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Chauvet Cave Paintings, c. 30,000 BCE
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/
Sumeria (c. 3100-c. 2000 BCE)
Secondary Sources:
Sumeria: links to information about Sumerian archaeology, artwork, culture,
history, religion, law, and liturature [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/sumer.html
Primary Sources:
Enki, a Sumerian High God
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/016.html
The Great Hymn to Shamash
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/133.html
The Epic of Gilgamesh [At Angelfire]
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/temple1.html
Akkadia (c. 2350-2200 BCE)
Secondary Sources:
Akkadia: map, images, and a brief chronology [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/akkadia.html
Primary Sources:
The Legend of Sargon of Akkadê, c. 2300 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2300sargon1.html
Enheduanna [At Angelfire]
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/enheduanna/index.html
Babylonia (c. 2000-1600 BCE)
Secondary sources:
Babylonia: links to maps, history, law, literature, culture, and art [At
Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/babylonian.html
Primary sources:
Code of Hammurabi, c. 1780 [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html
A Collection of Babylonian Prayers, c. 1600 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1600babylonianprayers.html
Secondary Sources:
Egypt: links to history, religion, art, literature, law, and culture in ancient
Egypt [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptian.html
Primary Sources:
Pen-ta-ur: The Victory of Ramses II Over the Khita, 1326 BCE [At Ancient
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1326khita.html
Herodotus: Mummification, from The Histories [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-mummies.html
Egyptian Love Poetry, c. 2000-1100 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/2000egypt-love.html
Museo Gregoriano Egiziano: Images from the Vatican's Egyptian Museum.
http://198.62.75.1/www1/vaticano/EG-Egiziano.html
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: links to Egyptian Images
http://eawc.evansville.edu/pictures/egpage.htm
Secondary Sources:
Ancient India: links to map, history, culture, religion, and daily life in
ancient India [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/india.html
Primary Sources:
Hymns from the Rig Veda [From Reading About the World, edited by Paul Brians,
PhD, Professor, Department of English, Washington State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/ANCINDIA.HTM Click on Resources.
The Laws of Manu, c. 1500 BCE [At Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/manu-full.html
The Creation of the World According to the Upanishads [At Eliade Page]
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/058.html
The Moment of Death as described in the Upanishads [At Eliade Page]
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/160.html
The Ramayana: a 50,000-line poem written in Sanskrit by Sage Valmiki. [translated by Desiraju Hanumanta Rao and K.M.K.Murthy]
http://www.valmikiramayan.net
Ramayana: images and maps [At Syracuse]
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/programs/sac/Outreach/ramayana/images.asp
Bhagavad Gita: complete text [At WSU]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/GITA.HTM
Sources on the Buddha's Life and Death [At Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/buddha-life.html
Sources on Buddhist Order [At Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/buddha-order.html
Secondary Sources:
Ancient China: links to art, architecture, history, culture and daily life
in ancient China [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/china.html
The Great Wall [At Cystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/chinawall.html
The Great Wall Image [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/gtwall-2.gif
Primary Sources:
Confucius (5th Century BCE?): Analects [Lun Yu] [At WSU]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/confucius.html
Legalism: Han Fei tzu (d. 233 BCE): Selections [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/hanfei.html
Daoism: Selections from the Dao De Jing, Laozi Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??)
