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Milestone Documents in World History
Milestone Documents in World History
Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World
Author(s): Eric Cunningham
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Publisher: Schlager Group Inc
ISBN: 9781961844056
Pages: 2078
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844056

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The new edition of our landmark reference set, now updated for the first in 15 years, deepens the original edition's coverage of major themes in world history with more than 40 new entries across 4 volumes. These include excerpts from ancient classics such as the Analects of Confucius and Rig Veda, sacred texts such as the Koran, Enlightenment sources from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Catherine the Great, and influential documents of the modern era such as Nelson Mandela’s iconic speech “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom” and the Paris Climate Accords. Like all installments in the “Milestone Documents” series, Milestone Documents in World History features in-depth scholarly commentary alongside each primary source, guiding students and researchers through a critical analysis of the source and its importance in world history.
Reform Edict of Urukagina
Urukagina
8 pages
Code of Hammurabi
Hammurabi
17 pages
Epic of Gilgamesh
13 pages
Rig Veda
16 pages
Hittite Laws
16 pages
Divine Birth and Coronation Inscriptions of Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut
9 pages
“Great Hymn to the Aten”
Akhenaten
10 pages
Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty
Ramses, Hattusilis
14 pages
Middle Assyrian Laws
Tiglath-pileser
15 pages
Homer: Iliad
Homer
11 pages
Victory Stela of Piankhi
Piankhi
16 pages
Aristotle: Constitution of Sparta
Aristotle
10 pages
Confucius: Analects
Confucius
24 pages
Mandate of Heaven
9 pages
Twelve Tables of Roman Law
Appius, Titus Genucius, Publius Sestius
15 pages
Funeral Oration of Pericles
Pericles
12 pages
Plato: “Allegory of the Cave”
Plato
12 pages
Aristotle: Metaphysics
Aristotle
7 pages
Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage
Aristotle
9 pages
Aristotle: Athenian Constitution
Aristotle
15 pages
Dao De Jing
Laozi
23 pages
Canon of Filial Piety
13 pages
Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka
Asoka
15 pages
Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron
Huan Kuan
12 pages
Cicero: On the Laws
Cicero
13 pages
Law of Caesar on Municipalities
Caesar
12 pages
Deeds of the Divine Augustus
Augustus
14 pages
Heart Sutra
7 pages
Popol Vuh
11 pages
Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
Galerius, Licinius, Constantine, Lactantius, Eusebius
13 pages
Augustine of Hippo: The City of God
Augustine of Hippo
10 pages
Theodosian Code
Theodosius, Constantine, Valentinian
17 pages
Emerald Tablet
8 pages
Code of Justinian
Justinian
11 pages
Japanese Seventeen-Article Constitution
Prince Shotoku
10 pages
Qur’an (Koran)
Muhammad
15 pages
New Year’s Day Taika Reform Edict
8 pages
Charlemagne: Great Capitulary
Charlemagne
14 pages
Han Yu: “Memorial on the Buddha’s Bones”
Han Yu
10 pages
II Aethelstan; or, the Grately Code
Archbishop Wulfhelm
12 pages
Wang Kon: Ten Injunctions
Wang Kon
9 pages
Justice of the Rus
Yaroslav
19 pages
Muhammad al-Mawardi: “On Qadis”
Muhammad al-Mawardi
9 pages
Kai Kaus on the Purchase of Slaves
Kai Kaus ibn Iskandar
11 pages
Domesday Book
King William
15 pages
Nizam al-Mulk: Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings
Nizam al-Mulk
11 pages
Pope Urban II: Call to Crusade
Pope Urban
14 pages
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: Deliverance from Error (Confessions)
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
6 pages
Constitutions of Clarendon
King Henry
11 pages
Usama ibn Munqidh: “A Muslim View of the Crusaders”
Usama ibn Munqidh
13 pages
Great Yasa of Genghis Khan
Ghengis Khan, al-Makrizi, Mirkhwand, Ibn Battutah, Vardan, Mahakia
13 pages
Magna Carta
Stephen Langton, William Marshal, Robert Fitzwalter
