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[First edition]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 356 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Defining documents in world history.
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Defining documents in world history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-345) and index. |
| Contents |
China. Excerpt from The Art of War, Chapter 1 ; The Doctrine of the Mean, Section 2 ; Excerpts from the Dao De Jing ; "Lessons for Women" ; Report from China ; The Hongwu Emperor's Edict ; Chinese Emperor's Rejection of British Trade Request ; Treaty of Nanking ; An Account of U.S.-China Trade Negotiations, 1844 ; Economic Program of the Taiping Rebels ; China's Hundred Days' Reform ; Boxer Protocol ; Sun Yat-sen: "The Three Stages of Revolution" ; Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty ; Mao Zedong on the "Correct Handling of Contradictions among the People" ; Constitution of Tibet ; Documents Relating to Normalization of Relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China ; Letter from a Chinese "Rusticant" ; U.S. Embassy Cables Concerning the Crackdown in Tiananmen Square -- Japan and Korea. From The Tale of Genji ; From The Tale of the Heike ; Convention of Kanagawa ; Meiji Charter Oath ; Open Door Note ; The Treaty of Portsmouth ; Japan's 21 Demands and China's Reply ; Korean Declaration of Independence ; The Problem of Japan--A Japanese View ; Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty ; United States-Japan Security Treaty ; Fourteen-Part Message from Japan to the United States and Secretary Hull's Response ; Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea ; Kim Il Sung--"On Eliminating Dogmatism and Formalism and Establishing Juche in Ideological Work" -- India. The Edicts of King Ashoka ; The Duties of a King, from the Arthashastra ; The Laws of Manu, Chapter 1 ; Excerpt from the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1 ; An Account of India and the Great Moghul ; India Regulating Act ; Karl Marx on British Rule in India ; Mohandas Gandhi: Statement at Trial ; Jawaharlal Nehru--Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence ; Indira Gandhi: "What Educated Women Can Do" -- Southeast Asia. Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands ; "Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous" ; President Sukarno's Address at the Bandung Conference ; Geneva Accords on Indochina ; "The Path of Revolution in the South" ; President Ngô Đình Diệm: Address to U.S. Congress ; Message from Ho Chi Minh ; Conversation between Presidents Nixon and Thiêu ; Story from the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields. |
| Summary |
This volume features fifty-two documents that span the history, politics, ethics, wars, and struggles for independence from China to Korea to Cambodia. Each document is supported by a critical essay written by historians and teachers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Asia -- History -- Sources.
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Asia. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Author |
Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Asia. [First edition]. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; [Amenia, New York] : Grey House Publishing, [2018] 9781682179277 (OCoLC)1031849679 |
| ISBN |
9781682179666 (electronic book) |
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1682179664 (electronic book) |
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9781682179277 |
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1682179273 |
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