TAILIEUCHUNG - The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914)

The awful, soul-searing tragedy of Europe's great war of 1914 came to most men unexpectedly. The real progress of the world during the five years preceding the war had been remarkable. All thinkers saw that the course of human civilization was being changed deeply, radically; but the changes were being accomplished so successfully that men hoped that the old brutal ages of military destruction were at an end, and that we were to progress henceforth by the peaceful methods of evolution rather than the hysterical excitements and volcanic upheavals of revolution. Yet even in the peaceful progress of the half-decade just before 1914 there were signs. | The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 21 - The Recent Days 1910-1914 1 The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 21 -The Recent Days i9i0-1914 The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 21 Editor Charles F. Horne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 21 The Recent Days 1910-1914 Author Charles F. Horne Editor Release Date November 30 2003 EBook 10341 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREAT EVENTS V21 Produced by Juliet Sutherland Gwidon Naskrent and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD S HISTORY EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES. ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY. WITH THOROUGH INDICES. BIBLIOGRAPHIES CHRONOLOGIES AND COURSES OF READING EDITED BY CHARLES F. HORNE . Aided by a staff of specialists CONTENTS VOLUME XXI The Great Events by Famous Historians Vol. 21 - The Recent Days 1910-1914 2 An Outline Narrative of the Great Events CHARLES F. HORNE The United States House of Governors . 1910_ WILLIAM S. JORDAN THE GOVERNORS Union of South Africa . 1910_ PROF. STEPHEN LEACOCK Portugal Becomes a Republic . 1910_ WILLIAM ARCHER The Crushing of Finland . 1910_ JOHN JACKOL BARON SERGIUS WITTE BARON VON PLEHVE . Reuter _Man s Fastest Mile_ . 1911_ . CARTER ISAAC MARCOSSON The Fall of .

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• Charles F Horne Editor
• history
• Union of South Africa
• The Chinese Revolution
• Militarism
• Portugal Becomes a Republic