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100 Documents That Changed the World Scott Christianson

100 Documents That Changed the World By Scott Christianson

100 Documents That Changed the World by Scott Christianson


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A compilation of the most important written agreements, declarations and statements in history. From Shakespeare's First Folio (1623) to the Declaration of Independence (1776), Scott Christianson presents the hand-written documents, political treatises and annotated manuscripts that shaped the course of history.

100 Documents That Changed the World Summary

100 Documents That Changed the World: From Magna Carta to WikiLeaks by Scott Christianson

100 Documents That Changed the World brings together the most important written agreements, declarations and statements in history. The documents included here have changed the course of history by rewriting laws, granting freedoms and laying out constitutions. But as well as official charters and presidential proclamations, there are also the hand-written documents that have gone on to shape the way we think, the scrawled notes that mark breakthroughs in the worlds of science and technology, and the annotated manuscripts that have become literary landmarks.

Documents included: Magna Carta (1215); Shakespeare's First Folio (1623); Declaration of independence (1776); Constitution of the United States (1787); Louisiana Purchase (1803); Darwin's Evolutionary Tree (1837); Gettysburg Address (1863); Treaty of Versailles (1919); German Surrender (1945); Martin Luther King, Jr's I Have A Dream speech (1963); First Website (1991); Edward Snowden Files (2013).

About Scott Christianson

SCOTT CHRISTIANSON, Ph.D. is a prize-winning author. His books include 100 Diagrams That Changed the World, With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America; Condemned: Inside the Sing Sing Death House; Notorious Prisons: Inside the World's Most Feared Institutions; Bodies of Evidence: Forensics and Crime; Freeing Charles: The Epic Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, Village Voice, and Newsday.

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GOR007536586
9781849943000
1849943001
100 Documents That Changed the World: From Magna Carta to WikiLeaks by Scott Christianson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Batsford Ltd
20151112
224
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