2 17 pp. Emmet Kennedy A Cultural History of the French

Revolution WHS051-3 21 pp.

Chapter 23 — Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions Primary Sources

Fukuzawa Yukichi Fukuzawa in the United States WH156 6 pp. Anonymous Early Encounters with the Japanese WH168 5 pp. Meiji Constitution The Charter Oath WH174 3 pp. A Rescript to Soldiers and Sailors WH200 4 pp. The Meiji Constitution and the Japanese

Emperor WH175 3 pp.

Ito Hirobumi Commentary on the Meiji Constitution WH176 7 pp. The Imperial Rescript on Education WH183 3 pp. Laments of the Japanese Silk Workers

(Songs) WH158 9 pp.

Karl Marx The Fetishism of the Commodity WH480 16 pp. Friedrich Engels How English Industrial Workers Lived WH481 19 pp. Karl Marx and Friedrich

Engels All That is Solid Melts Into Air WH482 10 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction Modernization or Deindustrialization? WHS029 2 pp. Morris D. Morris Towards a Reinterpretation of

Nineteenth-Century Indian Economic History

WHS029-1 16 pp.

Irfan Habib Studying a Colonial Economy—Without Perceiving Colonialism

WHS029-2 6 pp.

Erich Fromm Alienation WHS052-3 12 pp. Chapter Introduction Export Economy WHS024 2 pp. Steven C. Topik Coffee WHS024-1 14 pp. Roberto Cortés Conde Peru in the Age of Guano WHS024-2 11 pp. Peter L. Eisenberg Sugar in Brazil WHS024-3 8 pp.

Chapter 24 — The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century Primary Sources

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hege

Consciousness and Dialectical Method WH474 13 pp.

John Stuart Mill Individual Liberty and Social Control WH488 7 pp. Thomas Carlyle The Making of Money WH479 7 pp. Adele Toussaint-Samson Observations about Women in

Nineteenth-Century Brazil WH732 10 pp.

The Law of the Free Womb WH734 4 pp. Caroline Norton A Letter to the Queen on Lord

Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill

WH483 7 pp.

Chapter 25 — Western Dominance in the Nineteenth-Century World: The Westward Shift of Power and the Rise of Global Empires

Primary Sources Ignatius Sancho Colonialism Attacked WH466 7 pp. ‘Abbas Hilmi II The British in Egypt WH875 5 pp. Multatuli Corruption in the Dutch Colonies WH489 6 pp. Mungo Park Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa WH006 7 pp. Joseph Dupuis The Views of Osei Bonsu WH027 5 pp. Samuel Ajayi Crowther Letter to Rev. William Jowett WH007 10 pp. Philip Quaque The Letters of Philip Quaque WH028 9 pp. Abd al-Rahman ibn Hasan

al-Jabarti The French Occupation of Egypt WH874 5 pp.

David Livingstone African Journal WH005 7 pp. The General Act of Conference of Berlin WH022 6 pp. Lord Frederick Lugard Methods of Native Administration:

Political Officers and Native Rulers WH014 12 pp.

Mary Kingsley Travels in West Africa WH004 8 pp. Grandmother Narwimba Grandmother Narwimba's Narrative WH021 9 pp. William Waldegrave Palmer Earl of Selborne, The Selborne

Memorandum WH008 5 pp.

Hamman Yaji The Diary of Hamman Yaji WH023 6 pp. Josephine Butler The Interests of African Natives during

the Boer War WH495 19 pp.

Léopold Sédar Senghor Prayer for Peace WH013 5 pp. The Petition of the Hindus Against the

Abolition of Sati (19 December 1829) WH909 6 pp.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Government of India WH927 34 pp.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Minute on Indian Education WH928 15 pp.

Karl Marx The Revolt in the Indian Army WH929 5 pp. Pandita Ramabai The High-Caste Hindu Woman WH931 7 pp. Rudyard Kipling Without Benefit of Clergy WH930 23 pp. Zhu Zun China's Opium Debate, 1836: Advocates

of Prohibition WH186 8 pp.

China's Opium Debate 1836: Advocates of Legislation WH182 5 pp. Lin Zexu Commissioner Lin's Letter to the Queen WH184 7 pp. Josephine Butler The Interests of African Natives during

the Boer War WH495 19 pp.

