Primary Sources in World History

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Wealth, Power, and Inequality

James Farr Patrick J. Hearden(Author)

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Intro
Introduction
Document 1
King Hammurabi, The Laws of Hammurabi, ca. 1770 BCE
Document 2
Rameses II and Hattusila III, An Egyptian-Hittite Treaty of Alliance, 1259 BCE
Document 3
Anonymous, A Poem Reflecting Peasant Discontent in China, ca. 800 BCE
Document 4
King Ashurbanipal, Assyrian Imperialism, ca. 630 BCE
Document 5
Plutarch, Solon's Reforms in Athens, ca. 574 BCE
Document 6
Sun-tzu, The Art of War, ca. 500 BCE
Document 7
Thucydides, The Athenian-Melian Conference, ca 410 BCE
Document 8
Aristotle, Observations on Politics, ca. 350 BCE
Document 9
Ashoka, An Expression of Remorse, ca. 256 BCE
Document 10
Han Feizi, Legalism and the Way of the State in Qin China, ca. 221 BCE
Document 11
Plutarch, A Plan for the Redistribution of Land in the Roman Empire, ca. 133 BCE
Document 12
Free Market or Government Regulation? The Salt and Iron Debates in Han China (81 BCE)
Document 13
Wang Mang, Edict on Land Reform (9 CE)
Document 14
Strabo, A Description of Alexandria, 1st c. CE
Document 15
A Trader's Handbook: The Periplus Maris Erythraei [Guidebook of the Erythraean Sea], c. 50 CE
Document 16
Pliny and Trajan, Letters, c. 111 CE
Document 17
Suetonius, on Octavian Augustus, 121 CE
Document 18
Life, Trade, and Politics along the Silk Roads: The Kharosthi Inscriptions
Document 19
Roman and Persian Accounts of the Capture of the Roman Emperor Valerian in 260 CE
Document 20
The Theodosian Code (438)
Document 21
Priscus Panites, Huns and Romans (c. 450 CE)
Document 22
The Laws of the Salian Franks (507-511)
Document 23
The Institutes of Justinian (533)
Document 24
Corpus Juris Civilis, Justinian on Slavery (533)
Document 25
The Quran, On the Inheritance of Property (610-632)
Document 26
Chinese Tang Emperor Taizong, On Effective Government (648 CE)
Document 27
Tang Legal Code, selections, 653
Document 28
Charlemagne, Capitularies on the Missi Dominici (802)
Document 29
William I, "the Pious," Foundation Charter of the Monastery at Cluny (910)
Document 30
A Venetian Commenda (1073)
Document 31
Abu Abayd Amr al-Bakri, Book of Highways and of Kingdoms (Eleventh Century)
Document 32
Domesday Book, Excerpts (1086)
Document 33
Feudal Contracts, Excerpts (1127-1380)
Document 34
Behâ ed-Din, A Muslim View of the Crusades (1191)
Document 35
Anonymous, Observations on Hangzhou, 1235
Document 36
Marco Polo on Paper Money and the Chinese Economy, c. 1300
Document 37
Rashid al-Din, Political Influence of Mongol Women, Compendium of Chronicles (Early Fourteenth Century)
Document 38
The Travels of Ibn Battuta (1331)
Document 39
Balduccio Pegolotti, On Overland Trade to China (1310-1340)
Document 40
Parliament of England, An Excerpt from the Statute of Laborers (1351)
Document 41
Ibn Khaldun on Muslim Traders (1377)
Document 42
The Spanish King's Requierimento (1513)
Document 43
Jacob Fugger's Letter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1523)
Document 44
A Spaniard's Account of Aztec Tribute. Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Aztec Tribute (1526)
Document 45
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, On Süleyman the Lawgiver (ca. 1530)
Document 46
Pedro de Cieza de Leon, Chronicles of the Incas (1553 CE)
Document 47
Russian Tsar Ivan IV, Grant to the Stroganovs to Colonize Siberia, 1558
Document 48
A Spaniard's View of the Columbian Exchange (1590)
Document 49
Eskander Bey Monshi, Biography of Shah Abbas I (ca. 1600)
Document 50
Huo Ju-hsia, From a Memorandum on the Portuguese in Macao, Seventeenth Century
Document 51
Muscovite Merchants Complaints to the Russian Tsar Alexis I about English Traders, 1646, and the Tsar's Response in His Decree on English Merchants, 1649
Document 52
Tokugawa Iemitsu, Injunctions to Peasants, 1649
Document 53
John Keymer, On Dutch Trade and Commerce (Early Seventeenth Century)
Document 54
Thomas Mun, England's Treasure by Foreign Trade (1664)
Document 55
English Bill of Rights (1689)
Document 56
On Slavery and the Slave Trade: Letters from the Kings of the Kongo to the King of Portugal (1526)
A European Account of the Slave Trade (Seventeenth Century)
Malachy Postelthwayt, The National and Private Advantages of the African Trade Considered (17
Document 57
Canassatego, Onandaga Chief and Spokesman for the Iroquois Nation, Address to the Europeans, 1742
Document 58
Anonymous, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
Document 59
William Wilberforce, On the Horrors of the Slave Trade, 1789
Document 60
George Washington, Farwell Address, 1796
Document 61
Thomas R. Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798
Document 62
Michael Sadler, A Parliamentary Committee Report on Child Labor in England, 1832
Document 63
Lin Zexu, The Chinese Reaction to British Opium Traders, 1839
Document 64
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A Demand for Equality for Women, 1848
Document 65
Sergei Stepanovich Lanskoi, The Debate over Abolishing Serfdom in Russia, 1859
Document 66
Boston Commercial Bulletin, Indians as Obstacles to the Development of the West, 1867
Document 67
Jules Ferry, Colonialism and the Preservation of Capitalism, 1890
Document 68
Sergei Witte, A Memorandum on the Industrialization of Russia, 1899
Document 69
John A. Hobson, The Economic Taproot of Imperialism, 1902
Document 70
Baron Yeiichi Shibusawa, The Rise of the Japanese Cotton Textile Industry, 1910
Document 71
Emiliano Zapata, The Plan of Ayala, 1911
Document 72
Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Suffrage and the Class Struggle, 1912
Document 73
William G. McAdoo and Robert Lansing, The American Decision to Make Loans to the Allied Powers (1915)
Document 74
Mohandas K. Gandhi, A Condemnation of British Imperialism in India, 1922
Document 75
Adolf Hitler, German War Aims Regarding Poland and Russia, 1939
Document 76
Dean G. Acheson, The American Need for Overseas Markets, 1944
Document 77
Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Vietnamese Independence, 1945
Document 78
Jean Monnet, The European Coal and Steel Community, 1953
Document 79
Mao Zedong, The Collectivization of Agriculture in China, 1955
Document 80
Nelson Mandela, I Am Prepared to Die Speech, 1964
Document 81
Mikhail Gorbachev, The Quest for Nuclear Disarmament, 1986
Document 82
Reform Policies in China, 1987
Document 83
Osama bin Laden, A Declaration of Jihad against the United States, 1996
Document 84
Condoleezza Rice, Asia-Pacific Economic Integration, 2006
Document 85
Nadege Rolland, China's Belt and Road Initiative, 2018
Document 86
Vladimir Putin, On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians, 2021
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