Working with Evidence: Representations of the Buddha
1.1 Understanding Creation
1.2 Understanding the Significance of Animals
1.3 Understanding Men and Women
1.4 Understanding Death
Doing History: Stories of the Australian Dreamtime
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Working with Evidence: Indus Valley Civilization
2.1 A Seal from the Indus Valley
2.2 Man from Mohenjo Daro
2.3 Dancing Girl
Doing History: Indus Valley Civilization
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Working with Evidence: Perceptions of Outsiders in the Ancient World
3.1 A Greek Historian on Persia and Egypt
3.2 A Roman Historian on the Germans
3.3 A Chinese Historian on the Xiongnu
Doing History: Perceptions of Outsiders in the Ancient World
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Working with Evidence: Representations of the Buddha
4.1 Footprints of the Buddha
4.2 A Gandhara Buddha
4.3 A Bodhisattva of Compassion: Avalokitesvara with a Thousand Arms
4.4 The Chinese Maitreya Buddha
Doing History: Representations of the Buddha
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Working with Evidence: Pompeii as a Window on the Roman World
5.1 Terentius Neo and His Wife
5.2 A Pompeii Banquet
5.3 Scenes in a Pompeii Tavern
5.4 A Domestic Shrine
5.5 Mystery Religions: The Cult of Dionysus
Doing History: Pompeii as a Window on the Roman World
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Working with Evidence: Axum and the World
6.1 A Guidebook to the World of Indian Ocean Commerce: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, First Century C.E.
6.2 The Making of an Axumite Empire: Inscription on a Stone Throne, Second or Third Century C.E.
6.3 The Coming of Christianity to Axum: Rufinus, On the Evangelization of Abyssinia Late Fourth Century C.E.
6.4 Axum and the Gold Trade: Cosmas, The Christian Topography, Sixth Century C.E.
Doing History: Indus Valley Civilization
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Working with Evidence: Travelers’ Tales and Observations
7.1 A Chinese Buddhist in India, A Biography of the Tripitaka Master, Seventh Century C.E.
7.2 A European Christian in China: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, 1299
7.3 A Moroccan Diplomat in West Africa: Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa, 1526
Doing History: Indus Valley Civilization
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Working with Evidence: The Leisure Life of China’s Elites
8.1 A Banquet with the Emperor
8.2 At Table with the Empress
8.3 A Literary Gathering
8.4 An Elite Night Party
Doing History: The Leisure Life of China’s Elites
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Working with Evidence: The Life of the Prophet
9.1 Muhammad and the Archangel Gabriel
9.2 The Night Journey of Muhammad
9.3 The Battle at Badr
9.4 The Destruction of the Idols
Doing History: The Life of the Prophet
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Working with Evidence: The Making of Christian Europe
10.1 The Conversion of Clovis: Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, Late Sixth Century
10.2 Advice on Dealing with “Pagans”: Pope Gregory, Advice to the English Church, 601
10.3 Charlemagne and the Saxons: Charlemagne, Capitulary on Saxony, 785
10.4 and 10.5 The Persistence of Tradition: Willibald, Life of Boniface, ca. 760 c.e., and Leechbook, Tenth Century
Doing History: The Making of Christian Europe
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Working with Evidence: Perspectives on the Mongols
11.1 Mongol History from a Mongol Source: The Secret History of the Mongols, ca. 1240
11.2 Chinggis Khan and Changchun: Chinggis Khan, Letter to Changchun, 1219
11.3 The Conquest of Bukhara: A Persian View: Juvaini, The History of the World Conqueror, 1219
11.4 A Russian View of the Mongols: The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1238
11.5 Mongol Women through European Eyes: William of Rubruck, Journey to the Land of the Mongols, ca. 1255
Doing History: Perspectives on the Mongols
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Working with Evidence: Islam and Renaissance Europe
12.1 Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II
12.2 The Venetian Ambassador Visits Damascus
12.3 Aristotle and Averroes
12.4 Saint George Baptizes the Pagans of Jerusalem
12.5 Giovanni da Modena, Muhammad in Hell
Doing History: Islam and Renaissance Europe
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Working with Evidence: State Building in the Early Modern Era
