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The Global History Sourcebook is dedicated to exploration of interaction between world cultures. It does not, then, look "world history" as the history of the various separate cultures (for that see the linked pages, which do take that approach), but at ways in which the "world" has a history in its own right.
Specifically this means looking at:
- The ways in which cultures contact each other
- The ways they influence each other
- The ways new cultural forms emerge.
Trade
Societies interact through trade.
War
Movement of soldiers; occupation; admiration of conqueror's culture,
Religion
Religion is of special importance.
Migration
Migration can be due to nomadism, forced dispersal, attraction to a new land, or due to enslavement. It can take the form of group movements, or be done by individuals and families.
Empire
Art and Music
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This page is a subset of texts derived from the online Sourcebooks listed below. For more specific information about each world cultural area check out these web sites.
Notes:
In addition to direct links to documents, links are made to a number of other web resources.
2ND
Link to a secondary article, review or discussion on a given topic. MEGA
Link to one of the megasites which track web resources. WEB
Link to a website focused on a specific issue.. These are not links to every site on a given topic, but to sites of serious educational value.
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Contents
- General
- General
- World Systems Theories
- Ancient Cultures: The World Until c.100 CE
- General
- Trade
- War
- Religion
- Migration
- Empire
- Art and Music
- Medieval World Systems: Trade and Faith 100-1500 CE
- General
- Trade
- War
- Religion
- Migration
- Empire
- Art and Music
- The Creation of A United World System, 1500-1800 CE
- General
- Trade
- War
- Religion
- Migration
- Empire
- Art and Music
- The Western Hegemony, 1800-1918 CE
- General
- Trade
- War
- Religion
- Migration
- Empire
- The Twentieth Century
- General
- Trade
- War
- Religion
- Migration
- Empire
- Art and Music
- Globalization? Modern Worlds
- General
- Trade
- War
- Religion
- Migration
- Empire
- Art and Music
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World Systems Theories
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Ancient Cultures: The World Until c.100 CE |
Travel in ancient societies was extremely difficult, and a result, interaction between cultures occured slowly.
General
- Greek Reports of India & Aryavarta [At this Site]
From Herodotus.- Arrian: Anabasis Alexandri: Book VIII (Indica) [At this Site]
- Strabo: Geography: Book XV: On India [At this Site]
- Pliny: Natural History 6.96-111. (On India) [At this Site]
- The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century [At this Site]
- India and the Mediterranean: Bibliography [At this Site]
Trade
Religion
Migration
- The Aryans: into India
- 2ND Richard Hooker: The Arayans [At WSU]
Much more reliable account that the nationalist arguments below.- 2ND David Frawley: Myth of Aryan Invasion of India [At India Forum], a complete book, and Myth of Aryan Invasion of India [At Hindunet] an article-length discussion.
Frawley attacks 19th-century scholars such as Max Muller for bias, but seems unaware of his own problematic position. His argumentative strategies reek of special pleading.- 2ND Siddhartha Jaiswal: Arayan Invasion Theory: Revising History to Change the Future [At Internet Archive, from Stanford]
Paper explaining why the theory is wrong. More revealing is full title and the text which explains that the author objected to the theory because it "undermined my belief in my culture". Apparently not even a Stanford education can prevent this sort of solipsistic "history". Basically he draws all his arguments from Frawley.- The Greek Migrations
- The Jews: Between Mesopotamia and Egypt
Empire
- Greek Expansion: Alexander the Great, 4th Cent BCE
- 2ND Alexander in India [At Alexander the Great Homepage]
- Map: Alexander's Conquests to 323BCE [At PSU]
- Animated Map: Alexander's Campaigns [At WWU]
- Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): The Histories 440BCE [At MIT][Full Text][Chapter length files][Book VII on the Persian War]
- Plutarch (c.46-c.120 CE): Life of Alexander [At MIT]
- Indian Integration: Asoka, 3rd Cent BCE
- Ashoka (c. 265-238 BCE; also given as c. 273-232 BCE): The Edicts of Ashoka, summary, [At Rough Guide]
- Chinese Integration: Qin Shi Huangdi, 3rd Century BCE
Art and Music
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Medieval World Systems: Trade and Faith 100-1500 CE |
Missionary religion brought an important new aspect to global interaction after circa. 100 CE. That is roughly the point when both Christianity and Buddhism began to spread rapidly, both creating their own worlds - Christendom, and although the word is a neologism, Buddhadom. A late entrant. circa 640 CE. was the religion of Islam which created a Muslim world [called "Islamdom" by Marshall Hodges], which stretched from Spain to India, and eventuall the Philipines. These three were the most successful missonary religions, but were by no means the only ones: Manichaenism, a modified form of Persian dualism also persued a missionary strategy.
General
- International Peoples
- Greeks
- Jews
- Gypsies
- Armenians
Trade
Religion
- Buddhism
- Faxian: Account of the Buddhistic Kingdoms. [At Brooklyn College]
- Nichiren Sees Japan as the Centre of Buddhism's Regeneration [At Eliade Page]
- Christianity
- Islam
Migration
Empire
- Byzantium: A Crucial Source of Cultures
- Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E. [At this Site]
- Chu Yuan-Chang: Manifesto of Accession as First Ming Emperor, 1372 C.E. [At this Site]
Sent to the Byzantine Emperor.Art and Music
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The Creation of a United World System, 1500-1800 CE |
General
- Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498 CE
- Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522 CE
Trade
- England, India, and The East Indies, 1617 [At this Site]
Various sources inlucding a letter from Great Moghul Jahangir to James I, King of England.- Thomas Mun (1571-1641): England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, pub 1664, extracts, [At Then Again] and extracts [At Hanover]
- Adam Smith: From The Wealth of Nations, 1776: Of Colonies, and The Cost of Empire [At The American Revolution Site]
- Trade Products in Early Modern History [At UMN]
- The South Sea Bubble [Modern Report][At History House]
War
Religion
- Sikhism
Sikhism is a monotheistic religion whose founders were familar with both Islam and Indian religious traditions.
