Chapter 1

1-2. “In the Beginning,” from The Beginning: Creation Myths Around the World by Maria Leach (Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1956). Reprinted by permission of Macdonald H. Leach.

1-3. Works and Days; Theogony; The Shield of Herakles by Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore (University of Michigan Press, 1991). Copyright © 1991 by University of Michigan Press. Reprinted with permission.

Chapter 2

2-1. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, trans. with an introduction by N. K. Sanders (Penguin Classics, 1960, Third Edition 1972). Copyright © 1960, 1964, 1972 N. K. Sanders. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books, Ltd.

2-2. From Hammurabi’s Code, “Selections on Law, Sex, and Society” from Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition with supplement by James B. Pritchard, ed. © 1950, 1955, 1969, renewed 1978 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

2-3. “Book of Exodus: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt” from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

2-4. Ashur-Nasir-Pal II, “An Assyrian Emperor’s Résumé (Year 4: A Third Campaign Against Zamua)” from Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, ed. By D. D. Luckenbill (1926): 151–154. Reprinted by permission of The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

2-5. Cyrus of Persia, “A Persian Emperor Proclaims his Righteousness” from Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3rd edition with supplement, ed. by James B. Pritchard. © 1950, 1955, 1969, renewed 1978 by Princeton University Press.

Chapter 3

3-5. From Sources of Indian Tradition, eds. Wm. Theodore de Bary, Stephen N. Hay, Royal Weiler, and Andrew Yarrow. Copyright © 1958 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Chapter 4

4-4. Laozi, “Dao De Jing: Administering the Empire” from Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu, trans. with an introduction by D. C. Lau (Penguin Classics, 1963). Copyright 1963 by D. C. Lau. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

4-5. Hen Fei, “The Five Vermin” from Sources of East Asian Tradition, Volume 1: Premodern Asia, ed. by Wm. Theodore de Bary. Copyright © 2008 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Chapter 5

5-1. Homer, “Achilles’ Anger and Its Consequences” from The Iliad trans by Richmond Lattimore. Copyright © 1951 by the University of Chicago. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.

Chapter 6

6-4. Pliny the Younger, “Letters to and From the Emperor Trajan on Christians” from The Letters of the Younger Pliny trans. with an introduction by Betty Radice (Penguin Classics, 1963, reprinted 1969). Copyright © 1963, 1969 Betty Radice. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books, Ltd.

Chapter 7

7-1. Sima Qian, “Records of the Historian: On the Xiongnu” from Herodotus and Sima Qian: The First Great Historians of Greece and China by Thomas R. Martin, (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s 2010). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

7-2. Ban Zhao, “From Lessons for Woman” from Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China trans. by Nancy Lee Swann (1932). © The East Asian Library and the Gest Collection. Reprinted by permission.

7-4. Han Yu, “Lives of the Eminent Monks” from Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook, 2nd edition by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Accessed with the permission of Simon & Schuster Publishing Group from the Free Press edition. Copyright © 1993 by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Copyright © 1981 by the Free Press. All rights reserved.

7-5. Emperor Wuzong, “Edict on the Suppression of Buddhism” from Sources of East Asian Tradition. Volume 1: Premodern Asia. ed. by Wm. Theodore de Bary. Copyright © 2008 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Chapter 8

8-3. Procopius, from The Secret History trans. with an introduction by G. A. Williamson (Penguin Classics, 1966). Copyright © 1966 G. A. Williamson. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.

8-5. Einhard, “The Life of Charlemagne” from Two Lives of Charlemagne: Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, trans. with an introduction by Professor Lewis Thorpe (Penguin Classics, 1969). Copyright © 1989 Professor Lewis Thorpe. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

Chapter 9

9-1. “Quran: Muslim Devotion to God,” from The Koran: with a Parallel Arabic Text, trans. with notes by N. J. Dawood (Penguin Books, 1990). Copyright © 1956, 1959, 1966, 1968, 1974, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2003 N. J. Dawood. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

9-2. “The Constitution of Medina: Muslims and Jews at the Dawn of Islam” from Themes in Islamic Culture by J. A. Williams (University of California Press 1971). Reprinted with the permission of John Alden Williams.

9-5. Ibn Khaldun, “From Prolegomenon to History: On Shi’ite Succession” from The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. © 1958, 1967 Princeton University Press/Bollingen. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.

Chapter 10

10-2. Abu Ubaydallah Al-Bakri, “The Book of Routes and Realms” from Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History, ed. by N. Levtzion and J. F. P. Hopkins. Copyright © 1981 University of Ghana, International Academic Union, and Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission of Cambridge University Press.

10-3. Abū Hāmid Muhammad, “Gift of the Spirit” from Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History, ed. N. Levtzion and J. F. P. Hopkins. Copyright © 1981 University of Ghana, International Academic Union and Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission.

