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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
The Early Modern World
See Main Page for a guide
to all contents of all sections.
Contents
The Early Modern World System
- The European "Age of Discovery"
- WEB Discoverers Web [Was At Tue.nl, now Internet Archive]
Includes a List of Online Primary Sources
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WEB See Columbus and the Age of Discovery [Was Millersville, now Internet Archive]
A searchable collection of over 1100 text articles on Columbus and the
encounter of two worlds.
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WEB See Columbus Navigation Homepage [Now Internet Archive]
With maps of the various voyages.
- Wikipedia: Age of Discovery
- The Discovery of North
America by Leif Ericsson, c. 1000 from The Saga of Eric the Red, (1387) [At this Site]
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Eirik the Red's Saga [At
Project Gutenberg]
- Columbus
- Amerigo Vespucci (1452-1512): Account of His First
Voyage, 1497 [At this Site]
- Fra Soncino: Letter to
Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, Regarding John Cabot's First Voyage, 1497 [At this Site]
- John Cabot (c.1450-1499): Voyage to North America,
1497 [At this Site]
- Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522
CE [At this Site]
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Adventures
in the Unknown Interior of America, 1542, translated and annotated by Cyclone Covey
(1963, copyright not renewed), full text [At ibiblio]
"The semi-official report to the king of Spain by the ranking surviving officer of a
royal expedition to conquer Florida which fantastically miscarried."
- Francis Pretty: Sir
Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round The World, 1580
- Hans Mayr: The Voyage and Acts of Dom Francisco, 1505-
[At this Site]
Activities in Africa
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618): The Discovery of
Guiana, 1595 [At this Site]
- Sidi Ali Reis (16th Century CE): Mirat ul Memalik (The
Mirror of Countries), 1557 CE [At this Site]
Europeans were not the only ones to look at other cultures. This is a Turkish Admiral's
account of his travels in the world of India and the Middle East.
- The "Columbian Exchange"
- The Americas
see sections on
- South and South-East Asia
- East Asia
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter from India, to the Society of
Jesus at Rome, 1543 [At this Site]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter on the Missions, to St.
Ignatius de Loyola, 1549 [At this Site]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of
Jesus at Goa, 1551 [At this Site]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of
Jesus in Europe, 1552 [At this Site]
- Documents on the Chinese Rites Controversy, 1692,
1715, 1721, excerpts [At this Site]
How the Catholic Church "lost" China.
- Will Adams: My Coming to Japan, 1611 [At this
Site]
- Hsu Kuang-chi: Memorial to Fra Matteo Ricci, 1617
[At this Site]
- Mendez Pinto: The Woman with the Cross, c. 1630 [At
this Site]
A Chinese Christian woman.
- Père du Halde: Teaching Science to the Manchu Emperor, c.
1680 [At this Site]
- Père du Halde: The Manchu Emperor and Chinese Music, c.
1680 [At this Site]
- Père du Halde: Chinese Punishments, c. 1680 [At
this Site]
- Père Gerbillon: A Visit to a Lama, c. 1690 [At this
Site]
- The Middle East: Ottomans and Safavids - Rivals of European Powers
- Africa
- Eastern Europe Becomes a Peripheral Area
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Mercantile Capitalism
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Reflections on the Trade
and the New Economy
- Thomas Mun (1571-1641): England's Treasure By Forraign
Trade, excerpts, 1664 [At this Site]
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Thomas Mun (1571-1641): England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, pub 1664, extracts, [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive] and
extracts [At Hanover]
- Josiah Child: Brief Observations Concerning Trade and Interest of Money, 1668 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Dudley North :Discourses Upon Trade; Principally Directed to the Cases of the Interest, Coynage, Clipping, Increase of Money 1691 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- John Locke (1632-1704): Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Governor Glen: The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761 [At The
American Revolution Site] [Internet Archive version here]
- Adam Smith (1723-1790): Of Colonies, from The Wealth of Nations, 1776: [At The American Revolution Site] [Internet Archive version here]
- Adam Smith (1723-1790): The Cost of Empire from The Wealth of Nations, 1776: [At The American Revolution Site] [Internet Archive version here]
-
Daniel Defoe (c. 1659-1731): Robinson Crusoe [At
Project Gutenberg][Full text]
The classic colonialist novel.
- Summary of Immanuel Wallerstein's World System Theory [At
this Site][Modern summary]
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NOTES:
The Internet Modern Sourcebook is part of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project. The date of inception was
9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York. The Internet
Medieval Sourcebook, and other medieval components of the project, are located at
the Fordham University Center
for Medieval Studies.The IHSP recognizes the contribution of Fordham University, the
Fordham University History Department, and the Fordham Center for Medieval Studies in
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