European Statesmen and European Leaders: Beacon Lights of History V5

European Statesmen and European Leaders: Beacon Lights of History V5

Author: Lord, John
Category: World - General
ISBN: 9780548032770
Format : Hardcover
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing

  

1885. Volume Five of Eight. This volume contains Part I. European Statesmen and Part II. European Leaders. The Beacon Lights of History is a series of lectures by Dr. Lord, who has been called the artistic historian, setting forth the great epochs and master minds of civilization-a biographical history of the world's life. Contents Part I. Mirabeau: The French Revolution; Edmund Burke: Political Morality; Napoleon Bonaparte: The French Empire; Prince Metternich: Conservatism; Chateaubriand: The Restoration and Fall of the Bourbons; George IV: Toryism; The Greek Revolution; and Louis Philippe: The Citizen King. Contents Part II. William IV: English Reforms; Sir Robert Peel: Political Economy; Cavour: United Italy; Czar Nicholas: The Crimean War; Louis Napoleon: The Second Empire; Prince Bismarck: The German Empire; and William Ewart Gladstone: The Enfranchisement of the People. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.