Synopses & Reviews
Edited by Mark Kishlansky, this reader is designed to supplement world civilization textbooks and lectures with a rich array of primary source materials. These materials include constitutional documents, political theory, philosophy, imaginative literature, and social description. Opting for longer selections that allow students to gain a deeper sense of authors and their texts, the editor has chosen each selection because of its ability to raise a significant issue around which classroom discussions or lectures can evolve. This reader contains works that are representative of major civilization complexes (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Islamic world, and Western civilization). It is an ideal complement to Adler, WORLD CIVILIZATIONS, Third Edition; Upshur et al., WORLD HISTORY, Fourth Edition; Duiker/Spielvogel, THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY; and Duiker/Spielvogel, WORLD HISTORY, Third Edition.
Synopsis
This reader, edited by well-known author Mark Kishlansky, includes a diversity of historical documents from world and western history designed to supplement textbooks and lectures in the teaching of world civilizations.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.
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.
Table of Contents
Part I: THE ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION. STORIES OF CREATION. 1. Popol Vuh. 2. The Ancestors of the People Called Indians (The Huarochiri Manuscript). 3. The Creation Epic. 4. The Book of Genesis. 5. The Kojiki. The Cradle of Civilizations. 6. The Epic of Gilgamesh. 7. Code of Hammurabi. 8. The Book of the Dead. 9. Anonymous, Instructions in Letter Writing by an Egyptian Scribe. 10. The Book of Exodus. Archaic and Classical Greece. 11. Homer, The Iliad. 12. Sophocles, Antigone. 13. Plato, The Apology. 14. Plato, The Republic. 15. Aristotle, Politics. The Religions of the East. 16. The Upanishads. 17. The Budda, Sermons and Teachings. 18. Bhagavad-Gita. 19. Confucius, Analects. 20. Lao-Tzu, Te-Tao Ching. China: War and Politics. 21. Sun-Tzu, The Art of War. 22. Anonymous, The Book of Songs. 23. Ssu-ma Ch'ien, The Records of the Grand Historian of China. 24. Han Fei Tzu, Memorials. Ancient Rome. 25. Cicero, On the Laws. 26. Virgil, The Aeneid. 27. Suetonius, The Life of Augustus. 28. The Sermon on the Mount. Part II: TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES. AFRICA AND THE MUSLIM WORLD. 29. Justinian, Code. 30. Procopius, Secret History. 31. The Koran. 32. Ibn Said, Book of the Maghrib. 33. Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah. 34. Ibn Battuta, Travels in Africa. 35. Joao dos Santos. Ethiopia Oriental. Asian Cultures. 36. Pan Chao, Lessons for Women. 37. The Lotus of the Wonderful Law. 38. Fa-hsien, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms. 39. The Examination System During the Tang Dynasty. 40. Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji. 41. Ssu-ma Kuang, The Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government. 42. Prince Shotoku, The Seventeen Article Constitution. 43. Yuan Ts'ai, Precepts for Social Life. Europe After the Fall of Rome. 44. Tacitus, The Germania. 45. The Burgundian Code. 46. Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne. 47. Magna Carta. 48. The Battle of Maldon. The Development of Christianity. 49. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God. 50. Benedict of Nursia, The Rule. 51. Francis of Assisi, Admonitions. 52. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica. 53. Witchcraft Documents. Part III: DYNASTIES AND EMPIRES. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. 54. Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family. 55. Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci. 56. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince. Cultures in Collision. 57. Anna Comnena., The Alexiad. 58. Odo of Deuil, The Journey of Louis VII to the East. 59. Usama Ibn Munqidh, Memoirs. 60. Jamal ad-Din Ibn Wasil, The Dissipator of Anxieties. China and Japan in the Middle Ages. 61. The Hojo Code. 62. Kitabatake Chikafusa, A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. 63. Zeami Motokiyo, Kadensho. 64. Shih Nai-an, All Men Are Brothers. 65. Anonymous, The Yangzhou Massacre. European Encounters. 66. Juan Gonzales de Mendoza, The History of the Great and Mightie Kingdom of China. 67. Matteo Ricci, Journals. 68. Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama. 69. Christopher Columbus, Letter from the First Voyage. 70. Bernal Diaz, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. 71. An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico. 72. Bernabe Cobo, History of the Inca Empire. 73. Bartolome de las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies. 74. Pedro de Leon Portocarrero, Description of Lima, Peru. The Golden Age of Islam. 75. Omar Khayyam, The Ruba'iyat. 76. Kritovoulos, The History of Mehmed the Conqueror. 77. Letters Between Sultan Selim I and Shah Isma'il. 78. Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa. 79. 'Abd ul-Haqq al Dihlawi al-Bukhari, The Perfection of Faith. 80. Francois Bernier, Travels in the Mogul Empire. The Reform of Christianity. 81. Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly. 82. Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian and On Marriage. 83. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion. 84. Teresa of Avila, The Life of Saint Teresa. European Politics and War. 85. Cardinal Richelieu, The Political Testament. 86. Hand von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus.