Community College of Denver: History
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Text BookA History of World Societies 5/e, 2000, McKay, Butler, Hill and Ebrey, New York, Houghton Mifflin. World Civilizations Students' Resource Center Primary Sources in Western Civilization from Houghton Mifflin Company Authors John P. McKay, professor of history at the University of Illinois, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. Author of three books, he won the Herbert Baxter Adams Award from the American Historical Association with his Pioneers for Profit. He is a Senior Fulbright Fellow and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bennett D. Hill, formerly chairman and professor of history at the University of Illinois, received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1963. He has taught at the University of Maryland and is now a visiting Professor at Georgetown University. He has published two books and many journal articles. John Buckler, professor of history at the University of Illinois, earned his doctorate at Harvard University in 1973. He has published numerous journal articles and written a monograph, The Theban Hegemony, published by the Harvard University Press. Patricia Ebrey, a noted historian who specializes in Asian history. |
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16. The Acceleration of Global Contact
The World of the Indian Ocean
Europe's Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion
Global Trade Networks
The Chinese and Japanese Discovery of the West
The Impact of Contact
Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage
17. Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe, ca 1589-1725
France: The Model of Absolute Monarchy
The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century
Absolutism in Eastern Europe: Austria, Prussia, and Russia
England: The Triumph of Constitutional Monarchy
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
Listening to the Past: The Court at Versailles
18. Toward a New World-View in the West
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment and Absolutism
Listening to the Past: Voltaire on Religion
19. The Changing Life of the People in Europe
Agriculture and Population
Marriage and the Family
Children and Education
Food and Medical Practice
Religion and Popular Culture
Listening to the Past: A New Way to Educate Children
20. Africa and the World, ca 1400-1800
Senegambia and Benin
The Sudan: Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland
Ethiopia
The Swahili City-States
The Slave Trade
Listening to the Past: Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili
City-States
21. West and South Asia: The Islamic World Powers, ca 1450-1800
The Ottoman Turkish Empire
The Persian Theocratic State
India, from Mughal Domination to British Dominion (ca 1498-1805)
Listening to the Past: The Weighing of Shah Jahan on His
Forty-Second Lunar Birthday
22. Continuity and Change in East Asia, ca 1400-1800
China, from the Ming to the Mid-Qing (ca 1368-1795)
Korean (Choson)
Japan (ca 1400-1800)
Listening to the Past: The Quinlong Emperor Responds to King
George III
23. The Revolution in Western Politics, 1775-1815
Liberty and Equality
The American Revolution (1775-1789)
The French Revolution (1789-1791)
World War and Republican France (1791-1799)
The Napoleonic Era (1799-1815)
Listening to the Past: Revolution and Women's Rights
24. The Industrial Revolution in Europe
The Initial Breakthrough in England
Energy and Transportation
Industrialization in Continental Europe
Capital and Labor
Listening to the Past: The Testimony of Young Mining Workers
25. Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1871
The Peace Settlement
Radical Ideas and Early Socialism
Romanticism
Reforms and Revolutions (1815-1850)
Nation Building in France, Italy, and Germany
Listening to the Past: Faith in Democratic Nationalism
26. European Life in the Age of Nationalism
Cities and Social Classes
The Changing Family
Science and Culture
The Responsive National State (1871-1914)
Marxism and the Socialist Movement
Listening to the Past: Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality
27. Africa and Asia in the Era of Western Industrialization, 1800-1914
Industrialization and the World Economy
The Great Migration
Western Imperialism, 1880-1914
The Islamic World Under Pressure
Sub-Saharan Africa: From the Slave Trade to Foreign Rule
Colonialism in India and Southeast Asia
Rapid Change in East Asia
Listening to the Past: A Japanese Plan for a Modern Army
28. Nation Building in the Western Hemisphere and Australia
Latin America (1800-1929)
The United States (1789-1929)
Canada, from French Colony to Nation
Australia, from Penal Colony to Nation
Listening to the Past: Simón Bolívar's Speculation on Latin America
29. The Great Break: War and Revolution
The First World War
The Home Front
The Russian Revolution
The Peace Settlement
Listening to the Past: The Experience of War
30. Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939
The First World War and Western Imperialism
The Middle East
Toward Self-Rule in India
Turmoil in East Asia
Listening to the Past: Nonviolent Resistance in India
31. The Age of Anxiety in the West
Uncertainty in Modern Thought
Modern Art and Music
Movies and Radio
The Search for Peace and Political Stability
The Great Depression (1929-1939)
Listening to the Past: A Christian View of Evil
32. Dictatorships and the Second World War
Authoritarian States
Stalin's Soviet Union
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
Hitler and Nazism in Germany
Nazi Expansion and the Second World War
Listening to the Past: Witness to the Holocaust
33. Recovery and Crisis in Europe and the Americas
The Division of Europe
Renaissance and Crisis in Western Europe
Soviet Eastern Europe, 1945-1991
The Western Hemisphere
The Post-Cold War Era, 1991 to the Present
Listening to the Past: A Solidarity Leader Speaks from Prison
34. Asia and Africa in the Contemporary World
The Resurgence of East Asia
New Nations in South Asia and the Muslim World
Imperialism and Nationalism in Black Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1960
Listening to the Past: The Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
35. Changing Lives in the Developing Countries
The Emergence of the Third World
Economic and Social Challenges
The Growth of Cities, 1945 to the Present
Growing Diversity Since 1980
Mass Culture and Contemporary Thought
Interpreting the Experiences of the Emerging World
Listening to the Past: Voices from the Village
36. One Small Planet
World Politics
Global Interdependence
Patterns of Thought
Listening to the Past: One World and a Plan for Survival
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on the Aztecs: Two Letters to Charles V |
Chapter: | 14, 16 |
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| Date: | 1521 |
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| Author: | Hernando Cortés |
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| Description: | Letters/Sociological
Observations |
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Council of Trent and Catholic Reformation |
Chapter: | 15, 16 |
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| Date: | 1563 |
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| Author: | Acts of the Council of