13 pages
Pope Boniface VIII: Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam
Pope Boniface
10 pages
Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou
Marco Polo
13 pages
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa (The Rihla)
Ibn Battuta
9 pages
Abu Zaid ibn Khaldun: “Social Solidarity”
Abu Zaid ibn Khaldun
11 pages
Efforts to Introduce and Encourage the Use of Paper Currency and Metal Coins
7 pages
Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
Christopher Columbus
12 pages
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
15 pages
Requerimiento
Juan López de Palacios Rubios
9 pages
Martin Luther: Ninety-five Theses
Martin Luther
13 pages
Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus
8 pages
Dutch Declaration of Independence
Andries Hessels, Jacques Tayaert, Jacob Valcke, Pieter van Dieven
12 pages
Japanese Laws Governing Military Households
Tokugawa Hidetada, Tokugawa Ieyasu
9 pages
Hayashi Razan: “Principle and Material Force”
Hayashi Razan
8 pages
Japan’s Closed Country Edict
Tokugawa Iemitsu
9 pages
Treaty of Westphalia
Henri II d’Orléans, Johann Adler Salvius, Count Maximilian von Trauttmansdorff
15 pages
Great Muscovite Law Code
Czar Alexis I. Alexis
18 pages
Habeas Corpus Act of the Restoration
Charles Paulet, Anthony Ashley Cooper
12 pages
English Bill of Rights
13 pages
John Locke: Second Treatise on Civil Government
John Locke
13 pages
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
11 pages
Catherine II: The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners
Catherine II (Catherine the Great)
11 pages
British Regulating Act
11 pages
Leeds Woolen Workers Petition
Joseph Hepworth, Thomas Lobley, Robert Wood, Thos. Blackburn
8 pages
Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
Alexander Falconbridge
14 pages
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Marie-Joseph du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
9 pages
Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
Olympe de Gouges
9 pages
Qianlong: Letter to George III
Qianlong
11 pages
Constitution of Haiti
François Toussaint-Louverture, Bernard Borgella
15 pages
Diplomatic Correspondence between Muhammad al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello
Muhammad Bello, Shehu al-Hajj Muhammad al-Amin ibn Muhammad al-Kanami
11 pages
Simón Bolívar: Cartagena Manifesto
Simón Bolívar
13 pages
Kaiho Seiryō: “The Law of the Universe: Commodities Transactions”
Kaiho Seiryō
7 pages
Carlsbad Decrees
Klemens von Metternich
10 pages
Treaty of Córdoba
Agustín de Iturbide, Vicente Guerrero, Juan O’Donojú
9 pages
Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies
William Wilberforce
15 pages
Louis Blanc: The Organization of Labor
Louis Blanc
12 pages
Lin Zexu: “Moral Advice to Queen Victoria”
Lin Zexu
10 pages
Treaty of Nanjing
Henry John Temple
12 pages
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
José Bernardo Couto, Miguel Atristain, Luis G. Cuevas, Nicholas Trist
15 pages
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
16 pages
Queen Victoria: Proclamation concerning India
Edward Stanley, Queen Victoria
9 pages
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
11 pages
Feng Guifen: “On the Adoption of Western Learning”
Feng Guifen
7 pages
Constitution Act of Canada
John Alexander Macdonald
15 pages
Constitution of the Fante Confederacy
Africanus Horton
10 pages
Zongli Yamen: “Circular Letter on the Unequal Treaties”
Zongli Yamen
9 pages
Treaty of Limits between Mexico and Guatemala
Justo Rufino Barrios, Matías Romero
10 pages
Fukuzawa Yukichi: “Good-bye Asia”
Fukuzawa Yukichi
8 pages
Pandita Ramabai: The High-Caste Hindu Woman
Pandita Ramabai
13 pages
Meiji Constitution of Japan
Ito Hirobumi
15 pages
Theodor Herzl: “A Solution to the Jewish Question”
Theodor Herzl
9 pages
Bernhard von Bülow: Germany’s “Place in the Sun”
Bernhard von Bülow
9 pages
Emperor Guangxu: Reform of the Examination System
Guangxu, Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao
9 pages
D’Arcy Concession
William Knox D’Arcy
10 pages
Vladimir Lenin: What Is to Be Done?
