Publications
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present:
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization:
Counterpoints: Paired Sources from U.S. History, 1877-present:
Custom Sourcebooks
Custom Sourcebook: U.S. History I to 1877
Custom Sourcebook: U.S. History II 1865 - present
Custom Sourcebook: World History I to 1500
Custom Sourcebook: World History II 1500 - present
Custom Sourcebook: Western Civilization I to 1500
Custom Sourcebook: Western Civilization II 1500 - present
Custom Sourcebook: African American History
Custom Sourcebook: Ancient Near East
Custom Sourcebook: Middle East
Custom Sourcebook: Modern Latin America
Custom Sourcebook: American Studies
Custom Sourcebook: World Religions
Custom Sourcebook: History of Japan
Custom Sourcebook: Modern Chinese History
Custom Sourcebook: Build Your Own
Milestone Content
US History I to 1877
US History II 1865 to the Present
African American History
World History I to 1500
World History II 1500 to Present
Western Civilization I to 1500
Western Civilization II 1500 to Present
Women's History
Modern Chinese History
Asia
Latin America
Africa
Ancient Near East
The Middle East since the Rise of Islam
History of Japan
Introduction to American Studies
American Presidency
World Religions
My Milestone
Ancient Near East
Western Civilization II
Western Civilization II
African American History
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
African American History
Western Civilization I
Western Civilization II
History of Japan
Medieval Europe
U.S. History II
African American History
African American History
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
Blank Anthology
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Western Civilization II
World Religions
Ancient Near East
African American History
World Religions
Western Civilization II
Western Civilization I
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Modern Latin America
U.S. History II
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
World Religions
History of Japan
Ancient Near East
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Blank Anthology
Great Depression and New Deal
Africa
World Religions
The Enlightenment
World History II
World History I
Modern Latin America
African American History
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Modern Latin America
Western Civilization I
World Religions
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Blank Anthology
Modern Latin America
U.S. History I
African American History
Modern China
African American History
World Religions
History of Japan
World Religions
Western Civilization I
World History II
World History I
Middle East
World History I
World History I
U.S. History I
Western Civilization I
U.S. History II
World Religions
Blank Anthology
World Religions
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
African American History
Ancient Near East
Ancient Near East
History of Japan
Western Civilization II
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
Modern China
Blank Anthology
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
World History II
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
Western Civilization I
Western Civilization II
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
U.S. History I
Western Civilization I
Ancient Near East
Middle East
Ancient Near East
U.S. History II
American Studies
U.S. History II
Western Civilization II
Ancient Near East
World History I
Modern Latin America
Perspectives: Debates in World Civilization
Account
Logout
Western Civilization II 1500 to Present
: The Apex of Modern Civilization
Editor in Chief:
Eric Cunningham, Gonzaga University
View all items
1. The Emergence of the Modern West
2. The Growth of Western Civilization
3. From Scientific Revolution to Enlightenment
4. The Enlightenment
5. An Age of Revolution
6. The Triumph of Bourgeois Consciousness
7. Industrialization and Its After-effects
8. The Apex of Modern Civilization
9. The Age of New Imperialism
10. The Great War
11. Totalitarianism
12. World War II
13. The Cold War
14. The West and the “Global” World
15. Postmodernism and the End of History
Recommended Docs
Additional Docs
Textbook Articles
Lin Zexu: “Moral Advice to Queen Victoria” (1839)
Henry David Thoreau: “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” (1849)
Queen Victoria: Proclamation concerning India (1858)
Giuseppe Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man: Addressed to Workingmen (1860)
Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man (1871)
Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament (1871)
Jane Addams: "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" (1892)
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power (1901)
Caroline Norton: Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855)
Treaty between United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (1862)
Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act (1875)
Helmuth von Moltke: Memorandum of the Councils of War Said to Have Been Held during the Wars (1881)
William Gladstone: Irish Home Rule Speech (1886)
Pope Leo XIII: In Plurimis (1888)
Otto von Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman (1898)
Émile Zola: “I Accuse” (1898)
Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic (1916)
Unit Essays: Western Civilization II, Unit 8
Short-answer Questions: Western Civilization II, Unit 8
Map Exercises: Western Civilization II, Unit 8
Key Terms: Western Civilization II, Unit 8
Key Concepts: Western Civilization II, Unit 8
Key Arguments: Western Civilization II, Unit 8
Unit Objectives: Western Civilization II, Unit 8
Unit overview
The Apex of Modern Civilization
Unit example
New States and Old Problems
Unit example
Challenges from Without
Unit example
Challenges from Within
