Mankind and mother earth :a narrative history of the world
THE celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 called to mind the history of the preceding sixty years, and this retrospect opened up a view of the whole of history which looked clear and simple Between 1837 and 1897 the West had completed the establishment of its ascendancy over all the rest of the World. This was the consummation of a process that had been started, four hundred years before 1897, by Columbus's transit of the Atlantic and Vasco da Gama's voyage from Portugal round the Cape of Good Hope to the west coast of India.
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