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Marvin Perry, now retired, taught history at Baruch College, City University of New York. He has published several successful Cengage Learning texts, including WESTERN CIVILIZATION: IDEAS, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY (senior author and general editor); WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A BRIEF HISTORY; the leading Western Civilization reader, SOURCES OF THE WESTERN TRADITION; AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE; SOURCES OF EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1900 (senior editor); HUMANITIES IN THE WESTERN TRADITION (senior author and general editor); and WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE: A CONCISE HISTORY. His scholarly work includes ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE WESTERN TRADITION (1996); ANTISEMITISM: MYTH AND HATE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT (coauthor, 2002); ANTISEMITIC MYTHS: A HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008); and THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM: AN ANTHOLOGY (coeditor, 2008). Dr. Perry's scholarly work focuses on the history of ideas. I. Early Modern Europe 1. The Rise of Modernity 1. The Humanists' Fascination with Antiquity Petrarch: The Father of Humanism Leonardo Bruni: Study of Greek Literature and a Humanist Educational Program 2. Break with Medieval Political Theory Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince 3. The Lutheran Reformation Martin Luther: On Papal Power, Justification by Faith, the Interpretation of the Bible, and the Nature of the Clergy 4. Justification of Absolute Monarchy Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan 5. The Triumph of Constitutional Monarchy in England: The Glorious Revolution The English Declaration of Rights 2. Intellectual Revolutions 1. Expanding the New Astronomy Galileo Galilei: The Starry Messenger Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina and Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems--Ptolemaic and Copernican 2. The Autonomy of the Mind Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method 3. The Mechanical Universe Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica 4. Political Liberty John Locke: Second Treatise on Government Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence 5. Attack on Religion Voltaire: A Plea for Tolerance and Reason Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason 6. Compendium of Knowledge Denis Diderot: Encyclopedia 7. Humanitarianism Caesare Beccaria: On Crime and Punishments Denis Diderot: Encyclopedia: "Men and Their Liberty Are Not Objects of Commerce..." 8. Literature as Satire: Critiques of European Society Voltaire: Candide Denis Diderot: Supplement to the Voyage of Bouganville II. Modern Europe 3. Era of the French Revolution 1. Abuses of the Old Regime Grievances of the Third Estate Emmanuel Sieyes: Bourgeois Disdain for Special Privileges of the Aristocracy 2. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens 3. Expansion of Human Rights Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Woman Society of the Friends of Blacks: Address to the National Assembly in Favor of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Petition of the Jews of Paris, Alsace, and Lorraine to the National Assembly, January 28, 1790 4. The Jacobin Regime Maximilien Robespierre: Republic of Virtue General Louis de Lignieres Turreau: Uprising in the Vendee 5. Napoleon: Destroyer and Preserver of the Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte: Leader, General, Tyrant, Reformer 4. The Industrial Revolution 1. Early Industrialization Edward Baines: Britain's Industrial Advantages and the Factory System 2. The New Science of Political Economy Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations Thomas R. Malthus: On the Principle of Population 3. The Capitalist Ethic...
