To all thoughtful people World War I has brought to intention the importance of a knowledge of 19th Century European history. For without such knowledge no one can understand, or begin to understand, the significance of the forces that have made it, the vastness of the issues involved, the nature of what is indisputably one of the gravest crises in the history of mankind. No citizen of a free country who takes his citizenship seriously, who considers himself responsible, to the full extent of his personal influence, for the character and conduct of his government, can, without the crudest self-stultification, admit that he knows nothing and cares nothing about the history of Europe.
Contents:
The Old Regime in Europe
The Old Regime in France
Beginnings of the Revolution
The Making of the Constitution
The Legislative Assembly
The Convention
The Directory
The Consulate
The Early Years of the Empire
The Empire at Its Height
The Decline and Fall of Napoleon
The Congresses
France Under the Restoration
Revolutions Beyond France
The Reign of Louis Philippe
Central Europe in Revolt
The Second French Republic and the Founding of the Second Empire
The Making of the Kingdom of Italy
The Unification of Germany
The Second Empire and the Franco-Prussian War
The German Empire
France Under the Third Republic
The Kingdom of Italy Since 1870
Austria-Hungary Since 1848
England From 1815 to 1868
England Since 1868
The British Empire
The Partition of Africa
Spain and Portugal
Holland and Belgium Since 1830
Switzerland
The Scandinavian States
The Disruption of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Balkan States
Russia to the War With Japan
The Far East
Russia Since the 1905 War With Japan
The Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913
The European War
Making the Peace