Powell, John

An international reference to the weapons, tactics, and strategies that have been used from earliest history to the present.

Presents alphabetized, cross-referenced biographical profiles of 757 nineteenth-century men and women of significance in forty areas of achievement, from nearly sixty countries and regions, and includes an annotated further reading list on each figure, photos, illustrations, maps, and category, geographical, person, and subject indexes.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explore the connections between the reading habits and achievements of 271 men and women who helped shaped Western culture in the nineteenth century.

Contains a collection of over three hundred entries that reflect the literary influence upon Western culture by noted figures in the fields of science, politics, religion, business, and the arts including Douglas MacArthur, David Lloyd George, and Gandhi.

Contains chronologically arranged entries that provide information about notable geopolitical events, social and cultural developments, scientific achievements, inventions, medical advances, and movements in art, architecture, music, and theater during the eighteenth century, from 1774 to 1800, and includes maps, sidebars, quotations from primary source documents, and illustrations.

Presents a collection of alphabetically arranged articles that provide biographical information on a wide range of world leaders of the twentieth-century, profiling 438 leaders from ninety-eight countries who left an enduring legacy on a country, region, or the world.

Contains 1,518 alphabetically arranged articles that provide information about significant wars, battles, people, groups, and civilizations in the military history of the world, from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Includes references, maps, illustrations, a time line, and three indexes.

Contains 667 essays that provide information about significant nineteenth-century events, arranged chronologically, with over eighty historical maps, quotations from primary source documents, lists and time lines, a glossary, and other reference aids, as well as more than five hundred illustrations.

Contains 343 chronologically arranged entries that provide information about notable geopolitical events, social and cultural developments, scientific achievements, inventions, medical advances, and movements in art, architecture, music, and theater during the eighteenth century, and includes maps, sidebars, quotations from primary source documents, and illustrations.