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A History of Western Society, Sixth Edition
John P. McKay, Bennett D. Hill, John Buckler

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Title	Details
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Great Flood	Chapter:	1
	Date:	2700-2500 B.C.E.
	Author:	Anonymous
	Description:	Epic
	Type:	Text

The Talmud Condemned	Chapter:	2, 11
	Date:	1244
	Author:	Pope Innocent IV
	Description:	Religious Proclamation
	Type:	Text

The Olympic Games: A Historical Record Book of Champions	Chapter:	3
	Date:	c. 160
	Author:	Pausanius
	Description:	Historical Record
	Type:	Text

Runaway Slaves in Alexandria: Reward Offered!	Chapter:	4
	Date:	c. 100 B.C.E.
	Author:	Anonymous
	Description:	Announcement
	Type:	Text

Law in Early Roman Society: The Regulation of Women and Family	Chapter:	5
	Date:	c. 600 B.C.E.; 451-450 B.C.E.
	Author:	Numa Pompilius; Anonymous
	Description:	Legal Code
	Type:	Text

Voices of the People: Graffiti from the Walls of Pompeii	Chapter:	6
	Date:	A.D. 79
	Author:	Anonymous
	Description:	Graffiti
	Type:	Text

St. Augustine's Search for Truth: Divination and Manichaeism	Chapter:	7
	Date:	373-387
	Author:	St. Augustine
	Description:	Religious Teaching
	Type:	Text

The Qur'an: Call for Jihad	Chapter:	7
	Date:	c. 650
	Author:	The Prophet Mohammad
	Description:	Religious Teaching
	Type:	Text

The Lay of Igor's Host: Warfare on the Russian Steppes	Chapter:	8
	Date:	c. 900
	Author:	Anonymous
	Description:	Poem
	Type:	Text

*William the Conqueror and Domesday Book: A Contemporary Description*	Chapter:	9
	Date:	1066
	Author:	The Anglo-Saxon Chronicler
	Description:	Biography/Historical Account
	Type:	Text

The Rules of Love?	Chapter:	10, 12
	Date:	1175
	Author:	Andreas Capellanus
	Description:	Philosophical/Satirical Treatise
	Type:	Text

Louis the Fat Dispenses Justice	Chapter:	11
	Date:	1144
	Author:	Abbot Suger of St. Denis
	Description:	Biography
	Type:	Text

Crooked Booksellers: The University Cracks Down	Chapter:	11
	Date:	1275
	Author:	The University of Masters and Scholars at Paris
	Description:	University Regulations
	Type:	Text

Diabolical Seduction: A Witch on Trial	Chapter:	11, 12
	Date:	1427
	Author:	The Magistrates of Florence
	Description:	Court Proceedings
	Type:	Text

The Plague Hits Florence	Chapter:	12
	Date:	c. 1350
	Author:	Giovanni Boccaccio
	Description:	Fiction
	Type:	Text

Made to Order: An Avignon Altarpiece	Chapter:	13
	Date:	c. 1453
	Author:	Notary for Jean de Montagnac and Enguerrand Quarton
	Description:	Contract
	Type:	Text

Leonardo's Notes on the Cosmos	Chapter:	13
	Date:	c. 1515
	Author:	Leonardo da Vinci
	Description:	Scientific Study
	Type:	Text

*Ninety-five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences*	Chapter:	14
	Date:	1517
	Author:	Martin Luther
	Description:	Religious Proclamation
	Type:	Text

Fifteenth-Century Slave Trade: The Portuguese in West Africa	Chapter:	15
	Date:	1455-1456
	Author:	Alvise da Cadamosto
	Description:	Account
	Type:	Text

Pascal's Famous Wager on God's Existence	Chapter:	15
	Date:	1670
	Author:	Blaise Pascal
	Description:	Philosophy
	Type:	Text

The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen	Chapter:	21
	Date:	1789
	Author:	National Assembly of France
	Description:	Political Proclamation
	Type:	Text

Manchester Becomes a Thriving Industrial City	Chapter:	22, 24
	Date:	1795
	Author:	John Aikin
	Description:	Observations
	Type:	Text

The Cult of Domesticity: A System of Middle-Class Values and Social Duties	Chapter:	23, 24
	Date:	1838
	Author:	Sara Stickney Ellis
	Description:	Sociological Observations
	Type:	Text

The Marxist Analysis of The Civil War in France: The Paris Commune	Chapter:	23, 25
	Date:	1871
	Author:	Karl Marx
	Description:	Socio-economic Theory
	Type:	Text

The Misery That Was Ireland: The Potato Famine	Chapter:	24
	Date:	1847
	Author:	W. Stewart Trench
	Description:	Sociological Observations
	Type:	Text

Survival of the Fittest Applied to Human Kind	Chapter:	24
	Date:	1851
	Author:	Herbert Spencer
	Description:	Socio-economic Theory
	Type:	Text

The Suffrage Movement Radicalized	Chapter:	25
	Date:	c. 1906-07
	Author:	Emmeline Pankhurst
	Description:	Memoir Excerpt
	Type:	Text

A French Response to the Demographic Crisis: Bonuses for Babies	Chapter:	25
	Date:	1913
	Author:	French National Assembly
	Description:	Law
	Type:	Text

Imperial Conquest: The Nation's Savior	Chapter:	26
	Date:	1883
	Author:	Le Petit Journal
	Description:	Foreign Policy Editorial
	Type:	Text

Mobilization: A French Soldier Remembers	Chapter:	27
	Date:	1914
	Author:	Henri Desagneui
	Description:	Diary Entry
	Type:	Text

The April Theses: A Blueprint for Revolution	Chapter:	27
	Date:	1917
	Author:	Vladimir I. Lenin
	Description:	Proclamation/Manifesto
	Type:	Text

The Interpretation of Dreams: Psychoanalysis Is Born	Chapter:	28
	Date:	1900
	Author:	Sigmund Freud
	Description:	Psychology
	Type:	Text

Sterilization for 'The Unfit': The Hitlerian Nightmare Begins	Chapter:	29
	Date:	1933
	Author:	Nazi German Government
	Description:	Law
	Type:	Text

The 'Fundamental Ideas' of Fascism	Chapter:	29
	Date:	1935
	Author:	Benito Mussolini
	Description:	Political Theory
	Type:	Text

*An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across the Continent*	Chapter:	30
	Date:	1946
	Author:	Winston Churchill
	Description:	Speech
	Type:	Text

The Second Sex: Existential Feminism	Chapter:	30
	Date:	1949
	Author:	Simone De Beauvoir
	Description:	Social Criticism
	Type:	Text

The 'Fundamental Codes of a Culture' Deconstruct the Order of Things	Chapter:	30
	Date:	1961
	Author:	Michel Foucault
	Description:	Cultural Theory/Philosophy
	Type:	Text

The 'Twenty-One Demands': A Call for Workers' Rights and Freedom in a Socialist State	Chapter:	30
	Date:	1980
	Author:	Solidarity Union
	Description:	Social/Politcal Demands
	Type:	Text

The Last Heir of Lenin Explains His Reform Plans: Perestroika and Glasnost	Chapter:	30, 31
	Date:	1986
	Author:	Mikhail Gorbachev
	Description:	Socio-political Agenda
	Type:	Text





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