World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader, 2nd EditionPeter N. Stearns A textbook of primary sources of key events in history that have altered the past |
Contents
River Valley Civilizations 35001000 b c e | 11 |
The Importance of the State | 25 |
Political Ideals in China and Greece | 34 |
Social Inequality | 41 |
Military Roles in China and Rome | 58 |
Buddhism and Christianity | 68 |
The Postclassical Period 4501450 | 79 |
Conditions of Women in Islam Byzantine Christianity | 90 |
Coffee in Early Modern World History | 211 |
The Long Nineteenth Century | 219 |
Nationalism | 232 |
Chinese and English Views | 242 |
The Emancipations and Their Consequences | 252 |
Russian and Japanese Conservatism | 265 |
Women and Education in the Nineteenth Century | 291 |
The Contemporary Period 1914Present | 303 |
Feudalism in Western Europe and Japan | 100 |
Muslim and European Reactions | 111 |
Merchants and Trade | 121 |
Conquests and Connections | 131 |
Africa in the Postclassical World | 142 |
Chinese and Portuguese Voyages in the Fifteenth Century | 154 |
The Early Modern Period 14501750 | 161 |
The Spread of Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade | 177 |
The Scientific Revolution and Global Impact | 190 |
The Gunpowder Empires | 202 |
Italian Fascism | 318 |
Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan | 332 |
Africa and Latin America | 357 |
Women and Global Change | 370 |
Global Consumerism and Its Discontents | 384 |
Terrorism and AntiTerrorism | 397 |
Global Warming and Global Environmentalism | 405 |
About the Editor | 417 |