500 Years of Human Endeavor and Achievement: A Survey of the History and Culture of 1400-1900

ISBN-13: 9781541248052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 148 str.

James J. Walsh

Opis

Originally published in "Encyclopedia Americana" (1919 edition), this paperback reprint describes the explorations, wars, politics, religious beliefs, scientific advancements, literature, art, and music of the years 1400-1900, and profiles such historic figures as (15th century) Joan of Arc, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Queen Isabella; (16th century) Shakespeare, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, and Copernicus; (17th century) Sir Walter Raleigh, Oliver Cromwell, Galileo, and Vincent de Paul; (18th century) George Washington, Maria Theresa, and Catherine II; and (19th century) Napoleon, Bismarck, Gladstone, Darwin, and Lincoln.

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