[At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/taote-ex.html
The Deification of Lao Zi, c. 666 CE [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/666laozi.html
The Zhou Dynasty
Sima Qian Ssuma Ch'ien: Two Biographies, from
The Records of the Grand Historian of China (The Shih Chi) (6th century BCE)
[At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/ssuma1.html
The Qin Dynasty
The legalist policies of the Qin [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/ssuma2.html
The Han Dynasty
Selections of Chinese Poetry [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/c-poet1.html
Map of China under the Han [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/hanmap.jpg
The Tang Dynasty
Image: Tang Lady [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/tanglady.gif
Image: Tang Horse [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/tanghors.jpg
Secondary Sources:
Ancient Greece: links to art, archaeology, history, culture, religion, and
literature in ancient Greece [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/greece.html
John Porter, "The Archaic Age and the Rise of the Polis" [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/CourseNotes/Polis.html
Primary Sources:
History
Herodotus (c. 490-c. 425 BCE), The
Histories [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-history.txt
Thucydides (c. 460/455-c. 399 BCE), 11th
Britanica [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-thucydides.html
Politics and Law
Solon (c. 640-after 561 BCE): Selected Fragments
[At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Solon.html
Aristotle (384-323 BCE), The
Athenian Constitution [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aristotle-athcon.txt
Aristotle (384-323 BCE) on the origin of the polis
from The Politics [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/Aristotle-politics-polis.html
Sophocles (496-405/6 BCE): Antigone
(442 BCE), excerpts. [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/sophocles-antigone.html
Greek Colonization: Documents on the Founding of Cyrene, c. 630 BCE [At Ancient
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/630cyrene.html
Documents on Greek Slavery [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-slaves.html
Alexander the Great, Plutarch (c. 46-c. 120 CE),
excerpts from Life of Alexander. [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plutarch-alexander1.html
Literature and Mythology
Homer (c. 8th Cent. BCE), The
Illiad [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/homer-illiad.txt
Homer (c. 8th Cent. BCE), The
Odyssey [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/homer-odysseySB.txt
Hesiod (c. 700 BCE), Theogony
excerpts [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hesiod-theogony-ex.html
Selections from Greek Lyric Poets [At Saskatachewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/LyricPoetsPorter.html
Religion
Accounts of Hellenic Religious Beliefs, c. 800 BCE-110 CE [At Ancient History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greekrel2.html
Accounts of Personal Religion, c. 430 BCE-300 CE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/personalrelig.html
The Persian Wars
Herodotus, Selections from The
Persian Wars [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06
http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Hdt.html
Herodotus (c. 490-c. 425 BCE): Xerxes Invades Greece
from The Histories [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-xerxes.html
Herodotus (c. 490-c. 425 BCE): On the Kings from
Sparta, from The History of the Persian Wars [At
Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-sparta1.html
11th Brittanica: Delian League [At Ancient History
Sourcebook ]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eb11-delianleague.html
Justin (3rd Cent CE): The Beginning of Philip of
Macedon's Reign, c. 359-352 BCE [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/justin-philip.html
Philosophy
Plato (427-347 BCE), The Republic [At Ancient History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plato-republic.txt
Greek Art [At University of Richmond, VA]
Athens - Museum Artifacts http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/photos/athens_Mus.html
Secondary Sources:
Ancient Rome: links to art images, archaeology, history, maps, culture, religion,
literature, and philosophy in ancient Rome [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/rome.html
Primary Sources:
Etruscans
Reports of Etruscans, c. 430 BCE-10 CE. From Herodotus and Livy [At Ancient
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/etrucans2.html
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco I, Etruscan Art from the Vatican
http://198.62.75.1/www1/vaticano/ET1-Etrusco.html
Roman Law and Politics
The Twelve Tables 451/450 BCE selections [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/12tables.html
The Roman Government: Checks and Balances [From Polybius, Histories, 6] [At
Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/rome-balance.html
War and Expansion
Polybius (c. 200-after 118 BCE): The Third Punic
War, 149-146 BCE, The Histories, Book XXXVI-XXXIX
[At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius-punic3.html
Livy (59 BCE-17 CE): The Roman Way of Declaring
War, c. 650 BCE, from History of Rome I.34 [At
Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/650livy1-34.html
Polybius (c. 200-after 185 BCE): Rome at the End
of the Punic Wars, from The Histories, Book 6
[At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/polybius6.html
Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-c. 24 BCE): Life of Hannibal
http://shot.holycross.edu/courses/Sallust-Livy/S06/pdfs/Nepos-Hannibal-eng.pdf
Appian (1st Cent CE): The
Civil Wars (On the Gracchi) [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/appian-civwars1.html
Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE): Julius Caesar's Gallic
War [At Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University]
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0001
Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): The Assassination of
Julius Caesar from Marcus Brutus, excerpts, translated
