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Read Ebook: History for ready reference Volume 6 by Larned J N Josephus Nelson
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 9666 lines and 1052067 words, and 194 pagesRelease date: October 17, 2023 Original publication: Springfield, Mass: C. A. Nichols Co, 1895 Credits: Don Kostuch +}" to "" Subject text. See CROSS REFERENCE ONE. See Also CROSS REFERENCE TWO. Main titles are at the left margin, in all upper case and are preceded by an empty line. Subheadings are indented three spaces and immediately follow the main title. Text of the article follows the list of subtitles and is preceded with an empty line and indented three spaces. References to other articles in this work are in all upper case and indented six spaces. They usually begin with "See", "Also" or "Also in". To search for words separated by an unknown number of other characters, use this Regular Expression to find the words "first" and "second" separated by between 1 and 100 characters: "first.second" A list of all words used in this work is found at the end of this file as an aid for finding words with unusual spellings that are archaic, contain non-Latin letters, or are spelled differently by various authors. Search for: "Word List: Start". Several tables are best viewed using a fixed spacing font such Courier New. HISTORY FOR READY REFERENCE. FROM THE BEST HISTORIANS, BIOGRAPHERS, AND SPECIALISTS THEIR OWN WORDS IN A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF HISTORY FOR ALL USES, EXTENDING TO ALL COUNTRIES AND SUBJECTS, AND REPRESENTING FOR BOTH READERS AND STUDENTS THE BETTER AND NEWER LITERATURE OF HISTORY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE BY J. N. LARNED WITH NUMEROUS HISTORICAL MAPS FROM ORIGINAL STUDIES AND DRAWINGS BY ALAN O. REILEY REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION VOLUME VI--RECENT HISTORY 1894-5 TO 1901 A to Z SPRINGFIELD, MASS. THE C. A. NICHOLS CO., PUBLISHERS The six years that have passed since the original five volumes of this compilation were published, in 1894-5, have been filled with events so remarkable and changes so revolutionary in political and social conditions that the work has seemed to need an extension to cover them. The wish for such an extension, expressed by many people, led to the preparation of a new volume, in which all the lines of the historical record are taken from the points at which they were dropped in the early volumes, and are carried to the end of the Nineteenth Century, and beyond it, into the opening months of the present year. In plan and arrangement this additional volume is uniform with the preceding ones; but the material used in it is different from that dealt with before, and a quite different character is given consequently to the book. The former compilation represented closet-studies of History--perspective views of a past more or less remote from those who depicted it. This one, on the contrary, exhibits History in the making,--the day by day evolution of events and changes as they passed under the hands and before the eyes and were recorded by the pens of the actual makers and witnesses of them. If there is crudeness in the story thus constructed, there is life in it, to quite make good the lack of literary finish; and the volume is expected to prove as interesting and as useful as its predecessors. It sets forth, with the fulness which their present-day interest demands, all the circumstances that led to the Spanish-American war; the unforeseen sequences of that war, in the Philippine Islands, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, and in American politics; the whole controversy of Great Britain with the South African Boers and the resulting war; the shameful dealings of western nations with China, during late years, which provoked the outbreak of barbaric hostility to foreigners, and the dreadful experiences of the siege and relief of Peking; the strange Dreyfus agitations in France; the threatening race-conflicts in Austria; the change of sovereign in England; the Peace Conference at The Hague and its results; the federation of the Australian colonies; the development of industrial combinations or trusts in the United States; the archaeological discoveries of late years in the East, and the more notable triumphs of achievement in the scientific world. On these and other occurrences of the period surveyed, the record of fact is quoted from sources the most responsible and authentic now available, and always with the endeavor to present both sides of controverted matters with strict impartiality. For purposes of reference and study, a large number of important documents--laws, treaties, new constitutions of government, and other state papers--are given in full, and, in most instances, from officially printed texts. BUFFALO, NEW YORK; May, 1901. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. I am indebted to the following named authors, editors, and publishers, for permission kindly given me to quote from books and periodicals, all of which are duly referred to in connection with the passages severally borrowed from them: My acknowledgments are likewise due to the Hon. D. S. Alexander, Representative in Congress, and to many officials at Washington, for courteous assistance in procuring publications of the national government for my use. LIST OF MAPS. Map of Asia, Preceding the title page Map of Africa, Following page 2 Map of Alaska, Following page 8 Map of Australia, Following page 30 Map of Central America, showing the Isthmian Canal routes, Following page 66 Map of the East Coast of China, Following page 76 Map of Cuba and the West Indies, Following page 170 Map of Hawaii, Following page 254 Map of the Philippine Islands, and of the seat of war in Luzon, Following page 368 Map of Porto Rico, Following page 410 Map of the Boer Republics and their surroundings, Following page 492 Map illustrating the Santiago campaign in the Spanish-American war, On page 603 LIST OF TABLES. The descendants of Queen Victoria, Page 215 Protestant foreign missions and missionary societies, Pages 311-313 Navies of the Sea Powers, Page 318 Philippine Islands, area and population, Pages 367-369 The Shipping of the World in 1900, Page 452 Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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