Readings in Western civilization
George H. Knoles (Editor), Rixford Kinney Snyder (Editor)
Sources
xi, 922 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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The ancient near east
from "The code of Hammurabi" / Hammurabi
from "The second book of Moses, called Exodus"; from "The books of the Kings"; from "Amos"; from "Isaiah" and "Micah"; from "Ezekiel"; from "Isaiah" / The Bible
from "The book of the dead" / The Egyptians
Greek civilization
from "The Peloponnesian War" / Thucydides
"The crito" / Plato
from "The Nicomachean ethics"; from "The politics" / Aristotle
"Oedipus the king" / Sophocles
from "The phaedo"; from "The republic" / Plato
from "Hypotheses" / Aristarchus
from "Concerning the circular motion of the heavenly bodies" / Eratosthenes
Roman civilization
from "The histories" / Polybius
from "The lives" / Plutarch
from "The Aeneid" / Vergil
from "The laws" / Cicero
from "The thoughts of Marcus Aurelius" / Marcus Aurelius
The decline of classical civilization
from "The lives of the twelve Caesars" / Suetonius
from "The gospel according to St. Matthew" ; from "The gospel according to St. John"; from "The acts of the Apostles"; from "The first epistle of Paul to the Corinthians" / The Bible
from "The confessions of St. Augustine"; from "The city of God" / Augustine
From "The rule of St. Benedict / Benedict of Nursia
from "The early Germans" / Tacitus
"The life of the Emperor Charles" / Eginhard
Civilization in the Middle Ages
"A description of the manor house at Bernehorne"; "An English manor house"; "Freeing of a serf" / Manorial documents
"Magna Carta" / The English barons
from "The Canterbury tales" / Geoffrey Chaucer
"De Monarchia" / Dante Alighieri
from "Sic et Non" / Peter Abelard
from "The decree for the Armenians" / Council of Florence
"Whether God exists" / Thomas Aquinas
from "The song of Roland" / French epic
from "Of cheating" and "Of the sin of usury" / Thomas Aquinas
from "The journey of the mind to God" / St. Bonaventure
Renaissance and reformation
from "A letter to Gabriel Sanchez" / Christopher Columbus
from "The prince" / Niccolo Machiavelli
from "The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini" / Benvenuto Cellini
from "The divine comedy" / Dante Alighieri
from "Gargantua and Pantagruel" / Francois Rabelais
from "In praise of folly" / Desiderius Erasmus
from "Address to the Christian nobility of the German nation" / Martin Luther
from "The institutes of the Christian religion" / John Calvin
from "The thirty-nine articles" / Convocation of the clergy
from "The decrees of the council of Trent" / Council of Trent
Civilization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
from "Political economy drawn from Holy Scripture" / Jacques Benigne Bossuet
from "The leviathan" / Thomas Hobbes
from "The second treatise on government" / John Locke
from "The social contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
from "The complete English tradesman" / Daniel Defoe
from "Cinna" / Pierre Corneille
from "Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica" / Isaac Newton
from "An essay concerning human understanding" / John Locke
from "An essay on man" / Alexander Pope
from "Candide" / Voltaire
from "The progress of the human mind" / Condorcet
The revolutionary era and the conservative reaction
from "Letters from an American farmer" / Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur
from "The autobiography" / Benjamin Franklin
"The declaration of American independence"/ Second Continental Congress
"The federalist No. 10" / James Madison
"Declaration of the rights of man and citizen" / French National Assembly
"Proposed declaration of rights" / Maximilien Robespierre
"Proclamation 19th Brumaire" / Napoleon Bonaparte
from "Reflections on the revolution in France" / Edmund Burke
"The tables are turned" and "We are seven" / William Wordsworth
from "An essay on population" / Thomas Malthus
from "Faust" / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Confessions of faith" / Clemens Metternich
Industrialism, liberalism, and democracy in the nineteenth century
from "The Sadler report" / Parliamentary Committee
from "An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations" / Adam Smith
"Jefferson's first inaugural address" / Thomas Jefferson
from "On liberty" / John Stuart Mill
from "Democracy in America" / Alexis de Tocqueville
from "The significance of the frontier in American history" / Frederick Jackson Turner
from "The communist manifesto" / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
from "Anarchism, its philosophy and ideal" / Peter Kropotkin
from "Report on the Fabian policy" / George Bernard Shaw
"Statements from American labor leaders" / American labor leaders
from "Rerum novarum" / Pope Leo XIII
from "The speeches of Chancellor Bismarck" / Otto von Bismarck
from "Song of myself" / Walt Whitman
from "The origin of the species" / Charles Darwin
from "Utilitarianism" / John Stuart Mill
from "Beyond good and evil" / Friedrich Nietzsche
from "Pragmatism: a new name for some old ways of thinking" / William James
Nationalism, imperialism, and the War of 1914-1918
from "The duties of man" / Giuseppe Mazzini
from "Politics" / Heinrich von Treitschke
from "A parliamentary debate on Uganda" / Joseph Chamberlain
from "The march of the flag" / Albert J. Beveridge
"Statements made at the outbreak of World War I" / William II, Poincare, Nicholas, and Asquith
from "The secret agreement of March, 1915" / Entente diplomacy
from "The secret treaty of London" / The governments of France, Russia, Great Britain, and Italy
from "The economic consequences of the peace" / John Maynard Keynes
Economic, social, and political changes in the twentieth century
from "Other people's money" / Louis Brandeis
"Lift up thine eyes" / Sherwood Anderson
"Danger at the A. O. Smith Corporation" / Stuart Chase
from "The new freedom" / Woodrow Wilson
from "New conditions impose new requirements upon government and those who conduct government"; from "First inaugural address" / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
from "State and revolution" / Vladimir Ilich Lenin
from "The Soviet constitution of 1936" / Government of the Soviet Union
from "The political and social doctrine of Fascism" / Benito Mussolini
from "National socialism" / National socialism
Contemporary civilization
from "Hitler's speech to the people of Danzig" / Adolf Hitler
from "Mussolini's speech, June 10, 1940" / Benito Mussolini
from "A parliamentary speech by Winston Churchill" / Winston Churchill
from "Report of the effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services / United States Strategic Bombing Survey
from "Civilization and its discontents" / Sigmund Freud
"The hollow men" / Thomas Stearns Eliot
from "The biologist looks at man" / Julian Huxley
"A faith for history's greatest crisis" / Reinhold Niebuhr
from "Modern democracy" / Carl Becker
"Antigone" / Jean Anouilh
Includes index