History for ready reference, Volume 6

This volume compiles contemporary accounts, official documents, maps, and statistical tables tracing political, military, diplomatic, and social developments from 1894 to early 1901. It presents day-by-day records and excerpts from historians, statesmen, and newspapers to reconstruct events such as the Spanish–American War and its consequences in the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico; the South African conflict with the Boers; the anti-foreigner uprisings in China and the siege and relief of Peking; the Dreyfus controversies in France; the Hague Peace Conference; federation in Australia; and the rise of industrial trusts, alongside recent archaeological and scientific discoveries. Important treaties, laws, and chronologies are printed in full for reference.