Arthur Schopenhauer On Christianity WH486 8 pp. Charles Darwin Natural Selection WH487 25 pp. Mary Shelley The Monster Meets his Maker WH471 12 pp. Alexander von Humboldt Between the Orinoco and the Amazon WH472 12 pp. Alexander Pushkin A Young African in Paris WH478 13 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction The Berlin Conference and the Partition

of Africa WHS003 1 p.

J. D. Hargreaves The European Partition of Africa WHS003-1 27 pp. A. Adu Boahen African Perspectives on Colonialism WHS003-2 32 pp. Chapter Introduction China's Opium Problem WHS012 2 pp. R. K. Newman Reconsidering China's Opium Problem WHS012-1 15 pp. Jonathan Spence Opium Smoking in Late Imperial China WHS012-2 30 pp.

Chapter 26 — The Changing State: Political Developments in the Nineteenth Century Primary Sources

The Late Qing Anti-Opium Campaign WH180 8 pp. Carl von Clausewitz What is War? WH473 17 pp. Thomas Babington

Macaulay Speech on Parliamentary Reform

WH476 5 pp.

The People's Petition WH477 6 pp. Flora Tristan A Call for Worker Solidarity between

both Men and Women WH501 14 pp.

John Ruskin Blasting Political Economy WH490 14 pp. Alexander II Emancipation Manifesto of 1861 WH485 6 pp. The Hague Convention Hague Convention: Regulations

Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1899)

WH496 16 pp.

Max Weber Calvinism WH502 12 pp. Clara Zetkin Plea for Socialist Recognition and Fair

Treatment of Women's Paid Labor WH497 8 pp.

Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s Methodology WH491 10 pp. Father Miguel Hidalgo y

Cosyilla El Grito de Dolores (The Cry of Dolores)

WH720 3 pp.

Simón Bolívar The Cartagena Manifesto WH722 6 pp. Simón Bolívar The Jamaican Letter WH721 8 pp. Dom Pedro I The Declaration of Brazilian

Independence WH724 4 pp.

Francis Bond Head Gauchos (Cowboys) in the Río de la Plata WH726 12 pp. Friedrich Hassaurek A Nineteenth Century European's View

of the Ecuadorian Countryside WH729 10 pp.

Antonio López de Santa Anna

The Eagle: Hero and Villain in Nineteenth Century Mexico

WH725 12 pp.

Brantz Mayer The Festival of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

WH736 8 pp.

Domingo F. Sarmiento Juan Facundo de Quiroga Carl Sartorius, Mining in Mexico in 1850

WH730 14 pp.

The Sola Family Immigrants' Lives in Argentina Anonymous

WH737 10 pp.

Rafael Núñez Scientific Peace WH733 6 pp. Fanny Chambers Gooch The Home of Vicente Riva Palacio WH727 5 pp. The Law Abolishing Slavery in Brazil WH735 2 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction Biology and Female Power in China WHS013 2 pp. Margery Wolf Chinese Women and the Uterine Family WHS013-1 10 pp. Charlotte Furth Medicine and Gender in Qing China WHS013-2 39 pp. Chapter Introduction Causes of Latin American Independence WHS018 2 pp. Jaime Rodríguez O Revolution in the Spanish World WHS018-1 14 pp. John Lynch The Spanish American Revolutions WHS018-4 8 pp. Richard Graham Independence in Latin America WHS018-2 11 pp. Emilia Viotti da Costa The Brazilian Empire: Myths and

Histories WHS018-3 13 pp.

Chapter Introduction The Nineteenth Century: Chaos or Nation-Building?

WHS019 2 pp.

Frank Safford The Bases of Political Alignment in Early Republican Spanish America

WHS019-1 14 pp.

Chapter 26 Continued Elizabeth Dore One Step Forward, Two Steps Back:

Gender and the State in The Long Nineteenth Century

WHS019-2

14 pp.

John Lynch Juan Manuel de Rosas: Argentine Caudillo

WHS019-3 8 pp.

Chapter Introduction The Great Estate: Land and Labor in Latin America

WHS020 2 pp.

James Lockhart Encomienda and Hacienda: The Evolution of the Great Estate

WHS020-1 11 pp.

Francie R. Chassen-López "Cheaper Than Machines": Women and Agriculture in Porfirian Oaxaca, 1880-1911

WHS020-2 8 pp.

Hilda Sabato Estancias and Estancieros WHS020-3 8 pp. Chapter 27 — The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World

Primary Sources V.I. Lenin Making a Revolution WH498 10 pp. Lytton Strachey Dr. Arnold of Rugby WH494 18 pp. Alexandra Kollantai The Greater Relevance of Socialism over

Bourgeois Feminism to Working-Class Women

WH499 19 pp.

Chapter 28 — World Order and Disorder: Global Politics in the Twentieth Century Primary Sources

Hannah Arendt Eichmann In Jerusalem WH507 8 pp. The Organization for

African Unity OAU Charter WH024 10 pp.

Steve Biko The Definition of Black Consciousness WH015 6 pp. Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom George Orwell Shooting an Elephant WH504 9 pp. Mohandas K. Gandhi The Condition of India WH936 17 pp. Mohandas K. Gandhi What is True Civilization? WH910 13 pp. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar The Indian War of Independence WH932 10 pp. Rabindranath Tagore The Meghaduta WH933 6 pp. Jawaharlal Nehru Tryst with Destiny WH935 3 pp. Reporting the Revolution of 1911:

Selections from the Hankow Daily News WH170 6 pp.

Japan's Twenty-One Demands WH181 5 pp. The Japanese Ministry of

Education The Way of Subjects WH198 9 pp.

Diary of a Human Torpedo WH197 4 pp. Japan Surrenders WH177 4 pp. Tadeusz Borowski The People Who Walked On WH505 14 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction Arab Nationalism, England, and the

Dream of a Unitary State WHS047 3 pp.

George Antonius The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement

WHS047-1 3 pp.

Rashid Ismail Khalidi Introduction and Conclusion to British Policy Towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914

WHS047-2 12 pp.

Elie Kedouri Cairo and Khartoum on the Arab Question, 1915–1918

WHS047-3 20 pp.

Chapter 28 Continued Efraim Karsh and Inari

Karsh Epilogue to Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East 1789–1923

WHS047-4 13 pp.

Chapter Introduction Decolonization in British Africa WHS004 2 pp. Anthony Low The End of the British Empire in Africa WHS004-1 35 pp. M. E. Chamberlain Decolonization: The Fall of the

European Empires WHS004-2 23 pp.

Chapter Introduction 1947: The Violence of Partition WHS031 2 pp. Gyanendra Pandey The Prose of Otherness WHS031-1 36 pp. David Gilmartin Partition, Pakistan, and South Asian

History: In Search of a Narrative WHS031-2 41 pp.

Urvashi Butalia Blood WHS031-3 10 pp. Chapter Introduction Race and World War II in Japan and the

United States WHS009 2 pp.

John W. Dower War Without Mercy WHS009-1 31 pp. Chapter Introduction The Origins of World War I WHS053 2 pp. Fritz Fischer World Policy and War Policy: Germany’s

Persisting Desire for World Power WHS053-1 14 pp.

Niall Ferguson The Kaiser’s European Union: What if Britain had ‘stood aside’ in August 1914

WHS053-2 37 pp.

Chapter Introduction The Cold War WHS056 2 pp. John Lewis Gaddis The Insecurities of Victory: The United

States and the Perception of the Soviet Threat After World War II

WHS056-1 43 pp.

Melvyn P. Leffler Was the Cold War Necessary? WHS056-2 14 pp. Chapter 29 — The Pursuit of Utopia: Civil Society in the Twentieth Century

Primary Sources Usama bin Ladin What Al-Qa’eda Wants from America WH879 7 pp. Ibn Warraq A Muslim's Critique of Islam WH881 8 pp. Abu Da'ud Sulayman ibn

Ash'ath al-Azadi al-Sijistani Prophetic Traditions About Jihad WH855 6 pp.

