Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Linking passages : 1854 - 1900 The unnecessary war, Realism and Revolution, Mutiny in India, Ape or Angel?, The Emergence of Italy, a Nation Divided, The Birth of big business, A proclamation at Versailles, Custer's Last stand, The zulu war, Assassination of Alexander II, the haymarket affair, The Riches of the Rand, Next year in Jerusalem, Remember the Maine, Publication of "The Interpretation of Dreams"
Traces milestones in history from the Crimean War of 1854 to the publication of Sigmund Freud's treatise on dreams in 1900.
