Please click on the links below for each of the additional assigned readings
THE REQUIRED READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR EACH WEEK ARE LISTED ON THE COURSE HANDOUT AND UNDER “LECTURE TOPICS” ON THIS WEBSITE.
Note: The selections marked as “optional” are not assigned or required this year. All of them, however, relate to the subject matter of the course so you are welcome to read them if you wish.
Chinese Descriptions of Rome, Byzantium and the West
Marco Polo’s Description of Kinsay
First Ming Emperor’s Manifesto of Accession
Journal of Vasco da Gama’s Voyage to India (optional — not assigned this year)
Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility (optional — not assigned this year)
Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
Sidi Ali Reis, “The Mirror of Countries”
Père du Halde, The Chinese Educational System (optional–not assigned this year)
Père du Halde, Chinese Punishments (optional–not assigned this year)
Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind (optional — not assigned this year)
Edmund Burke, Speech on the British role in India, 1783
Maximilien Robespierre, Speech on the Use of Terror , 1794
Maximilien Robespierre, Speech on the Cult of the Supreme Being , 1794 (optional–not assigned this year)
Napoleon Bonaparte, Letters and Proclamations during the Egyptian Campaign
Report on Conditions in British Coal Mines , 1842
Frederick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of an American Slave (excerpts)
Dadabhai Naoroji, The Benefits of British Rule, 1871
F.D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire
Isaac Taylor Headland, Court Life in China
Yan Phou Lee, “When I Went to School in China“(optional–not assigned this year)
Francis Ottiwell Adams, “The Schools of Japan“(optional–not assigned this year)
Rosa Luxemburg, “The War and the Workers” (optional–not assigned this year)
T.E. Lawerence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926, ch. 2, 4 and 5
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Speech Given in Ankara, 1927 (optional — not assigned this year)
Mahatma Gandhi, First Letter to Lord Irwin, 1930
Mahatma Gandhi, Second Letter to Lord Irwin (optional-not assigned this year)
Winston Churchill, Speech on the Government of India Bill, 1935
Winston Churchill, Speech on the Munich Agreement, 1938 (optional–not assigned this year)