The World's Fair Or, Children's prize gift book of the Great Exhibition of 1851 : describing the beautiful inventions and manufactures exhibited therein : with pretty stories about the people who have made and sent them : and how they live when

Subjects: “…Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) -- Juvenile literature…”
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Headlines in history the 1800s

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 -- Thomas Jefferson assumes the American presidency, 1801 -- Inside Napoleon's empire -- Latin America wins an ambiguous independence -- Reconciling individualism and community in the New American republic -- Louisiana purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition -- Chapter 2 -- Early factories improved workers' lives -- Struggle for political reform in Great Britain -- Emergence of a working class -- Communist manifesto -- Great exhibition -- Chapter 3 -- Bristish abolitionists attack slavery -- Russian serfdom and American slavery compared -- Missouri compromise of 1820 -- Abraham Lincoln and the emancipation proclamation -- Emancipation proclamation is a significant achievement -- Significance of America's civil war and the abolition of slavery -- Chapter 4 -- Reception of evolution -- Emergence of the student movement in Russia -- Irish potato famine brings national tragedy -- Reform acts expand democracy in Britain -- Queen Victoria: Stability within an era of change -- First women's rights convention -- Declaration of sentiments: Landmark of women's rights -- Chapter 5 -- Great Britain forces opium on China -- Roots of the sepoy munity in british India -- Taiping rebellion in China -- Reign of terror in the congo free state -- Successful westernization: Japan in 1900 -- United States must go to war with Mexico to defend itself -- Tactics and impact of India removal and reclocation -- Spanish-American war -- Chapter 6 -- Death of God -- Impressionism -- Gay nineties dance hall music -- Psychoanalysis and the oedipus complex -- Chapter 7 -- Louis Pasteur: Scientist of the wonderful century -- Electrifying the industrial age -- Marie Curie and the discovery of radium -- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.…”

Gandhi my experiments with truth : an autobiography by Gandhi Mahatma 1869-1948

Table of Contents: “…Birth and parentage -- Childhood -- Child marriage -- Playing the husband -- At the high school -- Tragedy -- Stealing and atonement -- My father's death and my double shame -- Glimpses of religion -- Preparatio for England -- Outcaste -- In London at last -- My choice -- Playing the English gentleman -- Changes -- Experiments in dietetics -- Shyness my shield -- Canker of untruth -- Acquaintance with religions -- Narayan Hemchandra -- Great exhibition -- Called - but then? -- My helplessness -- Raychandbhai -- How I began life -- First case -- First shock -- Preparing for South Africa -- Arrival in Natal -- Some experiences -- On the way to Pretoria -- More hardships -- First day in Pretoria -- Christian contacts -- Seeking touch with Indians -- What it is to be a 'coolie' -- Preparation for the case -- Religious ferment -- Man proposes, God disposes -- Settled in Natal -- Colour bar -- Natal Indian congress -- Balasundaram -- The £ 3 tax -- Comparative study of religions -- As a householder -- Homeward -- In India -- Two passions -- Bombay meeting -- Poona and Madras -- 'Return soon' -- Rumblings of the storm -- Storm -- Test -- Calm after the storm -- Education of the children -- Spirit of service -- Brahmacharya -- Simple life -- Boer war -- Sanitary reform and famine relief -- Return to India -- In India again -- Clerk and bearer -- In the congress -- Lord Curzon's darbar -- Month with Gokhale -- In Benares -- Settled in Bombay? …”