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single power nor in an isolated outrage, but in the
history of four hundred years. He has tried to write a book that would
be suggestive and informing, not only to the ordinary college student,
but to the more mature and thoughtful student of public affairs in the
university of the world.
CARLTON J. H. HAYES. AFTON, NEW YORK, May, 1916.

NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The author begs to acknowledge his general indebtedness to a veritable
host of historical writers, of whose original researches or secondary
compilations he has constantly and almost unblushingly made use in
the preparation of this book. At the close of the Introduction will be
found a list of the major works dealing with the whole period under
review, or with the greater part of it, which have been drawn upon most
heavily. And there is hardly a book cited in any of the special
bibliographies following the several chapters that has not supplied
some single fact or suggestion to the accompanying narrative.
For many of the general ideas set forth in this work as well as for
painstaking assistance in reading manuscript and correcting errors of
detail, the author confesses his debt to various colleagues in Columbia
University and elsewhere. In particular, Professor R. L. Schuyler has
helpfully read the chapters on English history; Professor James T.
Shotwell, the chapter on the Commercial Revolution; Professor D. S.
Muzzey, the chapters on the French Revolution, Napoleon, and
Metternich; Professor William R. Shepherd, the chapters on "National
Imperialism"; and Professor Edward B. Krehbiel of Leland Stanford
Junior University, the chapter on recent international relations.
Professor E. F. Humphrey of Trinity College (Connecticut) has given
profitable criticism on the greater part of the text; and Professor Charles
A. Beard of Columbia University, Professor Sidney B. Fay of Smith
College, and Mr. Edward L. Durfee of Yale University, have read the
whole work and suggested several valuable emendations. Three
instructors in history at Columbia have been of marked service--Dr.
Austin P. Evans, Mr. D. R. Fox, and Mr. Parker T. Moon. The last
named devoted the chief part of two summers to the task of preparing
notes for several chapters of the book and he has attended the author on
the long dreary road of proof reading.

CONTENTS
VOLUME I


PART I

FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN EUROPE


CHAPTER I.
THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY The New National Monarchies The Old
Holy Roman Empire The City-States Northern and Eastern Europe in
the year 1500


CHAPTER II.
THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION Agriculture in the Sixteenth
Century Towns on the Eve of the Commercial Revolution Trade Prior
to the Commercial Revolution The Age of Exploration Establishment
of Colonial Empires Effects of the Commercial Revolution


CHAPTER III.
EUROPEAN POLITICS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY The
Emperor Charles V Philip II and the Predominance of Spain


CHAPTER IV.
THE PROTESTANT REVOLT AND THE CATHOLIC
REFORMATION The Catholic Church at the Opening of the Sixteenth
Century The Protestant Revolt Lutheranism Calvinism Anglicanism
The Catholic Reformation Summary of the Religious Revolution in the
Sixteenth Century

CHAPTER V.
THE CULTURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY The Invention of
Printing Humanism Art in the Sixteenth Century National Literatures in
the Sixteenth Century Beginnings of Modern Natural Science


PART II
DYNASTIC AND COLONIAL RIVALRY


CHAPTER VI.
THE GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND THE
STRUGGLE BETWEEN BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS,
1589-1661 Growth of Absolutism in France: Henry IV, Richelieu, and
Mazarin Struggle between Bourbons and Habsburgs: The Thirty Years'
War


CHAPTER VII.
THE GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND THE
STRUGGLE BETWEEN BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS,
1661-1743 The Age of Louis XIV Extension of French Frontiers The
War of the Spanish Succession


CHAPTER VIII.
THE TRIUMPH OF PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN
ENGLAND Conflicting Political Tendencies in England: Absolutism

versus Parliamentarianism The Puritan Revolution The Restoration: the
Reign of Charles II The "Glorious Revolution" and the Final
Establishment of Parliamentary Government in Great Britain


CHAPTER IX.
THE WORLD CONFLICT OF FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN
French and English Colonies in the Seventeenth Century Preliminary
Encounters, 1689-1748 The Triumph of Great Britain: The Seven
Years' War, 1756-1763


CHAPTER X.
THE REVOLUTION WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE The British
Colonial System in the Eighteenth Century The War of American
Independence, 1775-1783 The Reformation of the British Empire


CHAPTER XI.
THE GERMANIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY The Holy
Roman Empire in Decline The Habsburg Dominions The Rise of
Prussia. The Hohenzollerns The Minor German States The Struggle
between Hohenzollerns and Habsburgs


CHAPTER XII.
THE RISE OF RUSSIA, AND THE DECLINE OF TURKEY,
SWEDEN, AND POLAND Russia in the Seventeenth Century Peter
the Great Sweden and the Career of Charles XII Catherine the Great:
the