![]() Milestone Documents in World History: 2350 BCE-1058 CE 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. ![]() Constitutions, speeches, letters, acts, treaties, and legal cases are all covered. 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. ![]() The book also covers key events that have altered world history since the publication of the first edition, including terrorism, global consumerism, and environmental issues. In addition to including a new preface, focusing on current trends in the field, Stearns has updated forty percent of the textbook, paying particular attention to global processes throughout history. World events have changed as rapidly as the field of world history itself, making the long-awaited second edition of World History in Documents especially timely. At the university level, survey world history courses are increasingly required for history majors, and graduate programs in world history are multiplying in the U.S. Indeed, when the first edition of Peter Stearns’s best-selling World History in Documents was published in 1998, world history was poised for explosive growth, with the College Board approving the AP world history curriculum in 2000, and the exam shortly thereafter. While world history materials date back to prehistoric times, the field itself is relatively young. ![]()
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