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Defining Documents in World History: Revolutions

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


The Dutch Revolt


Dutch Declaration of Independence


The English Revolution


Resolves by the English House of Commons regarding King Charles I and the Authority of the People


Reflection on the Glorious Revolution of 1688


The American Revolution


John Hancock’s Boston Massacre Oration


Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms


Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death


The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men


Common Sense


Declaration of Independence


From the Commissioners for Negotiating a Peace with Great Britain


The French Revolution


Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen


Reflections on the Revolution in France


Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen


Maximilien Robespierre on the Ideals of the French Revolution


The Wider Americas in the Nineteenth Century


Haitian Declaration of Independence


Cartagena Manifesto


Simón Bolívar: Address at Angostura


Treaty of Córdoba


Documents relating to the Canadian Rebellions, 1837-1838


Benito Juárez on La Reforma


Montecristi Manifesto


The European Revolutions of 1848—Before and After


June Rebellion of 1832 as described in Les Misérables (1862)


The Communist Manifesto


Louis Kossuth—Speech at a Dinner Given in His Honor by the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C.


Manifesto of the Paris Commune


King Victor Emmanuel II: Address to Parliament


Japan and Korea


Meiji Charter Oath


Korean Declaration of Independence


The Mexican Revolution


Plan de San Luis de Potosi


Plan of Ayala


Ireland


John Morley on Irish Home Rule


Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic


The Russian Revolution


What Is to Be Done?


Vladimir Lenin on the Tasks of the Soviet Government


Soviets in Action


Volume 2



India


Karl Marx on British Rule in India


Government of India Act


Mohandas Gandhi: Statement at Trial


Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence


China


Sun Yat-sen: “The Three Stages of Revolution”


“The Chinese People Have Stood Up!”


Mao Zedong on Communism and Counterrevolution


Letter from a Chinese “Rusticant”


U.S. Embassy Cables Concerning the Crackdown in Tiananmen Square


Mid-Century Rebels


¡No Pasarán! (“They Shall Not Pass!”)


Mau Mau Warrior Oath


Fidel Castro’s Speech at Twenty-One Nations Conference


Second Declaration of Havana


Vietnam—and Cambodia


Geneva Accords on Indochina


“The Path of Revolution in the South”


CIA Memo on National Liberation Front Methods


Message from Ho Chi Minh


The Paris Peace Accords


Story from the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields


Mid-East Revolts and Revolutions in the Twentieth Century


Proclamation of the Young Turks


Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front


CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran


Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal


Ayatollah Khomeini on “The Great Satan”


Diary Excerpts of an American Hostage in Iran


The Revolt against Communism in Europe


Resolution of Hungarian Student Protestors


The “Two Thousand Words” Manifesto


Charter 77


CIA Cable on the Situation in Poland


Egon Krenz Letter to Mikhail Gorbachev


Gorbachev’s Farewell Address


Other Modern Revolutionary Changes


Corazon Aquino on Achieving Peace through Peaceful Means


Nelson Mandela—Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech


Hugo Chávez Speech in Havana


Ukraine—the Orange Revolution


Inaugural Speech by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko


Remarks by Yulia Tymoshenko after Her Release from Prison


Arab Spring—and ISIS


Tawakkol Karman—Nobel Lecture


Egyptian President-Elect Mohamed Morsi’s Acceptance Speech


Islamic State—Proclamation of the Caliphate


The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet—Nobel Lecture


Recent Revolutionary Disturbances


Resolution Establishing the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol


Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland


Remarks by President Biden One Year after the January 6 Assault on the U.S. Capitol


Global Leaders Condemn Assault on Brazilian Government Buildings


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography