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Ways of the World: A Brief Global History, Value Edition, Volume II

Fourth Edition ©2019 Robert W. Strayer; Eric W. Nelson

Ways of the World is one of the most successful and innovative textbooks for world history. It includes a brief-by-design narrative that focuses on significant historical developments and broad themes in world history. With keen consideration of the needs of their student audience, autho...

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An affordable text with a global narrative that explores broad patterns

Ways of the World is one of the most successful and innovative textbooks for world history. It includes a brief-by-design narrative that focuses on significant historical developments and broad themes in world history. With keen consideration of the needs of their student audience, authors Robert W. Strayer and Eric W. Nelson provide an insightful, big picture synthesis that helps students discern what matters most in world history--patterns and variations on both global and regional levels and continuity and change over time.

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The Value Edition provides a high-quality text at an affordable price. For an enjoyable reading experience in print, the Value Edition provides a two-color, trade-size text featuring the unabridged narrative and select images and maps. And online in LaunchPad it includes much more—the abundant full-color maps, images, and features from the full-sized text enrich the narrative and a wealth of assignment and assessment tools allow instructors to foster and measure the learning outcomes they wish to emphasize in their courses. With the Value Edition, students and instructors will get all of the history they need at a price they can afford.

The thematic, comparative, and genuinely global narrative focuses on the big pictures of World History. Brief by design, the narrative avoids the overwhelming detail of many textbooks and emphasizes major developments and the larger contexts in which these developments took place. Broad themes include global commerce, the emergence of major religious traditions, industrialization, the rise and fall of totalitarian systems, technological innovations, and human impact on the environment. Part-opening essays set the stage for the chapters that follow and encourage students to make connections among the world's cultures.

A variety of learning tools help students focus.

  • Part-opening Big Picture essays preview the major developments that are covered in subsequent chapters.
  • Seeking the Main Point questions help students focus on the main themes.
  • Practicing Historical Thinking questions invite students to reflect on what they have learned to that point in the chapter.
  • Guided Reading Questions in the margins emphasize "comparison," "connection," and "change."
  • Chapter-ending Big Picture questions encourage student synthesis of the material.

A thoughtful and reflective approach to the global past challenges the idea that history is static and the textbook is a definitive account. Robert W. Strayer, a pioneer in the field of world history, and Eric W. Nelson, an innovative teacher, muse on the multiple meanings of history and the historian's craft. Students experience first-hand the process of reading historical evidence and making historical arguments.

  • At the end of each chapter, a short Reflections section raises provocative, sometimes speculative, questions about the craft of the historian and the unfolding of the human story.
  • New Controversies sections highlight debates about key historical issues: the beginnings of history, the origins of major religious traditions, the nature of empires, the idea of the Atlantic World, the Industrial Revolution, and the concept of globalization.

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New to This Edition

New Controversies sections convey world history as a frequently contested conversation. Provided in one chapter in each of the book’s six parts, these essays highlight debates about key historical issues: the beginnings of history, the origins of major religious traditions, the nature of empires, the idea of the Atlantic World, the Industrial Revolution, and the concept of globalization. These essays help dispel the idea that any account of the past is truly definitive and instead promote the notion of history texts as works in progress that can be challenged.

A thoroughly revised Part 6 provides a global framework for the last century. The four chapters in Part 6 now treat the past century in truly global terms, moving beyond a Cold War framework organized to consider the western capitalist world, the communist world, and the Third World of developing countries. Chapters 20 and 21 examine milestone events such as the world wars, revolutions, the Cold War, decolonization, the demise of communism, and much more, and then Chapters 22 and 23 look at the major processes underlying these milestone events. Chapter 22 examines how the acceleration of technological innovation has been driver of a deeply interconnected world economy and of pervasive social change. Chapter 23 then spotlights the explosive growth of human population, global migration, cultural transformations, and the enormous impact of human activity on the world’s environment.
                 
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--Julia Gaffield, Georgia State University

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--Rebecca Seaman, Elizabeth City State University

"This is the best textbook for world history. It is informed by arguments and approaches of world historians. It covers major developments in world history and focuses on a few themes, providing some evidence for each from different parts of the world. It does not cover every place and time, which makes it relatively short and accessible. The sources are excellent, with clear introductions and questions that help students connect them to the chapter."
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Table of Contents

The Combined Volume includes all chapters.　
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-12.　
Volume 2 includes Chapters 12-23.

NOTE: LaunchPad material that does not appear in the print book – including guided reading exercises, quizzes for sources and features, LearningCurve adaptive quizzes, summative quizzes, special features and the primary and secondary sources from the comprehensive edition, all of the documents from the companion reader　Thinking through Sources for Ways of the World, and quizzes for each of the documents in the companion reader – has been labeled on this table of contents as shown. Each chapter in LaunchPad also comes with a wealth of additional documents, key terms flashcards, map quizzes, and much more, all of which can be easily integrated and assigned.

Preface
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps
Prologue

12. THE WORLDS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Societies and Cultures of the Fifteenth Century

Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America

Agricultural Village Societies: The Igbo and the Iroquois

Pastoral Peoples: Central Asia and West Africa

Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: Comparing China and Europe

Ming Dynasty China

European Comparisons: State Building and Cultural Renewal

European Comparisons: Maritime Voyaging

Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Islamic World

In the Islamic Heartland: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires

On the Frontiers of Islam: The Songhay and Mughal Empires

Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Americas

The Aztec Empire

The Inca Empire

Webs of Connection

After 1500: Looking Ahead to the Modern Era

Reflections: What If? Chance and Contingency in World History

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: 1453 in Constantinople LaunchPad

Quiz for Zooming In LaunchPad

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Islam and Renaissance Europe LaunchPad

Source 12.1 Portrait of Mehmed II: Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II, ca. 1479 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 12.1 LaunchPad

Source 12.2 Machiavelli on the Turkish State: Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 12.2 LaunchPad

Source 12.3 Venetian Trade in the Middle East: The Venetian Ambassador Visits Damascus, 1511 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 12.3 LaunchPad

Source 12.4 Greek and Islamic Philosophers in Renaissance Art: Aristotle and Averroes, 1483 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 12.4 LaunchPad

Source 12.5 A Papal Call for Crusade: Pope Clement VI, Call for Crusade, September 30, 1343 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 12.5 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Christian/Muslim Relations during the Renaissance LaunchPad

Voice 12.1 Jerry Brotton on the Role of Cross-cultural Exchange in the European Renaissance, from The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, 2002 LaunchPad

Voice 12.2 Bernard Lewis on Hostility between Christians and Muslims, from Cultures in Conflict: Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Age of Discovery, 1995 LaunchPad

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

Documents from Thinking through Sources for Ways of the World LaunchPad

12. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Early Encounters; First Impressions

Source 12.1: Cadamosto in a West African Chiefdom: Alvise da Cadamosto: On Meeting with Budomel, 1455

Quiz for Source 12.1 LaunchPad

Source 12.2: Vasco da Gama at Calicut, India: A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1498

Quiz for Source 12.2 LaunchPad

Source 12.3: Celebrating de Gama’s Arrival in Calicut, Tapestry Depicting the Arrival of da Gama at Calicut, Early Sixteenth Century

Quiz for Source 12.3 LaunchPad

Source 12.4: Columbus in the Caribbean: Christopher Columbus: Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, 1493

Quiz for Source 12.4 LaunchPad

Source 12.5: Columbus Engraved: Columbus Arriving on Hispaniola, 1594

Quiz for Source 12.5 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: 　Assessing Christopher Columbus and his Legacy

Voice 12.1: Zvi Dor-Ner on Christopher Columbus’s Legacy, From Columbus and the Age of Discovery, 1991

Voice 12.2: Charles Mann on Remembering Columbus, From 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, 2012

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

PART 4 The Early Modern World, 1450–1750

THE BIG PICTURE Toward Modernity . . . or Not?

Sprouts of Modernity?

Continuing Older Patterns?

13. POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS: EMPIRES AND ENCOUNTERS, 1450–1750

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

European Empires in the Americas

The European Advantage

The Great Dying and the Little Ice Age

The Columbian Exchange

Comparing Colonial Societies in the Americas

In the Lands of the Aztecs and the Incas

Colonies of Sugar

Settler Colonies in North America

The Steppes and Siberia: The Making of a Russian Empire

Experiencing the Russian Empire

Russians and Empire

Asian Empires

Making China an Empire

Muslims and Hindus in the Mughal Empire

Muslims and Christians in the Ottoman Empire

Reflections: The Centrality of Context in World History

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Doña Marina: Between Two Worlds LaunchPad

Quiz for Zooming In LaunchPad

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: State Building in the Early Modern Era 　LaunchPad

Source 13.1 The Memoirs of Emperor Jahangir: Jahangir, Memoirs, 1605–1627 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 13.1 LaunchPad

Source 13.2 The Palace of an Ottoman Emperor: A Reception at the Court of Selim III, late 18th Century LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 13.2 LaunchPad

Source 13.3 French State Building and Louis XIV LaunchPad

Louis XIV, Memoirs, 1670

Louis XIV in Costume, 1653

Quiz for Source 13.3 LaunchPad

Source 13.4 An Outsider’s View of the Inca Empire: Pedro de Cieza de León, Chronicles of the Incas, ca. 1550 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 13.4 LaunchPad

Source 13.5 The Temple of Heaven: Beijing, China: The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest, ca. 1420 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 13.5 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Early Modern Rulers LaunchPad

Voice 13.1 Charles Parker on Emperor Kangxi of China and Louis XIV of France, from Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400–1800, 2010 LaunchPad

Voice 13.2 John Darwin on Emperor Akbar’s Public Image, from After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1400–2000, 2008 LaunchPad

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

Documents from Thinking through Sources for Ways of the World LaunchPad

13. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: The Spanish and the Aztecs: From Encounter to Conquest (1519-1521)

Source 13.1: The Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma: A Spanish View: Bernal Díaz: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, Mid-Sixteenth Century

Quiz for Source 13.1 LaunchPad

Source 13.2: The Meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma: An Aztec Account: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: The Florentine Codex, Mid-Sixteenth Century

Quiz for Source 13.2 LaunchPad

Source 13.3: Images of Encounter: Moctezuma and Cortés, 1560; The Massacre of the Nobles, 1581

Quiz for Source 13.3 LaunchPad

Source 13.4: Conquest and Victory: The Fall of Tenochtitlán from a Spanish Perspective: Francisco de Aguilar: Brief Record of the Conquest of New Spain, ca. 1560

Quiz for Source 13.4 LaunchPad

Source 13.5: Defeat: The Fall of Tenochtitlán from an Aztec Perspective:　Fray Bernardino de Sahagún:　The Florentine Codex, Mid-Sixteenth Century

Quiz for Source 13.5 LaunchPad

Source 13.6: Depicting the Seizure of the Aztec Capital: The Conquest of Tenochtitlán, Seventeenth Century

