Sources for the History of Western Civilization: Volume Two: from the Reformation to the Present, Third Edition

Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents. Michael Burger provides only the editorial guidance that students truly require, without unnecessary interventions. The third edition gives special stress to certain genres, including letters and biographical writings, in order to facilitate comparisons across time. Introductions to sources are reticent, encouraging students to make their own assessments and giving instructors the freedom to supplement where desired. Like the companion textbook, The Shaping of Western Civilization, this two-volume sourcebook ranges in space and time from the ancient Near East to twentieth-century Canada and twenty-first-century Central Europe. The third edition features substantive revisions and additional coverage of key topics throughout; Volume Two includes an extensive table of comparative GDPs of various countries, c. 15002000, positioning students to make quantitative as well as qualitative arguments.

Table of Contents:
Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction for Students　 How to Analyze a Primary Source　 1 Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Body Politic 2 Desiderius Erasmus, Letters 2.1 To Anne of Borselle, Marchioness of Veer 2.2 To Jacobus Battus 2.3 To Pope Leo 2.4 To Lambertus Grunnius 2.5 Lambertus Grunnius’s Reply 2.6 To Cardinal Wolsey 2.7 To Henry Bullock 3 Martin Luther, Letters 3.1 To George Spalatin 3.2 To Paul Speratus 3.3 To George Spalatin 3.4 To Wolfgang Reissenbusch 3.5 To George Spalatin 4 Articles of the Catholic Leaue 5 Book Twelve of The Florentine Codex 6 Michel de Montaigne, Essays 6.1 On Cannibals 6.2 That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity 7 Sir Edward Coke, The Petition of Right 8 The Code Noir 9 John Locke, Second Treatise of Government 10 Isaac Newton, The Principia 11 Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs 12 Population and Gross Domestic Product of Select Countries 12.1 Population of Select Countries, ca. 1500 to the Present 12.2 Gross Domestic Product of Select Countries, ca. 1500 to the Present 13 Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology 14 Decree Abolishing the Feudal System 15 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen 16 Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen　 17 Simón Bolívar, Addresses 17.1 Speech before the Caracas Assembly 17.2 Proclamation 18 Constitutional Charter of France of 1814 　 19 Art, Architecture, and Design in the Eighteenth Century 19.1 François Boucher, Toilet of Venus (1751) 19.2 Robert Adam, Tapestry Room, Croome Court, London (1760–1781) 19.3 Robert Adam, Dining Room, Landsdowne House, London (1765–1768) 19.4 Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (1787) 19.5 Workshop of Jean Antoine Houdon, Statuette of Voltaire (Late Eighteenth Century) 19.6 Marie Victoire Lemoine, Studio of Madame Vigée Le Brun (1796) 19.7 The Parthenon (Athens, Fifth Century BC) 19.8 The Capitol, Washington, DC (1793–1803) 19.9 Stuart Gilbert, George Washington (1800–1803) 20 Interviews with Witnesses Concerning British Factories 20.1 Interview with Mark Best 20.2 Interview with Stephen Binns 21 Speeches from the Debate on a Factory Regulations Bill in the British Parliament, March 16, 1832 21.1 Speech of Michael Thomas Sadler 21.2 Speech of Charles Villiers 22 William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned: An Evening on the Same Subject 23 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott 24 Emily Brontë, No Coward Soul Is Mine 25 Report on The Affairs of The Indians In Canada　 26 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto 27 Treaty Between the British East India Company and Maharajah Dulleep Singh Bahadoor　 28 Frederick Douglass, What to The Slave Is The Fourth Of July? 29 "The Coloured People And The Common Schools" and a Reply 29.1 "The Coloured People and the Common Schools" 29.2 Diogenes, "A Reply" 30 Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: A Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future 31 Reports to the International Council of Women, 1888 31.1 Paper on the Danish Woman’s Union for the Protection of Young Girls and Lonely Women 31.2 Paper on the Danish Woman’s Association 31.3 Ada M. Frederiksen, Paper on Woman’s Education in Denmark 31.4 Fanny Zampini Salazaro, Paper on the "Condition of Women in Italy" 32 An Appeal Against Female Suffrage and a Reply 32.1 Appeal against Female Suffrage 32.2 M.M. Dilke, Appeal Against Female Suffrage: A Reply 33 