Events That Changed the World in the Nineteenth Century

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.

• IllustrationsPrefaceThe Napoleonic Era, 1799-1815Introduction: Interpretive Essay by M. B. BiskupskiThe Congress of Vienna and the Age of Metternich, 1815-1848Introduction: Interpretive Essay by Robert D. Billinger, Jr.The Latin American Wars of IndependenceIntroduction: Interpretive Essay by J. Burton KirkwoodThe Reform Bill of 1832Introduction: Interpretive Essay by Daniel W. Hollis, IIIThe Revolutions of 1848Introduction: Interpretive Essay by Paul LensinkThe Emancipation of the Russian Serfs, 1861Introduction: Interpretive Essay by Bruce F. AdamsThe Meiji Restoration, 1868Introduction: Interpretive Essay by George M. WilsonThe Unification of Germany, 1871Introduction: Interpretive Essay by Eleanor L. TurkMarxism and the Rise of Socialism 1848-1883Introduction: Interpretive Essay by John K. CoxImperialism, 1870-1900Introduction: Interpretive Essay by T. K. WelliverAppendix A: GlossaryAppendix B: TimelineAppendix C: Population of Selected CountriesAppendix D: Countries Colonized during the "Imperial Scramble" (1870-1914)Index