Milestone Documents in World History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Editorial and Production Staff......Page 10
Publisher’s Note......Page 11
Advisers and Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Reader’s Guide......Page 16
Introduction......Page 17
Teachers’ Activity Guides......Page 20
2350 BCE–1058 CE......Page 38
Reform Edict of Urukagina......Page 40
Code of Hammurabi......Page 52
Hittite Laws......Page 70
Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut......Page 86
Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty......Page 98
Middle Assyrian Laws......Page 112
Victory Stela of Piankhi......Page 128
“Mandate of Heaven: The Numerous Officers”......Page 146
Twelve Tables of Roman Law......Page 158
Funeral Oration of Pericles......Page 176
Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”......Page 190
Constitution of Sparta......Page 204
Constitution of Carthage......Page 218
Athenian Constitution......Page 228
Canon of Filial Piety......Page 246
Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka......Page 262
Discourses on Salt and Iron......Page 280
Law of Caesar on Municipalities......Page 292
Deeds of the Divine Augustus......Page 304
Popol Vuh......Page 320
Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire......Page 332
Theodosian Code......Page 348
Code of Justinian......Page 366
Prince Shotoku’s Seventeen-Article Constitution......Page 378
New Year’s Day Taika Reform Edict......Page 390
Capitulary of Charlemagne......Page 400
Han Yu’s “Memorial on the Buddha’s Bones”......Page 416
II Aethelstan, or the Grately Code......Page 428
Wang Kon’s Ten Injunctions......Page 442
Russkaia Pravda, or Justice of the Rus......Page 454
Al-Mawardı’s “On Qadıs”......Page 474
1082–1833......Page 484
Kai Kaus on the Purchase of Slaves......Page 488
Domesday Book......Page 502
Nizam Al-Mulk’s Book Of Government; Or,Rules For Kings......Page 520
Urban II’s Call to Crusade......Page 534
Constitutions of Clarendon......Page 552
Usama ibn Munqidh’s “A Muslim View of the Crusaders”......Page 566
Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan......Page 582
Magna Carta......Page 598
Boniface VIII’s Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam......Page 612
Marco Polo’s Description of Hangzhou......Page 624
Ibn Khaldun’s “Social Solidarity”......Page 640
Christopher Columbus’s Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America......Page 654
Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince......Page 668
Requerimiento......Page 686
Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses......Page 698
Dutch Declaration of Independence......Page 712
Laws Governing Military Households......Page 726
Japan’s Closed Country Edict......Page 738
Treaty of Westphalia......Page 750
Ulozhenie, or Great Muscovite Law Code......Page 768
Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration......Page 788
English Bill of Rights......Page 802
John Locke’s Second Treatise On Civil Government......Page 816
British Regulating Act......Page 832
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen......Page 846
Qianlong’s Letter to George III......Page 862
Constitution of Haiti......Page 876
Diplomatic Correspondence between Muhammad al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello......Page 892
Simón Bolívar’s Cartagena Manifesto......Page 906
Carlsbad Decrees......Page 922
Treaty of Córdoba......Page 936
Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies......Page 950
1839–1941......Page 968
Lin Zexu’s “Moral Advice to Queen Victoria”......Page 970
Treaty of Nanjing......Page 984
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo......Page 998
Communist Manifesto......Page 1016
Queen Victoria’s Proclamation concerning India......Page 1034
Constitution Act of Canada......Page 1044
Constitution of the Fante Confederacy......Page 1062
Treaty of Limits between Mexico and Guatemala......Page 1072
Meiji Constitution of Japan......Page 1084
Theodor Herzl’s “A Solution to the Jewish Question”......Page 1100
Bernhard von Bülow on Germany’s “Place in the Sun”......Page 1112
Emperor Guangxu’s Abolition of the Examination System......Page 1122
D’Arcy Concession......Page 1134
Vladimir Lenin’s What Is To Be Done?......Page 1148
Emiliano Zapata’s Plan of Ayala......Page 1164
Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication......Page 1178
Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic......Page 1188
Balfour Declaration......Page 1200
Korean Declaration of Independence......Page 1212
Covenant of the League of Nations......Page 1224
Treaty of Versailles......Page 1242
Resolution of the General Syrian Congress......Page 1258
Government of India Act......Page 1270
Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa......Page 1286
Sun Yat-sen’s “The Three Principles of the People”......Page 1302
Treaty of Lausanne......Page 1316
Mao Zedong’s “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan”......Page 1338
A. B. Xuma’s “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa”......Page 1354
Benito Mussolini’s “The Doctrine of Fascism”......Page 1374
Adolf Hitler’s Proclamation to the German People......Page 1394
Nuremberg Laws......Page 1406
Lahore Resolution......Page 1418
Japan’s Fourteen-part Message......Page 1428
1942–2000......Page 1442
Mahatma Gandhi’s Speech to the All India Congress Committee......Page 1444
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam......Page 1462
Winston Churchill’s “The Sinews of Peace”......Page 1474
Japanese Constitution......Page 1490
Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speeches on the Granting of Indian Independence......Page 1508
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel......Page 1520
Universal Declaration of Human Rights......Page 1532
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War......Page 1544
Constitution of India......Page 1582
Juan Perón’s “Twenty Fundamental Truths of Justicialism”......Page 1600
Fidel Castro’s History Will Absolve Me......Page 1610
Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front......Page 1626
Freedom Charter of South Africa......Page 1638
Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal......Page 1650
Patrice Lumumba’s Speech at the Proclamation of Congolese Independence......Page 1662
“Mao Tse-tung’s Thought Is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause”......Page 1674
Arusha Declaration......Page 1688
UN Security Council Resolution 242......Page 1706
Palestinian National Charter......Page 1718
Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist......Page 1730
Biological Weapons Convention......Page 1746
Helsinki Final Act......Page 1760
Constitution of the People’s Republic of China......Page 1780
Agreement on Reconciliation between South and North Korea......Page 1800
Treaty on European Union......Page 1812
Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural Address......Page 1834
Osama bin Laden’s Declaration of Jihad against Americans......Page 1846
Northern Ireland Peace Agreement......Page 1858
Constitutive Act of the African Union......Page 1876
List of Documents by Category......Page 1892
List of Documents by Region......Page 1895
Subject Index......Page 1898