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Readers will enjoy an interesting look at not only the man, but the 19th century world in which he lived. Britains enormous growth and emergence as a democracy, Germany united under Bismarck, Russia freeing the serfs, Japan opened to foreign trade, the U.S. in turmoil over slavery and many other cultural and socio/economic events are all shared in Fosters engaging text laced with her traditional pictures, maps, time lines and graphs.
