Encyclopedia of World History Primary Documents

Marsha E. Ackermann, Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur, Michael J. Schroeder, Mark F. Whitters, Janice J. Terry978-0-8160-6386-4

Table of contents :
Code of Hammurabi……Page 10
Book of the Dead……Page 13
Daodejing……Page 15
Constitution of Ancient Japan……Page 17
Hebrew Bible, Old Testament……Page 18
Sunzi (Sun Tzu): Art of War……Page 19
Plato’s Republic……Page 21
Mencius……Page 22
Selections from the Writings of Han Fei……Page 24
Cicero: On the Republic……Page 25
Aeneid of Virgil……Page 28
Acts……Page 30
Bhagavad Gita……Page 32
Tacitus: The Histories……Page 34
Edict of Milan……Page 35
Confessions of St. Augustine……Page 36
Yoruba Creation Myth……Page 38
The Qur’an……Page 39
Antiochus Strategos: Account of the Sack of Jerusalem……Page 41
Ordinance of Louis the Pious……Page 42
Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji……Page 44
Al Biruni’s Chronology……Page 46
Concordat of Worms……Page 48
The Great Fair at Thessalonica……Page 49
Averroës on Free Will and Predestination……Page 50
Magna Carta……Page 53
Saint Thomas Aquinas: Summa theologica……Page 59
The Travels of Marco Polo……Page 62
Boccaccio Describing the Black Death……Page 64
Excerpts from the Journal of Christopher Columbus……Page 68
The Praise of Folly……Page 69
The Prince……Page 70
Martin Luther: The Ninetyve Theses……Page 74
Aztec Account of Cortés……Page 78
Second Letter of Cortés to Charles V……Page 79
Pedro de Cieza de Léon: Chronicles of the Incas……Page 84
New Laws of the Indies……Page 85
Copernicus: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium……Page 87
Nahuatl History……Page 90
St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan to the Society of Jesus at Goa……Page 91
Sidi Ali Reis: Mirat ul Memalik……Page 94
Will Adams on Japan……Page 98
May ower Compact……Page 100
René Descartes: Discourse on Method……Page 102
British Bill of Rights……Page 104
Act to Settle the Trade to Africa……Page 105
Treaty of Utrecht……Page 106
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract……Page 110
Proclamation of 1763……Page 112
Declaration of Independence……Page 114
Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations……Page 117
Voltaire on John Locke……Page 119
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen……Page 122
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France……Page 123
U.S. Bill of Rights……Page 127
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication on the Rights of Woman……Page 128
Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation……Page 130
Simón de Bolívar: Message to the Congress of Angostura……Page 132
Treaty of Nanking……Page 133
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits……Page 136
Friederich Engels: Industrial Manchester……Page 138
The Communist Manifesto……Page 140
Percy B. St. John: Eyewitness to the French Revolution in 1848……Page 142
Frederick Douglass’s Speech on American Slavery……Page 146
Giuseppe Mazzini: On Nationality……Page 149
One Day under the Paris Commune……Page 151
Charles Darwin: The Descent of Man……Page 155
Andrew Carnegie: fihe Gospel of Wealthf……Page 157
Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum……Page 159
Theodor Herzl: On the Jewish State……Page 160
John Hay: Circular Letter……Page 161
Lenin: fihat Is to Be Done?f……Page 164
The Souls of Black Folk……Page 165
Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles……Page 169
Treaty of Portsmouth……Page 171
Address to the Indian National Congress……Page 173
Theodore Roosevelt: fiNw Nationalismfl Speeh……Page 174
Balfour Declaration……Page 180
Woodrow Wilson: fiourteen PointsflAddress……Page 181
Covenant of the League of Nations……Page 183
Mohandas K. Gandhi: Freedom’s Battle……Page 189
Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf……Page 192
Munich Pact……Page 193
Winston Churchill: fiBlood,Toil, Tears and Sweatf……Page 195
Axis Pact……Page 196
Franklin Roosevelt: fiour Freedomsfl Speeh……Page 197
Winston Churchill: fiIon Curtainfl Speeh……Page 202
Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony at Nuremburg……Page 203
Truman on Truman Doctrine……Page 205
The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights……Page 207
Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung): The Chinese People Have Stood Up……Page 210
Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex……Page 212
The Freedom Charter……Page 214
Let Flowers of Many Kinds Blossom……Page 216
TASS on Eisenhower Doctrine……Page 218
John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address……Page 220
Secretary-General U Thant: The Congo Problem……Page 222
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: fiLetter fom Birmingham Jailf……Page 223
Sayyid Qutb: Milestones (Ma’alim fi al-Tariq)……Page 230
U.S. State Department on Vietnam……Page 231
Black Panther Party Platform and Program……Page 233
President Nasser: Statement to Members of the Egyptian National Assembly……Page 234
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet Communist Party Secretary, on Prague Spring……Page 236
Ronald Reagan: fiear Down This Wallfl Speeh……Page 237
Nelson Mandela: Speech on Release from Prison……Page 240
United Nations Millennium Declaration……Page 242
Master Index……Page 248