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Contents ix BOOK VII. THE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY EIGHTEENTH > CENTURIES CHAPTER PAGE XXVIII. STRUGGLE IN ENGLAND BETWEEN KING AND PARLIAMENT I. The Stuarts and the Divine Right of Kings 351 II. Oliver Cromwell ; England a Commonwealth 357 III. The Restoration 360 IV. The Revolution of 1688 361 V. England after the Revolution of 1688 363 XXIX. FRANCE UNDER Louis XIV I. Position and Character of Louis XIV 366 II. Life at the Court of Louis XIV 367 III. Louis XIV's Warlike Enterprises 368 XXX. RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA BECOME EUROPEAN POWERS I. The Beginnings of Russia ; Peter the Great 374 II. The Kingdom of Prussia; Frederick the Great .... 378 III. Three Partitions of Poland, 1772, 1793, and 1795 . . . 382 IV. The Austrian Realm ; Maria Theresa 386 XXXI. How ENGLAND BECAME QUEEN OF THE OCEAN I. How Europe began to extend its Commerce over the Whole World 389 II. The Contest between France and England for Colonial Empire 392 III. Revolt of the American Colonies from England .... 395 XXXII. GENERAL CONDITIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY I. Life of the People in Country and Town 402 II. The Privileged Classes : Nobility and Clergy .... 405 III. Modern Science introduces the Idea of Progress . . . 410 IV. The English Limited Monarchy and George III ... 415 BOOK VIII. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON XXXIII. THE EVE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION I. The Old Regime in France 419 II. How Louis XVI tried to play the Benevolent Despot. . 426