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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Edward Jenner (1749 1823)
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of the Fordham University provides a highly detailed biography of Edward Jenner (1749-1823 CE), noted physician and discoverer of the smallpox vaccine. Also presented are three original...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Peterloo Massacre, 1819
Text from Selections of Sources of English History, printed in 1920, about the Peterloo Massacre.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Charles Fourier
Read an excerpt from Fourier's 1820 book, "Theory of Social Organization," which explains his theory of communal work distribution that influenced a number of social experiments, including the Israeli kibbutzim.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Metternich's Political Confession of Faith
Fordham University offers text showing in his own words, Metternich's conservative political theories, including maintaining the monarchy, status quo, divine right, and more.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Philosophy of the Manufacturers 1835
A representation of the views of the factory owners who had become wealthy in mid 19th century England.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Louis Blanc
An excerpt from the work of Louis Blanc on socialism.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Industrial Manchester 1844
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides an exerpt from "The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844". Personal account of what life was like for textile mill workers in Manchester.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: On Colonies and Colonization
British economic philosopher John Stuart Mill's article from the Fordham University dealing with the economical benefits of colonization in other countries. This writing illustrates not only arguments in favor of imperialism, but also...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Giuseppe Mazzini
The Modern History Sourcebook provides the text by Giuseppe Mazzini on Nationality in 1852.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Letter to Sir George Grey
This site from the Fordham University provides a letter to the man that consented to act as arbitrator between the Boers and an African tribe, the Basutos, from the tribe's chief. It concerns hostilities, the background of such...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Michael Faraday (1791 1867)
Contains brief biographical information on Michael Faraday, as well as the text of the following lectures delivered by Faraday: The Force of Gravitation, Gravitation-Cohesion, Cohesion-Chemical Affinity, Chemical Affinity-Heat,...
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Memoirs of the Ausgleich, 1867
Count von Beust's written memoirs of the Ausgleich, the focus of which is his fears. Modern History Sourcebook site by Fordham University.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: War Correspondent in the Franco Prussian War
A article written by a British journalist about his experiences during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, including barely escaping execution as a Prussian spy.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: How I Found Livingstone, 1871
This site from the Fordham University provides a primary account of Sir Henry Morton Stanley's first meeting with Dr. Livingstone.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: King Emmanuel's Address to the Parliment
The speech given by King Victor Emmanuel after the unification of Italy.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Louis Pasteur
This page presents the text of Louis Pasteur's "Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery" (1878). It provides information about the origin of the germ theory of disease.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Gospel of Wealth
This site, which is provided for by the Modern History Sourcebook of the Fordham University provides excerpts from an 1899 article written by Andrew Carnegie to outline his philosophy and responsibilities as a wealthy man.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Frederick Jackson Turner
This site from the Fordham University contains the introductory text of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893" by Frederick Jackson Turner.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Fei Ch'i Hao
Fordham's Modern History Sourcebook offers a Chinese Christian's account of the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: When the Allies Entered Peking
This site from the Fordham University provides one Frenchman's account of the allied intervention in the Boxer Rebellion, especially the Allied battle for and entry into Peking.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Yao Chen Yuan
This site, which is provided for by the Fordham University, gives a Chinese Christian's account of his journey to deliver letters during the time of the Boxer rebellion.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: John Hobson Imperialism 1902
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of Fordham University provides John A. Hobson's critique of Imperialism, from an economic point of view.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Thorstein Veblen
This Fordham University site offers sociologist Thorstein Veblen's views on conspicuous consumption, taken from his work, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study on Economic Institutions.
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Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: The Balfour Declaration 1917
Fardham University gives the text of the Balfour Declaration, which later was adopted and included in a UN Resolution.