Introduction

BOOK ONE THE MINGLING OF THE RACES

From the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest

Early Man. Iberian and Celt

Roman Britain

Beginning of Nordic Invasions. Anglo-Saxon Conquest

Mediterranean Influence Again. Return of Christianity

Second Nordic Invasion. Viking Settlement and Influence

Life in Later Saxon England. Feudalism Encroaching. Canute and the Nordic Maritime Empire

The Norman Conquest up to Hastings

The Norman Conquest Completed and Norman Institutions established

BOOK TWO THE MAKING OF THE NATION

From the Conquest to the Reformation

Anarchy and the Restoration of Royal Power. Henry II. The Feudal System. King's Courts, Common Law, Jury

Richard I and the Crusades. Constitutionalism grows out of Feudalism. John and Magna Carta. Simon de Montfort. Parliament. Justices of the Peace. The Friars

Celt and Saxon. Attempts to complete the Island Empire. Ireland, Wales, Scotland.

The Hundred Years' War. The Birth of Nationalism. English Language. Black Death. The Peasants' Revolt. The Wars of the Roses

BOOK THREE THE TUDORS

Renaissance, Reformation, and Sea Power

The Renaissance Scholars. Wolsey and the Balance of Power. The Era of Discovery. Henry VIII founds the Royal Navy

The Royal and Parliamentary Reformation under Henry VIII

Interludes, Protestant and Catholic

Policy and Character of Elizabeth. Spain and France. The Scottish Reformation and the Future Great Britain. The End of Feudalism in England

The Origin of English Sea Power

The great Elizabethan Era. Wales. Ireland. Religion. The Boundaries of Elizabethan Freedom. The Bible, Poetry, Music

BOOK FOUR THE STUART ERA

Parliamentary Liberty and Overseas Expansion

James I. Parliaments and Recusants. Decline of English Sea-Power. Buckingham and the Thirty Years' War. Charles I. King, Parliament, and the Common Law. Coke and Eliot. Laud and Strafford

England and Scotland. The Long Parliament. The Great Civil War. Oliver Cromwell. Revival of Sea-Power

English Village and Town Life. Character of Colonization in Seventeenth Century. New England, Virginia. England, France, and Holland

The Restoration. Charles II. Formation of the Whig and Tory Parties

James II and the English Revolution

Scotland and Ireland from the Restoration to Queen Anne

The Wars of William and Marlborough. The Downfall of Louis XIV and the Rise of Great Britain to Maritime and Commercial Supremacy. Death of Anne and the Dynastic Crisis

BOOK FIVE FROM UTRECHT TO WATERLOO

Sea Power and Aristocracy. First Stage of the Industrial Revolution

Early Hanoverian England. Prime Minister, Cabinet, and Parliament. The Eve of the Industrial Revolution. Annexation of Canada and foundation of the Indian Empire

Personal Government of George III. The Disruption of the First British Empire. Restoration of Government by Party and Cabinet. Burke, Fox, and the Younger Pitt

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Pitt and Nelson. Wellington and Castlereagh

The Empire in the Latter Years of George III. England, Scotland, Ireland. Canada and Australia. India. The Anti-Slave-Trade Movement

Early Stages of the Industrial Revolution. Population. Canals. Machinery. Coal. The movement of Industry. Enclosure. Housing. Administrative Defects. Laissez faire

BOOK SIX WATERLOO TO TO-DAY

Transition to Democracy. Development of Commonwealth

Repression and Reform. Peel and Huskisson, Castlereagh and Canning. The Wellington Ministry. The Reform Bill

The Repeal of the Corn Laws. Disraeli and Peel. Whigs and Palmerston. Civil Service. Queen Victoria. Crimea. The Second Reform Bill

Character of the Second British Empire. Growth of Canada. Relations with the United States. Australasia. South Africa. India

Gladstone. Disraeli. Home Rule. The Era of the Jubilees. Social Reform and Imperialism

Boer War to the War of 1914--18. The Last Liberal Ministry

End of Isolation. Lansdowne and Grey. Ententes with France and Russia. Europe's Drift to War. 1914

The War and the Peace. Between the Wars

Chronological Outline

Index