Vladimir Lenin
14 pages
Proclamation of the Young Turks
7 pages
Emiliano Zapata: Plan of Ayala
Emiliano Zapata
11 pages
Articles Providing for the Favorable Treatment of the Great Ching Emperor after His Abdication
Yuan Shikai, Wu Tingfang, Zhang Jian
8 pages
Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic
Patrick Pearse
8 pages
Balfour Declaration
Arthur James Balfour, David Lloyd George, Alfred Milner, Leopold Amery
8 pages
Sun Yat-sen: “Three Stages of Revolution”
Sun Yat-sen
8 pages
Korean Declaration of Independence
Choe Nam-seon, Han Yong’un, Son Byonghui, O Sechang
9 pages
Covenant of the League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
17 pages
Treaty of Versailles
Vittorio Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson
15 pages
Resolution of the General Syrian Congress
10 pages
Government of India Act
Edwin Montagu, Lord Chelmsford
15 pages
Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa
Casely Hayford
13 pages
Sun Yat-sen: “The Three Principles of the People”
Sun Yat-sen
12 pages
Treaty of Lausanne
Lord Curzon, Horace Rumbold, Eleuthérios Venizélos, Ismet Pasa
21 pages
Mao Zedong: “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan”
Mao Zedong
13 pages
José Ortega y Gasset: The Revolt of the Masses
José Ortega y Gasset
8 pages
A. B. Xuma: “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa”
A. B. Xuma
18 pages
Benito Mussolini: “The Doctrine of Fascism”
Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Gentile
17 pages
Nuremberg Laws
Hans Globke, Wilhelm Stuckart
24 pages
Meher Baba: Discourses
Meher Baba
14 pages
British White Paper on Palestine
12 pages
Lahore Resolution
Sikander Hayat Khan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah
8 pages
Japan’s Fourteen-part Message
Shigenori Togo, Kichisaburo Nomura, Saburo Kurusu
11 pages
Mahatma Gandhi: “Quit India” Speech
Mahatma Gandhi
15 pages
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
11 pages
Winston Churchill: “Iron Curtain” Speech
Winston Churchill
14 pages
Constitution of Japan
Courtney Whitney, Milo Rowell, Beate Sirota
18 pages
Jawaharlal Nehru: Speeches on the Granting of Indian Independence
Jawaharlal Nehru
9 pages
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
Pinchas Rosen, David Ben-Gurion
10 pages
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
12 pages
Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
38 pages
Constitution of India
17 pages
Juan Perón: “Twenty Fundamental Truths of Justicialism”
Juan Perón
9 pages
Fidel Castro: History Will Absolve Me
Fidel Castro
14 pages
Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front
Ahmed Ben Bella, Hocine Aït Ahmed, Mohamed Khider, Rabah Bitat
10 pages
Freedom Charter of South Africa
Rusty Bernstein, Ben Turok
9 pages
Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal
Gamal Abdel Nasser
10 pages
Patrice Lumumba: Speech at the Proclamation of Congolese Independence
Patrice Lumumba
11 pages
“Mao Tse-tung’s Thought Is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause”
12 pages
Arusha Declaration
Julius Nyerere
17 pages
UN Security Council Resolution 242 on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Hugh M. Foot, George A. Brown, Arthur Goldberg, Eugene Rostow
9 pages
Palestinian National Charter
Ahmad Shukeiri
9 pages
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist
Ayatollah Khomeini
14 pages
Biological Weapons Convention
11 pages
Helsinki Final Act
Henry Kissinger, Andrei Gromyko
17 pages
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: “A World Split Apart”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
13 pages
Wei Jingsheng: “The Fifth Modernization: Democracy”
Wei Jingsheng
10 pages
Constitution of the People’s Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping, Hua Guofeng
18 pages
Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom”
Nelson Mandela
9 pages
Agreement on Reconciliation, Nonaggression, and Cooperation between South and North Korea
Chung Won-shik, Yon Hyong-muk
10 pages
Treaty on European Union
Various
21 pages
Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address
Nelson Mandela
9 pages
Osama bin Laden: Declaration of Jihad against Americans
Osama bin Laden
12 pages
Northern Ireland Peace Agreement
David Trimble, John Hume
17 pages
Constitutive Act of the African Union
Muammar al-Gaddafi
16 pages
Marriage Opening Act
8 pages
Alexander Jung: “Ponzi Planet: The Danger Debt Poses to the Western World”
Alexander Jung
13 pages
Hassan Rouhani: Letter to the UN General Assembly
Hassan Rouhani
11 pages
Paris Climate Accord
19 pages
WHO Statement on Novel Coronavirus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu
10 pages
Abraham Accords
13 pages
Vladimir Putin: Victory Day Speech
Vladimir Putin
9 pages
Description
The new edition of our landmark reference set, now updated for the first in 15 years, deepens the original edition's coverage of major themes in world history with more than 40 new entries across 4 volumes. These include excerpts from ancient classics such as the Analects of Confucius and Rig Veda, sacred texts such as the Koran, Enlightenment sources from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Catherine the Great, and influential documents of the modern era such as Nelson Mandela’s iconic speech “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom” and the Paris Climate Accords. Like all installments in the “Milestone Documents” series, Milestone Documents in World History features in-depth scholarly commentary alongside each primary source, guiding students and researchers through a critical analysis of the source and its importance in world history.
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