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Contested Visions: The History of Western Civilization from 1648: Front Matter

Contested Visions: The History of Western Civilization from 1648

Front Matter

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:

  1. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Course

    1. Primary Source: Christopher Columbus, Extracts from Journal (1492)

  2. Chapter 2: The Age of Discovery

    1. Primary Source: Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542)

  3. Chapter 3: The Protestant Reformation and the Wars of Religion

    1. Primary Source 1: Martin Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian (1520)

    2. Primary Source 2: The Destruction of Magdeburg (1631)

  4. Chapter 4: The Scientific Revolution

    1. Primary Source: Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany (1615)

  5. Chapter 5: The Early Modern State: Absolutism and Constitutionalism

    1. Primary Source 1: Cardinal Richelieu, Political Testament (1624)

    2. Primary Source 2: The English Bill of Rights (1689)

  6. Chapter 6: The Enlightenment

    1. Primary Source: Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

  7. Chapter 7: The Balance of Power, Eighteenth-Century Warfare and Trade, and the Origins of the French Revolution

    1. Primary Source: Abbé Sieyes, What is the Third Estate? (1789)

  8. Chapter 8: The French Revolution and the Reign of Terror

    1. Primary Source: Maximilien Robespierre, Justification of the Use of Terror (1794)

  9. Chapter 9: Napoleon Bonaparte and the Birth of Nationalism

    1. Primary Source 1: The Imperial Catechism (1806)

  10. Chapter 10: The Industrial Revolution

    1. Primary Source 1: Leeds Woollen Workers Petition (1786)

    2. Primary Source 2: Women Miners in the English Coal Pits (1842)

  11. Chapter 11: The Congress of Vienna, the Era of the –Isms, and the Revolutions of 1848.

    1. Primary Source 1: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution (1790)

    2. Primary Source 2: Giuseppe Mazzini, On Nationality (1852)

    3. Primary Source 3: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) (**Chapter One ONLY**)

    4. Primary Source 4: David Ricardo, The Iron Law of Wages (1817)

    5. Primary Source 5: The People's Petition (1838)

  12. Chapter 12: The Unifications of Italy and Germany

    1. Primary Source: Documents Regarding Italian Unification (1846-1861)

  13. Chapter 13: The Second Industrial Revolution

    1. Primary Source 1: Occupational Breakdown of Germany’s Population (1882-1907)

    2. Primary Source 2: The Gotha Program (1875)

    3. Primary Source 3: The Erfurt Program (1891)

  14. Chapter 14: The New Imperialism

    1. Primary Source: Jules Ferry, On French Colonial Expansion (1884)

  15. Chapter 15: The First World War

    1. Primary Source: World War One Poetry (1914-1918)

  16. Chapter 16: The Russian Revolution and the End of the War

    1. Primary Source 1: Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (1918)

    2. Primary Source 2: John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)

  17. Chapter 17: Stalinism, Fascism, and the Origins of the Second World War

    1. Primary Source 1: The Reichstag Fire Decree (February 28, 1933)

    2. Primary Source 2: The Enabling Act (March 24, 1933)

  18. Chapter 18: The Second World War and the Holocaust

    1. Primary Source 1: Commissar Order (June 6, 1941)

    2. Primary Source 2: Reaction to the German Invasion (June 22, 1941)

    3. Primary Source 3: The Wannsee Protocol (January 20, 1942)

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