Western Civilization: Sources Images and Interpretations Volume 2 Since 1660: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, Since 1660 - Brossura

Sherman, Dennis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0077382404 ISBN 13: 9780077382407

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2010

Riassunto

This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and hundreds of years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries--drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspectives and approaches--offer valuable insight into the work of historians and provide the context that helps students understand the texts' full historical significance.

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L'autore:

Dennis Sherman is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. He received his B.A. (1962) and J.D. (1965) degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. (1970) from the University of Michigan . . He was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris (1978-79; 1985). He has received the Ford Foundation Prize Fellowship, the Council for Research on Economic History fellowship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His publications include A Short History of Western Civilization, 8th edition (co-author); Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 5th edition; World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, 2nd Edition (co-author); a series of introductions in the Garland Library of War and Peace; several articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French economic and social history in American and European journals, and short stories on literary reviews.

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***Contents preliminary

Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century

Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources: Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism

Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism

Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: MonarchicalAuthority in Prussia

Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France

John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power

Visual Sources

Using Visual Sources: The Early Modern Chateau

The Early Modern Chateau (photo)

Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Using Secondary Sources: Absolutism: Myth and Reality

G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality

George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689

Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family

Linda A. Pollock, Childhood in Early Modern Times

Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution

Primary Sources

Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method

Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture

The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned

Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Visual Sources

A Vision of the New Science (illustration)

Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the ScientificRevolution

Steven Shapin, Nature as a Machine: The Clock

Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist

Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution forWomen

Chapter Eighteen: Politics and Society in the Ancien Regime

Primary Sources

Frederick the Great, Political Testament

Daniel Defoe, The Complete English Tadesman

Anonymous, The Slave Trade

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letter to Lady R., 1716: Women and theAristocracy

Women of the Third Estate

Visual Sources

Jean-Honore Fragonard, Happy Accidents of the Swing (illustration)

Jean Defraine, Act of Humanity (illustration)

C. C. P. Lawson, The Battle of Fontenoy (text and illustration)

The Atlantic Slave Trade (chart)

Secondary Sources

David Brion Davis, Slavery--White, Black, Muslim, Christian

John Roberts, The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities

Leonard Krieger, The Resurgent Aristocracy

Jerome Blum, Lords and Peasants

Merry R. Wiesner, Women's Work in Preindustrial Europe

Chapter Nineteen: The Enlightenment

Primary Sources

Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment

Baron d'Holbach, The System of Nature

Denis Diderot, Prospectus for the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences

The Philosophe

Voltaire, Philisophical Dictionary: The English Model

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason: Deism

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

Visual Sources

Frontispiece of the Encyclopedie (illustration)

Joseph Wright, Experiment with an Air Pump (illustration)

Roy Porter, The Secularization of European Thought

Joseph II of Austria, Propoganda and the Enlightened Monarch (text andillustration)

Secondary Sources

Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, Women in the Salons

PART III: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Chapter Twenty: The French Revolution

Primary Sources

Arthur Young, Travels in France: Signs of Revolution

The Cashiers: Discontents of the Third Estate

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, What is the Third Estate?

Revolutionary Legislation: Abolition of the Feudal System

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women

The Declaration of Independence

Maximilien Robespierre, Speech to the National Convention--February5, 1794: The Terror Justified

Francois-Xavier Joliclerc, A Soldier's Letters to His Mother:

Revolutionary Nationalism

Visual Sources

Jearut de Bertray: Allegory of the Revolution (illustration)

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Henri de la Rochjacquelein (illustration)

Internal Disturbances and the Reign of Terror (maps and charts)

Secondary Sources

Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the French Revolution

Donald M. G. Sutherland, The Revolution of the Notables

Ruth Graham, Loaves and Liberty: Women in the French Revolution

William Doyle, An Evaluation of the French Revolution

Chapter Twenty-One: The Age of Napoleon

Primary Sources

Madame de Remusat, Memoirs: Napoleon's Appeal

Joseph Fouche, Memoirs: Napoleon's Secret Police

Napoleon's Diary

Visual Sources

Jacques Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps (illustration)

Antoine-Jean Gros, Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims at Jaffa (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Tim Blanning, Napoleon: The Authoritarian Statesman

Martyn Lyons, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution

Bonnie G. Smith, Women and the Napoleon Code

Chapter Twenty-Two: Industrialization and Social Change

Primary Sources

Testimony for the Factory Act of 1833: Working Condition in England

Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, or the Two Nations: Mining Towns

Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

Samuel Smiles, Self-Help: Middle-Class Attitudes

Honore de Balzac, Father Goriot: Money and the Middle Class

Elizabeth Poole Sandford, Woman in Her Social and Domestic Character

Visual Sources

Claude Monet, Gare Saint Lazare (illustration)

William Bell Scott, Iron and Coal (illustration)

Illustration from Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong(illustrations)

Industrialization and Demographic Change (maps)

Secondary Sources

Robert L. Heilbroner, The Making of Economic Society: England, theFirst to Industrialize

Peter N. Stearns, The Industrial Revolution in Russia

Peter Stearns and Herrick Chapman, Early Industrial Society: Progress orDecline?

