The Western Tradition From the Renaissance to the Present, Volume II

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Pub. Date: 1994-01-02
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Table of Contents

Doing History xix
THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD 1(206)
Fresh Fields and Pastures New
3(44)
From Oration on the Dignity of Man
3(3)
Pico della Mirandola
from The Book of the City of Ladies
6(4)
Christine de Pisan
from The Prince
10(13)
Niccolo Machiavelli
from Gargantua and Pantagruel
23(7)
Francois Rabelais
from On Contracts and Usury
30(2)
Charles Dumoulin
Letter to Columbus
32(2)
Paolo Toscanelli
from The Journal
34(2)
Christopher Columbus
from A Journal of the First Voyage
36(4)
Vasco da Gama
from Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America
40(2)
Richard Hakluyt
Images: Disciplining Violence
42(5)
Reformation and Counter Reformation
47(47)
Conclusions
48(3)
John Wycliffe
Reply to the Summons of the Pope
49(2)
The Borgias: from Villari, The Life and Times of Niccolo Machiavelli
51(3)
from Mattarazzo, Cronaca della Citta di Perugia dal 1492 al 1503
52(1)
from Vespucci, Letter to Machiavelli
53(1)
Instructions Issued by Albert of Mainz
54(2)
A Sermon on Indulgences
56(1)
John Tetzel
The Ninety-Five Theses
57(12)
Martin Luther
On the Babylonish Captivity of the Church
64(1)
The Twelve Articles of the Peasants
65(4)
Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants, 1525
69(2)
Martin Luther
from The Institutes of the Christian Church, 1559
71(2)
John Calvin
from Spiritual Exercises
73(1)
Ignatius Loyola
The Council of Trent: Decrees
74(11)
Letter to the Abbot of Saint-Gall
85(2)
Joachim Opser
S.J.
from Histoire de Charles IX
87(1)
Papire Masson
The Roman Reaction: A Prayer of Thanks
87(1)
Images: an Urban Renaissance
88(6)
Political and Economic Changes
94(39)
Report of a Venetian Ambassador
94(3)
The Act of Supremacy (1534)
97(2)
Henry VIII
The Act of the Six Articles (1539)
98(1)
The Abdication in Brussels (1555)
99(2)
Charles V
The Gold of the Indies (1559)
101(2)
Philip II
Revenues of the King of Spain (1559)
102(1)
An Act Concerning Punishment of Beggars and Vagabonds (1531)
103(2)
Henry VIII
An Act for the Relief of the Poor (1598)
105(3)
Elizabeth I
from Utopia
108(3)
Thomas More
from Preface to the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity
111(5)
Richard Hooker
from La Republique
116(3)
Jean Bodin
Of Husbanding Your Will
119(14)
Montaigne
The Seventeenth Century
133(45)
from Simplicissimus
133(2)
Hans Jacob Christopher von Grimmelshausen
from England's Treasure by Foreign Trade
135(9)
Thomas Mun
from The Complete English Tradesman
144(6)
Daniel Defoe
What Is Scientific Authority?
150(3)
Galileo
from The Discourse upon Method
153(9)
Rene Descartes
from The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
162(2)
Isaac Newton
from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
164(14)
John Locke
The Witch-Persecution at Trier
167(1)
The Witch-Persecution at Bamberg
168(4)
The Methods of the Witch-Persecutions
172(6)
The Political Debate
178(29)
On the Nature and Properties of Royal Authority
178(4)
Jacques Benigne Bossuet
from The Leviathan
182(12)
Thomas Hobbes
from The Second Treatise on Government
194(13)
John Locke
A TIME OF BELIEF 207(204)
Images: Intimacy
208(5)
The Eighteenth Century
213(36)
from Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson
213(4)
James Boswell
from The Spirit of the Laws
217(5)
Montesquieu
On English Commerce
222(2)
Voltaire
On Presbyterians
223(1)
from The Social Contract
224(10)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
from Emile
232(2)
from An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
234(2)
Cesare Beccaria
from The Progress of the Human Mind
236(2)
Antoine Nicholas de Condorcet
from The Essay on Miracles
238(4)
David Hume
My Youth
242(7)
Jean-Roch Coignet
Enlightened Despotism
249(18)
Frederick the Great: from The Political Testament of Frederick II
249(10)
from Forms of Government
251(8)
from The Edict of Tolerance (1781)
259(1)
Joseph II
from The Grand Instructions (1768)
260(6)
Catherine II
A Footnote from Alexander Herzen (1859)
266(1)
A Dawn of Revolution
267(43)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
267(3)
from The Federalist
270(3)
James Madison
from Travels in France
273(15)
Arthur Young
from What Is the Third Estate?
288(3)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Decree of the French National Assembly Abolishing the Feudal System (1789)
291(5)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
294(2)
Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen (1791)
296(3)
Olympe de Gouges
Women in Paris Politics (May 1793)
299(1)
Clubs and Societies for Women
300(3)
The Guillotine: Letter from the Public Executioner
303(2)
Decree for the Levy en Masse (1793)
305(1)
Notes
306(2)
Robespierre
Democracy and Terror
307(1)
Proclamation of 19th Brumaire, 11 O'clock P. M.
308(2)
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Reaction
310(18)
Reflections on the French Revolution
310(9)
Edmund Burke
Human Justice
319(2)
Joseph de Maistre
The Holy Alliance (1815)
321(2)
from Memoirs
323(5)
Metternich
Romantics and Romanticism
328(20)
from Poetry and Truth
328(5)
Goethe
from Hyperion
333(2)
Friedrich Holderlin
Classic Art and Romantic Art
335(3)
August-Wilhelm Schlegel
Letter to a French Friend
337(1)
Romanticism
338(2)
Madame de Stael
``Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau'' (1800--1810)
340(2)
William Blake
``The Tiger'' (1794)
341(1)
``London'' (1794)
341(1)
``The Tables Turned'' (1798)
342(1)
William Wordsworth
London, 1802
343(1)
from ``Childe Harold's Pilgrimage''
343(3)
Lord Byron
from ``Lara, Canto I'' (1814)
344(2)
``England in 1819''
346(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
``Final Chorus from Hellas'' (1822)
346(2)
Economic Revolution
348(34)
from The Wealth of Nations
349(4)
Adam Smith
On Wages
353(1)
David Ricardo
from Essay on Utilitarianism
354(16)
John Stuart Mill
from On Liberty
364(6)
Evidence Given Before the Sadler Committee
370(4)
An Independent Observer
374(1)
Evidence Given Before Lord Ashley's Mines Commission of 1842
375(2)
from Self Help
377(5)
Samuel Smiles
But Life Goes on
382(7)
Chapels
382(1)
A. W. Pugin
Cheap Irish Labor
382(1)
Frederich Engels
An Advertisement
383(1)
Panaceas
A Catechism
383(1)
Blair
The London Times: A Report on Charity
383(1)
The Trouble with the System
384(1)
Charles Kingsley
Letter from a Working Woman
384(1)
Coming to Terms with Hardship
385(1)
The Other Oppressed
385(1)
Mrs. John Sandford
Order Established
386(1)
Alfred
Lord Tennyson
Order Threatened
386(1)
G. V. Cox
The Revolution of Cheap Calico
387(2)
Jules Michelet
Liberalism, Nationalism, and 1848
389(22)
Mazzini's Conversion to Nationalism
389(5)
Joseph Mazzini
On the Duties of Man
391(3)
from Historical Revelations
394(9)
Louis Blanc
from Recollections
403(6)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Afterthought
409(2)
Thomas Carlyle
A TIME OF QUESTIONING 411(168)
The Rise of Social-Revolutionary Doctrines
413(32)
from Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal
413(2)
Pietr Kropotkin
The Communist Manifesto
415(19)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
from De Rerum Novarum
434(11)
Leo XIII
The Drift of Scientific Thought
445(33)
from Positivistic Catechism
445(6)
Auguste Comte
from Darwinism
451(3)
Alfred Russel Wallace
The Debate Between Huxley and Wilberforce
454(3)
Leonard Huxley
from The Riddle of the Universe
457(1)
Ernst Haeckel
from Evolution and Ethics
458(4)
Thomas Huxley
from ``An Agnostic's Apology''
462(1)
Leslie Stephen
from ``The Gospel of Wealth''
463(4)
Andrew Carnegie
From the American Eugenics Society's 1930 Report
467(3)
Images: The Wonders of Technology
470(8)
Patterns of Change
478(30)
from A Speech to the Prussian Budget Commission
478(5)
Otto von Bismarck
On State Interference
479(2)
On Universal Suffrage
481(2)
On the Democratic Myth
483(2)
Constantin Pobyedonostsev
from A Manifesto
485(1)
George Bernard Shaw
from Evolutionary Socialism
486(5)
Eduard Bernstein
``Our Programme''
491(3)
Lenin
from The Brothers Karamazov
494(5)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Our Outlook
499(4)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Wild Beast in Man
500(1)
Life as Exploitation
501(1)
Master-Morality and Slave-Morality
501(2)
from The Subjection of Women
503(3)
John Stuart Mill
The London Times: ``The Militant `Suffragettes'''
506(2)
Nationalism and Imperialism
508(24)
The Ems Telegram
508(6)
Otto von Bismarck
