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2. Document Collections on Specialized Subjects
Covering All or Part of the Time Span of This Course
Barker, William Allen. Documents of English History: 1832-1950.
London: A. & C. Black, 1954. RVS: DA 550 .B29 1954
Barnes, Thomas G., and Gerald D. Feldman, eds. Breakdown and
Rebirth: 1914 to the Present. (A Documentary History of Modern
Europe.) Washington, D.C.: University Press of America.1982. RVS:
D 411 .B73 1982.
Barnes, Thomas G., and Gerald D. Feldman, eds. Nationalism,
Industrialization, and Democracy: 1815-1914. (A Documentary
History of Modern Europe.) Washington, D.C.: University Press
of America.1980. RVS: D 351 .B37 1980.
Baumer, Franklin Le Van, ed. Main Currents of Western Thought:
Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle
Ages to the Present. 4th ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University
Press, 1978. RVS: CB 203 .B35 1978
Beardsley, Monroe C., ed. The European Philosophers from Descartes
to Nietzche. (Selections from the writings of Descartes, Pascal,
Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Comte, Mach,
and Nietzsche.) New York: Modern Library, 1960. CYP, EVC: B 790
.B4 1960.
Bell, Susan G. comp. Women, from the Greeks to the French Revolution.
Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1980. (Some of the
materials are primary source documents. The remainder are secondary
source essays. If you use this book as a primary source, be sure
that you use primary source documents in it..) NRG HQ 1122 .B56
1980
Bell, Susan Groag, and Karen M. Offen, eds. Women, the Family,
and Freedom: The Debate in Documents. 2 vols. Vol.1, 1750-1880;
Vol. 2, 1880-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press,
1983. (Collection of 264 primary sources chronicling the public
debate in Europe and America over the role of women in Western
society. Testimony on both sides of the central issues of motherhood,
women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, and
the effect jwomen's education and work had on social stability.)
RGC HQ 1588 .W645
Bettenson, Henry Scowcroft, ed. Documents of the Christian
Church. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. RVS:
BR 141 .B47 1976
Brown, Clarence, ed. The Portable Twentieth Century Russian
Reader. New York: Viking Press, 1985. (Russian literature
in English translation.) RGC: PG 3213 .P67 1985
Brownlie, Ian. Basic Documents in International Law. 3rd
ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. RVS: JX 68 .B37 1984
Brownlie, Ian. Basic Documents on Human Rights. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1971. NRG, RGC: JC571 .B77
Churchill, Winston Spencer. Thoughts and Adventures. New
York: W W. Norton, 1991. .((Originally published 1932. Collection
of author's occasional journalism. Includes "memories of
World War I, thoughts on flying, political musings, and the relaxing
effects of painting as a hobby." Other subjects as well.)
RGC: DA 566.9 C5 A3 1991
Clendening, Logan. A Source Book of Medical History. New
York: Dover, [c.1942]. RGC, RVS: R 131 .C613 1960
Critical Essays. (Gateway to the Great Books, Vol. 5.)
Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1963. (Essays by Virginia
Woolf, Matthew Arnold, Sainte-Beuve, Francis Bacon, David Hume,
Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Schiller, Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Walt Whitman, William Hazllitt, Charles Lamb, Samuel Johnson,
Thomas de Quincey, and T. S. Eliot.) RVS: PN 6014 .C74 1963
Ehler, Sidney Z., and John B. Morral, translators and editors.
Church and State through the Centuries: A Collection of Historic
Documents with Commentaries. ˜New York: Biblo and Tannen,
1967. (Contents: "Reliable English translations of the most
singificant official documents" concerning "the story
of the Church's relationship with the secular political power
over twenty centuries of history." Most documents are printed
in their entirety. Scope: 113 A.D. to 1949.) RVS: BV 630 .A1 E37
1967
Hallo, William W., David Ruderman, and Michael Stanislawki, eds.
