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PAGE § 3. Civil war is forced upon the colonies................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................286 § 4. The War of Independence................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................291 § 5. The constitution of the United States................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................294 § 6. Primitive features of the United States constitution................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................301 § 7. Revolutionary ideas in France................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................307 § 8. The Revolution of the year 1789................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................311 § 9. The French "crowned republic" of '89–'91................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................313 § 10. The Revolution of the Jacobins................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................321 § 11. The Jacobin republic, 1792–4................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................331 § 12. The Directory................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................337 § 13. The pause in reconstruction and the dawn of modern Socialism................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................339 - Chapter XXXVIII. The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte
§ 1. The Buonaparte family in Corsica................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................348 § 2. Bonaparte as a republican general................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................349 § 3. Napoleon First Consul, 1799–1804................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................354 § 4. Napoleon I Emperor, 1804–1814................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................360 § 5. The Hundred Days................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................368 § 6. The cult of the Napoleonic................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................373 § 7. The map of Europe in 1815................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................377 - Chapter XXXIX. The Realities and Imagination of the Nineteenth Century. The Increase of Knowledge and Clear Thinking. The Nationalist Phase
§ 1. The mechanical revolution................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................384 § 2. Relation of the mechanical to the industrial revolution................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................393 § 3. The fermentation of ideas, 1848................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................399 § 4. The development of the idea of Socialism................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................401 § 5. Shortcomings of Socialism as a scheme of human society................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................411 § 6. How Darwinism affected religious and political ideas................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................416 § 7. Mr. Gladstone and the idea of Nationalism................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................426 § 8. Europe between 1848 and 1878................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................436 § 9. The (second) scramble for overseas empires................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................449 § 10. The Indian precedent in Asia................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................461 § 11. The history of Japan................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................464 § 12. Close of the period of overseas expansion................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................469 § 13. The British Empire in 1914................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................470 - Chapter XL. The International Catastrophe of 1914 and the Close of the Great Power Period
§ 1. The armed peace before the Great War................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................475 § 2. Imperial Germany................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................477 § 3. The spirit of Imperialism in Britain and Ireland................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................486 § 4. Imperialism in France, Italy, and the Balkans................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................499 § 5. Russia still a Grand Monarchy in 1914................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................502
