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" Milestone documents in world history : "
Brian Bonhomme, editor in chief ; Cathleen Boivin, consulting editor.
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Milestone documents in world history : : exploring the primary sources that shaped the world /\ Brian Bonhomme, editor in chief ; Cathleen Boivin, consulting editor.
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Dallas, Tex. :: Schlager Group,, ©2010.
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Milestone documents
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4 volumes (xxxv, 1872 pages) :: illustrations ;; 29 cm.
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0979775868
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: 1935306065
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: 9781935306061
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1935306103
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9781935306108
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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V. 1. 2350 BCE-1058 CE -- v. 2. 1082-1833 -- v. 3. 1839-1941 -- v. 4. 1942-2000.
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v. 1. 2350 BCE-1058 CE : Reform edict of Urukagina ; Code of Hammurabi ; Hittite laws ; Divine birth and coronation inscriptions of Hatshepsut ; Egyptian-Hittite peace treaty ; Middle Assyrian laws ; Victory stela of Piankhi ; "Mandate of heaven: the numerous officers" ; Twelve tables of Roman law ; Funeral oration of Pericles ; Plato's "Allegory of the cave" ; Constitution of Sparta ; Constitution of Carthage ; Athenian constitution ; Canon of filial piety ; Rock and pillar edicts of Asoka ; Discourses on salt and iron ; Law of Caesar on municipalities ; Deeds of the divine Augustus ; Popul Vuh ; Laws ending persecution of Christians in the Roman empire ; Theodosian Code ; Code of Justinian ; Prince Shotoku's seventeen-article constitution ; New Year's Day Taika reform edict ; Capitulary of Charlemagne ; Han Yu's "Memorial on the Buddha's bones" ; II Aethelstan, or the Grately Code ; Wang Kon's ten injunctions ; Russkaia Pravda, or Justice of the Rus ; Al-Mawardi's "On Qadis" --
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v. 2. 1082-1833 : Kai Kaus on the purchase of slaves ; Domesday Book ; Nizam al-Mulk's Book of government; or, Rules for kings ; Urban II's Call to crusade ; Constitution of Clarendon ; Usama ibn Munqidh's "A Muslim view of the crusaders" ; Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan ; Magna Carta ; Boniface VIII's Clericos laicos and unam sanctam ; Marco Polo's description of Hangzhou ; Ibn Khaldun's "Social solidarity" ; Christopher Columbus's letter to Raphael Sanxis on the discovery of America ; Niccolo Machiavelli's The prince ; Requerimiento ; Martin Luther's Ninety-five theses ; Dutch declaration of independence ; Laws governing military households ; Japan's closed country edict ; Treaty of Westphalia ; Ulozhenie, or Great Muscovite Law Code ; Habeas corpus act of the Restoration ; English Bill of Rights ; John Locke's Second treatise on civil government ; British Regulating Act ; Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen and delaration of the rights of women and of the female citizen ; Qianlong's letter to George III ; Constitution of Haiti ; Diplomatic correspondence between Muhammad al-Kanami and Muhammad Bello ; Simon Bilivar's Cartagena Manifesto ; Carlsbad decrees ; Treaty of Cordoba ; Act for the aboltion of slavery throughout the British colonies --
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v. 3. 1839-1941 : Lin Zexu's "Moral advice to Queen Victoria " ; Treaty of Nanjing ; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; Communist Manifesto ; Queen Victoria's proclamation concerning India ; Constitution Act of Canada ; Constitution of the Fante Confederacy ; Treaty of limits between Mexico and Guatamala ; Meiji Constitution of Japan ; Theodor Herzl's "A solution to the Jewish question" ; Bernhard von Bulow on Germany's "Place in the sun" ; Emperor Guangxu's abolition of the examination system ; D'Arcy concession ; Vladimir Lenin's What is to be done? ; Emiliano Zapata's plan of Ayala ; Articles providing for the favorable treatment of the great Ching emperor after his abdication ; Proclamatoon of the provisional government of the Irish Republic ; Balfour Declaration ; Korean declaration of independence ; Covenant of the League of Nations ; Treaty of Versailles ; Resolution of the General Syrian Congress ; Government of India Act ; Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa ; Sun Yat-Sen's "The three principles of the people" ; Treaty of Lausanne ; Mao Zedong's "Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan" ; A. B. Xuma's "Bridging the gap between white and black in South Africa" ; Benito Mussolini's "The docrine of fascism" ; Adolf Hitler's proclamation to the German people ; Nuremberg Laws ; Lahore resolution ; Japan's fourteen-part message --
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v. 4. 1942-2000 : Mahatma Gandhi's speech to the All-india Congress Committee ; Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ; Winston Churchill's "The sinews of peace" ; Japanese Constitution ; Jawaharlal Nehru's speexches on the granting of Indian independence ; Declaration of the establishment of the state of Israel ; Universal Declaration of Human Rights ; Geneva convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war ; Constitution of India ; Juan Perón's "Twenty fundamental truths of justicialism" ; Fidel Castro's History will absolve me ; Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front ; Freedom Charter of South Africa ; Gamal Abdel Nasser on the nationalization of the Suex Canal ; Patrice Lumumba's speech at the proclamation of Congolese independence ; "Mao Tse-Tung's thought is the telescope and microscope of our revolutionary cause " ; Arusha Declaration ; UN Security Council Resolution 242 ; Palestinian National Charter ; Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic government: governance of the jurist ; Biological Weapons Convention ; Helsinki Final Act ; Constitution of the People's Republic of China ; Agreement on reconciliation between South and North Korea ; Treaty on European Union ; Nelson Mandela's inaugural address ; Osama bin Laden's declaration of jihad against Americans ; Northern Ireland Peace Agreement ; Constitutive Act of the African union ; List of documents by category ; List of documents by region.
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| Abstract
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Key documents from all important world cultures are included, from the ancient Near East and ancient Egypt to the Greek and Roman Empires, medieval Islam, Renaissance Europe, and modern Africa and Asia. Constitutions, speeches, letters, acts, treaties, and legal cases are all covered. Among the documents included in the set are iconic legal and constitutional documents such as the Code of Hammurabi, Magna Carta, Meiji Constitution, and the Constitutive Act of the African Union; famous treatises such as the Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," the Communist Manifesto, and Osama bin Laden's Declaration of Jihad against America; important legislative acts from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo to the Treaty of Nanjing to the Treaty of Versailles; and cultural and political declarations such as Martin Luther's 95 Theses, Gandhi's "Quit India" Speech, and Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Address.--From publisher description.
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World history, Sources.
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World history, Sources.
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World history.
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| Dewey Classification
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903
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D5.M54 2010
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Boivin, Cathleen.
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Bonhomme, Brian,1962-
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