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Defining Documents in World History: The 17th Century (1601-1700)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Europe: Science, Religion, and Law




Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger




Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories




Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote




Treaty of Westphalia




Czar Alexis I: Great Muscovite Law Code




Louis XIV: Edict of Fontainebleau




England: Civil War and Revolution




James I: Speech on the Divine Right of Kings




Westminster Confession




Charles I: Speech on the Scaffold




Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan




Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration




John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress




Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy




English Bill of Rights




John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government




Christianity and Society in the East




Tokugawa Ieyasu: Laws Governing Military Households




Japan’s Closed Country Edict




Matteo Ricci: “Religious Sects among the Chinese”




Li Yü: “On Being Happy Though Poor”




Regent Dorgon: Edict to the Board of War and Imperial Edict to the Board of Rites




Meritorious Deeds at No Cost




Yang Guangxian: I Cannot Do Otherwise (Budeyi)




Kangxi Emperor: Edict of Toleration




The Muslim World: Trade and Toleration




Raag Gond




Charles Davenant: An Essay on the East-India Trade




Jahangir: Twelve Decrees




European Colonies in the Americas: The English Mid-Atlantic




John Rolfe: Letter to Sir Edwin Sandys




Richard Frethorne: Letter to His Parents




John Smith: The Generall Historie of Virginia




Cecil Calvert: Maryland Toleration Act




Virginia’s Act XII: Negro Women’s Children to Serve according to the Condition of the Mother




Nathaniel Bacon: Manifesto




“A Minute against Slavery, Addressed to the Germantown Monthly Meeting”




Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland




European Colonies in the Americas: New England




Letter of Edward Winslow to a Friend




John Winthrop: “A Model of Christian Charity”




Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson




Roger Williams: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution




Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson




Declaration of the Gentlemen, Merchants and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country Adjacent




Sir Edmund Andros: Report of His Administration




European Colonies in the Americas: Other Colonies




Samuel de Champlain: Voyages




Charter of the Dutch West India Company




Father Paul Le Jeune: Brief Relation of the Journey to New France




Adriaen Van der Donck: Description of the New-Netherlands




António Vieira: “Children of God’s Fire”




Appendixes




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography