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Preface

Introduction for Students

1. Catherine of Siena, Dialogue
2. Barduccio di Piero Canigiani, Letter
3. Petrarch, Letters of Familiar Intercourse

3.1 To Socrates
3.2 To Tomasso da Messina
3.3 To Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
5. Desiderius Erasmus, Letters

5.1 To Anne of Borselle
5.2 To Jacobus Battus
5.3 To Pope Leo X
5.4 To Lambertus Grunnius
5.5 Lambertus Grunnius's Reply
5.6 To Cardinal Wolsey

6. Martin Luther, Letters

6.1 To George Spalatin
6.2 To Paul Speratus
6.3 To George Spalatin
6.4 To Wolfgang Reissenbusch
6.5 To George Spalatin

7. John Calvin, Letters

7.1 To the Duchess of Ferrara
7.2 To the Priest of Cernex
7.3 To an Unknown Person
7.4 To Melancthon
7.5 To Monsieur de Falais
7.6 To Viret
7.7 To Viret
7.8 To the Faithful of France
7.9 To the Protector Somerset
7.10 To Henry Bullinger
7.11 To Melancthon

8. Articles of the Catholic League
9. Michel de Montaigne, Essays

9.1 On Cannibals
9.2 That It is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity

10. Marie de l'Incarnation, Letters (Qebec, 1640-1688)

10.1 Letter to a lady of rank
10.2 Letter to her son
10.3 Letter to her son
10.4 Letter to her son
10.5 Letter to her son
10.6 Letter to her son
10.7 Letter to her son
10.8 Letter to her son

11. The Grand Remonstrance and Petition from Parliament to King Charles I (December 1, 1641) and Charles's Reply (December 23, 1641)

11.1 The Grand Remonstrance and Parliament's Petition
11.3 Charles I's Reply

12. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
13. Isaac Newton, The Principia
14. Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs
15. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
16. Decree Abolishing the Feudal System
17. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
18. Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
19. Jeanne Manon Roland, Memoirs
20. Simón Bolívar, Addresses

20.1 Speech before the Caracas Assembly
20.2 Proclamation

21. Constitutional Charter of France of 1814
22. Art, Architecture, Design: The Eighteenth Century

22.1 François Boucher, Toilet of Venus
22.2 Robert Adam, Tapestry Room, Croome Court
22.3 Robert Adam, Dining Room, Landsdowne House
22.4 Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates
22.5 Workshop of Jean Antoine Houdon, Voltaire
22.6 Marie Victoire Lemoine, Studio of Madame Vigée Le Brun
22.7 The Parthenon
22.8 The Capitol, Washington, D.C.
22.9 Stuart Gilbert, George Washington

23. Interviews With Witnesses Concerning British Factories

23.1 Interview with Mark Best
23.2 Interview with Stephen Binns

24. Speeches from the Debate on a Factory Regulations Bill in the British Parliament, March 16, 1832

24.1 Michael Thomas Sadler
24.2 Charles Villiers

25. William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned: An Evening on the Same Subject
26. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott
27. Emily Brontë, No Coward Soul is Mine
28. Giuseppe Mazzini, On the Duties of Man
29. Report on the Affairs of Indians in Canada
30. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
31. Treaty Between the British East India Company and Maharajah Dulleep Sing Bahadoor
32. Frederick Douglass, Speeches

32.1 The Inhumanity of Slavery
32.2 What to the Slave is the Fourth of July

33. The Coloured People and the Common School and Reply (1862-1863)

33.1 "The Coloured People and the Common School," The Leader
33.2 Diogenes, "A Reply," The Globe

34. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
35. Reports to the International Council of Women, 1888

35.1 Paper on the Danish Woman’s Union for the Protection of Young Girls and Lonely Women
35.2 Paper on the Danish Woman’s Association
35.3 Paper on Women’s Education in Denmark
35.4 Paper on the "Condition of Women in Italy"

36. An Appeal Against Female Suffrage and Reply (1889)

36.1 A. Appeal Against Female Suffrage, Nineteenth Century
36.2 M.M. Dilke, A Reply, Nineteenth Century

37. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Speeches

37.1 On the Opening of the Reichstag
37.2 To the Students at the University of Bonn
37.3 At Aix, the Site of Charlemagne’s Palace
37.4 Notice Regarding 25 years of German Labor Legislation
37.5 Toast to Prince Henry on His Departure to Command Germany’s Naval Squadron in Asia

38. George Washington Carver, Feeding Acorns
39. Joseph Chamberlain, Toast at the Annual Royal Colonial Institute Dinner
40. Karl Pearson, On the Scope and Importance to the State of the Science of National Eugenics
41. Mahatma Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
42.  Proceedings of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies: Fifth Session, November 4, 1917
43. Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
44. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
45. Verdict of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union in the Special Investigation into the Case of the Counter-Revolutionary Organization, "The Industrial Party," 1930
46. Letters to R.B. Bennett (1930-1935)

46.1 Letter of Thomas M. Gibbs
46.2 Letter of A Nanaimoite
46.3 Letter of Mrs. Ernest Ferguson
46.4 Brief Presented by the Unemployed of Edmonton to the Hon. R.B. Bennett
46.5 Letter of P.R. Mulligan
46.6 Letter of Miss Elizabeth McCrae
46.7 Letter of L.M. Himmer

47. Winston Churchill, The Sinews of Peace
48. United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
49. Robert S. McNamara, "Major National Security Problems Confronting the US"
50. Articles from the Georgia Straight (1967-1969)

50.1 "Tune On, Tune In, Take Over"
50.2 "Grass in Class"
50.3 Dara, "Education—For What?"
50.4 Chris MacLeod, "Learning to Live Without Schools"
50.5 Bill Tait, "Easter Be-In"

51. Betty Friedan, Our Revolution is Unique
52. Margaret Thatcher, Speeches (1981, 1996)

52.1 To the Conservative Party Conference
52.2 The Fourth Nicholas Ridley Memorial Lecture

53. Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology
54. Václav Havel, A Call for Sacrifice
55. Art, Architecture, Design: The Twentieth Century

55.1 Domestic Library, Morningside
55.2 Edvard Munch, The Scream
55.3 Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
55.4 Mask, Ivory Coast
55.5 Kasimir Malevich, White on White
55.6 Piet Mondrian, Painting I
55.7 Mies van der Rohe, "MR" Side Chair
55.8 Mies van der Rohe, "Tugendhat" Coffee Table
55.9 Mark Rothko, Number 10
55.10.1 Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951): Exterior
55.10.2 Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois (1951): Interior 
55.11 Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
55.12 Roy Lichtenstein, Little Big Painting
55.13 George Segal, Portrait of Sidney Janis with a Mondrian Painting
55.14.1 Thomas Gordon Smith, Tuscan House (left) and Laurentian House (right), Livermore, California
55.14.2 Thomas Gordon Smith, Tuscan House (foreground) and Laurentian House (background), Livermore, California
55.14.3 Thomas Gordon Smith, Laurentian House, Livermore, California (1979)
55.15 Michael Graves, Portland Building
55.16 Sherry Wolf, Artist in the Studio
55.17 Shiro Kuramata, "Miss Blanche" Chair

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