Mao Zedong Mao on Peasant Movements WH160 5 pp. Mao Zedong Quotations from Mao's Little Red Book WH194 6 pp. Mao Zedong Mao on the Atomic Bomb WH203 3 pp. Mao Zedong Mao on U.S. Imperialism WH204 5 pp. Liu Shaoqi How to be a Good Communist WH159 5 pp. Anonymous Remembering China's Cultural Revolution WH187 8 pp. New China News Agency The Death of Chairman Mao WH164 7 pp. Fidel Castro The Cuban Revolution of 1959 WH743 7 pp. María Celestina Balán We Are Not the Weaker Sex WH747 5 pp. Doris Tijerino Women in the Failed Nicaraguan Revolution WH750 8 pp. Eva (Evita) Peròn October 17, 1945: The Day of Destiny WH741 3 pp. The Sandinista National

Liberation Front The Revolutionary Program WH746 10 pp.

Rigoberta Menchú A Woman's Experience in the Time of the Terror

WH748 11 pp.

Jian Xianren Women on the Long March WH152 8 pp. John Rabe The Nanjing Massacre WH151 8 pp. Georges Perec Against the Tyranny of Fashion WH509 10 pp. Population Control in China WH165 8 pp. Toyofumi Orgura Letters from Hiroshima WH188 7 pp. Letters to General Douglas MacArthur WH167 10 pp.

Chapter 29 Continued Tōge Sankichi Poems of the Atomic Bomb ("Dying"

and "The Shadow") WH157 6 pp.

Jan Honig and Norbert Both Massacre at Srebrenica WH510 22 pp. Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Prisoners go to Work WH508 7 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction The Mexican Revolution WHS021 2 pp. Mark Wasserman The Dictatorship Unravels WHS021-1 8 pp. Frank Brandenburg Fifty Years of Revolution WHS021-2 15 pp. Julia Tuñan Pablos Women in the Mexican Revolution WHS021-3 11 pp. Chapter Introduction The Bolshevik Revolution from Above

and Below WHS054 2

Diane Koenker Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution

WHS054-2 20

Jeffrey Brooks The Monopoly of the Printed Word: From Persuasion to Compulsion

WHS054-3 25

Richard Pipes The Red Terror WHS054-1 16 Chapter Introduction The Perpetrators of the Holocaust WHS055 2 pp. Raul Hilberg The Bureaucracy of Annihilation WHS055-1 20 pp. Christopher R. Browning from Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion

101 and the Final Solution in Poland WHS055-2 19 pp.

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen from Hitler’s Willing Executioners WHS055-3 27 pp. Chapter Introduction Japan and the Atomic Bomb WHS006 2 pp. Richard H. Minear Hiroshima, HIROSHIMA, “Hiroshima,”

Hiroshima WHS006-1 12 pp.

Laura Hein and Mark Selden Commemoration and Silence WHS006-2 34 pp. Chapter Introduction Approaches to Modern History:

Women’s History WHS057 2 pp.

Hilda Smith Feminism and the Methodology of Women’s History

WHS057-1 23 pp.

Gisela Bock Challenging Dichotomies: Perspectives on Women’s History

WHS057-2 27 pp.

Chapter Introduction The Post-World War II Revolutions in Latin America Compared: Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Peru

WHS022 4 pp.

Eric Selbin Social Revolutionary Paths: Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada

WHS022-1 23 pp.

Lois M. Smith & Alfred Padula Women in the Cuban Revolution WHS022-2 14 pp. Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley Guerillas in Latin American Revolutions WHS022-3 6 pp. Chapter Introduction Latin America in the Time of the Terror WHS023 2 pp. Dirk Kruijt and Kees

Koonings Violence and Fear in Latin America Marguerite

WHS023-1 17 pp.

Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo WHS023-2 12 pp. Thomas Skidmore Brazil’s Slow Road to Democratization,

1974–1985 WHS023-3 11 pp.

Chapter Introduction Militant Jihad Today: Historically Authentic or Aberrant?

WHS048 2 pp.

John L. Esposito Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam WHS048-1 20 pp. David Cook Understanding Jihad WHS048-2 36 pp. Chapter Introduction Revisiting Chairman Mao WHS067 1 p. Thomas Scharping New Chinese Literature on Mao WHS067-1 17 pp. Geremie Barmé The Posthumous Cult of Mao WHS067-2 31 pp.

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