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CONTENTS

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	Introduction	ix
	Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History	1
LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY
I.	Beginning of the Modern State	31
II.	The New World	52
III.	The Renaissance	71
IV.	Luther	90
V.	The Counter-Reformation	108
VI.	Calvin and Henry VIII.	126
VII.	Philip II., Mary Stuart, and Elizabeth	144
VIII.	The Huguenots and the League	155
IX.	Henry the Fourth and Richelieu	168
X.	The Thirty Years' War	181
XI.	The Puritan Revolution	195
XII.	The Rise of the Whigs	206
XIII.	The English Revolution	219
XIV.	Lewis XIV.	233
XV.	The War of the Spanish Succession	249
XVI.	The Hanoverian Settlement	264
XVII.	Peter the Great and the Rise of Prussia	277
XVIII.	Frederic the Great	290
XIX.	The American Revolution	305
Appendix I.—Letter to Contributors to the Cambridge Modern History		315
Appendix II.—Notes to Inaugural Lecture		319
Index		343

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