by John Dryden. [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/plutarch-caesar.html
Slavery in the Roman Republic [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/slavery-romrep1.html
Life and Literature
Cicero (105-43 BCE): Selected Letters [At Ancient
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/cicero-letters.html
Cicero, On Friendship, or Laelius,
44 BCE full text, trans. by W. Melmoth [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/cicero-laelius-melmoth.html
Catullus (c. 84-c. 54 BCE): Poems [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/Catullus.html
Juvenal and Persius:
Satires: Introduction [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/juvenalpersius-intro.html
The Empire
Augustus (63 BCE-14 CE): Selections from The
Acts of the Divine Augustus (Res Gestae Divi Augusti) [At Saskatchewan]
modified 10/26/06 http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/DeptTransls/ResGest.html
Suetonius (c. 69-after 122 CE): Life
of Augustus, complete, Worthington translation [At Ancient History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-augustus.html
The Five Good Emperors
Pliny the Younger (61/62-113 CE) and Trajan
(r. 98-117 CE): Letters, Book X. 25ff : The Correspondence
of a Provincial Governor and the Emperor Trajan, c. 112 CE [At Ancient History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pliny-trajan1.html
Aelius Spartianus: Life of
Hadrian, (r. 117-138 CE.), excerpts [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aelius-hadrian1.html
Eutropius (4th Cent CE): The Reign of Marcus Aurelius,
161-180 CE, from Compendium of Roman History,
8:12-14 [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/eutropius-marcusaurelius1.html
Religion
Accounts of Roman Religion [At Ancient History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/romrelig3.html
Roman Art
Roman Art [The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/index.aspx?dep=13&vw=0
Roman Images [At Exploring Ancient World Cultures]
http://eawc.evansville.edu/pictures/ropage.htm
Secondary Sources:
The Franks [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06238a.htm
Primary Sources:
Germanic Tribes
Jordannes, Origins and Deeds
of the Goths [At Calgary]
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html
Conversion and Christianity
The Conversion of Clovis (496); two Accounts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/496clovis.html
Gregory of Tours (539-594): Life
of St. Gall [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gregory-stgall.html
The Rule of Saint Benedict, (c. 530) short excerpts
[At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/rul-benedict-excerp.html
Willibald: The Life of Saint
Boniface [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/willibald-boniface.html
Byzantine Empire
Procopius, The Secret History,
extracts [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/procop-anec1.html
Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Digest and Codex: Marriage
Laws [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cjc-marriage.html
John of Damascus: In Defence of Icons, c. 730,
extracts from On the Holy Icons and the Fount of Wisdom.
[At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/johndam-icons.html
Second Council of Nicea, (787), Decree on Icons [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/nicea2-dec.html
Secondary Sources:
Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam.
[At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/crone.html
Arthur Jeffry, A Reader on Islam: Passages from Standard
Arabic Writings Illustrative of the Beliefs and Practices of Muslims
[At University of Pennsylvania]
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs143/Resources/ajwiba.html
Shia Islam, a multimedia site by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM
Primary Sources:
Ibn Ishaq (d. c. 773 CE): Selections from the Life
of Muhammad [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhammadi-sira.html
The Qu'ran, Surah 1, 47 [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/koran-sel.html
Sunni Tradition
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE): The
Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/alghazali.html
The Shiite Tradition
Early and Medieval Shi'a, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM
The Safavids, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/SHIA.HTM
Abbasids
Yakut: Baghdad under the Abbasids,
c. 1000 CE [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1000baghdad.html
Ummayyad Spain
Selections from poetry by Spanish Moors [At Islamic Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/moorishpoetry.html
Secondary Sources:
Ghana, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/GHANA.HTM
Kush, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/KUSH.HTM
Axum, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/AXUM.HTM
Songhay, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SONGHAY.HTM
The Swahili Kingdoms, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/SWAHILI.HTM
Islam in Africa, by Richard Hooker [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/ISLAM.HTM
Primary Sources:
Accounts of Meröe, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE-550 CE [At African History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/nubia1.html
Leo Africanus: Description of Timbuktu from The
Description of Africa (1526) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/leo_africanus.html
Bill of Sale for Saracen Slave Girls [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1248serfs5.html
Secondary Sources:
Gupta Empire Map [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/GUPTAMAP.HTM
Primary Sources:
The Edicts of King Ashoka [At Colorado State]
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/ashoka.html
Kalidasa: The Recognition of Sakuntala (4th-5th
C. CE?) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/sakuntala.html
Secondary Sources:
Chinese Dynasties [At ThinkQuest, Oracle Education Foundation]
http://library.thinkquest.org/12255/library/dynasty/dynasty.htm
The Song Dynasty, a multimedia site, has links to economic, intellectual,
and social developments during this period, including Neo-Confucianism [At
Columbia University].
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/
Map: China under the Northern Song Dynasty [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/sungmap.jpg
Map: The Mongol Empire [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/mongmap.jpg
Primary Sources:
Li Po (701 762 CE): Drinking Alone by Moonlight
[At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/drink.html
Liu Hsün's wife: The Curtain of the Wedding
Bed (3rd C. CE) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/bed.html
Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East,
c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E. [At East Asian Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/romchin1.html
Song Painting: Bird on silk by Emperor Hui-tsang 1101-1125 [At East Asian
Sourcebook]
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/images/yellbird.gif
Marco Polo: On the Tartars
[i.e., Mongols] (1254-1324) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/mpolo44-46.html
Marco Polo: The Glories Of
Kinsay [Hangchow] (c. 1300) [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/polo-kinsay.html
Secondary Sources:
Ancient Japan [At Crystalinks]
http://www.crystalinks.com/japan.html
Feudal Japan [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/FEUJAPAN/CONTENTS.HTM
Shinto [At About.com]
http://www.religioustolerance.org/shinto.htm
The Kamakura Shogunate [At Minnesota State University, Mankato]
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/japan/kamakura/kamakura-p.html
Primary Sources:
Jimmu Tenno, The First Emperor [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/JIMMU.HTM
The Taika Reform Edicts [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/TAIKA.HTM
Japanese Poetry [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/japanese_poetry.html
The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu [At
Pacific University]
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/genji/homepage.html
Secondary Sources:
Pepin the Short [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11662b.htm
The Vikings [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11115b.htm
Vikings in America [At University of Pittsburgh]
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/vinland.html
Feudalism, a concise and clear introduction, by Paul Halsall [At Medieval
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1i.html#Feudalism
Primary Sources:
Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732: Three Accounts [At Medieval
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html
The Monk of Saint Gall (Notker the Stammerer):
The Life of Charlemagne (c. 883/4), full text
[At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/stgall-charlemagne.html
Charlemagne: General Capitulary of the Misi (802)
[At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-missi1.html
Agobard of Lyons (9th century): On Hail and Thunder
[At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/Agobard-OnHailandThunder.html
Viking Incursions
Three Sources on the Ravages of the Northmen in Frankland, c. 843-912 [At
Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/843bertin.html
Initiation of a warrior: Going beserk from the Volsunga
Saga, chapters 7-8 [At Eliade Page]
http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/145.html
Feudalism and Manorialism
Fulbert of Chartres: Letter on feudal obligations,
1020 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/fulbert1.html
Canute the Great: Granting
of Fiefs, 1028 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1028Cnutfief.html
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Rent-payments in Kind
and Coin, 852 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/852ASC-rentsinkind.html
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Domesday Book,
1086 [At Medieval Sourcebook]
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Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of
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History of Gothic Architecture
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The Plague [Black Death]
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The Hundred Years War
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Northern Europe and Spain http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html
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Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince
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A Venetian Memorandum on the Power and Revenue of European States (c. 1420)
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Aztec Civilization, a multimedia site with links to Aztec history, culture,
architecture, and archaeology [At Crystalinks]
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Explorers and Exploration
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Capture of an Inca King, Francisco Pizaro
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Trade and the New Economy
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Martin Luther [At Online Catholic Encyclopedia]
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Conflict: The French Wars and the Thirty Years War
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The Duchess of Orleans: Versailles Etiquette, 1704
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Russia
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Dutch Republic
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Dining With
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War, Central Europe, and the Enlightenment [by Frank Smitha]
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793burke.html
Maximilien Robespierre: Justification of the Use
of Terror [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
Olympe de Gouge: Declaration of the Rights of Women,
1791 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html
Edmund Burke: Reflections on The Revolution in
France, 1791 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791burke.html
Napoleon's Proclamation to His Troops in Italy (March-April 1796)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/nap1796.html
The Code Napoleon (1804)
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/code_nap.html
The Return of Napoleon from Elba, 1815 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1815napoleon100days.html
Secondary Sources:
The South Sea Bubble [At History House]
http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/south_sea/
Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in England, by Arnold Toynbee (1884)
[At McMaster]
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/toynbee/indrev
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Leeds Woollen Workers' Petition, 1786 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1786machines.html
Letter from Leeds Cloth Merchants, 1791 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791machines.html
Image: Watts Steam Engine [At Rochester]
http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/thurston/1878/f26p98.gif
The Life of the Industrial Worker in Ninteenth-Century England, excerpts
from primary sources, by Laura Del Col [At West Virginia University]
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers2.html
Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester, 1844
[At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842womenminers.html
Harriet Robinson: Lowell Mill Girls [At Modern
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robinson-lowell.html
Thomas Carlyle: from Signs
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Secondary Sources:
Nationalism and Music [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/NATMUSIC.html
The Menscheviks: On the Seizure of Power and Participation in a Provisional
Government, April 1905 [At Metropolitan State College of Denver]
http://clem.mscd.edu/~wynot/mensprog.html
National Unification of Germany and Italy [At Britannia]
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Romanticism
Walter Scott Digital Archive and Walter Scott image database [At Edinburgh University Library]
http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/
http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/imdata.html
Walter Scott's "The Lady of the Lake" [At Penn State Hazleton]
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/walter-scott.htm
"Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott" ("The Vision of Don Roderick," "The Field of Waterloo," "The Dance of Death," Romance of Dunois,"
"The Troubadour," "Pibroch of Donald Dhu") [At Project Gutenburg]
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext04/wspm10.txt
Liberalism
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
(1859) [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mill.html
The Treaty of London for Greek Independence, July 6, 1827, excerpts [At Modern
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1827gktreaty.html
Hungarian Declaration of Independence [At H-Net]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~habsweb/sourcetexts/hungind.html
Socialism
Marx-Engels Library
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Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels,
The Communist Manifesto [At The Australian National University]
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
Excerpts from the French Socialist Program (1905) [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1905frenchsoc.html
Nationalism
Germany
Friedrich Engels on the Prussian Military Question
and the German Workers' Party [At The International Workingmen's Association]
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/03/17.htm
Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Address To The German Nation,
1807 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1807fichte1.html
Documents of the German Unification [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/germanunification.html
Maurice Leudet: A Day with Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1898
[At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1898wilhelm2.html
Bismark and the "Polish Question" [At H-Net]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/speech.html
Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini: On Nationality, 1852 [At Modern
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1852mazzini.html
Documents of the Italian Unification [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1861italianunif.html
King Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament, Rome,
1871 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871victoremm.html
France
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869): History of the
Revolution of 1848 in France [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1848lamartine.html
Russia
Manifesto of 1905 [At Durham]
http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/octmanif.html
Program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905 [At Durham]
http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/srprog.html
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The Opium Monopoly, by Ellen N. La Motte [At Drug Library]
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/om/ommenu.htm
Timeline of U.S. Intervention in Latin America [At zompist.com, © Mark Rosenfelder]
http://www.zompist.com/latam.html
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British Empire
John Hobson: Imperialism,
1902 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902hobson.html
British Missionary Letters: Urging the Annexation of The South Sea Islands,
1883 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1883hebrides.html
Capt. F. D. Lugard: The Rise of Our East African
Empire, 1893 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1893lugard.html
Wilfred Scawen Blunt: Britain's Imperial Destiny,
1896-1899 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899blunt.html
Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule,
1871 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html
Field Marshal Lord Roberts: When Queen Victoria
