Courses:

Semi-Optional Film Series/Project (PDF)

• Nzinga Mbemba (Affonso I). "Letters to the King of Portugal" (1526).
• Unnamed author. "Letter to the King and Queen of Spain."

Week #2 (PDF)

• Bartolomé de Las Casas. Excerpts from Apologia (ca. 1548-1550), translated into English as In Defense of the Indians.
• Diego Durán. Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar (ca. 1580).

Week #3 (PDF)

• Galeote Pereira. "Certain Reports of China…" (1565).
• Tokugawa Iemitsu. "The Edict of 1635 Ordering the Closing of Japan," and "Completion of the Exclusion, 1639."

Week #4 (PDF)

• Documents on Witchcraft Persecutions (1486-1631).
• William Monter. "Women in the Age of the Reformation."

Week #5 (PDF)

• John Locke. The Second Treatise of Government (1698).
• Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania.

Week #6 (PDF)

• Michael Craton. Excerpts from Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica (1978).

Week #7 (PDF)

• Excerpts from Paul Beik, ed. The French Revolution.
• Excerpts from Darline Gay Levy et al., eds. Women in Revolutionary Paris.
• Excerpts from George F. Tyson, ed. Toussaint L'Ouverture.

Week #8 (PDF)

• Documents from British Parliamentary Committees during the "Industrial Revolution" (1832, 1842).
• William Blake. "Chimney Sweeper," "London," and "The Human Abstract" (1794).

Week #9 (PDF)

• Karl Marx. Excerpts from Capital. Vol. 1 (1867).
• Iwasaki Yataro. "Letter to Mitsubishi Employees" (1876).

Week #10 (PDF)

• Roger Casement. "Correspondence Respecting the Treatment of British Colonial Subjects and Native Indians Employed in the Collection of Rubber in the Putumayo District" (1911).

Week #11 (PDF)

• Ivan Turgenev. Excerpts from Fathers and Sons (original Russian edition 1861; translation 1867). Chap. 1-10.
• Vera Figner. Part I from Five Sisters.

Week #12 (PDF)

• W. E. B. DuBois. "The Concept of Race" (1940), and "The Damnation of Women" (1920).

Week #13 (PDF)

• V. I. Lenin. Excerpts from "The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government" (1918).
• Miklós Haraszti. Excerpts from A Worker in a Worker's State, and "The Culture of Censorship."

Week #14 (PDF)

• Patrick Buchanan. Excerpts from Death of the West (2002).