Quiz for Source 13.6 LaunchPad

Source 13.7: Lamentation: The Aftermath of Defeat:　Cantares Mexicanos,　Late Sixteenth Century

Quiz for Source 13.7 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Conquest, Disease and Demographic Collapse in the Aztec Empire

Voice 13.1: Alfred Crosby on the Impact of Disease on the Conquest of the Aztec Empire, From The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, 1972

Voice 13.2: Philip Hoffman on the Roles of Disease, Social Disruption and Technology in the Conquest of the Aztecs, From Why did Europe Conquer the World, 2015

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

14. ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS: COMMERCE AND CONSEQUENCE, 1450–1750

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Europeans and Asian Commerce

A Portuguese Empire of Commerce

Spain and the Philippines

The East India Companies

Asians and Asian Commerce

Silver and Global Commerce

"The World Hunt": Fur in Global Commerce

Commerce in People: The Transatlantic Slave System

The Slave Trade in Context

The Slave Trade in Practice

Consequences: The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa

Reflections: Economic Globalization — Then and Now

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Ayuba Suleiman Diallo: To Slavery and Back LaunchPad

Quiz for Zooming In LaunchPad

CONTROVERSIES: Debating the Atlantic World

Quiz for Controversies LaunchPad

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World LaunchPad

Source 14.1 Clothing and Status in the Americas: Miguel Cabrera, Detail from a Series on Mixed-Race Marriages in Mexico, 1763 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 14.1 LaunchPad

Source 14.2 Clothing and Status in Europe: Portrait of Sophie of the Palatinate, 1645 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 14.2 LaunchPad

Source 14.3 A Critical View of Coffeehouses in the Ottoman Empire: Mustafa Ali, Description of Cairo, 1599 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 14.3 LaunchPad

Source 14.4 An Ottoman Coffeehouse: A Gathering of Turkish Men at an Ottoman Coffeehouse, 16th century LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 14.4 LaunchPad

Source 14.5 Coffeehouse Culture in England: Thomas Jordan, News from the Coffee-house, 1667 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 14.5 LaunchPad

Source 14.6 Tobacco Smoking in Eurasia: King James I, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, 1604 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 14.6 LaunchPad

Source 14.7 Chinese Poems about Smoking: Poems from Cheng Cong’s Tobacco Manual, 17th and 18th centuries LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 14.7 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Coffee and Coffeeshops

Voice 14.1 Tom Standage on Muslim Debates over Coffee’s Intoxicating Effects, from A History of the World in 6 Glasses, 2005 LaunchPad

Voice 14.2 Mark Pendergrast on London’s Coffeehouses, from Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, 2010 LaunchPad

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

Documents from Thinking through Sources for Ways of the World LaunchPad

14. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Voices from the Slave Trade

Source 14.1: The Journey to Slavery: Olaudah Equiano: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789

Quiz for Source 14.1 LaunchPad

Source 14.2: The Business of the Slave Trade: Thomas Phillips: A Journal of a Voyage Made in the　Hannibal　of London, 1694

Quiz for Source 14.2 LaunchPad

Source 14.3: The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Kongo: King Affonso I: Letters to King João of Portugal, 1526

Quiz for Source 14.3 LaunchPad

Source 14.4: The Slave Trade and the Kingdom of Asante: Osei Bonsu: Conversation with Joseph Dupuis, 1820

Quiz for Source 14.4 LaunchPad

Source 14.5: Images of the Slave Trade: Sale of Slaves in West Africa, 1796; The Slave Ship　Wildfire, 1860; Advertisement for a Slave Auction in Charleston, SC, 1749

Quiz for Source 14.5 LaunchPad

Source 14.6: Data: Patterns of the Slave Trade: Voyages and Slave Rebellion: An Aggregate Statistic; Changing Patterns of the Slave Trade

Quiz for Source 14.6 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Describing the Middle Passage

Voice 14.1: Lisa Lindsay on Conditions Above and Below Deck during the Middle Passage, From Captives as Commodities: The Transatlantic Slave Trade, 2008

Voice 14.2: Johannes Postma on Mortality during the Middle Passage, From The Atlantic Slave Trade, 2003

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

15. CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS: RELIGION AND SCIENCE, 1450–1750

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The Globalization of Christianity

Western Christendom Fragmented: The Protestant Reformation

Christianity Outward Bound

Conversion and Adaptation in Spanish America

An Asian Comparison: China and the Jesuits

Persistence and Change in Afro-Asian Cultural Traditions

Expansion and Renewal in the Islamic World

China: New Directions in an Old Tradition

India: Bridging the Hindu/Muslim Divide

A New Way of Thinking: The Birth of Modern Science

The Question of Origins: Why Europe?

Science as Cultural Revolution

Science and Enlightenment

European Science beyond the West

Looking Ahead: Science in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond

Reflections: Cultural Borrowing and Its Hazards

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Galileo and the Telescope: Reflecting on Science and Religion LaunchPad

Quiz for Zooming In LaunchPad

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Christianity: Becoming a Global Religion LaunchPad

Source 15.1 Cultural Blending in Andean Christianity: La Virgen del Cerro (Virgin Mary of the Mountains), ca. 1740 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 15.1 LaunchPad

Source 15.2 Christianity through Maya Eyes: The Chilam Balam of Chumayel, 18th century LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 15.2 LaunchPad

Source 15.3 Making Christianity Chinese: Illustration of the Annunciation, ca. 17th century LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 15.3 LaunchPad

