This book offers a range of documents to illustrate characteristic features of key civilizations during major stages of world history - from the beginnings of written records to the start of the modern age around 1500 C.E. - including contrasts and comparisons among major societies.   Revised and updated with fourteen new documents and four new visual sources, the fifth edition of Documents in World History retains its global emphasis while improving its standard selections and political coverage, as well as expanding its coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia.

Table of Contents:
Geographical Contents Topical Contents Preface to the New Edition Preface Introduction   SECTION ONE — The Early Modern Period, Centuries of Dramatic Change: 1400s — 1700s   Introduction   Global Contacts 1.      The Maritime System* Columbus and others 2.      The Columbian Exchange in the Early Modern Period   Waiting for chapter before determining sub-head 3.      Africa and the Slave Trade African and Western Interaction   Western Europe and Russia 4.      The Italian Renaissance The Letters of Petrarch 5.      The Protestant Reformation The Works of Martin Luther 6.      Protestantism and Women Conservative and Reformist Views 7.      The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: New Intellectual Standards in the West* From the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment Visual Source: Science in Renaissance Art 8.      Peter The Great Reforms Russia Peter the Great   New Empires in Asia 9.      The Rise of the Ottoman Empire The Reign of Suleiman Visual Source: The Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul 10.  Conquering and Ruling India: Babur and Akbar Mughal Documents Visual Source: Portrait of Babur 11.  Confucianism and Popular Protest in China Ming and Qing Documents Visual Source: Confucian Architecture 12.  Early Modern Japan Tokugawa Documents Visual Source: The Art of the “Floating World”   Latin American Civilization 13.  Economy and Society in Latin America Latin American Working Conditions Visual Source: Silver Mine at Potosi 14.  Political Styles in Latin America: Colonial Bureaucracy Don Jorge Juan and Don Antionio De Ulloa 15.  Baroque Culture in Latin America Samplings of Baroque Culture in Mexico, latter 17th Century Visual Source: Baroque Church   Sub-Saharan Africa 16.  East Africa and Portugal Gaspar de Santo Barnadino’s Itinerario da India   SECTION TWO -- THE LONG 19TH CENTURY: 1750 - 1914   Introduction   Western Civilization 17.  The French Revolution and its Aftermath* Classic Documents of the Revolution 18.  Work and Workers in the Industrial Revolution Industrial Revolution Documents   Global Contacts 19.  World Migrations: 19th and 20th Centuries* Documents on the United States, Brazil and Manchuria 20.  European Imperialism Documents by Lugard, Ferry and Kipling   Russia 21.  The Russian Frontier Society John Ledyard on Siberia 22.  Russian Peasants: Serfdom and Emancipation Russian Documents   Asia 23.  The Opium War: China and the West Correspondence Between China and England Visual Source: Chinese and British Images of Lin Zexu 24.  Heavenly Kingdom or Reform?: China’s Descent Taiping and Reform Documents 25.  The Meiji Restoration in Japan Meiji Documents Visual Source: Photographs of the Meiji Emperor 26.  The 1857 Uprising in India British and Indian Documents Visual Source: British Images of the Indian Uprising 27.  Middle Eastern Responses to the West Middle Eastern Documents   Latin America 28.  Independence and Consolidation of New States (1791 - 1910) Documents by Jean Jacques Dessallines, Simón Bolivar, and Profirio Diaz 29.  Economy and Society of Latin America PlantationLife in Cuba and Yucatan   Africa 30.  The Decades of Imperialism in Africa African Responses   Global Contacts 31.  19th Century Sports* Sports Accounts Visual Source: Nationalism and the First Olympics 32.  Racism in World History: The Discovery of “Personal Whiteness” Mohandas K. Gandhi and W.E.B. Du Bois   SECTION THREE -- THE 20th and EARLY 21ST CENTURIES   Introduction   Europe and Russia 33.  The Experience of World War I Four Weeks in the Trenches; All Quiet on the Western Front 34.  The Western State Two Innovations: Nazism and the Welfare State 35.  Consumerism WeimarArticles 36.  Lenin, Stalin and Russian Communist Society* Lenin’s Writings, Stalin, and a Bitter Legacy   Global Contacts 37.  The Cold War Cold War Documents 38.  The Collapse of the Soviet Union Gorbachev   Middle East 39.  Revolution in the Middle East: The Making of Modern Turkey Turkish Documents 40.  Middle Eastern Dreams in Conflict: Israelis and Palestinians* Zionist, Israeli, and Palestinian Documents Visual Source: The Cartography of Conflict 41.  The Resurgence of Islam Islamic Documents Visual Source: Egyptian Pilgrim Murals   East Asia 42.  Chinese Revolutionaries: Sun Zhongshan and Mao Zedong Two Revolutionary Leaders 43.  Communism Rule in China: Two Views Wang Fucheng and Fang Lizhi 44.  Japanese Memories of World War II World War II Documents Visual Source: The Architecture of Commemoration 45.  Corporate Management and Gender in Japan Morita Akio and Matsui Yayori   South Asia 46.  Spinning Wheels, Black Flags and a “Tryst with Destiny”: India Wins Independence Nationalist Documents Visual Source: Responses to the Amritsar Massacre 47.  Love and Marriage in Modern India “Love and Marriage” from Manushi Magazine   Latin America 48.  20th-Century Latin American Politics: The Revolutionary Challenge Latin American Revolutionary Documents 49.  Searching for the Soul of the Latin American Experience Latin American Identity 50.  Latin America’s Social Crisis in the 20th Century Latin American Struggles   Sub-Saharan Africa 51.  African Nationalism African Nationalist Leaders 52.  Changes in African Culture and Society African Voices Visual Source: African Women’s Work 53.  African Democracy* Nelson Mandela, Wole Soyinka, Robert Mugabe, Kondwani Chirambo   Forces of Change and Global Contacts 54.  Global Warming* The U.S., United Nations, China, Germany and Greenpeace address the issue 55.  Globalization: Youth Culture and Working for Multinationals Global Youth Voices 56.  International Terrorism* Bin-Laden and Blair