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