| Description |
190 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 183-185. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prologue by Friedrich Heer -- Introduction by Xaver Schnieper -- The code of Hammurabi, ca. 1700 B.C. -- The Ten Commandments, ca. 1300 -- The laws of Solon, ca. 590 -- Buddha: truth and enlightenment, ca. 500 -- The great wisdom of Confucius, ca. 480 -- Plato's vision of the state, ca. 375 -- The tao of Lao-Tse, ca. 300 -- The sermon on the mount, ca. 25 A.D. -- The epistle to the Romans, 57-58 -- The Koran of Mohammed, ca. 650 -- The Magna Charta [sic], 1215 -- St. Francis: canticle of the sun, 1225-1226 -- Nicholas of Cusa: De Pace Fidei, 1453 -- Martin Luther's protest, 1517 -- Grotius on international order, 1625 -- The Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776 -- The United States Constitution, 1787 -- Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 -- Kant's Peace Manifesto, 1795 -- The Code Napoleon, 1804 -- The Communist Manifesto, 1848 -- Gandhi: the power of non-violence, 1920 -- China's Declaration to All Nations, 1925 -- The Atlantic Charter, 1941 -- Scientists' warning: the Franck Report, 1945 -- The Charter of the United Nations, 1945 -- Hirohito's New Year's message, 1946 -- Voice of the Third World: Frantz Fanon, 1961 -- John XXIII: Pacem in Terris, 1963 -- The Pioneer 10 plaque, 1972 -- Afterword -- Documentary sequence: political and social context. |
| Subject |
Civilization -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Heer, Friedrich, 1916-1983.
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Schnieper, Xaver.
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Schwob, Pierre R.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Great documents of the world. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1977 (OCoLC)557985681 |
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Online version: Great documents of the world. New York : McGraw-Hill, c1977 (OCoLC)607745759 |
| ISBN |
007027780X: $19.95 |
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9780070277809 |
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