Source 15.4 The Chinese Rites Controversy LaunchPad

Papal Decree Banning Chinese Rites, 1715

Decree of Emperor Kangxi, 1721

Quiz for Source 15.4 LaunchPad

Source 15.5 Christian Art in the Mughal Empire: Unknown Indian Artist, The Holy Family, early 17th century LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 15.5 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Missions in Mesoamerica and China

Voice 15.1 Merry Wiesner-Hanks on the Virgin of Guadalupe, from A Concise History of the World, 2015 LaunchPad

Voice 15.2 Diarmaid MacCulloch on Jesuit Missionary Strategies in China, from Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, 2009 LaunchPad

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

Documents from Thinking through Sources for Ways of the World LaunchPad

15. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Renewal and Reform in the Early Modern World

Source 15.1: Luther’s Protest: Martin Luther: Table Talk, Early Sixteenth Century

Quiz for Source 15.1 LaunchPad

Source 15.2: Calvinism and Catholicism: Engraving of Calvinists Destroying Statues in a Catholic Church, 1566

Quiz for Source 15.2 LaunchPad

Source 15.3: Progress and Enlightenment: Marquis de Condorcet: Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind, 1793–1794

Quiz for Source 15.3 LaunchPad

Source 15.4: Art and Enlightenment: Joseph Wright, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, ca. 1766

Quiz for Source 15.4 LaunchPad

Source 15.5: The Wahhabi Perspective on Islam: Abdullah Wahhab: History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis, 1803

Quiz for Source 15.5 LaunchPad

Source 15.6: The Poetry of Kabir: Kabir: Poetry, ca. Late Fifteenth Century

Quiz for Source 15.6 LaunchPad

Source 15.7: Religious Syncretism in Indian Art: Kumbhaka (breathing exercises), ca. 1600

Quiz for Source 15.7 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Reform and Renewal in the Christian and Islamic Worlds

Voice 15.1: R.W. Scribner on the Evangelical Agenda in Protestant Germany, From The German Reformation, 1986

Voice 15.2: Natana DeLong-Bas on the Teachings of Ibn Abd al Wahhab, From Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad, 2004

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

PART 5 The European Moment in World History, 1750–1900

THE BIG PICTURE European Centrality and the Problem of Eurocentrism

16. ATLANTIC REVOLUTIONS, GLOBAL ECHOES, 1750–1900

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Atlantic Revolutions in a Global Context

Comparing Atlantic Revolutions

The North American Revolution, 1775–1787

The French Revolution, 1789–1815

The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804

Spanish American Revolutions, 1808–1825

Echoes of Revolution

The Abolition of Slavery

Nations and Nationalism

Feminist Beginnings

Reflections: Revolutions: Pro and Con

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Kartini: Feminism and Nationalism in Java LaunchPad

Quiz for Zooming In LaunchPad

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Opponents of the Atlantic Revolutions

Source 16.1 A New York Clergyman’s Criticism of the Continental Congress: Samuel Seabury, Letter of a Westchester Farmer, 1774 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 16.1 LaunchPad

Source 16.2 A British Conservative’s Critique of the Universal Rights of Man: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 16.2 LaunchPad

Source 16.3 An English Cartoon’s Reaction to Revolutionary Violence: Hell Broke Loose, or, The Murder of Louis, 1793 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 16.3 LaunchPad

Source 16.4 The French National Assembly and Slavery: Decree and Explanation of the French National Assembly, May 15 and 29, 1791 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 16.4 LaunchPad

Source 16.5 Imagining Women’s Suffrage: An Inauguration of the Future, 1897 LaunchPad

Quiz for Source 16.5 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: How the French Revolution Went Wrong

Voice 16.1 Tocqueville on the Course of the French Revolution, from The Old Regime and the Revolution, 1856 LaunchPad

Voice 16.2 Hippolyte Taine on the Failure of the Early Years of the Revolution and the Rise of the Radical Revolution, from The French Revolution, 1881 LaunchPad

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

Documents from Thinking through Sources for Ways of the World LaunchPad

16. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Claiming Rights

Source 16.1: The French Revolution and the "Rights of Man": The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789

Quiz for Source 16.1 LaunchPad

Source 16.2: Representing the Declaration: Jean-Jacques Le Barbier: Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (Painting), ca. 1789

Quiz for Source 16.2 LaunchPad

Source 16.3: Rights and National Independence: Simón Bolívar: The Jamaica Letter, 1815

Quiz for Source 16.3 LaunchPad

Source 16.4: Rights and Slavery: Picturing "Reason and Nature": All Mortals Are Equal, It Is Not Birth but Virtue That Makes the Difference, 1793

Quiz for Source 16.4 LaunchPad

Source 16.5: Rights and Slavery: An African American Voice:　Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, 1852

Quiz for Source 16.5 LaunchPad

Source 16.6: The Rights of Women: Depicting a Revolutionary Woman: Frenchwomen Freed, 1793

Quiz for Source 16.6 LaunchPad

Source 16.7: The Rights of Women: An American Feminist Voice: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Solitude of Self, 1892

Quiz for Source 16.7 LaunchPad

HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Origins and Echoes of the American Revolution

Voice 16.1: Dorinda Outram on Enlightenment Ideas in the American Revolution, From The Enlightenment, 1995

Voice 16.2: Carl Guarneri on British Expansion Redirected, From America in the World: The United States in Global Context, 2007

Quiz for Historians’ Voices LaunchPad

17. REVOLUTIONS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1750–1900

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Industrialization: The Global Context

The First Industrial Society

The British Aristocracy

The Middle Classes

The Laboring Classes

Social Protest

Europeans in Motion

Variations on a Theme: Industrialization in the United States and Russia

The United States: Industrialization without Socialism

Russia: Industrialization and Revolution

The Industrial Revolution and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

After Independence in Latin America

Facing the World Economy

Becoming like Europe?

