Chronology of World History - Volume 3 (Helicon history)

by Neville Williams (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.28

  Begins with the ratification of the American Declaration of Independence and ends with the re-election of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, the Boxer Rising in China, and the Paris International Exhibition. During this period, the world changes more in the course of a few generations than in the previous 1000 years and sees such innovations as the automobile and aeroplane, the telephone, psychiatry, the camera, the radio, Coca-Cola, and the ice cream cone.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.28

  This volume begins with the death of President McKinley in the USA, propelling Teddy Roosevelt into office, and of Queen Victoria in the UK. During the same year instant coffee is created, the Chicago White Sox win the first American League championship, and students and workers riot throughout Russia over the repression of political activity. As 1998 draws to a close, it ends a century racked with The Great Depression and two World Wars, but marked by phenomenal strides of human endeavour.