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This reader, edited by well-known author Mark Kishlansky, includes a diversity of historical documents from world and western history designed to supplement textbooks and lectures in the teaching of world civilizations. It is an ideal complement to WORLD HISTORY, Second Edition by Duiker/Spielvogel; WORLD HISTORY, Second Edition by Upshur et al; and WORLD HISTORY, Fifth Edition by Adler. This reader provides a balance of constitutional documents, political theory, philosophy, imaginative literature, and social description.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION. STORIES OF CREATION. 1. Popol Vuh 2. The Creation Epic. 3. The Book of Genesis. The Cradles of Civilizations. 4. The Epic of Gilgamesh. 5. Code of Hammurabi. 6. The Book of the Dead. 7. Anonymous, Instructions in Letter Writing by an Egyptian Scribe. 8. The Book of Exodus. Archaic and Classical Greece. 9. Homer, the Iliad. 10. Sophocles, Antigone. 11. Plato, The Apology. 12. Plato, the republic. 13. Aristotle, Politics. The Religion of the East. 14. The Upanishads. 15. The Budda. Sermons and Teachings. 16. Bhagavad-Gita. 17. Confucius Analects. 18. Lao-Tzu, Te-Tao Ching. Hina: War and Politics. 19. Sun-Tzu. The Art of War. 20. Anonymous, The Book of Songs. 21. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, The Records of the Grand Historian of China. 22. Han Fei Tzu, Memorials. Ancient Rome. 23. Cicero, The Laws. 24. Virgil, the Aneid. 25. Plutarch, The Life of ato the Elder. 26. Suetonius, The Life of Augustus. 27. The Sermon on the Mount. PART TWO: TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES. AFRICA AND THE MUSLIM WORLD. 28. Justinian, Code. 29. Procopius, Secret History. 30. The Koran. 31. Ibn Said, Book of the Maghrib. 32. Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah. Ibn Battuta, Travels in Afria. 34. Joao dos Santos. Ethiopia Oriental. Asian Cultures. 35. The Lotus of the Wonderful Law. 36. Fa-hsien, A Reord of Buddhistic Kingdoms. 37. The Examination System During the Tang Dynasty. 38. Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji. 39. Ssu-ma Kuang, The Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government. 40. Prince Shotoku, The seventeen Article Constitution. Yuan Ts'si, Precepts for Soial Life. Europe After the Fall of Rome. 42. Tacitus, The Germania. 43. The Burgundian Code. 44. Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne. 45. Feudal Documents. 46. Magna Carta. 47. The Battle of Maldon. 48. Augustine of Hippo, City of God. 49. Benedict of Nursia, the Rule. 50. Francis of Assissi, Admonitions. 51. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theological. 52. Witchcraft Documents. PART THREE: DYNASTIES AND EMPIRES. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. 53. Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family. 54. Giorgio Vasari, The Leonardo Da Vinci. 55. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince. Cultures in Collision. 56. Anna Comncna., The Alexiad. 57. Odo of Deuil, The Journey of Louis VII to the East. 58. Usama Ibn Munqidh, Memoirs. 59. Jamal ad-Din Ibn Wasil, The Dissipator of Anxieties. Hina and Japan in the Middle Ages. 60. The Hojo Code. 61. Kitabatake Chikafusa, A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. 62. Zeami Motokiyo, Kadensho. 63. Shih Nai-an, All Men Are Brothers. European Encounters. Juan Gonzales de Mendoza, The History of the Great and Mightie Kingdom of China. 65. Matteo Ricci, Journals. 66. Bernal Diaz, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. 67. An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. 68. Bernabe Cobo, History of the Inca Empire. 69. Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama. 70. Christopher Columbus, Letter From the First Voyage. 71. Bartolome de las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies. The golden Age of Islam.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780534560348
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
  • Height: 250 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 612 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0534560342
  • Publisher Date: 27 Jul 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: v. 1


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