Humanities Core Course Spring Reader Author:Michael Clark, Jacobo Sefami, Steven Topik Contents: Chapter 1. Untitled poem. Aztec account of the origin of the New World -- — Chapter 2. The founding of Tenochtitlan, Selection from Codex Mendoza / Thevet -- — Chapter 3. The founding of Tenochtitlan, Explanation, Selection from Codex Mendoza -- — Chapter 4. Untitled poem about Huitzilopochtli's birth, Selection from Florentine... more » Codex --
Chapter 5. The voyage of Christopher Columbus --
Chapter 6. Mundus Novus letter / Amerigo Vespucci --
Chapter 7. Letter on the islands newly discovered in his four voyages / Amerigo Vespucci --
Chapter 8. Selection from Cosmographiae introductio / Martin WaldseemuÌller --
Chapter 9. Selection from The enterprise of Columbus, the case "Columbus," a new world, & Columbus Day / Hans Konig --
Chapter 10. Selection from Christopher Columbus, mariner / Samuel Eliot Morison --
Chapter 11. Selections from Aztec account of the conquest of New Spain / Bernardino de SahaguÌn --
Chapter 12. Epic description of the besieged city, Aztec account of the conquest of New Spain --
Chapter 13. The poet's answer to the most illustrious Sor Filotea de la Cruz / Sor Juana IneÌs de la Cruz --
Chapter 14. As rich as PotosiÌ / Steven Topik --
Chapter 15. Selection from the Incas: the royal commentaries of the Inca / Garcilaso de la Vega --
Chapter 16. Requerimiento --
Chapter 17. Just war against barbarians [ca. 1544] / Juan GineÌs de SepuÌlveda --
Chapter 18. Cruelties of Spaniards [1542] / BartolomeÌ de Las Casas --
Chapter 19. Selection from 1552 treatise / BartolomeÌ de Las Casas --
Chapter 20. On the cannibals / Michael de Montaigne --
Chapter 21. God's promise to his plantations (1630) / John Cotton --
Chapter 22. Christian charitie / John Winthrop --
Chapter 23. Selections from Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 / William Bradford --
Chapter 24. Selections from New English Canaan / Thomas Merton --
Chapter 25. Selections from Alta California, 1840-1842 / William Dan Phelps --
Chapter 26. Selection from Life in California / Alfred Robinson --
Chapter 27. Selections from Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana --
Chapter 28. The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte --
Chapter 29. The Shirley letters from the California mines / Louise Clapp.« less