Reflections: History and Horse Races

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

CONTROVERSIES: Debating "Why Europe?"

Quiz for Controversies LaunchPad

ZOOMING IN: The English Luddites and Machine Breaking LaunchPad

Quiz for Zooming In LaunchPad

LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: The Socialist Vision LaunchPad

Source 17.1 Socialism According to Marx: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848 LaunchPad

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Source 17.2 Socialism in Song: Eugène Pottier, The Internationale, 1871 LaunchPad

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Source 17.3 Socialist Perspectives in Art LaunchPad

Industrial Workers of the World, A Pyramid of Capitalist Society, 1911 LaunchPad

Manifest of International Trade Union Congress, 1896 LaunchPad

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Source 17.4 Socialist Variations: The Woman Question: Clara Zetkin, The German Socialist Women’s Movement, 1909 LaunchPad

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Source 17.5 Socialist Variations: The Case of Russia: Lenin, What Is to Be Done? 1902 LaunchPad

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: The Legacy of Karl Marx in the Twenty-First Century

Voice 17.1 Allan Todd on Marx and Current History, from The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia, 2016 LaunchPad

Voice 17.2 Terry Eagleton on the Continuing Relevance of Marx, from Why Marx Was Right, 2011 LaunchPad

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17. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Experiencing the Early Industrial Revolution

Source 17.1: The Experience of an English Factory Worker: Elizabeth Bentley, Factory Worker: Testimony, 1831; William Harter, Mill Owner: Testimony, 1832

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Source 17.2: Urban Living Conditions: Friedrich Engels: The Condition of the Working Class in England, 1844

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Source 17.3: Another View of Factory Life: Eyre Crowe: Outside the Factory, 1874

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Source 17.4: A Weaver’s Lament: Only a Weaver, 1860s

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Source 17.5: Poetry from the Factory Floor: Ellen Johnston: Poetry, 1867

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Source 17.6: Railroads and the Middle Class: The Railroad as a Symbol of the Industrial Era, 1870s

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Source 17.7: Inequality: John Leech, Capital and Labour, 1843

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Children and Family during the Industrial Revolution

Voice 17.1: Elinor Accampo on Migration, Industry, and the Loosening of Parental Control, From Industrialization, Family Life and Class Relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914, 1989

Voice 17.2: Louise Tilly and Joan Scott on Daughters and Industrial Work, From Women, Work, and Family, 1978

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18. COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS IN ASIA, AFRICA, AND OCEANIA, 1750–1950

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Industry and Empire

A Second Wave of European Conquests

Under European Rule

Cooperation and Rebellion

Colonial Empires with a Difference

Ways of Working: Comparing Colonial Economies

Economies of Coercion: Forced Labor and the Power of the State

Economies of Cash-Crop Agriculture: The Pull of the Market

Economies of Wage Labor: Migration for Work

Women and the Colonial Economy: Examples from Africa

Assessing Colonial Development

Believing and Belonging: Identity and Cultural Change

Education

Religion

"Race" and "Tribe"

Reflections: Who Makes History?

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Vivekananda, a Hindu Monk in America LaunchPad

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LearningCurve LaunchPad

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WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Colonial Conquest: The Scramble for Africa LaunchPad

Source 18.1 Competition and Conquest: Charles Tichon, Commandant Marchand across Africa, 1900 LaunchPad

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Source 18.2 "Pacification" in East Africa: Richard Meinertzhagen, A Small Slaughter, 1902 LaunchPad

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Source 18.3 From Cape to Cairo: The Rhodes Colossus, 1892 LaunchPad

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Source 18.4 Ethiopia and the Scramble for Africa LaunchPad

Menelik II, Letter to the European Great Powers, 1891

Menelik II, Mobilization Proclamation, 1895

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Source 18.5 Empire Building in North Africa: British and French in North Africa, ca. 1910 LaunchPad

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Source 18.6 An African American Voice on the Scramble for Africa: W. E. B. DuBois, The African Roots of War, 1915 LaunchPad

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: The Invasion of Africa 　LaunchPad

Voice 18.1 Thomas Pakenham on European Motivations, from The Scramble for Africa, 1992 LaunchPad

Voice 18.2 A. Adu Boahen on African Strategies, from African Perspectives on Colonialism, 1987 LaunchPad

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18. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Colonial India: Experience and Response

Source 18.1: Images of Colonial Rule: J. Bouvier: A British Breakfast in India, 1842; Tiger Hunting in Colonial India, 1860s; The British and Indian Princes, ca. 1820; Blowing from a Gun, 1858

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Source 18.2: Seeking Western Education: Ram Mohan Roy: Letter to Lord Amherst, 1823

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Source 18.3: The Indian Rebellion: Prince Feroze Shah: The Azamgarh Proclamation, 1857

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Source 18.4: The Credits and Debits of British Rule in India: Dadabhai Naoroji: Speech to a London Audience, 1871

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Source 18.5: Gandhi on Modern Civilization: Mahatma Gandhi:　Indian Home Rule, 1909　　

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: The Great Indian Rebellion

Voice 18.1: Stanley Wolpert on British Innovations and Indian Grievances, From India, 1965

Voice 18.2: D. R. SarDesai on the Greased Cartridges Incident, From India: The Definitive History, 2008

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19. EMPIRES IN COLLISION: EUROPE, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND EAST ASIA, 1800–1900

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Reversal of Fortune: China’s Century of Crisis

The Crisis Within

Western Pressures

The Failure of Conservative Modernization

The Ottoman Empire and the West in the Nineteenth Century

"The Sick Man of Europe"

Reform and Its Opponents

Outcomes: Comparing China and the Ottoman Empire

The Japanese Difference: The Rise of a New East Asian Power

The Tokugawa Background

American Intrusion and the Meiji Restoration

Modernization Japanese-Style

Japan and the World

Reflections: Success and Failure in History

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Lin Zexu: Confronting the Opium Trade LaunchPad

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LearningCurve LaunchPad

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WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: China: On the Brink of Change LaunchPad

Source 19.1 Toward a Constitutional Monarchy: Kang Youwei, An Appeal to Emperor Guangxu, 1898 LaunchPad

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Source 19.2 Resistance to Change: Conservative Reactions after the Sino-Japanese War, late 19th/early 20th century LaunchPad

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Source 19.3 Gender, Reform, and Revolution: Qiu Jin, Address to Two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen, 1904 LaunchPad

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Source 19.4 Cutting the Queue: The Modernization of China, 1911 LaunchPad

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Source 19.5 Toward Revolution: Wang Jingwei, We Want a Republic, Not a Constitutional Monarchy, April 25, 1910 LaunchPad

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Source 19.6 The Chinese Revolution of 1911: About the Insurrectional Movement in China, 1911 LaunchPad

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

Voice 19.1 David and Yurong Atwill on the Significance of the War for China, from Sources in Chinese History, 2010 LaunchPad

Voice 19.2 James L. Huffman on the Significance of the War for Japan, from Japan in World History, 2010 LaunchPad

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19. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Japan and the West in the Nineteenth Century

Source 19.1: Continuing Japanese Isolation: An Edict of Expulsion, 1825

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Source 19.2: The Debate: Expel the Barbarians: Tokugawa Nariaki: Memorial on the American Demand for a Treaty, 1853

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Source 19.3: The Debate: A Sumo Wrestler and a Foreigner: Yoshiku Utagawa: Throwing a Frenchman, 1861

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Source 19.4: The Debate: Eastern Ethics and Western Science: Sakuma Shozan:　Reflections on My Errors, mid-1850s

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Source 19.5: Westernization: Toyohara Chikanobu: Women and Westernization, 1887

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Source 19.6: A Critique of Westernization: Honda Kinkichiro: Critique of Wholesale Westernization, 1879

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Source 19.7: War and Empire: Chomatsu Tomisato: Japan, Triumphant, 1904

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Source 19.8: Japan in the Early Twentieth Century: Okuma Shigenobu:　Fifty Years of New Japan, 1907–1908

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Explaining Japan’s Transformation

Voice 19.1: James Huffman on Japan’s Historical Legacy and Its Meiji Leaders, From Japan in World History, 2010

Voice 19.2: James L. McClain on the International Context of Japan’s Transformation, From A Modern History of Japan, 2002

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PART 6 The Long Twentieth Century, 1900–present

THE BIG QUESTION The Long Twentieth Century: A New Period in World History?

20. MILESTONES OF THE PAST CENTURY: WAR AND REVOLUTION, 1900–1950

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

The First World War: A European Crisis with a Global Impact, 1914–1918

Origins: The Beginnings of the Great War

Outcomes: Legacies of the Great War

The Russian Revolution and Soviet Communism

Capitalism Unraveling: The Great Depression

Democracy Denied: The Authoritarian Alternative

European Fascism

Hitler and the Nazis

Japanese Authoritarianism

A Second World War, 1937–1945

The Road to War in Asia

The Road to War in Europe

Consequences: The Outcomes of a Second Global Conflict

Communist Consolidation and Expansion: The Chinese Revolution

Reflections: War and Remembrance: Learning from History

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Hiroshima LaunchPad

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LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Ideologies of the Axis Powers LaunchPad

Source 20.1 Italian Fascism: Creating a New Roman Empire: School Exercise Book Celebrating Italy’s Victory over Ethiopia, 1937 LaunchPad

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Source 20.2 Hitler on Nazism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925–1926 LaunchPad

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Source 20.3 Nazi Anti-Semitism: H. Schluter, Der Ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), 1937 LaunchPad

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Source 20.4 The Japanese Way: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, 1937 LaunchPad

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Source 20.5 Japanese Imperialism: Japanese Propaganda Poster of Manchuria under Japanese Occupation, 1933 LaunchPad

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Anti-Semitism LaunchPad

Voice 20.1 Beth A. Griech-Polelle on Anti-Semitism Creating "Otherness," from Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, 2017 LaunchPad

Voice 20.2 Daniel Goldhagen on the Uniqueness of German Anti-Semitism, from Hitler’s Willing Executioners, 1997 LaunchPad

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20. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Experiencing World War I

Source 20.1: Experiences on the Battlefront

Julian Grenfell: Letter from a British Officer in the Trenches, November 18, 1914

John Nash:　Painting: Over the Top, 1918

Hugo Mueller: Letter from a German Soldier on the Western Front, 1915

Behari Lal: Letter from a Soldier in the British Indian Army, 1917

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Source 20.2: On the Home Front

British Propaganda Poster: Women of Britain Say –– "Go!," 1915

Ivor Novello: Keep the Home Fires Burning, 1915

Editha von Krell: Recollections of Four Months Working in a German Munitions Factory, 1917

Berlin Police Reports, 1915

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Source 20.3: In the Aftermath of the Great War

Otto Dix: Painting: Prague Street, 1920

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929

Nar Diouf: A Senegalese Veteran’s Oral Testimony, 1919

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: The Legacies of World War I

