  LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PORTRAITS 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. Title: Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century Author: Charles Morris Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by |
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The above symbolic picture, after the master painting of Paul Sinibaldi, explains the secret of the wonderful progress of the past 100 years. The genius of Industry stands in the centre. To her right sits Chemistry; to the left the geniuses of Electricity with the battery, the telephone, the electric light; there also are the geniuses of Navigation with the propeller, and of Literature and Art, all bringing their products to Industry who passes them through the hands of Labor in the foreground to be fashioned for the use of mankind.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS
Famous Men And Great Events
of the Nineteenth Century
Embracing Descriptions of the Decisive Battles of the Century and the Great Soldiers Who Fought Them; the Rise and Fall of Nations; the Changes in the Map of the World, and the Causes Which Contributed to Political and Social Revolutions; Discoverers and Discoveries; Explorers of the Tropics and Arctics; Inventors and Their Inventions; the Growth of Literature, Science and Art; the Progress of Religion, Morals and Benevolence in All Civilized Nations.
By CHARLES MORRIS, LL. D.
Author of “The Aryan Race,” “Civilization, Its History, Etc.,” “The Greater Republic,” Etc.
Embellished With Nearly 100 Full-Page Half-Tone Engravings, Illustrating the Greatest Events of the Century, and 100 Portraits of the Most Famous Men in the World.
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1899, by
W. E. SCULL,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
