10. Becoming "the world," 1000-1300 CE
The rise of Chinggis Khan (c. 1206)
Yuan Cai, the Problems of Women (twelfth century)
Two Views of the Fall of Jerusalem (1099 CE)
Joseph Ben Abraham, Letter from Aden to Abraham Yiju (c. 1130)
Letters between Pope Innocent IV and Guyuk Khan (1245-1246)
Francesco Pegolotti, Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay (c. 1340)
11. Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia 1300s-1500s. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1353)
Jean Froissart, On the Jacquerie (1358)
Chihab Al-'Umari, The Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa (1342-1349)
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Madame Cristina de Lorena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1615)
Ibn Battuta, Visit to Mombassa and Kilwa, Rhila (c. 1358)
Kabir, Three Poems (fifteenth century)
Leo Africanus, On Timbuktu (1526)
12. Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450s-1600. Christopher Columbus, On World Geography (late fifteenth century)
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1519)
Arana Xajila, Plague in Central America (1519-1560)
Juan Sepulveda, On the Causes of Just War with the Indians (1547)
Cabeza de Vaca, Years as a Wandering Merchant (1542)
William Bradford, Treaty with the Indians (c. 1650)
Colonel Benjamin Church, In the Nipmuck Country (1675-1676)
Nzinga Mbemba, Letters to the King of Portugal (1526)
Anonymous Journal of Vasco da Gama's Voyage around Africa to India (1499)
Galeota Pereira, A Portuguese Voyage to China (1561)
Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
Otto von Guericke, The Destruction of Magdeburg (1631)
13. Worlds Entangled, 1600-1750. Jean de Lery, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578)
Brother Luis Brandaon, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)
Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657)
Thomas Phillips, Buying Slaves at Whydah (1694)
Alexander Hamilton, A New Account of the East Indies (1688-1723)
14. Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500-1780. Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Turkish Letters (1589)
Xu Jie, Economic Change in China (sixteenth century)
Zhang Han, Tales of the Strange (sixteenth century)
Roger Cotes, Preface to Newton's Principia Mathematica (1713)
Simon Schaffer, Information Sources for Principia Mathematica (2008)
Jahangir, Policy toward the Hindus (seventeenth century)
Abu 'l Hasan, Jahangir's Dream (c. 1618-1622)
Voltaire, Sixth Philosophical Letter (1734)
Adam Smith, On Baubles and the Demise of Feudalism (1776).
15. Reordering the World, 1750-1850. Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen (September 1791)
Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of a Revolutionary Government (1793)
Olaudah Equiano, The Case against the Slave Trade (1789)
George Valentia, Calcutta (1809)
Testimony for the Factory Act (1833)
Domingo Sarmiento, Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants (1845)
16. Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century. Honda Toshiaki, A Secret Plan of Government (1789)
'Abd-Allah ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, Wahhabi Reformers in Mecca (1803)
Nathaniel Isaacs, Descriptions of Shaka and the Zulu Militiary (1836)
Maulvi Syed Kutb Shah Sahib, Call for Hindu-Muslim Unity (1858)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Propery? (1840)
17. Nations and Empires, 1850-1914. Raja Rammonhan Roy, Debate on the Practice of Burning Widows Alive (1820)
Cecil Rhodes, Confession of Faith (1877)
Edmund D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden (1920)
Criminal Tribes Act (1871)
Eugene Lyons, Revolt Against Ugliness (1937)
18. An Unsettled World, 1890-1914. Denton J. Snider, World's Fair Studies (1893)
Fitter Families Display (1926)
G.C.K. Gwassa, Interviews with Maji-Maji Revolt Survivors (1967)
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Negro Problems (1915)
V.I. Lenin, The Transition from Capitalism to Communism (1917).
19. On Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910-1939. British Army's Form A. 2042 (1914-1918)
Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est (1918)
Sol Plaatje, The Mote and the Beam: An Epic on Sex-Relationship 'twixt White and Black in British South Africa (1921)
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Second Letter to Lord Irwin (1930)
20. The Three-World Order, 1940-1975. Yamagata Aritomo, The Coming Race War (1914-1915)
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
Hanna Levy-Hass, Diary of Bergen-Belsen (1944-1945)
E.B. Sledge, At Okinawa (1945)
George F. Kennan, Baghdad (1944)
George F. Kennan, The Long Telegram (1946)
Juan and Eva Perón, The Peróns Justify Their Regime (1944-1951)
Isabel and David Crook, Chinese Revolution (1940s)
Nahum Goldmann and Fawaz Turki, Conflicting Perspectives on Israel/Palestine (1969, 1972)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial (1964)
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
Hermann Muller, One Hundred Years without Darwinism Are Enough (1959)
21. Globalization, 1970-2000. World Energy (1850-2000)
Sean Daily and Daniel Zwerdling, Two Reports on Water and Farming in India (2009)
Voice of Bangladeshi Bloggers, Bangladeshi Workers in Kuwait (2008)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Summary for Policymakers (2007).
