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Readings

Readings

Beik, Paul, ed. The French Revolution. New York: Walker, 1970. "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (1789), "A Petition to the National Assembly from Leaders of the Jewish Communities" (1790), and "Chapelier on the Organization of Workers" (1791), pp. 94-97, 130-135, 155-158.

Blake, William. "Chimney Sweeper," "London," and "The Human Abstract." In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. New York: Dover, 1992 [1794], pp. 34, 41, 42.

Buchanan, Patrick. Death of the West. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2002, pp. 1-10, 143-146, 147-177.

Casement, Roger. "Correspondence Respecting the Treatment of British Colonial Subjects and Native Indians Employed in the Collection of Rubber in the Putumayo District." The House of Commons Sessional Papers. Accounts and Papers, vol. 68 (1912-1913): 7-52, 154-159.

Brown, William Wells. Clotel, or The President's Daughter. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. Available electronically at www.knowledgerush.com/books/clotl10a.html. Optional book; start with Chapter one--do not need to read the preface or the narrative of life and escape.

Craton, Michael. Searching for the Invisible Man. Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978, pp. 197-201, 209-212, 223-228, 235-238, 245-250.

Documents from British Parliamentary Committees during the Industrial Revolution (1832-1842). The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, vol. 15 (1831-1832), pp. 35-36, 95-101, 195-199, 338-349; vol. 21 (1833), pp. 28-30; vol. 15 (1842), pp. 83-84; vol. 16 (1842), pp. 226, 230, 244, 250-251, 258-260, 261, 263, 292, 441-442, 461; vol. 17 (1842), pp. 39, 102, 107-108, 122.

Documents on Witchcraft Persecution (1486-1631). In Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History. Vol. III, no. 4: The Witch-persecutions. Edited by George L. Burr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania History Department, 1897, pp. 5-6, 11-13, 18-19, 23-35.

Du Bois, W. E. B. "The Concept of Race." Chap. 5 in Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1940, pp. 97-119.

Du Bois, W. E. B. "The Damnation of Women." In Darkwater (1920), reprinted in The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois Reader. Edited by Eric J. Sunquist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 564-580.

Durán, Diego. Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar. Translated and edited by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 [1580], chap. 1-3.

Figner, Vera. Part I in Five Sisters: Women against the Tsar. Edited and translated by Barbara Alpern Engel and Clifford N. Rosenthal. New York: Routledge, 1975, pp. 3-58.

Haraszti, Miklós. "The Culture of Censorship." In The Velvet Prison. New York: Basic Books, 1987 [1983], pp. 64-81.

Haraszti, Miklós. A Worker in a Worker's State. Translated by Michad Wright. New York: Universe Books, 1977 [1975], pp. 1, 22-29, 35-41, 98-105, 125-137.

Iemitsu, Tokugawa. "The Edict of 1635 Ordering the Closing of Japan" and "Completion of the Exclusion, 1639." In Sources of Japanese history. Edited by David John Lu. Vol. I. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974, pp. 216-218.

Las Casas, Bartolomé de. In Defense of the Indians (ca. 1548-1550). DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1974, chap. 4-6, 34, 35.

Lenin, V. I. "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government" (1918). In A Documentary History of Communism. Edited by Robert Vincent Daniels. Vol. I: Communism in Russia. London: Tauris, 1985, pp. 94-98.

Levy, Darline Gay, et al., eds. Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1979. "Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)," "The National Convention Outlaws Clubs and Popular Societies of Women (1793)," and "Women’s Deputations Barred from Sessions of the Paris Commune (1793)," pp. 87-96, 213-217, 219-220.

Locke, John. The Second Treatise of Government. New York: Dover, 2002 [1698].

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (1867). Translated from the thrid German edition by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. Vol. 1. New York: The Modern Library, [1906], pp. 11-16, 41-63, 81-106.

Mbemba, Nzinga (Affonso I). "Letters to the King of Portugal" (1526). In The African Past: Chronicles from Antiquity to Modern Times. Edited by Basil Davidson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964, pp. 191-194.

Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania from the Organization to the Termination of the Proprietary Government. Vol. IV. Harrisburg: The State, 1851. "Letter to Conrad Weiser" (1742); "Message from the Assembly to the Governor" (1742); Conrad Weiser, "Report on his Second Journey to Shamokin" (1743), and "Report of his Journey to Onondago" (1743), pp. 635-637, 646-650, 660-669.

Monter, William. "Women in the Age of the Reformation." In Becoming Visible: Women in European History. Edited by Renate Bridenthal, Claudia Koonz, and Susan Stuard. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987, p. 214, table 8.1, "Witch Trials in Selected Regions."

Pereira, Galeote. "Certain Reports of China…" (1565). In South China in the Sixteenth Century. Edited by C. R. Boxer. London: The Hakluyt Society, 1953, pp. 3-43.

Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich. Fathers and Sons. Translated by Eugene Schuyler. New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1867 [1861], chap. 1-10.

Tyson, George F., ed. Toussaint L'Ouverture. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1973, parts of chap. 3 and 4: "Letter to the Directory" (October 1797), "Letter to the Directory" (November 1797), and "Forced Labor Decree" (1800), pp. 36-45, 51-56.

Unnamed author. "Letter to the King and Queen of Spain."

Yataro, Iwasaki. "Letter to Mitsubishi Employees" (1876). In Sources of Japanese history. Edited by David John Lu. Vol. II. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974, pp. 80-82.

Viewings

Bauman, Suzanne. Suleyman the Magnificent. 1987.

Ding, Loni. Ancestors in the Americas: Coolies, Sailors, Settlers. 1996.

Gregory, Nava. El Norte. 1983.

Ivanov-Vano, Ivan. My Childhood. 1995.

Kaufman, Philip. Unbearable Lightness of Being. 1988.

Lean, David. Oliver Twist. 1948.

Levinson, Barry. Avalon. 1990.

O'Rourke, Dennis. Cannibal Tours. 1987.

Pasolini, Pier Paolo. Il Decameron. 1970.

Pontecorvo, Gillo. Battle of Algiers. 1965.

Shinoda, Masahiro. Double Suicide. 1969.

Title, Stacy. Last Supper. 1995. 

Vigne, Daniel.  The Return of Martin Guerre. 1981.

Wajda, Andrzej. Danton. 1982.

Weir, Peter. Gallipoli. 1981.

Zhang, Yimou. To Live (Huozhe). Hong Kong / China, 1994.

Zinnemann, Fred. A Man For All Seasons. 1966.