SUPPLEMENTARY  DOCUMENT  READINGS

 

INTERNET  SOURCEBOOK

 

 

I.                   REFORMATION

1.     John Wyclif: Sacrament of Communion

2.     John Hus: Final Declaration

3.     Martin Luther: 95 Theses

4.     Martin Luther: Address to the Nobility of the German Nation

5.     Martin Luther: Jews and Their Lies

6.     John Calvin: Heidelberg Catechism

7.     Anabaptism: Schleitheism Confession

8.     England: Act of Supremacy

9.     Anglicanism

10. Scottish Confession of Faith

11. Trentine Creed or the Creed of Pius IV

 

II.                RELIGIOUS  CONFLICT

1.     French Wars of Religion

2.     Saint Bartolemew’s Day Massacre

3.     Treaty of Westphalia

4.     Witchcraft

 

III.             EASTERN EUROPE & DISCOVERY

1.     Secret History of the Reign of Jan Sibieski

2.     Selections from Columbus’ Journal

3.     Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India

 

IV.            ABSOLUTISM

1.     James I: True Law of Free Monarchies

2.     Cardinal Richelieu: Political Testament

3.     Bishop Jacques Bossuet: Political Treatise on Kingship

4.     Description of Elizabethian England

5.     Execution of Charles I

6.     Glorious Revolution

7.     English Bill of Rights

 

 

 

V.               ENLIGHTENMENT

1. John Locke                               9. Adam Smith

2. Voltaire                                   10. David Hume

3. Denis Diderot                          11. Edmund Burke

4. Jean Jacques Rousseau            12. Immanuel Kant

5. Montesquieu                            13. Daniel Defoe

6. Jonathan Swift                         14. Lady Mary Wortley

7. Lessing                                     15. George Berkeley

8.     Condorcet

 

VI.            ENLIGHTENED  DESPOTISM

1.     Russia: Peter the Great and Catherine the Great

2.     Austria: Joseph II and Maria Theresa

3.     Prussia: Frederick II

4.     Division of Poland

 

VII.         ROMANTICISM

1.     What is Romanticism

2.     Romanticism in painting

 

VIII.      FRENCH REVOLUTION

1.     Cahiers of 1789

2.     What is the Third Estate

3.     Tennis Court Oath

4.     The Rights of Man

5.     Declaration of the Rights of Women 1791

6.      Doctrine of Graccus Babeuf

7.     Justification of the Use of Terror

 

IX.            INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

 

X.               NATIONALISM

1.     Fichte: To the German Nation

2.     Herzl: On the Jewish State

3.     Mazzini: An Essay on the Duties of Man, On Nationality

4.     O’ Connell: Jutice for Ireland

 

 

XI.            SOCIALISM

1.     Robert Owen

2.     Saint-Simon

3.     Fourier

4.     Prince Kropotkin

5.     Bernstein: Evolutionary socialism

6.     George Bernard Shaw: Fabianism

7.     Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto

 

XII.         IMPERIALISM

1.     Hobson

2.     Lenin

3.     On French Colonial Expansion

4.     Program of Pan German League

5.     Why Britain Acquired Egypt

 

XIII.      WORLD WAR I

1.     Official Papers by country

a. Austria: Triple Alliance, Ultimatum to Serbia, War guilt

               b. France: Sykes-Picot Agreement, Armistice demands

               c. Germany: Declaration of War on Russia, Reichstag Peace resolution, Belgian Refusal of Free Passage

               d. Great Britain: Bryce Report, Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference

               e. Italy: Declaration of Neutrality

               f. Serbia: Response to Ultimatum

               g. USA: Fourteen Points

2.     1914

a.     Letters of Kaiser to Czar

b.    Blank Check

c.     Russian Memorandum to Serbia

d.    Wily-Nicky telegrams

e.     Manifesto of 93 German Intellectuals

3.     1915

a.     Propaganda Leaflets

b.    Husain-McMahon Letters

c.     Unrestricted U-boat warfare

d.    Wilson’s Warning to Germany

e.     Use of Gas

f.      Treaty of London

4.     1916: Rosa Luxembourg, War and the Worker

5.     1917

a.     Zimmerman note

b.    Wilson’s War Message

6.     1918: Treaty of Brest-Litovsk