Western Civilization Sources, Images, and Interpretations To 1700

Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century Primary Sources Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power Visual Sources The Early Modern Chateau (photo) Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration) Secondary Sources G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689 Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution Primary Sources Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Visual Sources A Vision of the New Science (illustration) Secondary Sources Michael Postan, Why Was Science Backward in the Middle Ages? Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific Revolution Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution for Women Chapter Eighteen: Politics and Society in the Ancien Regime Primary Sources Frederick the Great, Political Testament Daniel Defoe, The Complete English Tadesman Anonymous, The Slave Trade Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letter to Lady R., 1716: Women and the Aristocracy Women of the Third Estate Visual Sources Jean-Honore Fragonard, Happy Accidents of the Swing (illustration) Jean Defraine, Act of Humanity (illustration) C. C. P. Lawson, The Battle of Fontenoy (text and illustration) The Atlantic Slave Trade (chart) Secondary Sources David Brion Davis, Slavery--White, Black, Muslim, Christian John Roberts, The Ancien Regime: Ideals and Realities Leonard Krieger, The Resurgent Aristocracy Jerome Blum, Lords and Peasants Merry R. Wiesner, Women's Work in Preindustrial Europe Chapter Nineteen: The Enlightenment Primary Sources Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment Baron d'Holbach, The System of Nature Denis Diderot, Prospectus for the Encyclopedia of Arts and Sciences The Philosophe Voltaire, Philisophical Dictionary: The English Model Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason: Deism Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Visual Sources Frontispiece of the Encyclopedie (illustration) Joseph Wright, Experiment with an Air Pump (illustration) Joseph II of Austria, Propoganda and the Enlightened Monarch (text and illustration) Secondary Sources Lester G. Crocker, The Age of Enlightenment Carl L. Becker, The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, Women in the Salons PART III: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Chapter Twenty: The French Revolution Primary Sources Arthur Young, Travels in France: Signs of Revolution The Cashiers: Discontents of the Third Estate Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, What is the Third Estate? Revolutionary Legislation: Abolition of the Feudal System The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women The Declaration of Independence Maximilien Robespierre, Speech to the National Convention--February 5, 1794: The Terror Justified Francois-Xavier Joliclerc, A Soldier's Letters to His Mother: Revolutionary Nationalism Visual Sources Jearut de Bertray: Allegory of the Revolution (illustration) Internal Disturbances and the Reign of Terror (maps and charts) Secondary Sources Georges Lefebvre, The Coming of the FrSherman, Dennis is the author of 'Western Civilization Sources, Images, and Interpretations To 1700', published 2003 under ISBN 9780072565652 and ISBN 0072565659.