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Contents XI CHAPTER PAGE XL. THE GERMAN EMPIRE AND THE THIRD FRENCH REPUBLIC I. Development of Germany (1871-1914) 522 II. The Third French Republic (1871-1914) 527 XLI. GREAT BRITAIN AND HER EMPIRE I. The English Constitution 531 II. General Reforms in England 534 III. The Irish Question 537 IV. The British Empire: India 539 V. The British Empire : Canada and Australasia .... 543 VI. The British Empire : South Africa 546 XLII. THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY I. Russia in the Early Nineteenth Century 551 II. Russia and the Near- Eastern Question; the Crimean War . . . 553 III. The Freeing of the Serfs ; Terrorism 556 IV. The Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) 559 V. The Russian Revolution under Nicholas II 562 XLIII. How EUROPEAN HISTORY MERGED INTO WORLD HISTORY I. The Growth of International Trade and Competition ; Imperialism 569 II. Relations of Europe with China and Japan 574 III. Partition of Africa 581 IV. Decline of the Spanish Empire and Rise of the United States as a World Power 584 XLIV. PROGRESS OF MODERN SCIENCE AND INVENTION I. The Great Age of the Earth ; Evolution ; Modern Chemistry 589 II. Progress in Biology and Medicine 593 III. The New History 597 BOOK X. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND THE WORLD WAR XLV. ORIGIN OF THE WAR OF 1914 I. The Armies and Navies of Europe 600 II. Movements for Peace : the Hague Conferences .... 602 III. Matters of Dispute ; National Rivalries 603 IV. The Near-Eastern Question 606 V. The Outbreak of the War , .612