Voice 20.1: John Keegan on the Legacies of World War I, From The First World War, 2000

Voice 20.2: Peter Frankopan on World War I and the Decline of Empire, From The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, 2015

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21. MILESTONES OF THE PAST CENTURY: A CHANGING GLOBAL LANDSCAPE, 1950–PRESENT

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Recovering from the War

Communism Chinese-Style

Building a Modern Society

Eliminating Enemies

East versus West: A Global Divide and a Cold War

Military Conflict and the Cold War

Nuclear Standoff and Third-World Rivalry

The Cold War and the Superpowers

Toward Freedom: Struggles for Independence

The End of Empire in World History

Toward Independence in Asia and Africa

After Freedom

The End of the Communist Era

Beyond Mao in China

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

After Communism

Reflections: To Judge or Not to Judge

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: The Cuban Revolution LaunchPad

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LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Mao’s China LaunchPad

Source 21.1 Revolution in Long Bow Village: William Hinton, Confronting Landlords and Husbands, 1948 LaunchPad

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Source 21.2 A Vision of the New China: Poster "Work Hard for a New Age," 1970s LaunchPad

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Source 21.3 Socialism in the Countryside LaunchPad

Mao Zedong, On Communes, 1958

Socialism in the Countryside: Poster "The People’s Communes Are Good," 1958

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Source 21.4 Women, Nature, and Industrialization: Poster "Women Hold Up Half of Heaven," 1970 LaunchPad

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Source 21.5 The Cult of Mao: Poster "Chairman Mao and Us Together," 1968 LaunchPad

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Source 21.6 Experiencing the Cultural Revolution: Gao Yuan, Born Red, 1987 LaunchPad

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Assessing Mao 　LaunchPad

Voice 21.1 Maurice Meisner on Mao, Modernization, and Socialism, from Mao’s China and After, 1999 LaunchPad

Voice 21.2 Frank Dikotter on Mao’s Great Famine, from Mao’s Great Famine, 2011 LaunchPad

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21. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Articulating Independence

Source 21.1: Declaring Vietnam’s Independence: Ho Chi Minh: Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, September 2, 1945

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Source 21.2: An Image of Vietnam’s Independence: Fifty Years Later: Fiftieth Anniversary of Vietnamese Independence, 1995

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Source 21.3: India’s "Tryst with Destiny": Jawaharlal Nehru: Independence Day Speech, August 14, 1947

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Source 21.4: Another View of India’s Struggle for Independence: Gandhi and the Fight against British Colonialism, 1930-1931

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Source 21.5: One Africa: Kwame Nkrumah:　Africa Must Unite, 1963

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Source 21.6: South African "Independence": Photograph of the First Post-Apartheid South African Election, 1994

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Source 21.7: Independence as Threat: Alvim Pereira: Ten Principles, 1961

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Assessing African Independence

Voice 21.1: Basil Davidson on the Promise of Independence, From Let Freedom Come, 1978

Voice 21.2: George Ayittey on the Betrayal of Independence, From Africa Betrayed, 1992

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22. GLOBAL PROCESSES: TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMY, AND SOCIETY, 1900–PRESENT

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

Technology: The Acceleration of Innovation

Generating Energy: Fossil Fuel Breakthroughs

Harnessing Energy: Transportation Breakthroughs

Harnessing Energy: Communication and Information Breakthroughs

Harnessing Energy: Military Breakthroughs

The Global Economy: The Acceleration of Entanglement

The Globalization of Industrialization: Development in the Global South

Re-globalization: Deepening Economic Connections

Growth, Instability, and Inequality

Pushback: Resistance to Economic Globalization

Producing and Consuming: The Shapes of Modern Societies

Life on the Land: The Decline of the Peasantry

The Changing Lives of Industrial Workers

The Service Sector and the Informal Economy

Global Middle Classes and Life at the Top

Getting Personal: Transformations of Private Life

Modernity and Personal Life

The State and Personal Life

Feminism and Personal Life

Reflections: History in the Middle of the Stream

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

CONTROVERSIES: Debating Globalization

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ZOOMING IN: Anna Dubova, a Russian Woman, and the Soviet State LaunchPad

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LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Global Feminism LaunchPad

Source 22.1 Western Feminism in the Twenty-First Century LaunchPad

A Slutwalk Protest in London, 2012

A Demonstration for Women Workers’ Rights in Toulouse, France, 2017

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Source 22.2 Black American Feminism: Combahee River Collective, A Black Feminist Statement, 1977 LaunchPad

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Source 22.3 Communist Feminism: Soviet Poster Advertising Support for Women Workers, 1949 LaunchPad

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Source 22.4 Islamic Feminism: Benazir Bhutto, Politics and the Muslim Woman, 1995 LaunchPad

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Source 22.5 Mexican Zapatista Feminists LaunchPad

Indigenous Women’s Petition, March 1, 1994

The Women’s Revolutionary Law, January 1, 1994

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Feminism: Tensions and Resistance LaunchPad

Voice 22.1 Merry Wiesner-Hanks on International Feminism, from Gender in History: Global Perspectives, 2011 LaunchPad

Voice 22.2 Peter Stearns on Resistance to Global Feminism, from Gender in World History, 2015 LaunchPad

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22. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Reflections on Technology

Source 22.1: Postcards of the Future: A French Artist Imagines Technological Change: Air Battles and Air Freight in the Future, 1910; The Horse as a Curiosity, 1910; The School of the Future, 1910; A Video-Telephone in the Year 2000, 1910