Became Empress of India, 1877 [Indian History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/1877empressvictoria.html
France & Reactions
Jules Ferry (1832-1893): On French Colonial Expansion
[At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884ferry.html
Rudyard Kipling, The White
Man's Burden, 1899 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
Edward Morel: The Black Man's
Burden, 1903 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1903blackburden.html
China
First Open Door Note on China (1899) [At American Revolution]
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1876-1900/foreignpolicy/opendr.htm
The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Fei-boxers.html
Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900
[At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1900Loti-peking.html
Japan
Documents Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/to1914.htm
Commodore Matthew Perry: When We Landed in Japan,
1854 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1854Perry-japan1.html
Okuma: from Fifty Years of
New Japan, 1907-1908 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908okuma.html
Lt. Tadayoshi Sakurai: The Attack upon Port Arthur,
1905 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1905portarthur.html
Latin America
Simon Bolivar: Proclamation to the People of Venezuela
(June 15, 1813) [At Geocities]
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Simon Bolivar: Proclamation to the People of Columbia
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World War I: Trenches on the Web, a site with numerous links to sources and
articles [At Worldwar1.com]
http://www.worldwar1.com/
The Russian Revolution: A Summary [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rusrev.html
The Russian Revolution Web Guide, a site with numerous links
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html
Mark Shepard: Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths, the 1990 Annual Gandhi Lecture
for the International Association of Gandhian Studies, delivered at the University
of Virginia at Charlottesville on October 2 [At Mark Shepard's Nonviolence
Page]
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World War I
World War I Document Archive [At Brigham Young University]
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/
The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany, October 7, 1879 [At
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Private Donald Fraser, Canadian Expeditionary Force:
Selections from My Daily Journal, 1915-1916 [At
Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1918fraser.html
Fritz Kriesler: Four Weeks in the Trenches, 1915
[At H-net]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~habsweb/sourcetexts/kreis1.htm
The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/brest.htm
The Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/menu.htm
The Russian Revolution
Vladimir Illyich Lenin: Our
Programme, 1899 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
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Vladimir Illyich Lenin: State
and Revolution, 1918 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
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Tsar Nicholas II, Abdication, (March 15, 1917)
[At Brigham Young University]
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Resolutions adopted by the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets, (June 1917)
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Anatoly Vasilievich Lunacharsky: Leo Trotsky, from
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Hanging Order for Kulaks (1918) [At Library of Congress]
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ad2kulak.html
Indian Nationalism
Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948): Indian Home Rule,
1909 [At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/gandhi.html
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April 27, 1942 [At ibiblio.org]
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1942/420427a.html
Zionism
Theodor Herzl: On the Jewish State, 1896 [At Modern
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1896herzl.html
League of Nations: The Mandate for Palestine, July 24, 1922 [At Modern History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1922mandate.html
The Partition of Palestine: UN General Assembly Resolution 181, November
29, 1947 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947UN181.html
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The Weimar Republic Page
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/hist/weilin.html
The Holocaust [Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/holocaus.htm
Bernard Lazare: Antisemitism: Its History and Causes
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/lazare-anti.html
"Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust," by Daniel J. Goldhagen, a
modern opinion [At HistoryPlace]
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Revelations from the Russian Archives [At Library of Congress]
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html
Primary Sources:
The Depression
Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1919versailles.html
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946): The
Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920, excerpts [At Modern History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920keynes.html
American Life Histories, manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940,
contains primary oral accounts of the Depression in the United States [At
Library of Congress]
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Nazism and World War II
Adolph Hitler: Reichstag Speech, February 20, 1938
[At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/bluebook/blbk05.htm
Adolf Hitler: The Discovery of Antisemitism in
Vienna, excerpts from Mein Kampf (1932) [At HNet]
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/hitler1.html
Neville Chamberlain: "Peace in Our Time,"
