Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present

Second Edition
Tignor, Adelman, Aron, Brown, Elman, Kotkin, Liu, Marchand, Pittman, Prakash, Shaw, Tsin

Digital History Reader

The Digital History Reader engages students with primary texts, illustrating connections to broader historical trends. With over 400 readings, the Digital History Reader is balanced like the textbook, with documents from all major periods addressing a full spectrum of social, political, and cultural themes, and conveniently integrated with writing prompts, headnotes, and sample questions. The Reader is free with new copies of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, 2e and is fully integrated with the StudySpace student Web site. There are over 100 primary sources in the main text as well.

Visual primary sources are indicated with an asterisk in the following table of contents.

Contents

  • 1 BECOMING HUMAN
  • * A flint scraper (Paleolithic Period)
  • * Hand axes (ca. 200,000 BCE)
  • * Neolithic flint sickles and pottery bowls (ca. 3000 BCE)
  • * A rock painting from the Bayuda desert (Neolithic Period)
  • * A sketch of cavemen during the Ice Age by Professor Klaatsch (ca. late 19th c. BCE)
  • 2 RIVERS, CITIES, AND THE RISE OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES, ca. 4000–2000 BCE
  • "The Legend of Sakgon, King of Agade" (First Millennium BCE)
  • "Chronicle Concerning Sargon and Other Early Kings" (First Millennium BCE)
  • * A Sculpture of Sargon I (ca. 2334–2279 BCE)
  • * A Cong Made of Jade (ca. 3300–2200 BCE)
  • * Weights and a balance (ca. 2300–1750 BCE)
  • 3 NOMADS, TERRITORIAL STATES, AND MICROSOCIETIES, 2000–1200 BCE
  • The duties of a pharaoh according to Amenemhat I, from Views and Ambitions of Egyptian Kings (2000 BCE)
  • * The Pyramid of Hawara, built by Pharaoh Amenemhat III (1842–1797 BCE)
  • * Hieroglyphic text written in the hieratic cursive style (1800 BCE)
  • * Introduction, epilogue and laws 1-24 and 141-59, from Hammurabi's Code (ca. 18th c. BCE)
  • * A Ko axe (ca. 13th–11th c. BCE)
  • * Basin (pan) with dragon-and-fish design (ca.13th–11th c. BCE)
  • 4 FIRST EMPIRES AND COMMON CULTURES, 1200–350 BCE
  • An Assyrian Inscription of Tiglath-Pileser I (ca. 1100 BCE)
  • The Great Inscription of Darius as Behistun (ca. 500 BCE)
  • "The Mandate of Heaven," from The Shu King by anonymous (First Millennium BCE)
  • "Purusha (man) and the Primordial Sacrifice," from The Rig Veda by anonymous (1700–1100 BCE)
  • 5 WORLDS TURNED INSIDE OUT, 1000–350 BCE
  • Views on the Tao, from the Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse (ca. 6th c. BCE)
  • Views on man, rites, learning, teaching and government, from The Analects of Confucius by Confucius (ca. 500 BCE)
  • "The Persians Reject Democracy/Darius' State," from The History of Herodotus by Herodotus (440 BCE)
  • "Dialogues of Plato", from The Republic" by Plato (360 BCE)
  • Pericles' Funeral Oration. From The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (431 BCE)
  • 6 SHRINKING THE AFRO-EURASIAN WORLD, 350 BCE–250 CE
  • "Book XV: On India," from Geography by Strabo (ca. 1st c. BCE)
  • * A stupa dedicated to King Kanishka (ca. 1st–2nd c. CE)
  • * A silver tetradrachm of Azes I, Scythian (57–10 BCE)
  • * A fragment of a frieze from a Gandhara's stupa (ca. 5th c. CE)
  • * A statue of a Buddha, Gandhara (ca. 1st–3rd c. CE)
  • 7 HAN CHINA AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE, 300 BCE–300 CE
  • A chapter on the Western Regions from Hou Hanshu 88 by Fan Ye (ca. 5th c. CE)
  • A chapter on Roman lands, from the "Chin-shu" by Fang Ch'iao (ca. 7th c. CE)
  • "Chapter 20 – The Seres," from "The Natural History" by Pliny the Elder (ca. 1st c. CE)
  • "From the Itinerary of Greece of Pausanias," from "Cathay And The Way Thither Vol. 1…" by Pausanias (174 CE)
  • *A Strabo World Map (c. 20 CE)
  • 8 THE RISE OF UNIVERSAL RELIGIONS, 300–600 CE
  • "… on the court of Attila king of the Huns," from an account left by Priscus (448 CE)
  • Travel accounts of Fa-Hsien, from "A Record of the Buddhistic Kingdoms" by Fa-Hsien (394–414 CE)
  • Descriptions of Central Asian, from "Record of the Western Regions" by Xuanzang (646 CE)
  • The "Eulogizing… of the Illustrious Religion in China", from the Nestorian Tablet by a priest of the Syriac Church (781 CE)
  • Letters 1, 2, 3, and 5, from The Sodigan Ancient Letters by anonymous (313–14 CE)
  • 9 NEW EMPIRES AND COMMON CULTURES, 600–900 CE
  • Selections from Surah 3, "The Im'rans" 8, from The Qur'an (610–622 CE)
  • Descriptions of early civilizations, from Chronology by Al Biruni (ca. 10th c. CE)
  • "Depiction of Baghdad," from The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela by Benjamin of Tudela (ca. 12th c. CE)
  • "The Uighur Empire According to the T'ang Dynastic Histories" by a government minister in the T'ang Dynasty (ca. 8th c. CE)
  • 10 THE WORLD BECOMES "THE WORLD," 1000–1300 CE
  • "… Christendom," from "The Monks of Kublai Khan …" by Rabban Sawna (ca. 13th c. CE)
  • "How the Great Kaan Causeth…to Pass for Money Over All His Country" from The Book of Ser Marco Polo by Marco Polo (1300 CE)
  • "Things Needful For Merchants…" from The Book of Descriptions of Countries by Francesco Pegolotti (1340 CE)
