Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of world history, told through 50 key documents.
Table of ContentsCode of Hammurabi • Tutankhamun wishing cup • I Ching • Mahabharata • Homer's Odyssey • Greek ostraka • Rosetta Stone • Dead Sea Scrolls • Res Gestae • Koran • Book of Kells • Magna Carta • Da Vinci notebooks • Treaty of Tordesillas • Codex Mendoza • Copernicus, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres • Shakespeare First Folio • Treaty of Westphalia • Declaration of Independence • Tennis Court Oath • Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women • Beethoven's Fifth Symphony • Key, 'O Say Can You See' • Napoleon 1 March 1815 proclamation • Brunel letter on propulsion • Communist Manifesto • Soccer Rules • Darwin, On the Origin of Species • Gettysburg Address • British North America Act • Congress of Berlin • New Zealand Suffrage Petition • Wright brothers telegram • Tubb Gallipoli diary • Einstein, General Relativity paper • Wilson, Fourteen Points • Coco Chanel sketch • Anne Frank diary • Einstein, Manhattan Project latter • D-Day map • Churchill-Stalin 'percentages' paper • UN Charter • 'A Structure for DNA' • Treaty of Rome • Beatles itinerary • Mandela courtroom speech • Tickets to Woodstock 1969 • Apollo 11 report • Tim Berners-Lee Web memo • Map of the universe.
