New Reference Book: Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents
Lura Sanborn January 12th, 2010
Daily Life through World History in Primary Documents edited by Lawrence Morris, Greenwood Press, 2009.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 909 M832D
Each volume in this three-volume set features worldwide primary source documents from a different time period.
- Volume 1 – The Ancient World
- Volume 2 – The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
- Volume 3 – The Modern World
Examples include:
- An excerpt from the first-century A.D. text Jewish Antiquities: “Jewish Laws on Marriage and Family.”
- A passage from Lankavatara Sutra, a Buddhist religious text estimated to be from the fourth century B.C.: “Do Not Eat Meat.”
- A document written by a third-century Egyptian lentil merchant, requesting tax relief.
- A poem by Chinese poet Po Chu-I (A.D. 772-846): “The Charcoal-Seller.”
- An excerpt from the writings of a millworker, Harriet H. Robinson: Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls.
- An excerpt about fast food from Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: the Dark Side of the All-American Meal.
Helpful for: Humanities III, Humanities IV, Humanities IV Research Paper, Humanities V, Humanities V Research Paper, Topic Finding, Global Studies
