100 Great Nineteenth Century Lives

Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 daysAuthor: John CanningEditor(s): John CanningPublisher: RupaYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 601ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A DescriptionIn this volume are gathered one hundred 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 represent, taken together, a kaleidoscope of views and ideas, a ferment often as violent and contradictory as that which we experience today.The twentieth century is the child of the nineteenth, and the reader, in fact, may well find that many of the horrors of our time have originated in the whirl and clash of nineteenth-century ideas.The soaring spiritual idealism of Hegel is turned by Marx into a materialist philosophy; and both contrast with John Stuart Mill and Samuel Smiles with their ethic or laissez-fa