Sources for Forging the Modern World

Sources for Forging the Modern World, 2nd Edition, written by James Carter and Richard Warren, is a primary source textbook for modern world history. Published by Oxford University Press with a 2025 copyright, this edition is designed specifically to accompany Forging the Modern World: A History, Second Edition.

The collection features eighty-six primary source documents representing diverse text genres. Included materials encompass political tracts, letters, speeches, memoirs, legal documents, essays, and works of fiction.

To guide student engagement with the texts, each primary source document includes an introductory headnote and accompanying reading questions.