European History: Modern times

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1919 - 413 páginas

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Gold Coin of James I
377
Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War 16421649
382
Oliver Cromwell
383
The Commonwealth and the Protectorate 16491660
387
Great Seal of England Under the Commonwealth reduced
389
The Restoration and the Glorious Revolution
390
England in the Seventeenth Century
394
Absolutism of Louis XIV 16611715
396
The Wars of Louis XIV
401
Marlborough
404
France under the Grand Monarch
407
Medal of Louis XIV
408
THE EUROPEAN BALANCE OF POWER 17151789
411
Rise of Russia
412
Russia under Peter the Great 16891725
415
Peter the Great
416
Sweden and the Career of Charles XII
418
Russia under Catherine II 17621796 the Decline of Turkey
422
The Partitions of Poland 17721795
424
Rise of Prussia
428
Prussia under Frederick the Great 17401786
431
Frederick the Great
432
Constitutional Monarchy in Great Britain
435
William Pitt Earl of Chatham
437
COMMERCE AND COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES 157 Mercantilism and Trading Companies
440
The Dutch Colonial Empire
442
Rivalry of France and England in India to 1763
445
Robert Lord Clive
448
The English Settlement of Virginia and Massachu
449
The Mayflower
453
setts
455
Transit of Civilization from England to America
459
French Settlements in Canada and Louisiana
464
CHAPTER PAGE 164 Rivalry of France and England in North America
467
Revolt of the Thirteen Colonies 17761783
471
Opening Lines of the Declaration of Independence
473
Progress of Geographical Discovery
476
THE OLD RÉGIME IN EUROPE 167 The Eighteenth Century in Culture
480
The Privileged Classes
481
The Unprivileged Classes
483
Liberal Ideas of Industry and Commerce the Economists
485
The Scientists
486
Liberal Ideas of Religion and Politics the English Philosophers
489
The French Philosophers
490
The Enlightened Despots
493
THE REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC ERA 17891815
497
Eve of the French Revolution
499
The EstatesGeneral 1789
502
Outbreak of the French Revolution
504
The National Assembly 17891791
508
The First French Republic 1792
511
The National Convention 17921795
516
The Directory and Napoleon 17951799
520
The Consulate 17991804
523
The French Empire 1804
525
Napoleon at War with Europe 18051807
526
The Napoleonic Reorganization of Europe
529
The Continental System
531
Revolt of the Nations 18081814
533
Downfall of Napoleon 18141815
537
CHAPTER PAGE 198 The Second French Empire 18521870
559
United Italy 18591870
560
United Germany 18641871
567
THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN EUROPE 18711914
575
The United Kingdom
576
The Third French Republic
582
Italy Spain Portugal and Belgium
584
The German Empire
586
The Dual Monarchy
589
Switzerland Holland Denmark Norway and Sweden
590
The Russian Empire
591
Turkey and the Balkan States
595
COLONIAL EXPANSION AND WORLD POLITICS IN THE NINE TEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES 210 Greater Europe
602
The OpeningUp of Africa
603
The Partition of Africa
605
The OpeningUp and Partition of Asia
609
China
614
Japan
617
The OpeningUp and Partition of Oceania
621
British North America
623
Latin America
626
The United States
629
Close of Geographical Discovery
634
Interracial Problems
636
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 222 Modern Industrialism
640
The Great Inventions
641
Effects of the Great Inventions
646
Improvements in Transportation
649
Improved Communications
654
Commerce
656
Commercial Policies
658
Agriculture and Land Tenure
660
The Labor Movement
662
Government Regulation of Industry
665
Rise and Spread of Socialism
667
Progress and Poverty
671
Internationalism
675
Social Betterment
677
Emancipation of Women and Children
679
Religious Toleration and the Separation of Church and State
681
Popular Education and the Higher Learning
683
Science
685
Philosophy and Literature
687
Music and the Fine Arts
690
Historic and Artistic Paris
692
Historic and Artistic London
700
THE WORLD WAR 19141918
708
Colonial Problems and the Eastern Question
712
Militarism
717
PanGermanism
720
Beginning of the War
723
The War in Europe 19141917
727
The War outside of Europe and on the Sea 19141917
732
The Intervention of the United States
736
The Russian Revolution
737
End of the War 1918
740
THE WORLD SETTLEMENT 1919
744
APPENDIX Table of Events and Dates
747
INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY
765

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