Medieval and Modern History

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D.C. Heath & Company, 1919 - History, Modern - 787 pages

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Contents

Monasticism
52
CHAPTER PAGE 24 Spread of Christianity over Europe 8838
60
Separation of Eastern and Western Christianity 26 The Greek Church 27 The Roman Church
63
RISE AND SPREAD OF ISLAM 6221058
68
Prophet and Statesman 622632
69
Islam and the Koran
73
Expansion of Islam in Asia and Egypt
75
Expansion of Islam in North Africa and Spain
78
The Caliphate and its Disruption 6321058
80
Arabian Civilization
82
The Influence of Islam
87
THE NORTHMEN AND THE NORMANS TO 1066
90
The Viking Age
92
Scandinavian Heathenism
94
The Northmen in the West
97
The Northmen in the East
100
Normandy and the Normans
101
Conquest of England by the Danes Alfred the Great
103
Norman Conquest of England William the Conqueror
106
Results of the Norman Conquest
109
Norman Conquest of Southern Italy and Sicily
111
The Normans in European History
112
FEUDALISM 47 Rise of Feudalism
114
Feudalism as a Form of Local Government
115
Feudal Justice
118
Feudal Warfare
120
The Castle and Life of the Nobles
123
Knighthood and Chivalry
126
Feudalism as a Form of Local Industry
129
The Village and Life of the Peasants
132
Serfdom
134
Decline of Feudalism
135
THE PAPACY AND THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 9621273
137
Church Doctrine and Worship
138
CHAPTER PAGE 59 Church Jurisdiction
141
The Secular Clergy
143
The Regular Clergy
144
The Friars
146
Power of the Papacy
149
Popes and Emperors 9621122
151
Popes and Emperors 11221273
156
Significance of the Medieval Church
159
THE CRUSADES 10951291 67 Causes of the Crusades
162
First Crusade 10951099
164
Crusaders States in Syria
168
Second Crusade 11471149 and Third Crusade 11891192
170
Fourth Crusade and the Latin Empire of Constanti nople 12021261
173
Results of the Crusades
175
THE MONGOLS AND THE OTTOMAN TURKS TO 1453
179
Conquests of the Mongols 12061405
180
The Mongols in China and India
183
The Mongols in Eastern Europe
184
The Ottoman Turks and their Conquests 12271453
187
The Ottoman Turks in Southeastern Europe
190
EUROPEAN NATIONS DURING THE LATER MIDDLE AGES 79 Growth of the Nations
192
England under William the Conqueror 10661087
193
England under Henry II 11541189 Royal Justice and the Common Law
195
The Great Charter
198
Parliament in the Thirteenth Century
200
Expansion of England under Edward I 12721307
204
Unification of France 9871328
207
The Hundred Years War between France and Eng land 13371453
210
Unification of Spain to 1492
214
Austria and the Swiss Confederation 12731499
217
Expansion of Germany
220
Growth of the Cities
224
Trade and Commerce
232
Money and Banking
235
the Hanseatic League
242
THE RENAISSANCE
279
Revival of Art in Italy
286
The Renaissance in Literature
290
The Scientific Renaissance
296
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY
302
CHAPTER PAGE XV THE REFORMATION AND THE RELIGIOUS WARS 15171648
330
Heresies and Heretics
334
Martin Luther and the Beginning of the Reformation in Germany 15171522
337
Charles V and the Spread of the Reformation
341
The Reformation in Switzerland Zwingli and Calvin
343
The English Reformation 15331558
345
The Protestant Sects
348
The Catholic Counter Reformation
351
Spain under Philip II 15561598
355
Revolt of the Netherlands
357
England under Elizabeth 15581603
361
The Huguenot Wars in France
366
The Thirty Years War 16181648
369
ABSOLUTISM IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE 16031715
375
Absolutism of the Stuarts 16031642
376
Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War 16421649
382
The Commonwealth and the Protectorate 16491660
387
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
France under the Grand Monarch
407
THE EUROPEAN BALANCE OF POWER 17151789
411
Rise of Russia
412
Russia under Peter the Great 16891725
415
CHAPTER PAGE 159 Rivalry of France and England in India to 1763
445
The English Settlement of Virginia and Massachu
449
setts
455
Transit of Civilization from England to America
459
French Settlements in Canada and Louisiana
464
Rivalry of France and England in North America
467
Revolt of the Thirteen Colonies 17761783
471
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 First 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
Liberty Equality Fraternity
539
THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN EUROPE 18151871
543
Congress of Vienna
545
CHAPTER PAGE 193 The Reaction under Metternich 18151830
548
France and the July Revolution 1830
550
The July Revolution in Europe
551
The February Revolution and the Second French Republic 1848
554
The February Revolution in Europe
555
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 641
610
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
CHAPTER PAGE 227 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
MODERN CIVILIZATION
674
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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