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, a Source Reader. New
York: Praeger, 1984. RVS: DS 102 .H47 1984
Hay, J. Roy. The Development of the Welfare State in Britain,
1880-1975. (Documents of Modern History.) New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1978. (Title on spine is The Development of the British
Welfare State, 1880-1975.) RVS: HN 385 .H38 1978
Holt, Elizabeth G., ed. A Documentary History of Art. Vol.
2, Michelangelo and the Mannerists; The Baroque and the Eighteenth
Century. Vol. 3, From the Classicists to the Impressionists:
Art and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981-1986. RVS: N 5303 .D6 1981.
(The ending date for V. 3 is 1986.)
Hutchins, Robert M., and Mortimer J. Adler, eds.-in-chief. Man
and Society. (Gateway to the Great Books, Vols. 6 & 7.)
Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1963. (Vol. 6: J. S. Mill and
Thomas Paine. Vol. 7: Excerpts from works by Francis Bacon, David
Hume, William James, Edmund Burke, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and
Malthus, and others.) RGC: PN 6014 .M362 1963
Hutchins, Robert M., and Mortimer J. Adler, eds.-in-chief. Philosophical
Essays. (Gateway to the Great Books, Vol. 10.) Chicago: Encyclopedia
Britannica, 1963. (Excerpts from writings by John Erskine, William
James, Francis Bacon, William Kingdom Clifford, John Dewey, Walter
Horatio Pater, George Santayana, Henry Adams, Voltaire, John Stuart
Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Hazlett, and Thomas Brown.)
RVS: PN 49 .P44 1963
Kobler, Franz, ed. Letters of Jews through the Ages: From Biblical
Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century. 2 vols. New
York: East and West Library, 1978. (Vol 2: sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries. Ranges over nearly all countries where Jews have lived,
over all languages they have written. Includes both public and
private correspondence.) NRG: DS 102 .L37 1978
Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward Peters, eds. Witchcraft in Europe,
1100-1700: A Documentary History. (Sources in Medieval History.)
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. (Only that
material dealing with the seventeenth century is relevant to this
course.) RVS: BF 1566 .K67 1972
Leith, John, H., ed. Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian
Doctrine from the Bible to the Present. 3rd ed. Atlanta, Ga.:
John Knox Press, 1982. RVS: BT 990 .C655 1982
MacArthur, Brian, ed. The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches.
London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1996. (Relevant sections are "Of
Commoners and Kings, " ""Clashes among the Gladiators,"
"The Rights of Man," " The Age of Improvement,"
"The Cry of Ireland," and " A Century of War and
Revolution." Many of the documents have been excerpted.)
RVS: PN 6121 .P39 1996
MacArthur, Brian, ed. The Penguin Book of Twentieth-century
Speeches. New York: Viking, 1992. (Some speeches transcribed
in their entirety. Deletions in others indicated by elipses. Speeches
by the following have to do with Western Civilization II: Joseph
Chamberlain, David Lloyd George, Emmeline Pankhurst, Edward Carson,
Keir Hardie, Benito Mussolini, Patrick Pearse, Mahatma Gandhi,
[Proclamation of the Irish Republic], Roger Casement, V. I. Lenin,
Leon Trotsky, George V, A. J. Balfour, Stanley Baldwin, Oswald
Moseley, Ramsay MacDonald, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Winston