13.1 The Memoirs of Emperor Jahangir: Jahangir, Memoirs, 1605–1627
13.2 An Outsider’s View of the Ottoman Empire: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, The Turkish Letters, 1555–1562
13.3 French State Building and Louis XIV: Louis XIV, Memoirs, 1670
13.4 An Outsider’s View of the Inca Empire: Pedro de Cieza de León, Chronicles of the Incas, ca. 1550
Doing History: State Building in the Early Modern Era
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Working with Sources: Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World
14.1 Tea and Porcelain in Europe
14.2 A Chocolate Party in Spain
14.3 An Ottoman Coffeehouse
14.4 Clothing and Status in Colonial Mexico
Doing History: Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World
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Working with Evidence: Global Christianity in the Early Modern Era
15.1 Interior of a Dutch Reformed Church
15.2 Catholic Baroque, Interior of Pilgrimage Church, Mariazell, Austria
15.3 Cultural Blending in Andean Christianity
15.4 Making Christianity Chinese
15.5 Christian Art at the Mughal Court
Doing History: Global Christianity in the Early Modern Era
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Working with Evidence: Representing the French Revolution
16.1 The Patriotic Snack, Reunion of the Three Estates, August 4, 1789
16.2 A Reversal of Roles: The Three Estates of Revolutionary France
16.3 Revolution and Religion: “Patience, Monsignor, your turn will come.”
16.4 An English Response to Revolution: “Hell Broke Loose or The Murder of Louis”
Doing History: Representing the French Revolution
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Working with Evidence: Voices of European Socialism
17.1 Socialism According to Marx: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848
17.2 Socialism without Revolution: Eduard Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism, 1899
17.3 Socialism and Women: Clara Zetkin, The German Socialist Women’s Movement, 1909
17.4 Lenin and Russian Socialism: Lenin, What Is to Be Done?, 1902
Doing History: Voices of European Socialism
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Working with Evidence: The Scramble for Africa
18.1 Prelude to the Scramble
18.2 Conquest and Competition
18.3 From the Cape to Cairo
18.4 British and French in North Africa
Doing History: The Scramble for Africa
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Working with Evidence: Changing China
19.1 Toward a Constitutional Monarchy: Kang Youwei, An Appeal to Emperor Guangxu, 1898
19.2 Education and Examination: Anonymous, Editorial on China’s Examination System, 1898, and Emperor Guangxu, Edict on Education, 1898
19.3 Gender, Reform, and Revolution: Qiu Jin, Address to Two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen, 1904
19.4 Prescriptions for a Revolutionary China: Sun Yat-sen, The Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, 1906
Doing History: Changing China
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Working with Evidence: Ideologies of the Axis Powers
20.1 Hitler on Nazism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925–1926
20.2 The Japanese Way: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, 1937
Doing History: Ideologies of the Axis Powers
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Working with Evidence: Poster Art in Mao’s China
21.1 Smashing the Old Society
21.2 Building the New Society: The People’s Commune
21.3 Women, Nature, and Industrialization
21.4 The Cult of Mao
Doing History: Poster Art in Mao’s China
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Working with Evidence: Contending for Islam
22.1 A Secular State for an Islamic Society: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Speech to the General Congress of the Republican Party, 1927
22.2 Toward an Islamic Society: The Muslim Brotherhood, Toward the Light, 1936
22.3 Progressive Islam: Kabir Helminski, Islam and Human Values, 2009
22.4 Islam and Women’s Dress: Emaan, Hijab: The Beauty of Muslim Women, 2010, and Saira Khan, Why I, as a British Muslim Woman, Want the Burkha Banned from Our Streets, 2009
Doing History: Contending for Islam
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Working with Evidence: Faces of Globalization
23.1 Globalization and Work
23.2 Globalization and Consumerism
23.3 Globalization and Protest
23.4 Globalization and Social Media
23.5 Globalization and Culture
23.6 Globalization: One World or Many
Doing History: Faces of Globalization
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