About the Book
Sources of the Westpresents a well-balanced selection of readings that integrate coverage of social, economic, religious, and cultural history within a traditional, political framework.
The text includes constitutional documents, political theory, philosophy, imaginative literature, and social description that raise significant issues for classroom discussions or lectures. By analyzing the voices of the past, readers can connect them to the present; learn to understand and respect other cultures; and think critically about history.
Table of Contents:
Preface ix
How to Read a Document xiii
Part iV The Ancient Régime 1
The Wars of Religion 3
74. Henry IV, The Edict of Nantes (1598) 3
75. Cardinal Richelieu, The Political Testament (1638) 5
76. Hans von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (1669) 8
Subjects and Sovereigns 13
77. James I, True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598) 13
78. Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579) 18
79. Sir William Clarke, The Putney Debates (1647) 23
80. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) 29
81. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1689) 32
82. The English Bill of Rights, (1689) 36
83. Duc De Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694—1723) 42
Science and Commerce 46
84. Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) 46
85. René Descartes, Discourse on Method (1637) 50
86. Thomas Mun, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664) 54
87. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776) 59
Enlightened Monarchy 63
88. Catherine the Great, Memoirs (ca. 1755) 63
89. Maria Theresa, Testament (1749—1750) 66
90. Viscount Bolingbroke, The Idea of a Patriot King (1749) 70
The Enlightenment 73
91. Voltaire, Candide (1759) 73
92. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) 77
93. Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws (1748) 81
94. Captain James Cook, Journals (1769) 85
95. Joseph Crassons de Medeuil, Notes on the French Slave Trade (1784—1785) 89
96. Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence (1776) 94
97. Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments (1764) 97
98. Marquis de Condorcet, The Progress of the Human Mind (1793) 100
The French Revolution 103
99. Abbé de Sieyès, What Is the Third Estate? (1789) 103
100. The Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789); Olympe de Gouges; The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) 108
101. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 113
Part V The Age of Reform 117
Industrialization in Britain 119
102. Thomas Malthus, The Iron Law of Population Growth (1798) 119
103. Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859) 125
104. Sir Edwin Chadwick, Inquiry into the Condition of the Poor (1842) 129
105. Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) 134
Nineteenth-Century Society and Culture 139
106. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813) 139
107. Henrietta-Lucy, Madame de la Tour du Pin, Memoirs (1820—1843) 143
108. Alexis Soyer, Modern Housewife (1850); Isabella Beeton,Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management (1861) 147
109. Documents of the Irish Potato Famine (1845—1849) 151
Political Critiques 158
110. J. S. Mill, On Liberty (1859) 158
111. Pierre Proudhon, What Is Property? (1840) 162
112. The Great Charter (1842) 166
113. William II, Letter to the Shogun (1844);Bakufu, Reply to the Government of Holland (1845) 170
114. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848) 174
115. Alexander II and Prince Kropotkin, The Emancipation of the Serfs (1861) 178
116. Otto von Bismarck, Reflections and Reminiscences (1898);Speech to the Reichstag (1879) 181
117. Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (The Condition of Labor) (1891) 186
Emancipating the Mind and the Body 194
118. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871) 194
119. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886) 197
120. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) 202
121. Carl Jung, On the Nature of the Psyche 206
122. E. Sylvia Pankhurst, History of the Suffrage Movement (1912) 209
Thoughts on Empire 214
123. J. A. Hobson, Imperialism (1902) 214
124. Cecil Rhodes, Confession of Faith (1877) 217
125. Carl Veltin, Social Life of the Swahilis (late 19th century) 220
126. Rudyard Kipling, ”The White Man’s Burden” (1899) 226
127. George Orwell, ”Shooting an Elephant” (1936) 227
Part Vi Twentieth-Century Europe 233
War and Revolution 235
128.Voices from the Battle of the Somme (1916) 235
129. Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel (1920) 241
130. Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918) 244
131. V. I. Lenin, What Is to Be Done? (1902) 247
The Second World War 251
132. J. M. Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) 251
133. Winifred Holtby, Women and a Changing Civilization (1934) 254
134. Benito Mussolini, Fascist Doctrine (1932) 258
135. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1923) 262
136. Memories of the Holocaust (1938—1945) 266
137. Winston Churchill, Speeches (1940) 272
138. Primo Levi, The Last Christmas of the War (1971) 275
139. Adolf Eichmann, Testimony (1961) 280
The Twentieth-Century Imagination 284
140. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929) 284
141. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) 289
142. Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism (1946) 293
143. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) 297
The Transformation of Eastern Europe 302
144. Winston Churchill, ”The Iron Curtain” (1946) 302
145. Nikita Khrushchev, Report to the Communist Party Congress (1961) 306
146. Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika (1987) 310
147. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History? (1989) 315
Toward a New World 322
148. Charter of the United Nations (1946) 322
149. The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States (1974) 326
150. Kofi Annan, Report on the Fall of Srebrenica (1999) 331
151. Report of the 9/11 Commission (2004) 340
Acknowledgments 347
Photo Credits 353
