Events That Changed the World in the Nineteenth Century

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The revolutions around the globe in the 19th century have had enormous impact on the course of history. To help students better understand the major developments in the tumultuous 19th century and their impact on the 20th century, this resource offers detailed description and expert analysis of the 19th century's most important events: the Napoleonic Era, the Congress of Vienna and the Age of Metternich, the Latin American Wars of Independence, the Reform Bill of 1832, the Revolutions of 1848, the emancipation of the Russian serfs, the Meiji Restoration, the Unification of Germany, Marxism and the rise of Socialism, and Imperialism. Each of the ten events is dealt with in a separate chapter. Designed for students, the format features an interpretive essay that places the event in a broader context and promotes student analysis. The introductory essay provides factual material about the event in a clear, concise, chronological manner that makes complex history understandable. The interpretive essay explores the short-term and far-reaching ramifications of the event. An annotated bibliography identifies the most important and recent scholarship about each event. A full page photograph of each event accompanies the narrative.

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At present this series offers two titles: the first presented 20th century events. Both are excellent and thorough choices for world history or social studies classes....Highly recommended.-The Book Report
Brief information on these events can be found in any encyclopedia, but these readable overviews put the events in context. Librarians should keep this series in mind for the student who needs more information about a world event than an encyclopedia can provide but who doesn't want to read an entire book on the subject.-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
"At present this series offers two titles: the first presented 20th century events. Both are excellent and thorough choices for world history or social studies classes....Highly recommended."-The Book Report
"Brief information on these events can be found in any encyclopedia, but these readable overviews put the events in context. Librarians should keep this series in mind for the student who needs more information about a world event than an encyclopedia can provide but who doesn't want to read an entire book on the subject."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin

Author Bio

FRANK W. THACKERAY is co-editor of the Greenwood Press Events that Changed the World series, which includes Events that Changed The World In the Twentieth Century (Greenwood, 1995), and the Greenwood Press Events that Changed America series, which includes Events that Changed America in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood, 1996). He is co-editor of Statesmen Who Changed the World: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy (Greenwood, 1993), and author of Antecedents of Revolution: Alexander I and The Polish Congress Kingdom, 1815-1825 (1980). He is also series co-editor of the Greenwood Press Histories of the Modern Nations. He is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast. He received a Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant to Poland and has written extensively about Russo-Polish relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. JOHN E. FINDLING is co-editor of the Greenwood Press Events that Changed the World series, which includes Events that Changed the World in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood, 1995), and the Greenwood Press Events that Changed America series, which includes Events that Changed America in the Twentieth Century (Greenwood, 1996). He is the author of Dictionary of American Diplomatic History (Greenwood Press, rev. ed., 1989), and Close Neighbors, Distant Friends: U.S.-Central American Relations (1987). He is the editor of Historical Dictionary of World's Fairs and Expositions (Greenwood,1990) and co-editor ofIStatesmen Who Changed the World: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Diplomacy (Greenwood, 1993). He is also series co-editor of the Greenwood Press Histories of the Modern Nations. He is Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast.