Contested Visions: The History of Western Civilization from 1648
An Open Education Resource Textbook
Thomas Aiello and J. Franklin Williamson
Gordon State College
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Course
Primary Source: Christopher Columbus, Extracts from Journal (1492)
Chapter 2: The Age of Discovery
Chapter 3: The Protestant Reformation and the Wars of Religion
Primary Source 1: Martin Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian (1520)
Primary Source 2: The Destruction of Magdeburg (1631)
Chapter 4: The Scientific Revolution
Chapter 5: The Early Modern State: Absolutism and Constitutionalism
Primary Source 1: Cardinal Richelieu, Political Testament (1624)
Primary Source 2: The English Bill of Rights (1689)
Chapter 6: The Enlightenment
Primary Source: Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
Chapter 7: The Balance of Power, Eighteenth-Century Warfare and Trade, and the Origins of the French Revolution
Primary Source: Abbé Sieyes, What is the Third Estate? (1789)
Chapter 8: The French Revolution and the Reign of Terror
Chapter 9: Napoleon Bonaparte and the Birth of Nationalism
Primary Source 1: The Imperial Catechism (1806)
Chapter 10: The Industrial Revolution
Primary Source 1: Leeds Woollen Workers Petition (1786)
Primary Source 2: Women Miners in the English Coal Pits (1842)
Chapter 11: The Congress of Vienna, the Era of the –Isms, and the Revolutions of 1848.
Primary Source 1: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution (1790)
Primary Source 2: Giuseppe Mazzini, On Nationality (1852)
Primary Source 3: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) (**Chapter One ONLY**)
Primary Source 4: David Ricardo, The Iron Law of Wages (1817)
Primary Source 5: The People's Petition (1838)
Chapter 12: The Unifications of Italy and Germany
Primary Source: Documents Regarding Italian Unification (1846-1861)
Chapter 13: The Second Industrial Revolution
Primary Source 1: Occupational Breakdown of Germany’s Population (1882-1907)
Primary Source 2: The Gotha Program (1875)
Primary Source 3: The Erfurt Program (1891)
Chapter 14: The New Imperialism
Primary Source: Jules Ferry, On French Colonial Expansion (1884)
Chapter 15: The First World War
Primary Source: World War One Poetry (1914-1918)
Chapter 16: The Russian Revolution and the End of the War
Primary Source 1: Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (1918)
Primary Source 2: John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)
Chapter 17: Stalinism, Fascism, and the Origins of the Second World War
Primary Source 1: The Reichstag Fire Decree (February 28, 1933)
Primary Source 2: The Enabling Act (March 24, 1933)
Chapter 18: The Second World War and the Holocaust
Primary Source 1: Commissar Order (June 6, 1941)
Primary Source 2: Reaction to the German Invasion (June 22, 1941)
Primary Source 3: The Wannsee Protocol (January 20, 1942)