10-5. D. T. Niane, from Sindiata: An Epic of Old Mali, trans. by G. D. Pickett. Copyright © 1965. Reprinted by permission of Presence Africaine.

Chapter 11

11-2. Pedro de Cieza de León. “Chronicles: On the Inca” from The Incas of Pedro de Cieza de León, ed. by Victor Wolgang von Hagen, trans. by Harriet de Onis. Copyright 1959 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced with permission. All Rights Reserved.

11-3. Diego Durán, from Book of the Gods and Rites and The Ancient Calendar, trans. and edited by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden. Copyright 1971 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. Reproduced with permission. All Rights Reserved.

11-5. Father Francisco Ximénez, from Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiché Maya, English Version by Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley, from the trans. of Adrián Recinos. Copyright 1950 The University of Oklahoma Press. Reproduced with permission. All Rights Reserved.

Chapter 12

12-1. “Epitaph for the Honorable Menggu” from the Free Press edition of Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Accessed with the permission of Simon & Schuster Publishing Group. Copyright © 1993 by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Copyright © 1981 by the Free Press. All rights reserved.

12-3. Marco Polo, from The Travels of Marco Polo, trans. with an introduction by Ronald Latham (Penguin Classics, 1958). Copyright © 1958 Ronald Latham. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

12-5. Maulana Burhān Ud-Dīn Marghīnānī, “Guidance: Alms, Marriage, and Testimony” from Sources of Indian Tradition, ed. by Theodore de Bary. Copyright © 1958 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Chapter 13

13-1. Murasaki Shikibu, from The Tale of the Genji by Shikibu Murasaki, translated by Edward G. Seidensticker, translation copyright © 1976, copyright renewed 2004 by Edward G. Seidensticker. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Random House LLC for permission.

13-2. “The Death of Atsumori” from “The Tale of the Heike” in Anthology of Japanese Literature, ed. by Donald Keene, copyright © 1955 by Grove Press. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.

13-5. “Widows Loyal Unto Death,” from the Free Press edition of Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook, 2nd Edition by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Copyright © 1993 by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. By permisssion of Simon & Schuster Publishing Group. All rights reserved.

Chapter 14

14-1. Fulcher of Chartres, “A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem: The Call for Crusade” from Fulcher of Chartres, A History of the Expedition to Jerusalem, 1095–1127 (1969), trans. by Frances Rita Ryan, ed. by Harold S. Fink. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, University of Tennessee Press.

14-2. Zakariya Al-Qazwini, “Monuments of the Lands: An Islamic View of the West” from Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople. Vol. II. Religion and Society, ed. and trans. by Bernard Lewis (1987). By permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.

Chapter 15

15-1. Petrarch, Letters to Nicholas Sygeros, Jan 10, 1354; Francesco Neli, Sept. 18, 1360 [pp. 132–3, 179–81] from Petrarch: A Humanist Among Princes by David Thompson. Copyright © 1971 by David Thompson. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

15-5. John Calvin, from Instruction in Faith. Copyright © 1949 and 1977 the Westminster Press. Used by permission of Westminster John Knox Press. www.wjkbooks.com.

Chapter 16

16-2. Christopher Columbus, “Letter from the Third Voyage” from Select Documents Illustrating the Four Voyages of Columbus ed. and trans. Cecil Jane. Published by Haklut Society, 1967. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.

Chapter 17

17-1. Sultan Selim I, “Letter to Shah Ismail of Persia” from The Muslim World on the Eve of Europe’s Expansion, trans. and ed. by John J. Saunders. Copyright © 1966 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted with the permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Chapter 18

18-5. Catherine the Great, “Two Decrees” from A Sourcebook for Russian History from Early Times to 1917, vol. 2. Copyright © 1972 Yale University. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

Chapter 19

19-2. Peter the Great, “Draft of Leibniz’s Memorandum on the Improvement of Arts and Sciences in Russia,” from A Sourcebook for Russian History from Early Times to 1917, vol. 2. Copyright © 1972 Yale University. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

19-5. Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?” trans. by Peter Gay, from Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West by Peter Gay. Copyright © 1954 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Chapter 20

20-2. Osei Bonsu, “An Asante King Questions British Motives in Ending the Slave Trade” from Sources of the African Past: Case Studies of Five Nineteenth-Century African Societies by David Robinson and Douglas Smith (Africana, 1979). Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

20-3. Anna Maria Falconbridge, from Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone, ed. Christopher Fyfe (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000), 89–94. Reprinted with the permission of the publisher.

Chapter 21

21-2. Engelbert Kaempfer, “History of Japan” from Kaempfer’s Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed, ed. and trans. by Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1999). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

21-3. Kaibara Ekiken and Kaibara Tōken, “Common Sense Teaching for Japanese Children” and “Greater Learning for Women” from Japan: A Documentary History, ed. David J. Lu (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997): 258–261. Trans. copyright © 1997 by David J. Lu. Reprinted with permission of M. E. Sharpe, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Not for Reproduction.

21-5. Li Ruzhen, from Flowers in the Mirror, trans. and ed. by Lin Tai-yi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965). Reprinted with permission of Peter Owen Publishers.

Chapter 22

22-2. Olympe de Gouges, “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman” from Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1795: Selected Documents Translated with Notes and Commentary. Copyright 1979 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press.

22-4. François Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture, “Letter to the French National Assembly” from The Black Jacobins, 2d ed., ed. C. L. R. James (New York: Vintage Books, 1963), pp. 195–197. Reprinted with permission of Estate of C. L. R. James c/o The Curtis Brown Group.

22-5. “The Haitian Declaration of Independence” from Thomas Madion, Histoire d’Haiti (Port-au-Prince, 1847–1848), 3:146–150. As excerpted in Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789–1804: A Brief History with Documents, Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrigus, eds. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006). Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Chapter 24

24-5. Beatrice Webb, “Why I Became Socialist” from My Apprenticeship. Copyright © 1980 Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.

Chapter 25

25-3. Ndansi Kumalo, “On the British Incursion in Zimbabwe” from Ten Africans, ed. by Margery Perham. Originally published by Faber and Faber Ltd. in 1936. Used by permission of the Trustees of the Will of the Late Dame Margery Perham.

Chapter 26

26-3. Mohandas Gandhi, “Indian Home Rule.” Reprinted by permission of The Navajivan Trust.

26-5. Sun Yatsen, “On the Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People” from Prescriptions for Saving China: Selected Writings of Sun Yat-sen, ed. Julie Lee Wei, Ramon H. Myers, and Donald G. Gillin. Translation copyright © 1994 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Hoover Institution Press.

Chapter 28

28-1. Extracts of correspondence are from An Echo in My Heart: The Letters of Elnora Evelyn (Kelly) Albright and Frederick Stanley Albright, compiled and edited by Lorna Brooks. www.echoinmyheart.ca/ Letters and material pertaining to the Albright collection are housed in The Archives and Research Collections Centre, Western University, London, ON, Canada.

28-5. Konoe Fumimaro, “Against a Pacifism Centered on England and America” from Sources of Japanese Tradition ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann, 2 vols. Copyright © 2006 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

Chapter 29

29-4. Jiang Jieshi, “The New Life Movement” from Sources of Chinese Tradition, ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano, 2 vols. Copyright © 2001 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

29-5. King Vajiravudh, “On the Siamese Nation” from Chaiyo! King Vajiravudh and the Development of Thai Nationalism by Walter F. Vella. Copyright © 1978 University of Hawaii Press. Reprinted with permission.

Chapter 30

30-3. “Letters to Izvestiya on the Abortion Issue” From The Family in the U.S.S.R. by Rudolf Schlesinger. Copyright © 1947 Routledge. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK.

30-5. Toshiko Saeki, “Interview with a Survivor of Hiroshima” from the “Voice of Hibakusha” eyewitness accounts aired as part of Hiroshima Witness, produced by the Hiroshima Peace Cultural Center and NHK, the public broadcasting company of Japan. Translated into English and posted as “Testimony of Toshiko Saeki,” AtomicArchive.com. Published in a limited edition by Andrew Mossberg. Reprinted by permission of Andrew Mossberg.

Chapter 31

31-2. Pablo Neruda, “Standard Oil Co.” and “United Fruit Co.” from Canto General. Copyright © Fundación Pablo Neruda, 2014. Reprinted by permission of Agencia Carmen Balcells, S.A.

Chapter 32

32-3. Nelson Mandela, “The Rivonia Trial Speech to the Court.” Used by permission of The Nelson Mandela Foundation.

32-4. Deng Xiaoping, “Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” from Sources of Chinese Tradition ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano, 2 vols. Copyright © 2001 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

32-5. “Ikigai” from “Can a Real Man Live for His Family? Ikigai and Masculinity in Today’s Japan” by Gordon Mathews in Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Japan, ed. by James Roberson and Nobue Suzuki (New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). Reprinted by permission of Gordon Mathews.

Chapter 33

33-2. Giacomo Maturi, “The Integration of the Southern Labor Force and Its Specific Adaptation Problems.” From Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955–2005, edited by Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes. © 2007 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission.

33-3. “Heidelberg Manifesto” from Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955–2005 ed. by Deniz Gokturk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007). Reprinted by permission.

33-4. National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose (1966), reprinted with permission. This is a historical document and may not reflect the current language or priorities of the organization.