And yet again my best thanks are due to Mr. R. B. Lattimer for valuable criticisms and suggestions.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. [How Man sailed East and West]
II. [The Stories of the Old East and of the New West]
III. [Three Kings and a Monk]
IV. [The Waning Power of Spain]
V. [The Wars of Religion]
VI. [The Growing Power of France]
VII. [The Humbling of France]
VIII. [From the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle]
IX. [The Seven Years' War]
X. [How The United States won Independence]
XI. [How the Stage was set for the French Revolution]
XII. [The Revolution and the Terror]
XIII. [The Napoleonic Wars]
XIV. [The Expansion of the Anglo-Saxon and the Slav]
XV. [Steam and Evolution]
XVI. [The Resettlement of Europe]
XVII. [The Settlement of America]
XVIII. ["The White Man's Burden"]
SECTION I.—[Africa]
SECTION II.—[India and the Far East]
SECTION III.—[The Far South]
[Index]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
[Railway Centenary, 1925: Ancient and Modern Locomotives] ... Frontispiece