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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
U.S. Leaders Remark on Egyptian Coup: July 3 and 27, 2013
U.S. Leaders Remark on Egyptian Coup: July 3 and 27, 2013
In February 2011, after eighteen days of widespread protests, Egypt's long-time leader, Hosni Mubarak, resigned his position, setting in motion a period of instability in the Arab world's most populous nation. Power was initially handed to the military, and in June 2012, a new leader was democratically elected. From the outset, Mohamed Morsi faced many challenges, perhaps most significant of which was overseeing the process of drafting and approving a new constitution, which he did successfully by early 2013. Citizens across the nation, unhappy with the resulting governing law, continued to protest the new president, claiming that he intended to enforce Islamic Sharia law ...
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