Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

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Author

Morris, Charles, 1833-1922

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E-text prepared by KD Weeks, David Garcia, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

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English

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D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

Nineteenth century -- History

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45733

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45733

Release Date

May 23, 2014

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Famous Men And Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
2. 2.LIST OF CHAPTERS AND SUBJECTS
3. 3.LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PORTRAITS
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. The Threshold of the Century.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. Napoleon Bonaparte; The Man of Destiny.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. Europe in the Grasp of the Iron Hand.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. The Decline and Fall of Napoleon’s Empire.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. Nelson and Wellington, the Champions of England.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. From the Napoleonic Wars to the Revolution of 1830.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. Bolivar, the Liberator of Spanish America.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. Great Britain as a World Empire.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. The Great Reform Bill and the Corn Laws.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. Turkey, the “Sick Man” of Europe.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. The European Revolution of 1848.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. Louis Napoleon and the Second French Empire.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. Garibaldi and the Unification of Italy.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. Bismarck and the New Empire of Germany.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. Gladstone, the Apostle of Liberalism in England.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. Ireland the Downtrodden.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. England and Her Indian Empire.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. Thiers, Gambetta, and the Rise of the French Republic.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. Paul Kruger and the Struggle for Dominion in South Africa.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. The Rise of Japan and the Decline of China.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. The Era of Colonies.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. How the United States Entered the Century.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. Expansion of the United States from Dwarf to Giant.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. The Development of Democratic Institutions in America.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV America’s Answer to the British Claim of the Right of Search.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. The United States Sustains Its Dignity Abroad.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. Webster and Clay and the Preservation of the Union.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. The Annexation of Texas and the War with Mexico.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. The Negro in America and the Slavery Conflict.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. Abraham Lincoln and the Work of Emancipation.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. Grant and Lee and the Civil War.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. The Indian in the Nineteenth Century.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. The Development of the American Navy.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV. America’s Conflict With Spain.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV. The Dominion of Canada.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI. Livingstone, Stanley, Peary, Nansen and Other Great Discoverers and Explorers.
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII. Robert Fulton, George Stephenson, and the Triumphs of Invention.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Evolution in Industry and the Revolt Against Capital.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX. Charles Darwin and the Development of Science.
45. 45.CHAPTER XL. Literature and Art in the Nineteenth Century.
46. 46.CHAPTER XLI. The American Church and the Spirit of Human Brotherhood.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLII. The Dawn of the Twentieth Century.
48. 48.Footnotes
49. 49.Transcriber’s Note

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