Chapter 1
Document 1.1: Marjorie Shostak. Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak, pp. 37, 63, 79, 80, 138-139, 140, 149, 189, 190, 203-204, 283, 284, 243, 267, 268, 269, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1981 by Marjorie Shostak.
Chapter 2
Benjamin R. Foster. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Benjamin R. Foster. Copyright © 2001 by W.W. Norton & Company. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. This selection may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form of by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Miriam Lichtheim. Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II: The New Kingdom by Miriam Lichtheim, © 2006 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Used by permission.
Adolf Erman. “He has come unto us . . .” from The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, translated by Aylward M. Blackman. Copyright © 1927 Methuen. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Books UK.
Pritchard, James B. (ed.). Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament—Third Edition with Supplement. © 1950, 1955, 1969, renewed 1978 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
Document 2.1: N. K. Sanders. Excerpts from The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated with an introduction by N. K. Sandars (Penguin Classics 1960, Third Edition, 1972). Copyright © N. K. Sandars, 1960, 1964, 1972. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books, Ltd.
Document 2.3: Miriam Lichtheim. “The Afterlife of a Pharaoh: A Pyramid Text.” From Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume 1: The Old and Middle Kingdoms, by Miriam Lichtheim. © 2006 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Used by permission.
Document 2.5: Miriam Lichtheim. “The Occupations of Old Egypt: Be a Scribe.” Excerpt from Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II: The Middle Kingdom, by Miriam Lichtheim. © 2006 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Used by permission.
Chapter 3
Document 3.2: Aelius Aristides. “In praise of the Roman Empire: Aelius Aristides, The Roman Oration.” Excerpt from Aelius Aristides: The Complete Works, Volume II, translated by C.A. Behr, copyright © 1986. Reprinted by permission of the Koninklijke Brill NV.
Document 3.3: Han Fei. “The writings of Master Han Fei.” From Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu and Han Fei Tzu, translated by Burton Watson. Copyright © 1967 Columbia University Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Document 3.4: Ashoka. “Governing an Indian Empire.” Excerpt from The Edicts of King Asoka: An English Rendering by Ven S. Dhammika. Copyright © 1993. Reprinted by permission of the Buddhist Publication Society.
Chapter 4
Lao Tsu. “Verse Eighty” from Tao Te Ching, by Gia-fu Feng, translation copyright © 1972 by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English, copyright renewed 2000 by Carol Wilson and Jane English. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 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.
Chapter 5
Document 5.1: Pan Chao. “A Chinese Woman’s Instructions to Her Daughters: Ban Zhou,” “Lessons for Women.” Excerpt from Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China, translated by Nancy Lee Swann. Copyright © 1932. (New York: Century Co., 1932), 82–90. Reprinted with permission.
Document 5.3: Livy. “Roman Women in Protest: Livy, History of Rome.” Translated by Maureen B. Fant. Excerpt as it appears in Lefkowitz, Mary R., and Maureen B. Fant. Women’s Life in Greece and Rome. pp. 143–147. © 1982 by M. B. Fant and M. R. Lefkowitz. Reprinted with permission of The Johns Hopkins Press.
Chapter 6
Document 6.3: Rufinus. “The Coming of Christianity to Axum: On the Evangelization of Abyssinia.” Excerpt as appears in A History of Abyssinia by Arnold H.M. Jones & Elizabeth Monroe (1935): c. 695 words (pp. 26–27). By permission of Oxford University Press.
Chapter 7
Document 7.3: Ibn Battuta. A Moroccan Muslim in West Africa: Ibn Battuta,Travels in Asia and Africa 1325–1354, translated and edited by H. A. R. Gibb (London: Broadway House, 1929), 319–334. Copyright © 1929. Used by permission of The Hakluyt Society.
Chapter 8
Edward H. Shafer. The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T’ang, (University of California Press, 1963). © 1985 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Used by permission of the University of California Press and the Estate of Edward H. Schafer.
Document 8.2: Kitabatake Chikafusa. “The Uniqueness of Japan.” Excerpt from The Chronicle of the Direct Descent of Gods and Sovereigns; from Sources of Japanese Tradition, by William Theodore de Bary et al. Copyright © 2001 Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Document 8.3: Sei Shōnagon. “Social Life at Court.” Excerpt from The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, translated and edited by Ivan Morris. c. 1025 words (pp. 25–26, 39, 44–45, 47, 49–50, 53, 254–255) Copyright © 1991 by Columbia University Press. Reprinted with permission of Columbia University Press and Oxford University Press.
