Online: Toward a People's
History
This site contains extensive primary sources about South Africa from its early history through its first democratic election in 1994. It includes newspaper accounts, legal documents, and over four thousand biographies of activists who pursued the struggle for democracy. Special sections deal with the documentary history of the Indian community in South Africa.
Vietnam Center and Archive
www.vietnam.ttu.edu
Housed at Texas Tech University, this site includes numerous pages of written documents and photographs, slides, maps, periodicals, films, recordings, and books related to the Vietnam War, Indochina, and the war's impact on the United States and Southeast Asia.
World History Matters
http://worldhistorymatters.org/ The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has developed a website with a series of primary sources, including images, jokes, first-hand accounts, and memoirs about the French Revolution, the eruption of movements for democracy in 1989 in Eastern Europe, accounts of life in the Gulags or prison camps of the Soviet Union, and women's movements worldwide. Supplementing the primary sources are discussions of class presentations and teaching modules.
Women's Social Movements,
International—1840 to the
Present
http://wasi.alexanderstreet.com/ Focusing on women's activism in unions, peace movements, and other forms of collective action, the website includes conference proceedings, letters, journals, and scholarly articles that analyze the activities of women's formation of international associations.
Acknowledgments
T
hanks to Ellen Broidy, David Carpenter, Paula Covington, Dick Glendon, Vishal Kamath, Sara Kozameh, Steven McGrail, Lynn Mally, Robert G. Moeller, Margaret Power, Ellen Ross, Margaret Strobel, and Barbara Weinstein for seeing this through, and special thanks to Rebecca Hecht, Nancy Toff, Kate Nunn, and Andrew Joseph Westerhaus for getting it into print.
NEW OXFORD WORLD HISTORY
The
New
Oxford
World
History
GENERAL EDITORS
Bonnie G. Smith, Rutgers University Anand A. Yang, University of Washington
EDITORIAL BOARD
Donna Guy, Ohio State University Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University Margaret Strobel, University of Illinois, Chicago John O. Voll, Georgetown University
Temma Kaplan, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is the author of four books dealing with social movements and democracy: Anarchists of Andalusia, 1868-1903; Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona; Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements; and Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy.
The New Oxford World History provides a comprehensive, synthetic treatment of the "new world history" from chronological, thematic, and geographical perspectives, allowing readers to access the world's complex history
from a variety of conceptual, narrative, and analytical viewpoints as it fits their interests.
Chronological Volumes The World from Beginnings to 4000 все The World from 4000 to 1000 все The World from 1000 все to 500 се The World from 300 to 1000 се The World from 1000 to1500 The World from 1450 to1700 The World in the Eighteenth Century The World in the Nineteenth Century The World in the Twentieth Century
Thematic and Topical Volumes The City: A World History Democracy: A World History Food: A World History Empires: A World History The Family: A World History Genocide: A World History Health and Medicine: A World History Migration: A World History
Race: A World History Technology: A World History
Geographical Volumes The Atlantic in World History Central Asia in World History China in World History The Indian Ocean in World History Japan in World History Mexico in World History Russia in World History The Silk Road in World History South Africa in World History South Asia in World History Southeast Asia in World History Trans-Saharan Africa in World History
Index
Abernathy, Ralph, 93
Abu Bakr, 15
Adams, Samuel, 34, 35
Addams, Jane, 70
Adorno, Theodor, 95
Adrian of Utrecht (Pope Adrian VI), 23
adultery, 112-13
Africa, 96, 109-10, 110. See also specific
countries African National Congress (ANC),
79-81, 86 Al-A§amm, 15-16 Aleijadinho, 44 Alexander, Ray, 81 Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 49 Alexander the Great, King of
Macedonia, 10 Algeria, 96 Ali, 15
Ali Jinnah, Muhammad, 83 Allende, Salvador, 117-18 American colonies, 31-36, 44 American Revolution, 33-36 Apartheid, 81-82, 88-90 Arab Spring, 125-26 Aris, Michael, 124 Aristotle, 10-11, 16 Associated Press, 55 Athens, 7-11 Augustine, St., 14-15 Augustus, Emperor of Rome, 13 Aung San, 122 Aung San Suu Kyi, 122-25 Australia, 58
Baard, Frances, 2, 80, 81-82, 82
baby boomers, 95-96
Bastwick, John, 27
Belgium, 66, 96
B entham, Jeremy, 2
Bhakti, 20
boycotting, 34-35
Bravo, Juan, 25
Brazil, 36, 40-45
Brendel, Cajo, 97
Buddhism, 14
Burma (Myanmar), 112, 122-25, 124
Cambodia, 101 Canada, 126
Carbonari, 50 Carranza, Venustiano, 65 Catherine of Aragon, 26-27 Catholic Church, 118 censorship, 57, 100 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 96, 117
Cespedes, Carlos Manuel de, 59 Charlemagne, 15 Charles I, King of England, 29 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, 22-24, 25-26
Chartist Movement, 36, 50, 52 Chile: democratic movements in, 126; suffragist movements in, 66; women's movements in, 112, 113, 117-120, 119 China, 55-58, 74-75, 121-23, 122 Chinese Revolution, 113 Christianity, 14-15, 16 Church of England, 26-27 Churchill, Winston, 1 CIA, 118
cities and urbanization: in England, 26-30; in South Asia, 18-21, 30; in Spain, 21-26, 30, 36 Civil Rights movement (US), 77, 90,
91-94, 99, 113 Coello, Mariana Grajales, 58 Cohn-Bendit, Daniel, 102 colleges and universities, 95-96 Columbus, Christopher, 21 comunidades (city councils), 24 Confucianism, 14 Corday, Charlotte, 39 Cortes (congress), 22-24, 25-26, 47 Costa Rica, 61 crimes against humanity, 85 Cromwell, Oliver, 26, 28, 29-30 Cuba, 58-61, 80
Cuban Revolution (1959), 99, 106 Cultural Revolution (China), 121 Czechoslovakia, 96, 100
Decembrists (Russia), 49-50 Declaration of the Rights of Man and
Citizen, 37 "The Declaration of the Rights of
Women", 37 democracy, 1-2 Diaz, Porfirio, 62, 64
direct democracy, 2-3 divorce, 112-13 Douglass, Frederick, 54-55 Dubcek, Alexander, 100 Dutschke, Rudi, 99, 103 Dylan, Bob, 99
Edes, Benjamin, 32 Edes, Joseph, 32
education, 95-96, 98-99, 102. See also
student demonstrations Egypt, 7, 113, 125-26 England: American Revolution and, 33-36; Levellers and, 26-30; Nigeria and, 72-74; Norman Conquest of, 17; South Africa and, 78, 80-81 Ephigenia of the Cross, St., 44
Falcon, Lydia, 112
Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, West
Germany), 96, 99-100, 102 Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, 52 Ferdinand II, King of Aragon, 21-22 feudalism, 49 Finland, 58