Lessons of Past Times: An Introduction to the History of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

B. G. G. Gervinus

9780365056560: Lessons of Past Times: An Introduction to the History of the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0365056561 ISBN 13: 9780365056560

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The present work forms the introduction to a detailed narrative, comprising the period from the fall of the French Empire, and the renewal of the relations of the European powers at the Congress of Vienna, to the middle of the present century. The aim of the subsequent history will be to discover the import and the intrinsic meaning of the events of this period.

This short space of time (not longer in duration than a single human life) contains events which, in its commence ment, were everywhere connected with the past, and which to this hour continue uninterrupted in their onward course though taken together, they appear but as a fragment, whose importance in the History of the World can only be recognized in its connexion with that which has preceded it.

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