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On-Line Text: "Brave New Worlds: Discovery and Reformation"

Text File:  Discovery and Reformation

On-Line Reader: Martin Luther, "The Freedom of a Christian"

Text File:  Discovery and Reformation Reader

World Civilizations Glossary: "legitimation of authority," "crisis of legitimation," "indulgences, "voluntary associations"" 

On-Line Reader: Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 5: "Satan's Argument"; Descartes, Discourse on Method , part 2 and 4; Pascal, Pensees 198, 199

Text File:  Skepticism and Fragmentation Reader

World Civilizations Glossary: "philosophy," "epistemology," "skepticism" 

Defining Concepts Visually: Velazquez and the Seventeenth Century
 

On-Line Text: "The European Enlightenment"

Text File:  Enlightenment

On-Line Reader: Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality , Book 2

Text File:  Enlightenment Reader

World Civilizations Glossary: "classical mechanics," "empiricism," "legitimation of authority," "social contract," "right" 

On-Line Text: "The Industrial Revolution," chapter in "Enlightenment Europe"

Text File: Capitalism

On-Line Reader: Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations , Book I, Chapter 1

Text File:  Capitalism Reader

World Civilizations Glossary: "capitalism," "economics" 

Imagining Individualism
 

On-Line Text: "Revolution and After"

Text File:  Revolution

On-Line Reader: Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence ; Declaration of Sentiments (Optional: Young Lady's Own Book ) 

Text File:  Revolution Reader

Revolutions Then and Now
 

On-Line Text: "The Idea of America"

Text File:  America

On-Line Reader: "Plato," "The Character of Democracy"; Calvin, On Civil Government , (optional: paragraphs 1-3), paragraphs 8-9; Tocqueville, from Democracy in America, Book II. 2, 4, 8; Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man of the Crowd" 

Text File:  America Reader

Cultures in Conflict: Three Views of the Conquest of America
 
 

On-Line Reader: Andrew Jackson, "Second Annual Message," George Catlin, "The Story of Wijunjon," Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation"

Text File:  Conquest of America Reader
 

On-Line Text: "The Ottomans" 

Text File:  Ottomans

On-Line Reader:  "Eulogy of Istanbul,"  from Counsels of Nabi Effendi 

Text File:  Ottomans Reader  

The Experience of Shi'a and Islamic Republicanism
 
 

On-Line Text: "Shi'a"

Text File:  Shi'a

World Civilizations Glossary: "imam," "velayhat i-faqih" 

On-Line Text: "The Culture and Legacy of the Mughals"

Text File:  Mughals

On-Line Text: "What is Architecture?

World Civilizations Gallery: Fatehpur Sikri

World Civilizations Glossary: "wahdat al-wujud" 

Applying the Qur'an
 

On-Line Text: "Ming China," "Ch'ing China"

Text File:  China

On-Line Reader: "Neo-Confucianism," The Dream of the Red Chamber (abstract)

Text Reader:  China Reader

World Civilizations Glossary: "The Han Synthesis," "wu-hsing" 

On-Line Text: "Modern China"

Text File:  Modern China

Confucius and Communism

On-Line Text: "Tokugawa Japan," "Kabuki" 

Text File:  Japan

On-Line Text: "Tokugawa Neo-Confucianism ," "Kokugaku," "Motoori Norinaga"

Text File:  Japanese Culture

World Civilizations Glossary: "aware," "mono no aware," "philosophy" 

On-Line Text: "Modern Japan" 

Text File:  Modern Japan

Articles: Emperor Akihito, Early Cultivators of Science in Japan, Kamakura Isao, Table Manners Then and Now.

Tokugawa and Beyond
 

On-Line Text: "Latin America"

Book Review
 

On-Line Text: "The African Diaspora" 

Text File:  African Diaspora

On-Line Reader: Olaudah Equiano, Selections from The Life of Gustavus Vassa , William Henry Holcombe, Selections from The Alternative 

Text File:  Africa Diaspora Reader

On-Line Text: " Modern Africa" 

Text File:  Modern Africa

Articles: Heart of Darkness , Leopold's Congo: A Holocaust We Have Yet to Comprehend , We are at War, Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address

Imperialism and Resistance

On-Line Text:World Cultures in Crisis:

Text File:  Crisis

World Civilizations Glossary: abstraction, atonalism, postcolonialism,relativity