Reading Packet II
The 14 readings for this packet can be divided into three main groups. First, you have a collection of seven documents centered around the political revolutions (in philosophy and government) that reached their highpoints with the U.S. and French Revolutions. As you read these, consider the differences between the two different revolutions, and the starkly different outcomes.
The second group of three readings focus upon the results of industrialization - primarily focusing upon Britain, for these readings, though they also apply to Western Europe and North America, and later, other regions of the world. These readings include both descriptions of the horrible conditions of the early industrial age (human and environmental), as well as the most famous political response to these conditions ( Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto).
The third group of four readings discuss Western Imperialism in the old world (Asia and Africa).
The Declaration of Independence, 1776: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/declare.htm
The U.S. Bill of Rights, 1787: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1776-1800/constitution/amends.htm
Slaves' appeal to Governor Gage of Massachusetts, 1774: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1774slavesappeal.html
The Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/rightsof.htm
The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1791degouge1.html
Robespierre, Terror and Virtue, 1794: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/robespierre-terror.html
Edmund Burke, Death of Marie Antoinette, 1793: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1793burke.html
Chadwick, Report on Sanitary Conditions: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
Engels, Industrial Manchester, 1844: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/marx.html
Rudyard Kipling, White Man's Burden, 1899: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html
Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899antiimp.html
Dadabhai Naoroji, The Benefits of British Rule, 1871: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html
Wilhelm II, A Place in the Sun, 1901: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1901kaiser.html