Written as the century closed, this popular survey moves from the French Revolution and Napoleon’s rise and fall through the revolutions of 1848, the unification of Italy and Germany, the American Civil War, the Russian advance into Central Asia, and the inventions that replaced the horse and the sail. Morris also compares prisons, factories and the right to vote in 1800 and 1900.
A broad, confident panorama that shows how the nineteenth century saw itself; its views are very much those of 1900. Download the free EPUB.