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- Chapter quizzes designed to help students focus on grasping the important material and self-assess their progress
- Video/Podcast links that bring history to life with engaging multimedia
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Author: Sarah Shurts, Professor of History, Bergen Community College
History in Practice engages students in the process of "doing history" via source analysis and synthesis. Its multi-step, inquiry-based approach guides students from the basics of understanding a source to creating informed examinations of the historical world. There are three sections within each module, and each section includes the following:
- Background, headed with the sect...
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Chapter 12 Cultures of the West, 3rd Edition, Volume 2 Enhanced eBook
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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The Worlds of All Against All 1540-1648
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From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New 1648-1750
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The Enlightened 1690–1789
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The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
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Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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The Enlightened 1690–1789
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The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
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Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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The Enlightened 1690–1789
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Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Chapter 12 Note Taking Guide
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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The Enlightened 1690–1789
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The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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Chapter 12 Closer Look
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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The Enlightened 1690–1789
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The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
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Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World 1945–1968
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Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Global Warmings Since 1989
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BBC Video: Montezuma, Malinche, and Cortes
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
BBC Video: Tupaia
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
BBC Video: The Haitian Revolution
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
BBC Video: The Steam Engine
Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
BBC Videos: The Atomic Age
The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
Petrarca, "Letter to Posterity"
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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From Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (Mad Orlando), 1516
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, ca. 1517
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Erasmus, "Letter to a Friend," "Julius Excluded from Heaven," and Introduction to the Gospels, first published 1522
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Martin Luther, On the Freedom of a Christian, dedicatory letter to Pope Leo X (1520)
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Martin Luther, "Preface to the New Testament," first published 1522
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Francesco Guicciardini, Florence under Lorenzo de' Medici
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Cellini, My Life, 1558–1563
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Vasari, Lives of Artists, first published in 1550, revised and added to until 1568
Renaissances and Reformations 1350-1563
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account, written 1542; published 1552
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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Nicolaus Copernicus, Dedication of The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies to Pope Paul III (1543)
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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Galileo Galilei, Letter to Don Benedetto Castelli, December 21, 1613
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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John Donne, Sermon (December 12, 1626); "To His Mistress Going to Bed" (1633)
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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Descartes, A Discourse on Method, 1637
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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Thomas Hobbes, "On Natural Law," Leviathan, 1651
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
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Anne of France, Lessons for My Daughter (late 16th Century)
From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New 1648-1750
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Molière, The Misanthrope, first performed 1666
From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New 1648-1750
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Cardinal Richelieu, "The Role of the King," Political Testament, ca. 1638, first published 1688
From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New 1648-1750
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Jean Domat, Civil Laws According to the Natural Order, 1697
From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New 1648-1750
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François Fénelon, The Adventures of Telemachus, 1699
From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New 1648-1750
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John Locke, "Of Tyranny," Two Treatises of Government, 1689
The Enlightened 1690–1789
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Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year, 1722
The Enlightened 1690–1789
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Rousseau, "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality," 1755
The Enlightened 1690–1789
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Voltaire, Letter to Rousseau on the Latter's "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality," 1755
The Enlightened 1690–1789
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Cesare Beccaria, "On Torture," Of Crimes and Punishments, 1764
The Enlightened 1690–1789
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Adam Smith, "Of the Principle of the Commercial or Mercantile System," Wealth of Nations, 1776
The Enlightened 1690–1789
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Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
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Maximilien Robespierre, Report of the Principles of Public Morality, 1794
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
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Napoleon, Letters to his Brother Jerome, 1801–1812
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
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Jakob Walter, Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, written 1856, first published 1932
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire 1789–1815
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William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey," 1798; "The World Is too Much with Us," 1806
Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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Letter of Bettina von Arnim to Johann Goethe, 1810
Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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Thomas Carlyle, "Signs of the Times," 1829
Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, 1851
Industrialization and Its Discontents 1750–1850
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Lajos Kossuth's Speech of the 11th July, 1848
The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Karl Marx, "First Premises of the Materialist Method," The German Ideology, 1846, first published 1932
The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Johann Georg Eccarius, from "The Friend of the People," No. 4, January 4, 1851
The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Caroline Norton, "On the Infant Custody Bill," 1839; "On Divorce," 1855
The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Isabella Beeton, From Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861
The Birth of Modern Politics 1815–1848
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Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in Paris by an Egyptian Cleric, 1826–1831
Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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Charles Trevelyan, The Irish Crisis, 1848
Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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Matthew Arnold, Preamble; "On a Definition of Culture," Culture and Anarchy, 1867
Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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Edward Augustus Freeman, Race and Language, 1879
Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner, Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, 1888
Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State, 1895
Nationalism and Identity 1800–1900
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Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792
The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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Caroline Norton, English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1854
The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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Winnifred Cooley, "The Bachelor Maiden," The New Womanhood, 1904
The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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Maria Montessori, The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education, 1912
The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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Emmeline Pankhurst, "Freedom or Death" (1913)
The Modern Woman 1860–1914
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Rebecca West, "The Sterner Sex" (1913)
The Modern Woman 1860–1914
Charles Lyell, from "On Extinct Quadrupeds," Principles of Geology, 1830–1833
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Abraham Geiger, "Moral and Legal Rules," Judaism and Islam, 1833
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Ernst Renan, "Miracles"
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life," 1863
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Charles Darwin, "On Sociability," The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature (A Rebours), 1884
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man under Socialism," 1891
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Wassily Kandinsky, On the Spiritual Element in Art, 1912
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1929
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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Winston Churchill, "The Battle of Omdurman," The River War, 1899
The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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John A. Hobson, "Criticism of Imperialism," Imperialism, 1902
The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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Mark Twain, "King Leopold’s Soliloquy," 1905
The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Home Rule
The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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Frederick Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911
The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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Presidential Address of Chitta Ranjan Das, Indian National Congress at Gaya, December 1922
The Great Land Grab 1870–1914
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Rudyard Kipling, France at War, 1915
The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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Extracts from the Treaty of Versailles, 1919
The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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Ernst Junger, Storm of Steel, 1920
The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, 1929
The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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Norman Angell, The Great Illusion, 1933
The World at War (Part I) 1914–1918
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The Jesuit Relations, French North America, 1649
Worlds Old and New 1450-1700
Harry Sacher, "A Jewish Palestine," 1917
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Paul Valéry, A Crisis of the Mind, 1919
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Henry Ford, The International Jew, 1920
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Excerpts from a Speech Delivered by Adolf Hitler to Open the 1933 Congress of the National Socialist Party
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Mussolini, "Force and Consent," 1923
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), The Decline of the West
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Friedrich Hayek, "Economic Control and Totalitarianism," 1944
Radical Realignments 1919–1939
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Aldous Huxley, An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism, 1937
The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, 1938
The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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Adolf Hitler, Speech from September 19, 1939
The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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Gustave Gilbert, Nuremburg Diary, 1947
The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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Arthur Koestler, The God That Failed, 1949
The World at War (Part II) 1937–1945
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Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942
Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World 1945–1968
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Nikolai Novikov, On Post-War American Policy, 1946
Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World 1945–1968
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Winston Churchill, "Iron Curtain" Speech, March 5, 1947
Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World 1945–1968
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World 1945–1968
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Introduction to The Second Sex (1949)
Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World 1945–1968
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Abba Eban, The Arab Refugee Problem, 1958
Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World 1945–1968
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sermon of January 21, 1934
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Paul Tillich, Collective Guilt, 1943
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Reinhold Niebuhr, Sermon on Humor and Faith (1946)
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Jean-Paul Sartre, "The Humanism of Existentialism" (1947)
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Pope John XXIII, Pacem in Terris, 1963
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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NSC 68: April 14, 1950
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, 1968
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Gamal Abdel Nasser, Resignation Speech, 1967
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Enoch Powell, "Rivers of Blood" Speech, 1968
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
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Vaclav Havel, "The Power of the Powerless" (1978)
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
Ayatollah Khomeini, Message, 1980
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
Founding Charter of The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), 1987
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
Rebecca Walker, "Becoming the Third Wave" (1992)
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, "How I Came to Dissent" (1974)
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, On Nuclear Defense, 1985-1987s
Something to Believe In 1960–1988
Halidé Edib Adivar, Memoirs, 1926 and 1928
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Fatima Mernissi, "The Story of a Female Psychic," 1989
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Francis Fukuyama, "Our Pessimism," 1992
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Luce Irigaray, From An Ethics of Sexual Difference, 1993
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations, 1996
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Martha Nussbaum, "The Idea of World Citizenship," from Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (1998)
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Richard Rorty, Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes, 1998
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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George W. Bush, Speech to Congress, September 20, 2001
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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European Council on Fatwa and Research, Decrees Regarding Muslim Women in Europe (2001)
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
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Mohammed Arkoun, "In Praise of Subversive Reason: Beyond Dialogue and the Quest for Identity" (2005)
Global Warmings SINCE 1989
World Economic Forum, Global Gender Gap Report, 2010
Global Warmings SINCE 1989