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Napoleon I : the turmoil and aftermath of revolution |
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Metternich : and the despotic reaction |
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Bolivar : and South American independence |
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Andrew Jackson : and the expanding democracy of America |
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Abraham Lincolm : and the American Union |
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Garibaldi : and the unification of Italy |
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Palmerston : and the supremacy of Britain |
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Thiers : order and revolution in France |
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Gladstone : and Victorian liberalism |
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Tsar Alexander II : reform and frustration in Russia |
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Bismark : and the ascendancy of Prussia |
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Kaiser William II : and the slide to world war |