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Speeches 33.1 Speech on the Opening of the Reichstag 33.2 Speech to the Students at the University of Bonn33.3 Speech at Aix, at the Site of Charlemagne’s Palace 33.4 Notice Regarding Twenty-Five Years of German Labor Legislation 33.5 Toast to Prince Henry on His Departure to Command Germany’s Naval Squadron in Asia 34 George Washington Carver, Feeding Acorns 35 Joseph Chamberlain, Toast at the Annual Royal Colonial Institute Dinner 36 Karl Pearson, On the Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics 37 Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj　 38 Proceedings of The All-Russian Central Committee of SovietsoOf Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies: Fifth Session, November 4, 1917 39 Letters from German Soldiers In World War I 39.1 From Karl Aldag 39.2 From Fritze Meese 39.3 From Richard Schmieder 39.4 From Ernst Franke 39.5 From Max Bässler 39.6 From Max Görler 39.7 From Otto Heinebach 39.8 From Helmut Zschuppe 　 40 Wilfred Owen, Two Letters and "A Terre" 40.1 Letter to Susan Owen, from 2nd Manchester Regiment, B.E.F. 40.2 Letter to Susan Owen, from Advanced Horse Transport Depot, Abbeville 40.3 "A Terre" 41 Adolf Hitler, On the Jews and Germany　 42 Nazi Party Platform　 43 Adolf Hitler, Speech to the Reichstag on March 23, 1933　 44 Newspaper Article and Nazi Party Instructions Regarding One-Pot Sunday 44.1 Newspaper Article 41.2 Instructions Regarding One-Pot Sunday 45 Benito Mussolini, My Autobiography 46 Plínio Salgado, Integralist Manifesto 47 Verdict of The Supreme Court of the Soviet Union in the Special Investigation into the Case Of the Counter-Revolutionary Organization, "The Industrial Party," Moscow, December 8, 1930 48 Letters to R.B. Bennett 48.1 Letter of Thomas M. Gibbs 48.2 Letter of a Nanaimoite 48.3 Letter of Mrs. Ernest Ferguson 48.4 Brief Presented by the Unemployed of Edmonton to the Hon. R.B. Bennett 48.5 Letter of P.R. Mulligan 48.6 Letter of Miss Elizabeth McCrae 48.7 Letter of L.M. Himmer 49 Winston Spencer Churchill, The Sinews of Peace 50 United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples: Draft, Amendments, and Adopted Version　 51 Robert S. Mcnamara, Major National Security Problems Confronting the United States　 52 Articles from The Georgia Straight 52.1 "Turn On, Tune In, Take Over" 52.2 "Grass in Class" 52.3 Dara [Culhane], "Education – For What?" 52.4 Chris MacLeod, "Learning to Live without Schools" 52.5 Bill Tait, "Easter Be-In" 53 Sayyid Qutb, Milestones 54 Interview with Huey Newton　 55 Betty Friedan, Our Revolution is Unique 56 Margaret Thatcher, Speeches 56.1 Speech to The Conservative Party Conference 56.2 The Fourth Nicholas Ridley Memorial Lecture 57 Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism 58 Architecture and Design in the Twentieth Century 58.1 Domestic Library, Morningside (1850s) 58.2 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, "Tugendhat" Coffee Table (1930) 58.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951): Exterior 58.4 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York (1958) 58.5.1 Thomas Gordon Smith, Tuscan House and Laurentian House, Livermore, California (1979) 58.5.2 Thomas Gordon Smith, Tuscan House and Laurentian House, Livermore, California (1979) 58.5.3 Thomas Gordon Smith, Laurentian House, Livermore, California (1979) 58.6 Michael Graves, Portland Building, Portland, Oregon (1979–1982) 58.7 Shiro Kuramata, "Miss Blanche" Chair (1989) 58.8 Rotary Telephone, 1960s 58.9 Touchtone Telephone, 1980s 58.10 Michael Graves, Telephone, 2000 59 Tony Blair, Speeches 59.1 "Security in a World of Change: The New Politics of the Left" 59.2 "New Community, New Individualism"　 60 Viktor Orbán, Hungary and The Crisis of Europe 61 Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook 62 Joe Biden, Speech Before Independence Hall, Philadelphia, September 1, 2022 Sources Index of Topics

About the Author :
Michael Burger is a professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery.

Review :
"Michael Burger has provided a splendid anthology of carefully selected primary source readings. These documents reveal clear and insightful evidence of social, political, economic, religious, and cultural change over time. The introduction offers guidance to students on how to read and assess primary sources."--Kenneth R. Bartlett, University of Toronto "It has always been one of the strengths of this collection that the textbook and the sourcebook mesh so effectively, and this continues to be true. Everything syncs up beautifully across the volumes."--Jay Diehl, Long Island University