Document 8.4a: Thomas Cleary. From Training the Samurai Mind, edited and translated by Thomas Cleary, © 2008 by Thomas Cleary. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston, MA. www.shambhala.com.
Document 8.4b: Frin Carl Steenstrup. “The Imagawa Letter.” From Monumenta Nipponica Vol. 28, No. 3 (Autumn 1973), 295–316. Copyright © 1973 by Sophia University. Reproduced with permission of Sophia University.
Chapter 9
Document 9.1: Muhammad Asad. “The Voice of Allah: The Quran.” Extracts from Surah 1, 2, 4, 5 in The Message of the Quran, published by The Book Foundation, 2003. Reprinted by permission of Kabir Edmund Helminski.
Document 9.2: Arthur Jeffery. The Voice of the Prophet Muhammad: The Hadith: A Reader on Islam. Copyright © 1962. (The Hague: Mouton & Company, 1962.) Used by permission of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
Document 9.3: John Alden Williams. “The Voice of the Law: The Sharia.” Excerpt from The Word of Islam, edited by John Alden Williams. Copyright © 1994. By permission of the University of Texas Press.
Document 9.4a: The Voice of the Sufis. First Selection, Inscription on Rumi’s Tomb. Second Selection, Rumi. Excerpt from A History of Muslim Philosophy, Volume II. “Drowned in God.” From The Pocket Rumi Reader. Copyright © 2001 by Kabir Edmund Helminski. Reprinted with permission of the author and Shambhala Publication Inc., Boston, MA. www.shambhala.com.
Document 9.4b: M. M. Sharif. A History of Muslim Philosophy, Volume II, copyright © 1966. Used by permission of OTTO HARRASSOWITZ GmbH & Co. KG.
Document 9.4c: FromJewels of Remembrance, by Rumi, selected and translated by Camille and Kabir Helminski, © 1996 by Camille and Kabir Helminski. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston, MA. www.shambhala.com.
Chapter 10
Document 10.5: Karen Louise Jolly. “The Leechbook.” From Popular Religion in Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context, by Karen Louise Jolly. Copyright © 1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu.
Chapter 11
Document 11.1: Paul Kahn. “Mongol History from a Mongol.” Excerpt from The Secret History of the Mongols: The Origins of Chingis Khan. An adaption by Paul Kahn. (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984). Copyright © 1984 by Paul Kahn. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Document 11.4: Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Reprinted and edited with the permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Copyright © 1993 by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Copyright © 1981 by The Free Press. All rights reserved.
Chapter 12
Miguel Leon-Portilla. Aztec Thought and Culture, translated from the Spanish by Jack Emory Davis. Copyright © 1963 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Used by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.
Miguel Leon-Portilla. Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World. Copyright © 1992 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Used by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.
Document 12.1a: Fray Diego Duran, The History of the Indies of New Spain, translated by Doris Heyden. Copyright © 1994 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Used by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.
Document 12.1b: Fray Diego Duran. Book of the Gods and Rites and the Anvient Calendar, translated by Fernando Horcasitas and Doris Heyden. Copyright © 1971 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.
Document 12.2: Cieza Delon. From The Incas of Pedro de Cieza Delon, translated by Harriet de Onis. Copyright © 1959 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted by permission of the University of Oklahoma Press.
Chapter 13
Document 13.1: Jonathan Spence. From Emperor of China: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi by Jonathan D. Spence, copyright © 1974, copyright renewed 2002 by Jonathan D. Spence. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 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.
Document 13.4: Louis XIV. Memoirs, 1670. From Louis XIV by Robert Campbell, Pearson Education Limited. © Longman Group UK Limited 1993. Used by permission of Pearson UK.
Chapter 14
Mark Elvin. “Rarer, too, their timber grew,” from The Retreat of the Elephant. Copyright © 2004 by Mark Elvin. Used by permission of Yale University Press.
Document 14.3: King Affonso I. Letters to King Jao of Portugal, 1526. Excerpt from The African Past, by Basil Davidson. Copyright © 1964 by Basil Davidson. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.
Chapter 15
“Mirabai” by Robert Bly. Copyright © by Robert Bly and Jane Hirschfield. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston.
Chapter 16
Document 16.1: Adapted from George B.N. Ayittey, Africa Betrayed (St. Martin's Press, 1992) and George B.N. Ayittey, Africa in Chaos (St. Martin's Press, 1998). Reproduced by permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
Document 16.2: Simon Bolívar. “The Jamaica Letter.” From El Liberator: Writings of Simon Bolívar by David Bushnell (2003): c. 880 words (pp. 13–14, 18–20, 27–28, and 30). © 2003 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
Chapter 17
Document 17.2: Joseph Gutteridge. Light and Shadows in the Life of an Artisan, (1893), abridged and adapted in Poverty Knock, edited by Roy Palmer. Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 1974. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
Chapter 19
Document 19.1: J. Mason Gentzler. Changing China: Readings in the History of China from the Opium War to the Present, by J. Mason Gentzler. Copyright © 1977. Reproduced by permission of ABC-CLIO, LLC.
Document 19.3: Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Reprinted and edited with the permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Copyright © 1993 by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Copyright © 1981 by The Free Press. All rights reserved.
Chapter 20
Document 20.2: John Owen Gauntlett. Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Kokutai No Hongo: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, translated by John Owen Gauntlett, and edited with an introduction by Robert King Hall, pp. 52, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 87, 89-90, 93, 94, 144-145, 178, 181-182, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1949 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Copyright © renewed 1977 by Robert King Hall.
Chapter 21
Document 21.2: Maurice Hindus. “Living through Collectivization.” Excerpt fromRed Bread: Collectivization in a Russian Village. Copyright © 1931. Reprinted with permission of Indiana University Press.
Document 21.3b: Stephen Kotkin. “Living through Industrialization,” from Magnetic Mountain, © 1997 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Used by permission.
Documents 21.3c–g: Sarah Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia. Copyright © Sarah Davies, 1997. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press.
Document 21.4a: Stephen Cohen. From An End to Silence: Uncensored Opinion in the Soviet Union, edited by Stephen Cohen, translated by George Saunders. Copyright © 1982 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. This selection may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form of by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Document 21.4b: Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. Excerpt from Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg. Copyright © 1967 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore-Milano. English translation by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward, copyright ©1967 by Harcourt, Inc. Originally published as Krutoj Mars rut by Mondadori. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company and by permission of George Borchardt, Inc., on behalf of the author. All rights reserved.
Document 21.4c: Anna Akhmatova. “Requiem.” From Anna Akhmatova: Poems, by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Lyn Coffin. Copyright © 1983 by Lyn Coffin. Used by permission of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. This selection may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form of by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Chapter 22
Document 22.2: Islam and revolution: writings and declarations of Imam Khomeini by KHUMAYNI, RUH A. Reproduced with permission of MIZAN PRESS in the format Republish in a book via Copyright Clearance Center.
Document 22.3: Zillah R. Eisenstein. Capitalist patriarchy and the case for socialist feminism by EISENSTEIN, ZILLAH R. Copyright 1979. Reproduced with permission of MONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION in the format Other book via Copyright Clearance Center.
Document 22.4: Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Reprinted and edited with the permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. and by permission of Knopf Canada, from Nomad: From Islam to America,A Personal Journey Through Clash and Civilization by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Copyright © 2010 by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. All rights reserved.
Chapter 23
Document 23.2: Andrea Dworkin. Reprinted with permission of Free Press, a Division of Simon & Scuster, Inc. From Life and Death by Andrea Dworkin. Copyright © 1997 by Andrea Dworkin. All rights reserved.
Document 23.3: Zillah R. Eisenstein. Capitalist patriarchy and the case for socialist feminism by EISENSTEIN, ZILLAH R. Copyright 1979. Reproduced with permission of MONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION in the format Textbook via Copyright Clearance Center.
Document 23.4: Benazir Bhutto. “A Liberal Viewpoint from an Islamic Woman.” Excerpted from “Politics and the Muslim Woman,” Rama Mehta lecture delivered by Benazir Bhutto at Radcliffe College on April 11, 1985. Copyright ©1985 Benazir Bhutto, used by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC.