VOLUME 1 CONTENTS : -- Nationalism in the ancient and medieval eras : -- Athenian constitution -- Constitution of Carthage -- Constitution of Sparta -- Japanese Seventeen-Article Constitution -- Magna Carta -- Dutch Declaration of Independence -- Japan's Closed Country Edict -- Treaty of Westphalia -- Great Muscovite Law Code ; -- The American and French Revolutions : -- Declaration of Independence -- Constitution of the United States -- Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen -- Reflections on the Revolution in France -- Constitution of Haiti -- Cartagena Manifesto -- Considerations on the principle events of the French Revolution -- Treaty of Cordoba -- Monroe Doctrine ; -- The nineteenth century : -- National petition from the People's Charter -- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -- Constitution Act of Canada (British North America Act of 1867) -- Meiji Constitution of Japan -- "The significance of the frontier in American history" -- "A solution to the Jewish question" -- "The white man's burden" ; -- The First World War : -- Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia and the Serbian reply -- 1916 Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic -- Balfour Declaration -- Covenant of the League of Nations -- Korean Declaration of Independence -- Resolution of the General Syrian Congress -- The Black man's burden -- "The three principles of the people" -- Treaty of Lausanne.

VOLUME 2 CONTENTS : -- Second World War : -- Benito Mussolini: " the Doctrine of Fascism" -- Adolf Hitler: proclamation to the German people -- Lahore Resolution -- Mahtma Ghandi's "Quit India" speech -- Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam -- United Nations Charter ; -- The Cold War : -- Constitution of Japan -- Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel -- Constitution of India -- Fidel Castro: history will absolve me -- Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front -- Freedom Charter of South Africa -- Warsaw Security Pact -- Gamal Abdel Nasser on the nationalization of the Suez Canal -- Malcolm X: "the ballot or the bullet" -- Arusha Declaration -- UN Security Council Resolution 242 on the Arab-Israeli conflict -- Palestinian National Charter ; -- The twentieth and twenty-first centuries : -- Constitution of the People's Republic of China -- Agreement on reconciliation, nonaggression, and exchanges and cooperation between South and North Korea -- Treaty on European Union -- Constitutive Act of the African Union -- Declaration of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the execution of Nicholas Berg -- Address to the United Nations General Assembly -- Announcement of Candidacy to become forty-fifth President of the United States and inaugural address.