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PART II

DYNASTIC AND COLONIAL RIVALRY
CHAPTER VI. THE GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND THE
STRUGGLE BETWEEN BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS, 1589-1661 		209
Growth of Absolutism in France: Henry IV, Richelieu, and Mazarin 209
Struggle between Bourbons and Habsburgs: The Thirty Years' War 218
CHAPTER VII. THE GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE AND THE
STRUGGLE BETWEEN BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS, 1661-1743 		235
The Age of Louis XIV 235
Extension of French Frontiers 242
The War of the Spanish Succession 249
CHAPTER VIII. THE TRIUMPH OF PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN
ENGLAND 		261
Conflicting Political Tendencies in England: Absolutism versus Parlia-
mentarianism 		261
The Puritan Revolution 274
The Restoration: the Reign of Charles II 281
The "Glorious Revolution" and the Final Establishment of Parlia-
mentary Government in Great Britain 		286
CHAPTER IX. THE WORLD CONFLICT OF FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN 299
French and English Colonies in the Seventeenth Century 299
Preliminary Encounters, 1689-1748 306
The Triumph of Great Britain: The Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 312
CHAPTER X. THE REVOLUTION WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE 322
The British Colonial System in the Eighteenth Century 322
The War of American Independence, 1775-1783 332
The Reformation of the British Empire 337
CHAPTER XI. THE GERMANIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 342
The Holy Roman Empire in Decline 342
The Habsburg Dominions 344
The Rise of Prussia. The Hohenzollerns 347
The Minor German States 352
The Struggle between Hohenzollerns and Habsburgs 354
CHAPTER XII. THE RISE OF RUSSIA, AND THE DECLINE OF TURKEY,
SWEDEN, AND POLAND 		366
Russia in the Seventeenth Century 366
Peter the Great 369
Sweden and the Career of Charles XII 374
Catherine the Great: the Defeat of Turkey and the Dismemberment
of Poland 		379

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Publication Information: Book Title: A Political and Social History of Modern Europe. Volume: 1. Contributors: Carlton J. H. Hayes - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1916. Page Number: xii.
    
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