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Source 22.2: Depicting Communist Technology: Soviet Industry and Technology, 1933

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Source 22.3: Nehru and Gandhi on Technology and Industry: 　Nehru, The Discovery of India, 1946

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Source 22.4: "Technology with a Human Face": E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful, 1973

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Source 22.5: Nuclear Technology and Fears of a Nuclear Holocaust

"The Climatic Effects of Nuclear War," 1984

Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth, 1982 　　

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Source 22.6: Technology and Climate Change

Piers Forster, Reversing Climate Change… Technologically, 2014

Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Facing Climate Change, 2016

José Ramos-Horta and Mohamed Nasheed: "Climate Change a Western Problem: Not Anymore," 2014

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Technological Change in the Twentieth Century

Voice 22.1: Trevor Williams on the Impacts of Technology in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, From A Short History of Twentieth-Century Technology c. 1900-c. 1950, 1982

Voice 22.2: J.R. McNeill on Challenges Overcome and Challenges Created in the Twentieth Century, From Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World, 2000

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23. GLOBAL PROCESSES: DEMOGRAPHY, CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, 1900–PRESENT

Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad

More People: Quadrupling Human Numbers

People in Motion: Patterns of Migration

To the Cities: Global Urbanization

Moving Abroad: Long-Distance Migration

Microbes in Motion: Disease and Recent History

Cultural Identity in an Entangled World

Race, Nation, and Ethnicity

Popular Culture on the Move

Religion and Global Modernity

Humankind and the Environment: Entering the Anthropocene Era

The Global Environment Transformed

Changing the Climate

Protecting the Planet: The Rise of Environmentalism

Reflections: World History and the Making of Meaning

Second Thoughts

What’s the Significance?

Big Picture Questions

Chronology

ZOOMING IN: Barbie and Her Competitors in the Muslim World LaunchPad

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LearningCurve LaunchPad

Summative Quiz LaunchPad

WORKING WITH EVIDENCE: Contending for Islam LaunchPad

Source 23.1 A Secular State for an Islamic Society: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Speech to the General Congress of the Republican Party, 1927 LaunchPad

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Source 23.2 Toward an Islamic Society: The Muslim Brotherhood, Toward the Light, 1936 LaunchPad

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Source 23.3 Two Images of Islamic Radicalism LaunchPad

The Violent Face of Islamic Radicalism, 2015

The Peaceful Face of Islamic Radicalism, 2015

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Source 23.4 The Sufi Alternative: Narendra Modi, Sufism and Islamic Radicalism, 2016 LaunchPad

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Source 23.5 Progressive Islam: Kabir Helminski, Islam and Human Values, 2009 LaunchPad

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Source 23.6 Debating the Burqa: Protests in London against French Ban of Face Concealment, 2011 LaunchPad

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Perspectives on the Iranian Revolution LaunchPad

Voice 23.1 Francis Robinson on Islamic Renewal Movements, from The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World, 1996 LaunchPad

Voice 23.2 John Esposito on the Source of the Iranian Revolution, from The Oxford History of Islam, 1999 LaunchPad

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23. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES: Experiencing International Migration

Source 23.1: Hana in Holland: Hana, Adapting to Holland,　2016

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Source 23.2: Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Holland: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, "From a Letter to My Grandmother," 2010

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Source 23.3: Left Behind in Morocco: Poem by a Moroccan Woman, 1978

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Source 23.4: Brain Drain: J. Nozipo Maraire, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter,　1996

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Source 23.5: The Politics of Immigration: A Cautious Welcome in Europe: Chancellor Angela Merkel, Speech to the European Parliament, October 7, 2015

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Source 23.6: The Politics of Immigration: Resentment and Resistance in Europe: Geert Wilders, Speech at the 'Europe of Nations and Freedom' Conference, 2017

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Source 23.7: From the Holocaust to Israel: Fund-Raising POster from Israel, 1950

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Source 23.8: The Palestinian Diaspora: "The Catastrophe" Memorialized, 2015

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HISTORIANS’ VOICES: Immigration to the United States and Europe

Voice 23.1: Konrad Jarausch on Europe’s Shift from Emigration to Immigration, From Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, 2015

Voice 23.2: Tobias Brinkmann and Annemarie Sammartino on American and German Attitudes towards Immigration, From The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century: Competition and Convergence, 2010

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Robert W. Strayer

Robert W. Strayer (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) brings wide experience in world history to the writing of Ways of the World. His teaching career began in Ethiopia where he taught high school world history for two years as part of the Peace Corps. At the university level, he taught African, Soviet, and world history for many years at the State University of New York-College at Brockport, where he received Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching and for Excellence in Scholarship. In 1998 he was visiting professor of world and Soviet history at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Since moving to California in 2002, he has taught world history at the University of California, Santa Cruz; California State University, Monterey Bay; and Cabrillo College. He is a long-time member of the World History Association and served on its Executive Committee. He has also participated in various AP® World History gatherings, including two years as a reader. His publications include Kenya: Focus on Nationalism, The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa, The Making of the Modern World, Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse?, and The Communist Experiment.

Eric W. Nelson

Eric W. Nelson (D.Phil., Oxford University) is a professor of history at Missouri State University. He is an experienced teacher who has won a number of awards, including the Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011 and the CASE and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Professor of the Year Award for Missouri in 2012. He is currently Faculty Fellow for Engaged Learning, developing new ways to integrate in-class and online teaching environments. His publications include The Legacy of Iconoclasm: Religious War and the Relic Landscape of Tours, Blois and Vendôme, and The Jesuits and the Monarchy: Catholic Reform and Political Authority in France.

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