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From the ancient near east to contemporary times, Perspectives
from the Past offers a rich variety of sources both familiar
and fresh. The reader contains excerpts from classic texts
by Plato, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Marx, and Mill
and includes substantive representation of women writers,
such as Anna Comnena, Hildegard of Bingen, Madame Roland,
Flora Tristan, Emmeline Pankurst, Vera Brittain, and Elizabeth
Robbins.
Perspectives from the Past offers a wide selection
of readings from all regions of Europe, including Venetian
ambassadors’ reports; excerpts from Mickiewic’s
Books of a Polish Nation and Its Pilgrimage; Czar Alexander
II’s Edict of Emancipation of 1861 freeing the serfs;
the Constitution of the Black Hand, the Serbian nationalist
group instrumental in the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand;
and In Search of Splendor, Constance de la Mora’s
account of the Spanish Civil War.
Also included are non-European writers whose works have made
an impact on Western thought, among them Ibn Khaldun, Ibn
Battutah, Luiz Vaz de Camoes, Bernal Diaz del Castillo, and
Mahatma Gandhi.
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