| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| Introduction | [1] |
| I. | Early Years | [34] |
| II. | At Cambridge | [50] |
| III. | Political Apprenticeship | [63] |
| IV. | At Westminster and Goostree’s | [76] |
| V. | The Peace with America | [97] |
| VI. | The Coalition | [124] |
| VII. | The Struggle with Fox | [152] |
| VIII. | Retrenchment | [178] |
| IX. | Reform | [196] |
| X. | India | [216] |
| XI. | The Irish Problem (1785) | [241] |
| XII. | Pitt and his Friends (1783–94) | [267] |
| XIII. | Isolation (1784, 1785) | [296] |
| XIV. | L’Entente cordiale (1786) | [321] |
| XV. | The Dutch Crisis (1786, 1787) | [349] |
| XVI. | The Triple Alliance | [368] |
| XVII. | The Prince of Wales | [391] |
| XVIII. | The Regency Crisis | [406] |
| XIX. | Australia and Canada | [432] |
| XX. | The Slave Trade | [454] |
| XXI. | The Schemes of Catharine II | [480] |
| XXII. | Partition or Pacification? | [503] |
| XXIII. | Partition or Pacification? (continued) | [518] |
| XXIV. | The French Revolution | [537] |
| XXV. | The Dispute with Spain | [562] |
| XXVI. | Pitt and Catharine II | [589] |
| XXVII. | The Triumph of Catharine II | [608] |