Trent |
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| Description: | Church Decrees |
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| The
Book Of Descriptions Of Countries |
Chapter: | 16 |
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| Date: | 1340 |
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| Author: | Francesco Pegolotti |
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| Description: | Merchant Handbook |
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| 15th-Century
Slave Trade: The Portuguese in West Africa |
Chapter: | 16 |
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| Date: | 1455-1456 |
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| Author: | Alvise da Cadamosto |
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| Description: | Account |
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| Columbus
Announces His Discovery |
Chapter: | 16 |
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| Date: | 1493 |
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| Author: | Christopher Columbus |
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| Description: | Letter/Sociological
Observations |
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| History
and Description of Africa |
Chapter: | 16, 20 |
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| Date: | 1526 |
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| Author: | Leo Africanus |
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| Description: | Sociological
Observations |
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| Galileo
Discovers the Moons of Jupiter |
Chapter: | 18 |
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| Date: | 1610 |
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| Author: | Galileo Galilei |
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| Description: | Astromomical Study |
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| An
Eyewitness Describes the Slave Trade in Guinea |
Chapter: | 20 |
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| Date: | c. 1700 |
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| Author: | Captain Willem Bosman |
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| Description: | First-hand Account |
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African Slave Relates His First Impressions Upon Boarding a Slave Ship |
Chapter: | 20 |
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| Date: | 1793 |
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| Author: | Olaudah Equiano |
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| Description: | Memoir/First-hand
Account |
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| Declaration
of Independence |
Chapter: | 23 |
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| Date: | 1776 |
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| Author: | Thomas Jefferson |
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| Description: | Political Declaration |
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| What
Is the Third Estate? |
Chapter: | 23 |
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| Date: | 1789 |
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| Author: | Abbé Emmanuel Joseph
Sieyès |
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| Description: | Polemical Pamphlet |
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| The
Wealth of Nations |
Chapter: | 24, 25 |
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| Date: | 1776 |
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| Author: | Adam Smith |
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| Description: | Economic Theory |
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| Czech
Nationalism Finds a Literary Outlet |
Chapter: | 25, 26 |
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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Author: | Bozena Nemcova |
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| Description: | Fiction |
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| The
'Poet Laureate of Empire' Issues a Word of Warning |
Chapter: | 27 |
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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Author: | Rudyard Kipling |
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| Description: | Poem |
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| An
Indian Nationalist Condemns the British Empire |
Chapter: | 27 |
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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Author: | Sarojini Naidu |
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| Description: | Speech |
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| A
Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti: Toussaint L'Ouverture |
Chapter: | 28 |
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| Date: | 1797 |
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| Author: | François Dominique
Toussaint L'Ouverture |
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| Description: | Political Declaration |
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| The
Mexican View of the War |
Chapter: | 28, 29 |
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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Author: | Ramon Alvarez et al. |
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| Description: | Historical Account |
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| The
Fourteen Points |
Chapter: | 29 |
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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Author: | Woodrow Wilson |
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| Description: | Diplomatic Guidelines |
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| The
Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation: The Nuremberg Laws |
Chapter: | 32 |
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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Author: | Nazi German Government |
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| Description: | Law |
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World Advocate Decries Colonized Peoples' Loss of Identity |
Chapter: | 33, 34 |
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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Author: | Frantz Fanon |
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| Description: | Socio-political
Commentary |
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| The
Helsinki Final Act: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Enunciated |
Chapter: | 33 |
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| Date: | 1975 |
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| Author: | Helsinki Conference on
European Security |
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| Description: | International Accord |
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| The
Gulf War |
Chapter: | 36 |
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| Date: | 1990 |
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| Author: | George Bush |
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| Description: | Political Speech/Policy |
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