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World History II 1500 to Present
: The Birth of Modern Knowledge
Editor in Chief:
Eric Cunningham, Gonzaga University
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1. A Survey of the Premodern Worlds
2. Crisis and Recovery in Eurasia
3. Contact and Conquest
4. Worlds Entangled
5. Empires of Splendor and Might
6. The Birth of Modern Knowledge
7. Reordering the World
8. Non-European Appropriations of Modernity
9. Industrialism and Its After-effects
10. Nations and Empires in the Americas
11. Triumph of the Bourgeoisie
12. New Imperialism
13. Competing Visions of Modernity
14. A Divided Postwar World
15. Globalization
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Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum (1486)
Paracelsus: Concerning the Nature of Things (1537)
Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543)
Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger (1610)
Fama Fraternitatis (ca. 1610)
Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories (1615)
René Descartes: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason (ca. 1637)
John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government (1690)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract (1762)
Immanuel Kant: “What Is Enlightenment?” (1784)
Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor” (1550)
Michel de Montaigne: “Of the Education of Children” (1579–1580)
Miguel Cervantes: Don Quixote (1605-1615)
Thomas Mun: England's Treasure by Forraign Trade (ca. 1630)
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (1651)
Blaise Pascal: Pensées (1660)
John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687)
English Bill of Rights (1689)
John Locke: An Essay on Human Understanding (1690)
William Byrd II: Representation concerning Proprietary Governments (1699)
Charles de Montesquieu: The Spirit of Laws (1748)
Voltaire: Candide (1759)
Emanuel Swedenborg: Invitation to the New Church (ca. 1760–1772)
Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary (1764)
Catherine II of Russia: The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners (1767)
Denis Diderot: Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville (1772)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)
Unit Essays: World History II, Unit 6
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The Birth of Modern Knowledge
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From Enlightenment to Revolution
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Destabilization of the Spiritual Worldview
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