Description: I. AGE OF DISCOVERY. Christopher Columbus: Journal and Letter. Bernal Diaz Del Castillo: The Conquest of New Spain. Pico Della Mirandola: On the Dignity of Man. Niccoli Machiavelli: The Prince. Martin Luther: An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate, 1520. John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion. The Counter-Reformation: The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent. Francis Bacon: Novum Organum. Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Yamaga Soko: The Way of the Samurai. Isaac Newton: Optics; The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. John Locke: Of Civil Government. Jacques Bossuet: Politics Drawn From the Very Words of Holy Scripture. Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary. Cahuilla: Palm Springs Cahuilla Creation Myth. Olaudah Equiano: The Life of Gustavus Vassa. II. THE MODERN ERA. Revolutionary Declarations: The Declaration of Independence; Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Antoine-Nicolas De Condorcet: The Progress of the Human Mind. Emperor Ch'ien Lung: Mandate to King George III. Simon Bolivar: The Jamaica Letter. Romanticism: Gothic Churches; Ode to Joy. Goethe: The Sufferings of Young Werther. Thomas Malthus:An Essay on the Principle of Population. Child Labor: The Sadler Report. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party. John Stuart Mill: On Liberty; The Subjection of Women. Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man. William Graham Sumner: The Challenge of Facts. Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden. III. THE RECENT PAST. Bertrand Russell: A Free Man's Worship. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: What Is to Be Done?; State and Revolution. Mohandas K. Gandhi: Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule. International Organizations: The Covenant of the League of Nations; Charter of the United Nations. Mao Tse Tung: Report of an Investigation into the Peasant Movement in Hunan. John Dewey: Liberalism and Social Action. George Orwell: The Road to Wigan Pier. Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf. Japanese Imperialism: Draft of Basic Plan for Establishment of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter From Birmingham City Jail. United Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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