Great leaders, great tyrants? : contemporary views of world rulers who made history : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

xiv, 354 pages ; 24 cm

Each chapter gives the full name, offices held, dates, historical context, biographical sketch, and two essays, in debate format, that contrast the creative and tyrannical roles of the subject

Includes bibliographical references and index

Akhenaten -- Ataturk -- Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismark-Schonhausen -- Fidel Castro -- Catherine the Great -- Count Camillo Benso di Cavour -- Charles I -- Charles V -- Oliver Cromwell -- Charles de Gaulle -- Elizabeth I -- Francisco Franco -- Franz Joseph I -- Indira Nehru Gandhi -- Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev -- Henry VIII -- Herod the Great -- Toyotomi Hideyoshi -- Ho Chi Minh -- Ivan IV -- Bohdan Zynovyi Khmel'nytskyi -- Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev -- Pierre Laval -- V.I. Lenin -- Leopold II -- Louis XIV -- Mao Zedong -- Mary I -- Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa -- Cosimo de' Medici

Clemens von Metternich -- Napoleon I -- Napoleon III -- Kwame Nhrumah -- Julius Kambarage Nyerere -- Juan Domingo Peron -- Peter the Great -- Pheidon -- Philip II -- Abd al-Karim Qassem -- Qin Shih Huang Di -- Stenka Razin -- Richard II -- Richard III -- Maximilien Robespierre -- Joseph Stalin -- Pyotr Arkad'evich Stolypin -- Tito -- Trajan -- Vespasian -- Wilhelm II -- Thomas Wolsey