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The Development of Modern Europe Volume I
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The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries of western Europe took part; even their colonies in distant regions were involved, and the map of the world was fundamentally altered. A generation after Louis XIV's death France began to be recognized as the great teacher of Europe; her philosophers and economists denounced the abuses which existed everywhere and urged the reform of ancient, outworn institutions. When, in due time, France wrought a revolution in her own government, she speedily forced other nations to follow her example. Indeed, carried away by the genius of her general, Napoleon Bonaparte, she seemed at one time about to bring all Europe under her sway...
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Table of contents
- FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XIV
- EUROPE AND LOUIS XIV
- RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE AT UTRECHT
- RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA BECOME EUROPEAN POWERS
- THE WARS OF FREDERICK THE GREAT
- THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND FOR INDIA
- THE RIVALRY OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN NORTH AMERICA
- THE OLD RÉGIME IN EUROPE
- THE SPIRIT OF REFORM
- THE ENLIGHTENED DESPOTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE EVE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- THE FIRST FRENCH REPUBLIC
- NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
- EUROPE AND NAPOLEON
- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE AT THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA