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CONTENTS
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| CHAPTER | PAGE | |||
| 63. | Geographical Discovery | 248 | ||
| 64. | Colonial Empires | 253 | ||
| 65. | The Old World and the New | 255 | ||
| 66. | The Protestant Reformation | 257 | ||
| 67. | The Protestant Sects | 263 | ||
| 68. | The Catholic Counter Reformation | 266 | ||
| 69. | The Religious Wars | 269 | ||
| 70. | The European State System | 278 | ||
| VIII. | THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES IN EUROPE | |||
| 71. | Absolutism and the Divine Right of Kings | 281 | ||
| 72. | The Struggle against Stuart Absolutism in England | 282 | ||
| 73. | The Restoration and the "Glorious Revolution" | 291 | ||
| 74. | Absolutism of Louis XIV in France, 1643-1715 | 295 | ||
| 75. | Russia under Peter the Great, 1689-1725 | 302 | ||
| 76. | Russia under Catherine II, 1762-1796 | 307 | ||
| 77. | Austria and Maria Theresa, 1740-1780 | 309 | ||
| 78. | Prussia and Frederick the Great, 1740-1786 | 310 | ||
| 79. | The Partitions of Poland, 1772-1795 | 314 | ||
| IX. | COMMERCE AND COLONIES DURING THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES | |||
| 80. | Mercantilism and Trading Companies | 320 | ||
| 81. | The Dutch Colonial Empire | 322 | ||
| 82. | Rivalry of France and England in India (to 1763) | 325 | ||
| 83. | Rivalry of France and England in North America | 328 | ||
| 84. | The American Revolution, 1776-1783 | 334 | ||
| 85. | Formation of the United States | 341 | ||
| 86. | Progress of Geographical Discovery | 342 | ||
| X. | THE OLD RÉGIME | |||
| 87. | Reform | 346 | ||
| 88. | The Privileged Classes | 347 | ||
| 89. | The Unprivileged Classes | 349 | ||
| 90. | The Church | 351 | ||
| 91. | Liberal Ideas of Industry and Commerce; the Economists | 354 | ||
| 92. | The Scientists | 355 | ||
| 93. | Liberal Ideas of Religion and Politics; the English Philosophers | 357 | ||
| 94. | The French Philosophers | 359 | ||
| 95. | The Enlightened Despots | 362 | ||