Michael Anderson, The Family and Industrialization in Western Europe

Chapter Twenty-Three: Reaction, Reform, Revolution, and Romanticism:1815-1848

Primary Sources

Prince Klemens von Metternich, Secret Memorandum to Tsar Alexander I,1820: Conservative Principals

The Carlsbad Decrees, 1819: Conservative Repression

Jeremy Bentham, English Liberalism

The Economist, 1851, Liberalism: Progress and Optimism

The First Chartist Petition: Demands for Change in England

Annual Register, 1848, An Eyewitness Account of the Revolutions of 1848in Germany

William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned: The Glories of Nature

Visual Sources

Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey Graveyard in the Snow (illustration)

Rene de Chateaubriand, The Genius of Christianity (text)

Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People: Romanticism and Liberalism (illustration)

Honore Daumier, Working Class Disappointments: Rue Transnonain, April 15,1834 (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Hajo Holborn, The Congress of Vienna

E. K. Bransted and M. J. Melhuish, Western Liberalism

Jonathan Sperber, The European Revolutions, 1848-1851

John Weiss, The Revolutions of 1848

Chapter Twenty-Four: The National State, Nationalism, and Imperialism:1850-1914

Primary Sources

Otto von Bismarck, Speeches on Pragmatism and State Socialism

Giuseppe Mazzini, The Duties of Man

Heinrich von Treitschke, Militant Nationalism

Friedrich Fabri, Does Germany need Colonies?

Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden

Royal Niger Company, Controlling Africa: The Standard Treaty

Jacek Malczewski, Melancholia

Visual Sources

George Harcourt, Imperialism Glorified (illustration)

American Imperialism in Asia: Independence Day 1899 (illustration)

Imperialism in Africa (maps)

Secondary Sources

Raymond Grew, A Sterner Plan for Italian Unity: Nationalism,Liberalism, and Conservatism

Eric J. Hobsbawn, The Age of Empire

Carlton J.H. Hayes, Imperialism as Nationalistic Phenomenon

Daniel R. Headrick, The Tools of Empire

Margaret Strobel, Gender and Empire

Chapter Twenty-Five: Culture, Thought, and Society: 1850-1914

Primary Sources

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man

Herbert Spencer, Social Statics: Liberalism and Social Darwinism

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Our Sisters, Women as Chemists [Pharmacists]

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto

Anna Maier, Socialist Women: Becoming a Socialist

Emmeline Pankhurst, Why We Are Militant

Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors

Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Foundations of the Nineteenth Century:Racism

Richard Wagner, Judaism in Music: Anti-Semitism

Visual Sources

Eastman Johnson, The hatch Family: The Upper Middle Class (illustration)

The Ages of Woman (illustration)

Kathe Kollwitz, Lunch Hour: The Working Class (illustration)

Leon Frederick, The Stages of a Workers' Life (illustration)

Jacob Steinhardt, The City (illustration)

Secondary Sources

F. H. Hinsley, The Decline of Political Liberalism

Adam B. Ulam, The Unfinishe d Revolution: Marxism Interpreted

C.A. Bayly, Understanding Nineteenth-Century Industrialization and Urban Life

Eleanor S. Riemer and John C. Fout, European Women

PART IV: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1914 TO THE PRESENT

Chapter Twenty-Six: War and Revolution: 1914-1920

Primary Sources

Evelyn Blucher, The Home Front

Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est: DisillusionmentProgram of the Provisional Government in Russia

V. I. Lenin, April Theses: The Bolshevik Opposition

V. I. Lenin, Speech to the Petrograd Soviet--November 8, 1917: TheBolsheviks in Power

Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points

Visual Sources

World War I: The Front Lines (photo)

C.R.W. Nevinson, The Paths of Glory (figure)

World War II: The Home Front and Women (photo and charts)

Revolutionary Propaganda (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, Germany and the Coming of War

Hew Strachan, The Outbreak of the First World War

Gordon A. Craig, The Revolution in War and Diplomacy

Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, Women, Work, and World War I

Arthur Walworth, Peace and Diplomacy

Robert Service, The Russian Revolution

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Democracy, Depression, and Instability: The 1920sand 1930s

Primary Sources

Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back

Lilo Linke, Restless Days

Heinrich Hauser, With Germany's UnemployedProgram of the Popular Front--January 11, 1936

Jose Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses

Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0077382404
• ISBN 13: 9780077382407
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 226