Primary sources in world history : wealth, power, and inequality. Volume 2, Since 1500 /

As purposeful actors on the stage of world history, ambitious individuals have exhibited a deep-seated desire to become prosperous and powerful. These documents show that their self-interested behavior has led to increasing social, political, and economic inequality both within and among different s...

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Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost books
Other Authors:	Farr, James, 1950- (Editor), Hearden, Patrick J., 1942- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
Subjects:	History, Modern > Sources. Economic history > Sources. World politics > Sources. Economic history. History, Modern. World politics. Electronic books. Sources.

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Intro
Contents
Introduction
Document 42 The Spanish King's Requierimento, 1513
Document 43 Jacob Fugger's Letter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, 1523
Document 44 A Spaniard's Account of Aztec Tribute. Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Aztec Tribute, 1526
Document 45 Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, On Süleyman the Lawgiver, ca. 1530
Document 46 Pedro de Cieza de Leon,Chronicles of the Incas, 1553 CE
Document 47 Russian Tsar Ivan IV, Grant to the Stroganovs to Colonize Siberia, 1558
Document 48 A Spaniard's View of th Columbian Exchange, 1590
Document 49 Eskander Bey Monshi, Biography of Shah Abbas I, ca. 1600
Document 50 Huo Ju-hsia, From a Memorandum on the Portuguese in Macao, Seventeenth Century
Document 51 Muscovite Merchants Complaints to the Russian Tsar Alexis I about English Traders, 1646,and the Tsar's Response in His Decree on English Merchants, 1649
Document 52 Tokugawa Iemitsu, Injunctions to Peasants, 1649
Document 53 John Keymer, On Dutch Trade and Commerce, Early Seventeenth Century
Document 54 Thomas Mun, England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, 1664
Document 55 English Bill of Rights, 1689
Document 56 On Slavery and the Slave Trade: Letters from the Kings of the Kongo to the King of Portugal, 1526
A European Account of the Slave Trade, Seventeenth Century
Malachy Postelthwayt, The National and Private Advantages of the African Trade Considered, 1746
A Virginian planter's view of slavery, 1757
Document 57 Canassatego, Onandaga Chief and Spokesman for the Iroquois Nation, Address to the Europeans, 1742
Document 58 Anonymous, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789
Document 59 William Wilberforce, On the Horrors of the Slave Trade, 1789
Document 60 George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
Document 61 Thomas R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798
Document 62 Michael Sadler, A Parliamentary Committee Report on Child Labor in England, 1832
Document 63 Lin Zexu, The Chinese Reaction to British Opium Traders, 1839
Document 64 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A Demand for Equality for Women, 1848
Document 65 Sergei Stepanovich Lanskoi, The Debate over Abolishing Serfdom in Russia, 1859
Document 66 Boston Commercial Bulletin, Indians as Obstacles to the Development of the West, 1867
Document 67 Jules Ferry, Colonialism and the Preservation of Capitalism, 1890
Document 68 Sergei Witte, A Memorandum on the Industrialization of Russia, 1899
Document 69 John A. Hobson, The Economic Taproot of Imperialism, 1902
Document 70 Baron Yeiichi Shibusawa,The Rise of the Japanese Cotton Textile Industry, 1910
Document 71 Emiliano Zapata, The Plan of Ayala, 1911
Document 72 Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Suffrage and the Class Struggle, 1912
Document 73 William G. McAdoo and Robert Lansing, The American Decision to Make Loans to the Allied Powers, 1915

Primary sources in world history : wealth, power, and inequality. Volume 2, Since 1500 /

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