To all thoughtful people World War I has brought to intention the importance of a knowledge of 19th Century European history. For without such knowledge no one can understand, or begin to understand, the significance of the forces that have made it, the vastness of the issues involved, the nature of what is indisputably one of the gravest crises in the history of mankind. No citizen of a free country who takes his citizenship seriously, who considers himself responsible, to the full extent of his personal influence, for the character and conduct of his government, can, without the crudest self-stultification, admit that he knows nothing and cares nothing about the history of Europe.Contents:The Old Regime in EuropeThe Old Regime in FranceBeginnings of the RevolutionThe Making of the ConstitutionThe Legislative AssemblyThe ConventionThe DirectoryThe ConsulateThe Early Years of the EmpireThe Empire at Its HeightThe Decline and Fall of NapoleonThe CongressesFrance Under the RestorationRevolutions Beyond FranceThe Reign of Louis PhilippeCentral Europe in RevoltThe Second French Republic and the Founding of the Second EmpireThe Making of the Kingdom of ItalyThe Unification of GermanyThe Second Empire and the Franco-Prussian WarThe German EmpireFrance Under the Third RepublicThe Kingdom of Italy Since 1870Austria-Hungary Since 1848England From 1815 to 1868England Since 1868The British EmpireThe Partition of AfricaSpain and PortugalHolland and Belgium Since 1830SwitzerlandThe Scandinavian StatesThe Disruption of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Balkan StatesRussia to the War With JapanThe Far EastRussia Since the 1905 War With JapanThe Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913The European WarMaking the Peace
