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CHAPTER I
1
George Lewis and the English Succession
7
Marlborough The Highfliers
14
6
33
CHAPTER II
40
Walpole and the Land Tax
46
Navigation Act Molasses Act
52
Effects of the Treaties of Vienna
58
Wars in the Dekhan and in Afghanistan
518
Death of Aurungzeb Decline of the Moghul empire
523
Occupation by Europeans of the seacoast
529
Expedition of Labourdonnais
535
Dupleix and Bussy French progress checked
541
Ungenerous treatment of Dupleix Bussy in the Dekhan Lally
547
Surrender of Chandernagore
553
Deposition of Mír Jafar Treatment of Mír Kasim
559

Englands attitude in the War of the Polish Succession
62
Disputes between England and Spain War declared
68
Character and influence of Henry Pelham
74
Religion and the masses The individualism of the age
80
Wesleys separation from the Establishment
86
James abortive expedition to Scotland
92
Mar raises the standard Action of the Government
98
George Is Hanoverian counsellors Significance of his accession
112
CHAPTER IV
120
The FrancoSpanish marriages
126
Death of Orleans
132
Contents
137
Italian claims of Don Carlos
138
xxii
142
II
145
Spanish capture of Oran Don Carlos in Parma
151
Trouble in American waters Fleurys policy
157
Death of Philip V
164
XX
176
The Court of Philip V
182
Colonial development The Ostend Company
183
Abolition of the Slave Trade Cape Colony The Boers
189
Accession of Frederick William I His economic reforms
206
English marriage negotiations The Tobacco College
212
Finance Immigration
218
Maria Theresa and the Powers
228
Battle of Chotusitz
234
Fredericks invasion of Bohemia
240
Maurice de Saxes conquests in the Low Countries
249
CHAPTER IX
251
The armies meet before Prague
257
Battle of Hastenbeck
263
Condition of the French army
269
Preparations for the new campaign
276
Battle of Zorndorf
282
Daun near Dresden
288
Opening of the campaign of 1760
294
CHAPTER X
301
Münnich and the first Crimean campaign 3056
307
The new Russian Chancellor Alexis Bestuzheff
313
Political duel between Frederick and Bestuzheff
319
Elizabeth holds the antiPrussian alliance together
325
Peace of AixlaChapelle
331
Significance and reception of First Treaty of Versailles
337
CHAPTER XII
361
Character and policy of Charles III
367
OReilly in Louisiana Falkland Islands dispute
373
Secret negotiations about Gibraltar
377
The AntiBritish league
379
Reforms of Florida Blanca and his colleagues
383
3 BRAZIL
389
Walpole the Pelhams and Pitt
396
Critical position of Frederick II
402
2 THE KINGS FRIENDS
423
Reception of the Peace in England Unpopularity of
429
The Rockingham Administration Stamp Act
435
Wilkes Junius and the Constitution
441
Reforms and projects of Reform
455
Death of Rockingham Ministerial changes
461
New Administration formed by Pitt
467
The American loyalists Regency debates
474
2
486
CHAPTER XV
506
Akbars accession and successes
512
CHAPTER XVI
586
and the Jesuits 5923
592
Condition of Naples under Charles III
598
His ecclesiastical policy
604
His reform schemes Policy of Venice
605
CHAPTER XVII
611
Proposed Plan of Protection Foreign service
617
Complaints of infringements
623
Russian aggressions against Turkey Kaunitz
629
as sole ruler His enlightened despotism
635
CHAPTER XIX
657
assumes the government
663
First Partition of Poland
669
Annexation of the Crimea Catharines Tauric tour
675
Pugachoffs rising The Succession question
681
Military and civil administration
682
End of the Commission
688
Treatment of particular provinces
694
Results of the reign
701
Peace of Teschen Hertzberg
707
Treatment of officers of the army
713
State tutelage and protection
719
2 POLAND AND PRUSSIA
729
CHAPTER XXI
735
Bernstorff and foreign affairs The HolsteinGottorp question
741
His ideas and reforms 7478
747
The younger Bernstorff Russian Exchange Treaty The Duchies
753
CHAPTER XXII
758
The Reduction Riksdag
764
The design of Sprengtporten and Toll
770
The Riksdags of 1778 and 1786 7756
776
Peace of Värälä
782
The influence of Hobbes
790
Divine Right Filmer
802
Lockes idea of Contract
809
After Locke
815
from Hobbes to Burke
821
The return to nature
827
The realistic strain
833
83943
839
2 THE FOREIGN POLICY OF GEORGE I
843
Character and career of Elisabeth Farnese
843
The Age of Walpole and the Pelhams
844
Jacobitism and the Union
858
IV V
864
Financial Experiments and Colonial Develop
870
Poland under the Saxon Kings
878
IX
887
Great Britain 175693
902
India
925
XVI
933
Switzerland from the Treaty of Aarau to
941
Catharine II
949
The foreign policy of this period
956
Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Burke
964
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LEADING EVENTS
971
INDEX
977
Relations with France the United Provinces and the Emperor
979
CHAPTER VI
1000
The new period of Irish history
1003
The Company of the Indies Laws System at its height
1006
POLAND UNDER THE SAXON KINGS
1008
T ATKINSON M A Fellow of Exeter College formerly
1014

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