The Triple Alliance
512(2)
from The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
514(2)
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
German Attitudes: Living Space
516(2)
How the New Germany Will Be Built
517(1)
Germany's Manifest Destiny
517(1)
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: Letters and Diaries from The Sahibs
518(2)
from ``The White Man's Burden''
520(2)
Rudyard Kipling
Western Influence in the East
522(3)
Arminius Vambery
Attitude Toward the Philippines
525(1)
William McKinley
Instructions to Peace Commissioners
526(1)
from The Betrayal of the West
526(6)
Jacques Ellul
War and Revolution
532(8)
Punch: Satirical Verses
532(1)
A Russian Socialist: Letter to The London Times
533(2)
The Fourteen Points
535(2)
Woodrow Wilson
From The Treaty of Versailles
537(3)
The Fallout of Slaughter
540(12)
Poem Fragments
540(1)
Rupert Brooke
``Into Battle''
541(1)
Julian Grenfell
``The Kiss''
541(3)
Siegfried Sassoon
``Counter-Attack''
542(1)
```They'''
543(1)
``On Passing the New Menin Gate''
544(1)
from The Intellectual Crisis (1919)
544(8)
Paul Valery
Extraneous Remarks (1927)
549(3)
Russia
552(27)
Meetings of the Council of Ministers (1915)
552(1)
Formation and Program of Provisional Government (1917)
553(1)
The All-Russian Congress of Soviets: Invitation to the Congress
554(6)
Clash Between Moderates and Bolsheviks (June 1917)
555(5)
The November Revolution, 1917: from Izvestia
560(2)
Brest-Litovsk: Accounts of the Conference
562(9)
Speech at the Third International
571(8)
Lenin
from ```Left Wing' Communism''
572(4)
Speech at the Fourth International
576(3)
A TIME OF FEAR 579(80)
Mussolini and Italian Fascism
581(13)
The Case for the Prosecution
581(2)
Francesco Nitti
The Case for the Defense
583(3)
Antonio Cippico
``The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism''
586(8)
Mussolini
National Socialism
594(13)
German Workers' Party: The Twenty-Five Points
594(3)
from Mein Kampf
597(5)
Adolf Hitler
U. S. State Department: from National Socialism
602(5)
Appeasement
607(27)
British Parliament: Debate of September 28, 1938
607(11)
The Chamberlain-Hitler Agreement
618(1)
British Parliament: Debate of October 3, 1938
619(15)
Debate of October 5, 1938
627(7)
The Second World War
634(25)
from Harvest of Hate
634(3)
Leon Poliakov
The Death Camps
637(3)
Other Methods of Genocide
640(2)
The Herald Tribune: Nuremberg Trials
642(1)
``Against Oblivion''
643(6)
Michel Francois
From The United States Strategic Bombing Survey
649(10)
ANOTHER POSTWAR WORLD 659(2)
The Cold War
661(1)
from the ``Iron Curtain'' Speech
661(3)
Winston Churchill
The Marshall Plan
664(1)
George Marshall
The North Atlantic Pact (1949)
665(2)
Dean Acheson
The Treaty of Paris (1951)
667(1)
from Speech to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party
668(3)
Nikita Khrushchev
from ``Eastern Europe: The Year of Truth''
671(1)
Timothy Garton Ash
Z: from ``To the Stalin Mausoleum''
672(1)
from ``Nationalisms and the New World Order''
673(4)
Ernest Gellner
Thriller
677(4)
Vaclav Havel
Population: Overpopulation?
681(1)
from Essay on the Principle of Population
681(1)
Thomas Malthus
from A Concise History of World Population
682(3)
Massimo Livi-Bacci
from Population Politics
685(8)
Virginia D. Abernethy
Education: Failure or Success?
693(1)
from ``Address at Vision 65''
693(7)
Marshall McLuhan
U. S. Department of Education: from A Nation At Risk
700(11)
from Schooling for Whom?
711(6)
Eugen Weber
``Opinion vs. Reality in an Age of Pundits and Spin Doctors''
717(6)
Michiko Kakutani
Political Correctness
723(1)
from ``Freedom and the Universities''
723(2)
C. Vann Woodward
from Surplus Visibility
725(2)
Katharine T. Bartlett
from ``The Self-Interest of Multiculturalism''
727(1)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
``College Diatribe Ignites Furor on Race and Speech''
728(3)
Jon Nordheimer
The Economist: ``An All-American Industry''
731(3)
Crime
734(1)
``Defining Deviancy Down''
734(12)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
``Rape and Modern Sex War''
746(4)
Camille Paglia
Epilogue
750(1)
``The Gods of the Copybook Headings''
750
Rudyard Kipling

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