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Descripción

2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Colección

Defining documents in world history.

Defining documents in world history.

Bibliografía

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contenido

V. 1. Africa and the African diaspora. Peace of Vereeniging -- Marcus Garvey on "Back to Africa" -- W.E.B. Du Bois: An Open Letter to Warren G. Harding -- Aimé Césaire--from "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land" -- Notes from the Fifth Pan-African Congress -- Asian affairs. Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands -- "Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous" -- Boxer Protocol -- Sun Yat-Sen: "The Three Stages of Revolution" -- The Treaty of Portsmouth -- Japan's 21 Demands and China's Reply -- The Problem of Japan-- A Japanese View -- Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty -- Korean Declaration of Independence -- Mohandas Gandhi: Statement at Trial -- Jawaharlal Nehru's Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence -- Euroamerican and wold affairs. Entente Cordiale -- Anglo-Russian Entente -- Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic -- Report on Armenian Genocide -- Vladimir Lenin-- On the Tasks of the Soviet Government -- U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition in Russia -- Fourteen Points -- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk -- Treaty of Versailles -- Covenant of the League of Nations -- Locarno Pact -- The Kellogg-Briand Pact -- On the Multilateral (Kellogg-Briand) Pact -- John Maynard Keynes: An Open Letter to President Roosevelt -- Anti-Comintern Pact -- Munich Agreement -- Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -- Tripartite Pact -- Bretton Woods Agreements -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- ¡No Pasarán! ("They Shall Not Pass!") --

V. 2. Latin American affairs. Platt Amendment -- Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty -- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine -- Act of Chapultepec -- Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance -- Pact of Bogota -- The "Díaz System: in Mexico -- Plan de San Luis de Potosi -- Plan of Ayala -- Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on Mexico -- U.S.-Mexico Tensions -- The Zimmerman Telegram -- On Intervention in Nicaragua -- The Middle East. Proclamation of the Young Turks -- Hussein-McMahon correspondence -- Sykes-Picot Agreement -- Charter of the Arab League -- Balfour Declaration -- Palestine Mandate -- White Paper of 1939 -- Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel -- Women in the world. Emma Goldman: "Marriage and love" -- Emmeline Pankhurst: "Freedom or death" -- "Women's suffrage in a democratic republic" -- Margaret Sanger: "The prevention of conception" -- Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to The Second Sex -- Technology, medicine, and the environment. The Wright Brothers' first powered flight -- "Lindbergh's Paris trip makes him world hero" -- The first gas attack -- The effects of shell shock -- An Army physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic -- Stuart Chase: waste in the machine age -- Aldo Leopold: "Death of a species" -- Atomic explosion in the USSR -- International control of atomic energy -- Appendixes. Chronological list -- Web resources -- Bibliography -- Index.

Materia

History, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources.

Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Sources.

History, Modern.

Civilization, Modern.

Diplomatic relations.

United States.

Térm cronológ

1900-1999

1600-1815

Género/Forma

History.

Sources.

Otro Autor

Shally-Jensen, Michael,

Otro Título

Twentieth century, 1900-1950

ISBN

9781682179246 (set)

1682179249 (set)

9781682179253 (v. 1)

1682179257 (v. 1)

9781682179260 (v. 2)

1682179265 (v. 2)