The Human Record Sources of Global History, Volume I: To 1700
by Andrea, Alfred J.; Overfield, James H.Edition: 5th
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Pub. Date: 2004-03-02
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
The Human Record is a leading collection of primary sources for world history courses. Unlike many world history texts that center on the West, The Human Record provides balanced coverage of the global past. The book features both written and artifactual sources placed in their full historical contexts through introductory essays, footnotes, and focus questions. Each volume in the Fifth Edition begins with a prologue, "Primary Sources and How to Read Them", that introduces students to the proper methods for reading and interpreting primary source material; the authors also walk students through sample visual and textual sources to help them master this skill.
Table of Contents
| Primary Sources and How to Read Them | |
| The Ancient World | |
| The First Civilizations Mesopotamia: The Land of Two Rivers | |
| The Search for Eternal Life in Mesopotamia | |
| The Epic of Gilgamesh Bringing Order to an Uncertain World | |
| The Judgments of Hammurabi Egypt: The River of Two Lands | |
| The Search for Eternal Life in Egypt | |
| Three Mortuary Texts Another Side of Egyptian Life | |
| A Crib Incantation and Two Love Songs China: The Land of the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers | |
| The Mandate of Heaven | |
| The Book of Documents Zhou Viewed from Above and Below | |
| The Book of Songs Mute Testimony Bringing in the Sheaves | |
| A Tassili Rock Painting Cultural Impressions | |
| Indus, Mesopotamian, and Cretan Seals Sacred Kingship along the Nile | |
| Two Temple Reliefs | |
| Newcomers: From Nomads to Settlers The Indo-Europeans Life, Death, and the Gods in Aryan India | |
| The Rig Veda A Journey to the Underworld | |
| Homer, The Odyssey | |
| The Israelites and Their Neighbors Establishing a Covenant with Humanity | |
| The Book of Genesis Establishing a Covenant with a Chosen People | |
| The Book of Deuteronomy | |
| Transcendental Reality: Developing the Spiritual Traditions of India and Southwest Asia: 800–200 B.C.E. | |
| The Emergence of Brahminical Hinduism The Hindu Search for Divine Reality | |
| The Upanishads Dharma: The Imperative of Caste Law | |
| The Bhagavad Gita | |
| A Challenge to Caste: The Teachings of the Buddha | |
| The Path to Enlightenment | |
| The Buddha, Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Law | |
| The Poison Arrow of Needless Speculation | |
| The Buddha, Questions that Tend | |
| Not to Edification Persians, Israelites, and Their Gods | |
| The Struggle Between Good and Evil | |
| Zarathustra, Gathas | |
| A Covenant for All Peoples | |
| The Book of Isaiah | |
| The Secular Made Sacred: Developing the Humanistic Traditions of China and Hellas: 600–200 | |
| B.C.E. China: Thought in Search of Harmony Daoism: The Way That Is and Is Not | |
| Laozi, The Classic of the Way and Virtue | |
| Confucianism: The Moral Way of the Past | |
| Confucius, The Analects Legalism: The Way of the State | |
| Han Fei, The Writings of Master Han Fei Yin and Yang and the Dao of Good Health | |
| The Yellow Emperor's | |
| Classic of Medicine Hellenic Civilization: A Rational Inquiry into Life Hellenic Medicine | |
| Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease | |
| The Athenian as Citizen | |
| Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Bacchic Maenads: Feminine Religious Ecstacy | |
| Euripides, The Bacchae Socrates' Defense of Philosophy | |
| Plato, Apologia Art and the Human Form | |
| Three Hellenic Works of Art | |
| Regional Empires and Afro-Eurasian Interchange, 300 B.C.E.–500 C.E. | |
| The Greco-Roman World Images of the Hellenistic World | |
| Four Hellenistic Sculptures Rome Viewed from the Underworld | |
| Virgil, The Aeneid Queen Boudica and the Pax Romana | |
| Tacitus, Agricola and Annals Han China | |
| Two Views on How to Deal with Empire | |
| Huan Kuan, Discourses on Salt and Iron | |
| A Woman's Place as Viewed by a Female Confucian | |
| Ban Zhao, Lessons for Women India in the Age of Empires | |
| The Softening Effects of Dharma | |
| Asoka, Rock and Pillar Edicts | |
| Sacred Law in Classical India | |
