Lectures on Modern History - Faculty of Social Sciences

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Originally published 1906 by MacMillan and Company, London.
ContentsInaugural Lecture: On the Study of History....................................... 5I. Beginning of the Modern State ..................................................... 27II. The New World ........................................................................... 43III. The Renaissance ........................................................................ 57IV. Luther ......................................................................................... 71V. The Counter-Reformation ............................................................ 85VI. Calvin and Henry VIII ............................................................... 98VII. Philip II, Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth ...................................... 111VIII. The Huguenots and the League ............................................. 120IX. Henry the Fourth and Richelieu ............................................... 130X. The Thirty Years’ War .............................................................. 139XI. The Puritan Revolution ............................................................ 150XII. The Rise of the Whigs ............................................................ 158XIII. The English Revolution ......................................................... 168XIV. Lewis the Fourteenth ............................................................. 178XV. The War of the Spanish Succession ........................................ 190XVI. The Hanoverian Settlement ................................................... 201XVII. Peter the Great and the Rise of Prussia ............................... 212XVIII. Frederic the Great............................................................... 222XIX. The American Revolution ..................................................... 233
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