  • Descriptions of Central Asia, from Account of a Journey to the West (Si Yu Lu) by Ye-lü Ch'u ts'ai (1219–1224 CE)
  • 11 CRISES AND RECOVERY IN AFRO-EURASIA, 1300–1500
  • "The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt" by Ahmad al Maqrizi," (1453)
  • Ibn Knaldun on the Plague (ca. 14th c.)
  • "On the Advance of the Plague" by Ibn Al-Wardi (1348)
  • "Rubric 643: Concerning A Mortality In the City of Florence…" from The Florentine Chronicle by Marchione di Coppo Stefani (late 1370s– early 1380s)
  • 12 CONTACT, COMMERCE, AND COLONIZATION, 1450–1600
  • "All Over the Land Nothing Else Was Spoken Of" from Relacions by Cabeza de Vaca (1542)
  • Accounts of abuse against Native Americans from An Account…of the Destruction of the Indies… by Bartolomé de las Casas (1542)
  • An account of the City of Mexico from a letter to the Emperor Charles V. from Cortés (1519)
  • "… the grand and solemn feast called Hatun Raymi" from The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León (1871)
  • "… how mass was said and the eight Indian damsels were baptized." From The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo (1560s)
  • 13 WORLDS ENTANGLED, 1600–1750
  • "… for the Suppression of Coffee Houses" by King Charles II (1675)
  • "News from the Coffee House," by anonymous (1667)
  • * An illustration from "Traite Nouveau et Curieux du Cafe, du The et du Chocolat" by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour, La Haye (1693)
  • * The engraving "Turkish girl having coffee…" by I. Haussard (1707–08)
  • * The engraving "The Coffee House Politicians" by unknown artist (ca. 18th c.)
  • 14 CULTURES OF SPLENDOR AND POWER, 1600–1780
  • "… Rules established for Traffic with the Natives…" from An account of the Voyages… in the Southern Hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (1773)
  • "Manners & customs of S. Sea Islands" from The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, 1768–1771 (1788–96)
  • * The painting "Tahitian War Canoes" by William Hodges (1744–97)
  • * The painting "Tahitian War Galleys …" by William Hodges (1766)
  • * The engraving "Portrait of a New Zealand Man" by A. Buchan, S. Parkinson, and J. F. Miller (1768–1771)
  • * The illustration "The Good Savages" by anonymous (1778)
  • 15 REORDERING THE WORLD, 1750–1850
  • "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen" by The French National Assembly (1791)
  • "The Bill of Rights" (1791)
  • "On Slavery" by Thomas Jefferson (1782)
  • The Haitian Republic's Constitution of 1801 (1801)
  • "The Declaration of the Rights of Women" by Olympe de Gouge (1791)
  • 16 ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • From "The Communist Manifesto," by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
  • "The British Rule in India" by Karl Marx (1853)
  • "The Indian Revolt" by Karl Marx (1857)
  • "Trade or Opium?" by Karl Marx (1858)
  • 17 NATIONS AND EMPIRES, 1850–1914
  • "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
  • "The English Occupation of Egypt" by Lord Milner (1894)
  • "A Plea for Imperialism" by Joseph Chamberlain (1893)
  • "The Extension of British Influence (and Trade) in Africa" from the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute by Capt. F. D. Lugard (1895)
  • 18 AN UNSETTLED WORLD, 1890–1914
  • President McKinley's account of the Boxer Rebellion (1900)
  • From "The Truth about the Congo" by Frederick Starr (1907)
  • "Poverty in York" from Poverty, A Study of Town Life by Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree (1901)
  • "Arguments against Socialism" by Professor John B. Clark (1908)
  • "On Socialism and Labor Reform" by Pope Leo XIII (1891)
  • 19 OF MASSES AND VISIONS OF THE MODERN, 1910–1930
  • President Franklin Roosevelt's Second Inaugural Address (1937)
  • "The Basic Philosophy of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini (1932)
  • "National Morale and World Tranquility" by Sun Yat-sen (1924)
  • "Swaraj my ideal" by Mohandas K Gandhi (1920)
  • "On the results of the Last 10 Years and the Prospects for the USSR's Economic Construction," A Resolution of the USSR Central Executive Committee (1927)
  • 20 THE THREE-WORLD ORDER, 1940–1975
  • Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (1946)
  • Stalin's Reply to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (1946)
  • A telegram from N. Novikov, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., to the Soviet Leadership (1946)
  • George C. Marshall's Commencement Address to Harvard University (1947)
  • Andrei Vyshinsky's speech to U.N. General Assembly (1947)
  • 21 WORLDS TOGETHER, WORLDS APART: GLOBALIZATION, 1975–1999
  • Remarks on globalization by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (2004)
  • Remarks on globalization and terrorism by Paul Martin, Minister of Finance for Canada (2001)
  • "International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families." U. N. Resolution (1990)
  • "Declaration on the Right to Development." Adapted by the U. N. (1986)
  • "Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples." A report of the U. N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations (1996)