About the Book
Edited by Mark Kishlansky, this reader is designed to supplement world civilization courses with a rich array of primary source materials including constitutional documents, political theory, philosophy, imaginative literature, and social description.
Table of Contents:
Preface. Contents by Regions. Chronological Contents. How to Read a Document. How to Read a Visual. Part I. ANCIENT SOCIETIES. 1. Origin Stories. 1. The Ancestors of the People Called Indians (The Huarochiri Manuscript) (ca. 1598--1608 C.E.). 2. The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 B.C.E.). 3. The Book of Genesis (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.E.). 4. The Kojiki (712 C.E.). 2. The Cradle of Civilization. 5. The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.). 6. Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century B.C.E.). 7. The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century B.C.E.). 8. Anonymous, Instructions in Letter Writing by an Egyptian Scribe (ca. 1200 B.C.E.). 9. The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.E.). 3. Archaic and Classical Greece. 10. Homer, The Iliad (9th--8th century B.C.E.). 11. Herodotus, Description of Africa (450 B.C.E.). 12. Plato, The Apology (399 B.C.E.). 13. Plato, The Republic (ca. 327 B.C.E.). 14. Aristotle, Politics (4th century B.C.E.). 4. The Religions of the East. 15. The Upanishads (ca. 600--500 B.C.E.). 16. The Buddha, Sermons and Teachings (6th century B.C.E.). 17. Bhagavad-Gita (ca. 200 B.C.E.). 18. Confucius, Analects (ca. 500 B.C.E.). 19. Lao-Tzu, Tao-Te Ching (ca. 500 B.C.E.). 5. China: War and Politics. 20. Sun-Tzu, The Art of War (ca. 500 B.C.E.). 21. Anonymous, The Book of Songs (ca. 1200--1100 B.C.E.). 22. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, The Records of the Grand Historian of China (110--85 B.C.E.). 23. Han Fei Tzu, Memorials (ca. 230 B.C.E.). 6. Ancient Rome. 24. Cicero, On the Laws (ca. 52 B.C.E.). 25. Virgil, The Aeneid (30--19 B.C.E.). 26. Suetonius, The Life of Augustus (ca. 122 C.E.). 27. The Sermon on the Mount (ca. 28--35 C.E.) Part II. TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES. 7. Africa and the Muslim World. 28. Justinian I, Code (529--565 C.E.). 29. Procopius, Secret History (ca. 560 C.E.). 30. The Koran (7th century C.E.). 31. Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad (after 733 C.E.). 32. Al-Mas'udi, The Meadows of Gold (10th century C.E.). 33. Ibn Said, Book of the Maghrib (13th century C.E.). 34. Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah (1377 C.E.). 35. Ibn Battuta, Travels in Africa (1364 C.E.). 36. Joao dos Santos, Ethiopia Oriental (1609 C.E.) 8. Asian Cultures. 37. Pan Chao, Lessons for Women (ca. 99 C.E.). 38. Fa-hsien, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (394--414 C.E.). 39. Prince Shotoku, The Seventeen Article Constitution (604 C.E.). 40. The Examination System During the T'ang Dynasty (8th century C.E.). 41. The Lotus of the Wonderful Law (806 C.E.). 42. Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji (ca. 1000 C.E.). 43. Yuan Ts'ai, Precepts for Social Life (1178 C.E.). 44. The Laws of Manu (before 200 C.E.) 9. The Fall of Rome and the European Middle Ages. 45. Tacitus, The Germania (98 C.E.). 46. The Burgundian Code (ca. 474 C.E.). 47. Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (ca. 829--836 C.E.). 48. Magna Carta (1215 C.E.). 49. Anonymous, Njal's Saga (13th century C.E.). 10. The Development of Christianity. 50. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (413--426 C.E.). 51. St. Benedict of Nursia, The Rule (ca. 535--540 C.E.). 52. St. Francis of Assisi, Admonitions (ca. 1220 C.E.). 53. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1265--1273 C.E.). 54. Heloise, The Letters (12th century C.E.). Part III. DYNASTIES AND EMPIRES. 11. Cultures in Collision. 55. Anna Comnena, The Alexiad (1097 C.E.). 56. Odo of Deuil, The Journey of Louis VII to the East (1147 C.E.). 57. Usama ibn Munqidh, Memoirs (after 1175 C.E.). 58. Jamal ad-Din ibn Wasil, The Dissipator of Anxieties (1250 C.E.). 12. The Italian Renaissance. 59. Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family (1435--1444 C.E.). 60. Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1550 C.E.). 61. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513 C.E.). 62. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1400 C.E.). 13. China and Japan in the Middle Ages. 63. The Hojo Code (1232 C.E.). 64. Kitabatake Chikafusa, A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns (1339--1343 C.E.). 65. Zeami Motokiyo, Kadensho (1440--1442 C.E.). 66. Shih Nai-an, All Men Are Brothers (14th century C.E.). 67. Anonymous, The Yangzhou Massacre (1645 C.E.). 14. European Encounters. 68. Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, The History of the Great and Mightie Kingdom of China (1585 C.E.). 69. Matteo Ricci, Journals (1583--1610 C.E.). 70. Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Chronicle of Guinea (1453 C.E.). 71. Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497--1499 C.E.). 72. Christopher Columbus, Letter from the First Voyage (1493 C.E.). 73. Bernal Diaz, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1552--1568 C.E.). 74. An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1528 C.E.). 75. Bernabe Cobo, History of the Inca Empire (1653 C.E.). 76. Bartolome de las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies (1566 C.E.). 77. Pedro de Leon Portocarrero, Description of Lima, Peru (ca. 1600 C.E.). 15. The Golden Age of Islam. 78. 'Abd ul-Haqq al Dihlawi al-Bukhari, The Perfection of Faith (11th century C.E.). 79. Omar Khayyam, The Ruba'iyat (11th century C.E.). 80. Kritovoulos, The History of Mehmed the Conqueror (1453 C.E.). 81. Letters Between Sultan Selim I and Shah Isma'il (ca. 1514 C.E.). 82. Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa (1550 C.E.). 83. Francois Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire (1656--1668 C.E.). 16. The Reform of Christianity. 84. Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1509 C.E.). 85. Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520 C.E.) and Of Marriage and Celibacy (1566 C.E.). 86. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1534 C.E.). 87. Francis Xavier, Letter from India (1543 C.E.). 88. Teresa of Avila, The Life of St. Teresa (1611 C.E.)
About the Author :
Mark Kishlansky is Professor of English and European History and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Harvard University. Before joining the Harvard faculty he taught for sixteen years at the University of Chicago, where he was a member of the Committee on Social Thought. Professor Kishlansky is a specialist on seventeenth-century English political history and has written, among other works, A MONARCHY TRANSFORMED, THE RISE OF THE NEW MODEL ARMY, and PARLIAMENTARY SELECTION: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CHOICE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. From 1984 to 1991 he was editor of the JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES. He is currently writing a history of the reign of Charles I entitled THE DEATH OF KINGS.