1938 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1938PEACE.html
World War II Documents [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm
Documents of World War II [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm
Winston Churchill: "Blood, Toil, Tears and
Sweat," May 13, 1940 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): "America,
the Arsenal of Democracy" [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/roosevelt-arsenal.html
United States Declaration of War on Germany, December 11, 1941 [At University
of Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/germwar.html
Pearl Harbor Attack Documents [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1941PEARL.html
United States Declaration of War on Japan, December 8, 1941 [At University
of Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/japwar.html
Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account of Holocaust
Mass Shooting, 1942 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942graebe.html
Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony
at Nuremburg, 1946 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946hoess.html
German Surrender Documents [At University of Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/germsurr.html
Japanese Surrender Documents [At U Oklahoma]
http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/japsurr.html
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
Russia under Stalin
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953): Industrialization of
the Country, 1928 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1928stalin.html
Stalin's Purges: an official explanation [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1936purges.html
Hymn to Stalin [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/stalin-worship.html
Secondary Sources:
Cold War International History Project
http://www.cwihp.org
Cold War Timeline
http://library.thinkquest.org/10826/timeline.htm
Russia [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/russia.htm
"The Collapse of the USSR and the destiny of Socialism," by Sam
Marcy [At University of Washington]
http://eserver.org/history/collapse-of-ussr.txt
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The Cold War
Winston S. Churchill: "Iron Curtain Speech,"
March 5, 1946 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html
Joseph Stalin: Reply to Churchill's Iron Curtain
Speech, 1946 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html
The Truman Doctrine, 1947 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947TRUMAN.html
Khrushchev and Eisenhower:
Summit Statements, May 16, 1960 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960summit-statements1.html
United Nations: Cuban Missile Crisis Debate, 1962 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.html
Soviet Statement: Friendship and Co-operation Between the Soviet Union and
Other Socialist States, October 30, 1956 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1956soviet-coop1.html
Communism in China
Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation
of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1927mao.html
Mao Zedong: The People's Democratic Dictatorship
[At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1949mao.html
The Vietnam War
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1945vietnam.html
Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward U.S.
Policy in Vietnam, 1964 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964degaulle-vietnam.html
President Lyndon Johnson and Ho
Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1967-vietnam-letters1.html
Vietnam Veterans Against the War Statement, 1971 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1972VVAW.html
Secondary Sources:
Modern International Relations, by Professor Vincent Ferraro, with full texts
of source documents and secondary discussions [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/feros-pg.htm
Primary Sources:
The Developing "Third World"
United Nations: Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries
and Peoples, 1960 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1960-un-colonialism.html
Documents Relating to the Global Economy [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/globecon.htm
Global Poverty [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/chossu.htm
Ethnic Conflict [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ethnic.htm
Africa
UN Resolution 1598: On Race Conflict in South Africa, 1961 [At Modern History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1961-un-southafrica1.html
A. L. Geyer: The Case for Apartheid, 1953 [At Modern
History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1953geyer.html
Nelson Mandela: Speech on Release from Prison,
1990 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1990MANDELA.html
Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address, May 10, 1994
[At Wichita State University]
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/mandela.html
Anwar el Sadat: Afro-Asian Solidarity and the World
Mission of the Peoples of Africa and Asia, 1957 [At Modern History Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1957sadat-afroasian1.html
The Revolutions of 1989
Balkan History Documents [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bosnia.htm
India and the Islamic World
Declaration of Pakistan and India on Jammu and Kashmir, 1966 [At Modern History
Sourcebook]
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1966kashmir1.html
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Documents [At Mt. Holyoke]
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/me.htm
The Hamas Covenant, 1988 [At Yale]
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/hamas.htm
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Internet Indian Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html#The%20Vedic%20Age
Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
Medieval History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html