- Kabir (d. 1575?): Selected Poems [At WSU]
- Kabir (d. 1575?): Sayings [At Internet Archive, from Rutgers]
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib, 1604, (also known as the Adi Granth) [At Sikhism Homepage]
Full text of Sikh scriptures, with explanation of history. Also in English Version (Khalsa Consensus Translation)- WEB The Sikhism Homepage
- WEB About Sikhism
- WEB Great Sikh Warriors
Biographies of Great Sikh warriors of 17th to 20th century.- WEB Fort: Panth Khalsa
Modern Sikh nationalist site.- WEB Yahoo! Sikhism
Migration
Empire
- Muslim Expansion into India
- François Bernier: An Account of India and the Great Moghul, 1655 CE [At this Site]
- The Great Moghul Aurangzeb: Farewell, 1707 CE [At this Site]
- Image: Mugal Empire Map [At WSU]
- WEB The Mughals [At WSU]
A multi-media site by Richard Hooker.- The Spanish in the Americas
Art and Music
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The Western Hegemony, 1800-1918 |
General
Trade
Religion
Migration
Empire
- European Imperialism: Analyses
- John A. Hobson (1858-1940): Imperialism, 1902, excerpts
- John A. Hobson (1858-1940): The Economic Parasites of Imperialism [At Marxists.org]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Imperialism and the Split in Socialism, 1916 [At Marxists.Org][Full Text]
- Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924)Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916 [At Marxists.org][Full Text]
- Extent of European Colonialism in Statistical Terms [At Mt. Holyoke]
- British India
- Conquest
- WEB The East India Trade [At Scholiast]
- 2ND East India Company History [At East India Company Page]
The company still exists, and its homepage presents its history.- Robert Clive (1725-1774): Battle at Calcutta - Letter to the Lord Chancellor, Calcutta, 23 February 1757 [At Hillsdale]
- Robert Clive (1725-1774): The Battle of Plassey - Letter to the East India Company, 26 July 1757 [At Hillsdale]
- Robert Clive (1725-1774): The Battle of Plassey, 1757 [At this Site]
- Robert Clive (1725-1774): Letter to William Pitt on India, 1759 [At Oswego]
- Lieutenant T.W.E. Holdsworth: The Battle of Kelat, 1839, [PDF format][From Hillsdale]
- C. G. Rawlings: The March to Lhasa, July 1904 [At Hillsdale]
- Government
- Robert Clive (1725-1774): Speech in Commons on India, 1772
- India: Regulating Act, 1773 [At this Site]
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797): Speech in Commons on India, 1783 [At this Site]
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): On Empire and Education, 1830s, [At this Site]
Addresses the issue of education in India. An interesting example of the complete superiority felt by the British rulers.- Illustrated London News: Troop Steamer for Lower Indus River, 1861 [At Hillsdale]
- Clash of Cultures
- Duarte Barbosa: Sati in Narsyngua.[At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- An Account of Sati from Vikrama's Adventures [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- Raja Rammohan Roy: A Second Conference Between an Advocate for, and An Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive, 1820 [At WSU]
- Sir William Bentinck: On Ritual Murder in India , 1829, excerpts
- Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule, 1871 [At this Site]
- The Mutiny
- Elisa Greathed: An Account of the Opening of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut, 1857
- Indian Cultures
- Lalon Fakir: Songs, 19th Century [At WSU]
- Toru Dutt: Sonnet, 1876 [At WSU]
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): Gitanjali or "song offerings" 1913 [At School of Wisdom]
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): Once There Was a King, 1916 [At WSU]- 2ND Ardeshir B. Damania: History Of Bombay [At Purdue]
Art and Music
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The Twentieth Century? |
General
Trade
Religion
Migration
Urban Migrations
- Lisbon: Fado
- Athens: Remetika
- Buenas Aires: Tango
- Rio: Samba
- Dakar
- Kinshasha
Empire
- Interaction among Subaltern Groups
- Cuba in the Congo
Art and Music
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964): Marxism, Capitalism and Non-Alignment, 1941, 1956, excerpts [At this Site]
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Globalization? |
General
- WEB Documents Relating to Global Economic Issues [At Mt. Holyoke]
- WEB Documents Relating to Jammu and Kashmir [At Mt. Holyoke]
- WEB Globalization [At Mt. Holyoke]
- WEB Trade [At Mt. Holyoke]
- WEB Multinational Corporations [At Mt. Holyoke]
- WEB Global Poverty [At Internet Archive, from Mt. Holyoke]
General
Trade
Religion
Migration
Empire
Art and Music
- E-Texts
- WEB
- Web Guides
- MEGA
- Academic History/Culture Sites
- WEB
- Nationalist History/Culture Sites
- WEB
Other Resources
- WEB
- Map: Asia
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