Primary Sources in World History
Wealth, Power, and Inequality, Prehistory to 1500, Volume 1
1st Edition
Published on 13. March 2023
168 pages
978-1-5381-7436-4 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 1 of this two-volume collection of primary documents covers societies across different geographical regions during the last 5,000 years. While chronologically and geographically comprehensive in scope, this reader will focus on a central theme: the unequal allocation of wealth and power both within individual societies and between different polities ranging from small city-states to large territorial empires. The selected documents reveal that people living at different times and in different places have used similar methods to achieve similar political and economic objectives. By reflecting uniformities as well as diversities in ideas and actions, these documents undermine assertions of Western intellectual, cultural, or moral superiority.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-7436-4 (9781538174364)
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James Farr | Patrick J. Hearden
Primary Sources in World History
Wealth, Power, and Inequality, Prehistory to 1500, Volume 1
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Professor Farr is an Emeritus and formerly Germaine Seelye Osterle Professor of History at Purdue University. He is the author of 9 books and has received numerous fellowships and teaching awards.
Patrick Hearden is an Emeritus Professor of History at Purdue University. He has authored 6 books and has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships.
Patrick Hearden is an Emeritus Professor of History at Purdue University. He has authored 6 books and has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships.
Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Document 1
- King Hammurabi, The Laws of Hammurabi, ca. 1770 BCE
- Document 2
- Rameses II and Hattusila III, An Egyptian-Hittite Treaty of Alliance, 1259 BCE
- Document 3
- Anonymous, A Poem Reflecting Peasant Discontent in China, ca. 800 BCE
- Document 4
- King Ashurbanipal, Assyrian Imperialism, ca. 630 BCE
- Document 5
- Plutarch, Solon's Reforms in Athens, ca. 574 BCE
- Document 6
- Sun-tzu, The Art of War, ca. 500 BCE
- Document 7
- Thucydides, The Athenian-Melian Conference, ca 410 BCE
- Document 8
- Aristotle, Observations on Politics, ca. 350 BCE
- Document 9
- Ashoka, An Expression of Remorse, ca. 256 BCE
- Document 10
- Han Feizi, Legalism and the Way of the State in Qin China, ca. 221 BCE
- Document 11
- Plutarch, A Plan for the Redistribution of Land in the Roman Empire, ca. 133 BCE
- Document 12
- Free Market or Government Regulation? The Salt and Iron Debates in Han China (81 BCE)
- Document 13
- Wang Mang, Edict on Land Reform (9 CE)
- Document 14
- Strabo, A Description of Alexandria, 1st c. CE
- Document 15
- A Trader's Handbook: The Periplus Maris Erythraei [Guidebook of the Erythraean Sea], c. 50 CE
- Document 16
- Pliny and Trajan, Letters, c. 111 CE
- Document 17
- Suetonius, on Octavian Augustus, 121 CE
- Document 18
- Life, Trade, and Politics along the Silk Roads: The Kharosthi Inscriptions
- Document 19
- Roman and Persian Accounts of the Capture of the Roman Emperor Valerian in 260 CE
- Document 20
- The Theodosian Code (438)
- Document 21
- Priscus Panites, Huns and Romans (c. 450 CE)
- Document 22
- The Laws of the Salian Franks (507-511)
- Document 23
- The Institutes of Justinian (533)
- Document 24
- Corpus Juris Civilis, Justinian on Slavery (533)
- Document 25
- The Quran, On the Inheritance of Property (610-632)
- Document 26
- Chinese Tang Emperor Taizong, On Effective Government (648 CE)
- Document 27
- Tang Legal Code, selections, 653
- Document 28
- Charlemagne, Capitularies on the Missi Dominici (802)
- Document 29
- William I, "the Pious," Foundation Charter of the Monastery at Cluny (910)
- Document 30
- A Venetian Commenda (1073)
- Document 31
- Abu Abayd Amr al-Bakri, Book of Highways and of Kingdoms (Eleventh Century)
- Document 32
- Domesday Book, Excerpts (1086)
- Document 33
- Feudal Contracts, Excerpts (1127-1380)
- Document 34
- Behâ ed-Din, A Muslim View of the Crusades (1191)
- Document 35
- Anonymous, Observations on Hangzhou, 1235
- Document 36
- Marco Polo on Paper Money and the Chinese Economy, c. 1300
- Document 37
- Rashid al-Din, Political Influence of Mongol Women, Compendium of Chronicles (Early Fourteenth Century)
- Document 38
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta (1331)
- Document 39
- Balduccio Pegolotti, On Overland Trade to China (1310-1340)
- Document 40
- Parliament of England, An Excerpt from the Statute of Laborers (1351)
- Document 41
- Ibn Khaldun on Muslim Traders (1377)
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