| The Laws of Manu | |
| Long-Distance Travel and Exchange | |
| India and China Viewed from Rome | |
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History Faxian's | |
| Homeward Voyage | |
| Faxian, Travels | |
| The Transit of Images along Trade Routes | |
| Five Robed Statues | |
| Faith, Devotion, and Salvation: Great World Religions to 1500 | |
| New Developments in Three Ancient Religions | |
| Mahayana Buddhism: A Religion of Infinite Compassion Perceiver of the World's | |
| Sounds: A Bodhisattva for All Emergencies | |
| Tales of Guanshiyin Images of Compassion | |
| Three Bodhisattvas Bhakti: The Way of Devotion | |
| The Way of Supreme Love | |
| Narada, The Bhakti Sutra Shiva, Auspicious Destroyer | |
| Shiva Nataraja Rabbinical Judaism | |
| A Defense of the Law | |
| Flavius Josephus, Against Apion Jacob's Seed | |
| Maimonides, Selected Writings | |
| Christianity: Conquering the World for Christ | |
| The Foundations of Christianity | |
| Becoming Spiritually Perfect | |
| The Gospel of Saint Matthew | |
| The Path to Righteousness: The Law or Faith? | |
| Saint Paul, Epistle to the Romans | |
| Christianity and the Roman World | |
| Rome's Policy toward Christians | |
| Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Letters | |
| Regarding Christians | |
| Why Are Christians Persecuted? | |
| Tertullian, Apologia Persecution and Deliverance | |
| Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History | |
| The Christian Emperor | |
| The Barberini Ivory Beyond the Roman | |
| World Georgia Becomes a Christian State | |
| Rufinus of Aquileia, Church History | |
| Christianity Comes to China | |
| Bishop Adam, The Christian Monument | |
| Religious Exchange and Interchange | |
| Gnostic Christianity: The Secret Knowledge of Jesus | |
| The Gospel of Thomas Manichaeism: Enlightening the World | |
| The Parable About the World-Ocean | |
| Islam: Universal Submission to God | |
| The Foundations of Islamic Life | |
| The Word of God | |
| The Quran | |
| The Tales of Tradition | |
| Iman Nawawi, Gardens of the Righteous | |
| Muhammad's Night | |
| Journey and Ascent to Heaven | |
| Muhammad ibn Ishaq, The Life of the Messenger of God | |
| The First Formulation of Sharia: God's Law | |
| Malik ibn Anas, The Smoothed Path | |
| Variety and Unity within Islam God's | |
| Martyrs: The Party of Ali | |
| Ibn Babawayh al-Saduq, Creed concerning the Imams | |
| An African Pilgrim to Mecca | |
| Mahmud Kati, The Chronicle of the Seeker | |
| The Sufi Path | |
| Jalaluddin al-Rumi, Poems, and Ahmed al-Aflaki, The Virtues of Those Who Know Islam and Unbelievers | |
| The Dhimma | |
| Ibn Muslama's | |
| Pact with the Christians of Tiflis and The Pact of Umar | |
| The Jewish Community of Twelfth-Century Baghdad | |
| Benjamin of Tudela, Book of Travels Fourteenth-Century | |
| Hindu Dhimmis | |
| The Deeds of Sultan Firuz Shah III. Continuity, Change, and | |
| Interchange: 500–1500 | |
| Asia: Change in the Context of Tradition Japan: Creating a Distinctive Civilization | |
| The Constitution of Prince Shotoku | |
| Chronicles of Japan Lives and Loves at the Heian Court | |
| Sei Shonagon, The Pillow Book | |
| The Ideal Samurai | |
| Chronicle of the Grand Pacification | |
| China: The Ages of Tang and Song | |
| Imperial Greatness and Disaster in Eighth-Century China | |
| Du Fu, Poems The Bartered Bride: China and the Uighurs in an Age of Civil War | |
| The Old Tang History | |
| The Dao of Agriculture in Song China | |
| Chen Pu, The Craft of Farming | |
| Thirteenth-Century Hangzhou | |
| A Record of Musings on the Eastern Capital | |
| Buddhism in East Asia: Acceptance, Rejection, and Accomodation | |
| Buddhism Comes to China: The Story of the Nun An Lingshou | |
| Shi Baochang, Lives of the Nuns | |
| A Conflict of Values: Buddhism in Late Tang China | |
| Han Yu, Memorial on Buddhism | |
| A Japanese Monk in China | |
| Tales from Uji Southwest Asia: Crossroads of the Afro-Eurasian World | |
| The Arrival of the Turks | |
| Al-Jahiz, The Merits of the Turks and of the Imperial Army as a Whole Muslims and Franks in the Crusader States | |
| Ibn Jubayr, Travels Sinbad's | |
| First Voyage | |
| A Thousand and One Arabian Nights India: Continuity and Change Nalanda: C | |
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