Four volumes present essays discussing important events that occurred in the nineteenth century and how they changed the world.

Offers 737 bibliographic essays on significant figures from the the nineteenth century.

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.

Since the 1970s I have pursued three separate but overlapping and sometimes simultaneous careers: (1) philosopher / writer / teacher / historian of the long nineteenth century, 1789-1914; (2) editor / translator / photographer / publisher / biographer / encyclopedist; (3) cataloging librarian / rare books and special collections librarian / historian of medicine. Somehow these three vocations have garnered me some acclaim, even an entry in Who's Who in America. Each of them has resulted in some published or presented works. Because these works have been scattered in a wide variety of venues, some of which have gone out of print or have otherwise become generally unavailable - and of course with the oral presentations being gone as soon as they are given - I have thought it wise to select, epitomize, and bring them together in one place - here. Thus, what follows in these volumes is what I consider to be the most important of my shorter works.