Churchill, Chaim Weismann, Edward VIII, Martin Niemöller,
Neville Chamberlain, Leo Amery, Charles de Gaulle, J. B. Priestley,
Reinhard Heydrich, Chaim Rumkowski, Bernard Montgomery, Eamon
de Valera, George Bell, Jawaharlal Nehru, Aneurin Bevan, Kwame
Nkrumah, Bertrand Russell, Nikita Krushchev, Hendrik Verwoerd,
Harold Macmillan, Gideon Hausner, Hugh Gaitskell, Iain Macleod,
Nigel Birch, Harold Wilson, Nelson Mandela, Roy Jenkins, Enoch
Powell, Edward Heath, Harold Evans, Margaret Thatcher, Michael
Foot, Alexander Solzhenitsyn James Callaghan, Michael Heseltine,
Robert Runcie, Neil Kinnock, John Paul II, Denis Healey, Prince
Charles, Arthur Scargill, Vaclav Havel, Geoffrey Howe, Tony Benn,
and Salman Rushdie.) NRG: D 411 .P46 1992
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source
Book, 315-1791. Cincinnati, Ohio: Hebrew Union College Press,
1990. RVS: DS 124 .M34 1990.
Mendes-Flohr, Paul R. The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary
History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. RVS: DS
102 .J43 1980
Randall, John Herman, Jr., Justus Buchler, and Evelyn Shirk, eds.
. Readings in Philosophy. 3rd ed. New York: Barnes &
Noble, 1972. (Excerpts from writings by René Descartes,
John Henry Newman, Francis Bacon, Bertrand Russell, J. S. Mill,
David Hume, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Dewey, Thomas Hobbes, Roscoe
Pound, Arthur Schopenhauer, William James, Josiah Royce, Søren
Kierkegaard, and George Santayana.) NRG, RGC: B 29 .R27 1972
Ravitch, Diane, and Abigail Themstrom, eds. The Democracy Reader:
Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays , Poems, Declarations,
and Documents on Freedom and Human Rights Worldwide. New York:
HarperCollins, 1992. NRG: C 421 .D4635 1992
Richarz, Monika, ed. Jewish Life in Germany: Memoirs from Three
Centuries. (The Modern Jewish Experience.) Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1991. (Writings by German Jews unknown to the
public. All.are contributions to social history. Authors from
all social strata, from city and country, from various professions
and differing religious and political groupings. Two basic themes:
the internal development of the Jewish social group and the changing
situation of the Jews within the general society.Years covered:
1780-1945.) NRG: DS 135 .G5 A14513 1991
Roberts, Elizabeth. A Woman's Place: An Oral History of Working-class
Women, 1890-1940. (Family, Sexuality & Social Relations
in Past Times.) New York: Blackwell, 1984. (Hybrid source. The
narrative is a secondary source, but the book includes many excerpts
from primary source oral history transcripts. The respondents
were all British.) NRG: HQ 1599 .E5 R62 1984
Roberts, Elizabeth. Women and Families: An Oral History, 1940-1970.
(Family, Sexuality, and Social Relations in Past Times.) Cambridge,
Mass.: Blackwell, 1995. (Hybrid source. The narrative is a secondary
source, but the book includes many excerpts from primary source
oral history transcripts. The respondents were all British working
class men and women from three communities.) NRG: HQ 1599. E5
R624 1995
Romero, Patricia W., ed. Women's Voices on Africa: A Century
of Travel Writings. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Weiner Publishing,
1992. (From the Introduction: "Some [of] the early travelers
. . . come across as haughty, racist, arrogant--or, in the case
of the nineteenth century missionary--maternalistic. All but two
. . . reflect various shades of jingoism in their writings on
Africa and Africans." Most are British.) RVS: DT 11 .W67
1992
Snyder, Louis L. Fifty Major Documents of the Twentieth Century..
Huntington, N.Y.: Krieger, 1979. (Emphasis on international relations
but other material on politics in the Soviet Union, the United
Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. Years covered: 1908-1954.)
CYP, EVC, RVS: JX 68 .S57 1979
Van Tassel, David D., and Robert W. McAhren, eds. European
Origins of American Thought. (Rand McNally Series on the History
of American Thought and Culture.) Chicago, Ill.: Rand McNally,
1969. NRG: AZ 504 .V35 1969
Wilkie, Brian, and James Hurt, eds. Literature of the Western
World. Vol. II, Neoclassicism Through the Modern Period.
2nd. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1988. (Contents contain works
by many authors, among them Voltaire, Rousseau, Goethe, Wordsworth,
Jane Austen, Byron, Keats, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Freud, D. H. Lawrence,
and Sartre.) NRG, RGC, RVS: PN 6014 .L615 1988 V. 2