The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 5

Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians

Macmillan, 1908 - History, Modern

Contents

• CHAPTER I: 1
• CHAPTER II: 32
• The Triple Alliance: 38
• France at war with Europe Marriage of William of Orange: 45
• and James II: 51
• The battle of the Boyne and the fall of Limerick: 58
• LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES: 60
• FRENCH SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE: 64
• CHAPS PAGES I The Government of Louis XIV 16611715 76570: 70
• CHAPTER IV: 72
• Church and Crown The Régale: 78
• The origins of Jansenism Jansen and SaintCyran: 85
• Survivals of Jansenism: 91
• THE STEWART RESTORATION: 92
• Contents: 107
• Contents: 113
• CHAPTER VI: 116
• Paradise Regained: 122
• Restoration comedy: 128
• CHAPTER VII: 137
• Act of Seclusion Holland and the States General: 143
• Disputes with England: 149
• The war in the Mediterranean Savoy abandons the Grand: 152
• The Prince of Orange and de Witt: 155
• CHAPTER VIII: 168
• Shipbuilding Naval progress after the Restoration: 177
• CHAPTER IX: 198
• The Exclusion Bill thrown: 226
• Sedgmoor The Bloody Assizes: 232
• Attack on the Universities The Dissenters: 238
• Attitude of James Williams German allies: 244
• Debates on the Settlement: 250
• Indifference of the people towards both The religious motive: 257
• Williams first Parliament: 259
• Finance The Land: 265
• Political influence of the Bank The Press: 271
• 2 SCOTLAND FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE UNION OF THE PARLIAMENTS: 278
• The Pentland Rising Letters of Indulgence: 284
• Letters of Indulgence Execution of Renwick: 291
• Results of the Treaty of Union: 300
• 3 IRELAND FROM THE RESTORATION TO THE ACT OF RESUMPTION: 301
• Tyrconnel Viceroy Revolt of Derry: 307
• Schombergs campaign William in Ireland: 313
• Limerick capitulates Articles of civil and military treaties: 319
• Church and dissent under Tudors and Stewarts: 325
• The contest under Charles II Nonconformists and Roman: 331
• Toleration and Comprehension The Comprehension Bill dropped: 337
• CHAPTER XII: 338
• PAGE: 361
• CHAPTER XIII: 372
• The Spanish colonies of small advantage to Spain: 379
• Charles will in favour of Prince Joseph Ferdinand: 386
• The decision in Spain PortoCarrero: 393
• recognises James III: 399
• Eugene in Italy Marlboroughs great plan: 414
• Renewed peace negotiations Vendôme in Flanders: 420
• Minorca and the Peninsula: 426
• A Peace Congress summoned: 432
• Course of negotiations at the Congress: 440
• Abandonment of the Catalans: 446
• The Peace of Rastatt: 452
• The Second Barrier Treaty: 458
• CHAPTER XV: 460
• CHAPTER XVI: 477
• Moscow and Byzantium: 483
• Early policy of Ivan IV: 489
• Ermak Timotheevich Theodore I: 495
• Prince Wladislaw elected Tsar: 501
• Bigotry of the Russian Church Nil Sorski: 507
• Russia as described by foreigners: 514
• The apprenticeship of Peter His voyages and projects: 520
• The first administrative reforms: 526
• CHAPTER XVIII: 558
• Poverty of Sweden The Regency: 564
• Swedish victory of Lund Other victories Losses in Germany: 570
• Character of Charles XI: 572
• Military and naval changes: 578
• CHAPTER XIX: 584
• Renewed RussoSaxon alliance The Baltic campaigns: 590
• Peter and the Powers Mazepa: 596
• Battle of Poltawa Second league against Sweden: 602
• The Maritime Powers offer mediation Stenbock in Pomerania: 608
• Death of Charles XII: 614
• CHAPTER XX: 616
• CHAPTER XXI: 639
• Cultivation and immigration: 645
• Battle of Fehrbellin: 651
• Significance of his reign: 657
• Negotiations as to a royal Crown: 663
• CHAPTER XXII: 673
• Period of the War of the Spanish Succession: 679
• English colonisation in North America: 685
• The pirates of the Caribbean Sea West Africa: 691
• CHAPTER XXIII: 706
• Development of Mechanics: 712
• Leibniz and Newton: 718
• Human Anatomy Vesalius: 724
• Physiology Harveys predecessors: 725
• The iatrochemical and iatrophysical schools: 731
• Systematic Zoology and Comparative Anatomy: 737
• Attempts at religious Reunion Intolerance: 743
• Stillingfleets Irenicon: 749
• Lodenstein and Labadie: 755
• Dippel and German Pietistic Literature: 761
• The Foreign Policy of Louis XIV 166197 7714: 771
• French Seventeenth Century Literature and its European Influencü 7759: 775
• The Gallican Church 7805: 780
• England under Charles II and James II 166087 78698: 786
• The Literature of the English Restoration in cluding Milton 799808: 799
• The administrations of John de Witt and William of Orange 165188 80914: 809
• The AngloDutch Wars 8158: 816
• The Revolution and the Revolution Settlement in Great Britain 81937: 819
• Toleration in England 8389: 838
• Austria Poland and Turkey 8405: 840
• The Treaties of Partition and the Spanish Suc cession 8469: 846
• The War of the Spanish Succession 85046: 850
• Party Government under Queen Anne 85760: 857
• Russia before Peter the Great 14771682 86171: 861
• Peter the Great and his Pupils 16891730 8725: 872
• The Scandinavian Kingdoms 8769: 876
• Charles XII and the Great Northern War 1697: 882
• The origin of the Prussian Monarchy The Great Elector and the First Prussian King 88394: 883
• The Colonies and India 895902: 895
• European Science in the Seventeenth and earlier years of the Eighteenth Centuries 90310: 903
• Latitudinarianism and Pietism 91147: 911
• CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF LEADING EVENTS 91827: 918
• INDEX: 929
• The European situation in 1701: 952
• 61: 953
• 255: 958
• 256: 970

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Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 5; Jeannie Willis Memorial Fund; The Cambridge Modern History, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
• Editors: Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians
• Contributor: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1908
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Aug 17, 2007