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List of contents
Chapter 15: Rulers and Revolutionaries
Louis XIV / Oliver Cromwell
Chapter 16: Enlightened Absolutism
Joseph II / Catherine II “The Great”
Chapter 17: The Scientific Revolution
Rene Descartes / Isaac Newton
Chapter 18: The Enlightenment
Voltaire / Mary Wollstonecraft
Chapter 19: Eighteenth-Century Revolutions
Thomas Jefferson / Charlotte Corday
Chapter 20: The Napoleonic Era
Napoleon Bonaparte / Simon Bolívar
Chapter 21: Ideology in a Revolutionary Age
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn / Edmund Burke
Chapter 22: The Age of Nationalism
Otto von Bismarck / Giuseppe Mazzini
Chapter 23: Late Nineteenth-Century Thought
Karl Marx / Friedrich Nietzsche
Chapter 24: The Modern Intellectual Universe
Sigmund Freud / Albert Einstein
Chapter 25: War and Revolution in the Twentieth Century
Vladimir Lenin / Woodrow Wilson
Chapter 26: National Revolutions in the 1920s
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk / Benito Mussolini
Chapter 27: Crisis and War
Adolf Hitler / Franklin Roosevelt
Chapter 28: The Postwar Mind
George Orwell / Simone de Beauvoir
Chapter 29: The End of the Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev / Vaclav Havel
Summary
Lives & Legacies provides students with a collection of biographies of Western Civilization's key figures. Each biography is presented in chronological order with a brief intro to aid students in placing these figures in historical context.
