In this volume are gathered on hundreds of the most outstanding lives of the nineteenth century throughout the world. The men and women of action are here as well as the thinkers, scientists, inventors and captains of industry as well as reformers, composers and artists. They present, taken together, a kaleidoscope of views and ideas, ferment often as violent and contradictory as that which we experience today.
In this volume are gathered on hundreds of the most outstanding lives of the nineteenth century throughout the world. The men and women of action are here as well as the thinkers, scientists, inventors and captains of industry as well as reformers, composers and artists. They present, taken together, a kaleidoscope of views and ideas, ferment often as violent and contradictory as that which we experience today.