A shortened history of England

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Introduction
13
BOOK ONE
THE MINGLING OF THE RACES
From the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest 17
L Early Man. Ibérián and Celt 18
ii. Román Britain 23
ni. Beginning of Nordic Invasions. Anglo-Saxon Conquest 37
ív. Mediterranean Influence Again. Return of Christianity 53
v. Second Nordic Invasion. Viking Settlement and Influence 69
vi. Life in Later Saxon England. Feudaüsm Encroaching. Canute and the Nordic Maritime Empire 83
VII. The Norman Conquest up to Hastings 93
viii. The Norman Conquest Completed and Norman Institutions
established 105
BOOK TWO
THE MAKING OF THE NATION
From the Conquest to the Reformation 118
lo Anarchy and the Restoration of Royal Power. Henry II. The
Feudal System. King's Courts, Common Law, Jury 123
ii. Richárd I and the Crusades. Constitutionalism grows out
of Feudalism. John and Magna Carta. Simon de Montfort. Pariiament. Justices of the Peace. The Friars 140
iil Celt and Saxon. Attempts to complete the Island Empire.
Ireland, Wales, Scotland 160
iv. The Hundred Years' War. The Birth of Nationalism. English
Language. Black Death. The Peasants' Revolt. The Wars
of the Roses 180
book three
THE TUDORS
Renaissance, Reformation, and Sea Power 201
L The Renaissance Sehol ars. Wolsey and the Ba'ance of Power.
The Eraof Discovery. Henry Vili founds the Royal Navy 209
ii. The Royal and Parliamentary Reformation under Henry
VIII 217
ni. Interludes, Protestant and Catholic 227
ív. Policy and Character of Elizabeth. Spain and Francé. The
Scottish Reformation and the Future Great Britain. The
End of Feudalism in England 232
v. The Origin of English Sea Power 243
vi. The great Elizabethan Era. Wales. Ireland. Religion. The
Boundaries of Elizabethan Freedom. The Bible, Poetry,
Music 261
BOOK FOUR
THE STUART ERA
Parliamentary Liberty and Overseas Expansion 271
I. James I. Parliaments and Recusants. Decline of English
Sea-Power. Buckingham and the Thirty Years' War.
Charles I. King, Parliament, and the Common Law. Coke
and Eliot. Laud and Strafford 276
II. England and Scotland. The Long Parliament. The Great
Civil War. Olivér Cromwell. Revival of Sea-Power 291
in. English Village and Town Life. Character of Colonization
in Seventeenth Century. New England, Virginia. England,
Francé, and Holland 314
ív. The Restoration. Charles II. Formádon of the Whig and
Tory Parties 327
v. James II and the English Revolution 342
vi. Scotland and Ireland from the Restoration to Queen Anne 353
vii. The Wars of William and Marlborough. The Downfall of
Louis XIV and the Rise of Great Britain to Maritime and
Commercial Supremacy. Death of Anne and the Dynastic
Crisis 363
BOOK FIVE
FROM UTRECHT TO WATERLOO
Sea Power and Aristocracy. First Stage of the Industrial
Revolution 377
Early Hanoverian England. Prime Minister, Cabinet, and
Parliament. The Eve of the Industrial Revolution. Annexation of Canada and foundation of the Indián Empire 380
Personal Government of George III. The Disruption of the
First British Empire. Restoration of Government by
Party and Cabinet. Bürke, Fox, and the Younger Pitt 398
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Pitt and
Nelson. Wellington and Castlereagh 416
The Empire in the Latter Years of George III. England,
Scotland, Ireland. Canada and Australia. India. The
Anti-Slave-Trade Movement 433
Early Stages of the Industrial Revolution. Population.
Canals. Machinery. Coal. The movement of Industry.
Enclosure. Housing. Administrative Defects. Laissez
fairé 446
BOOK SIX
WATERLOO TO TO-DAY
Transition to Democracy. Development of Commonwealth 461
lo Repression and Reform. Peel and Huskisson, Castlereagh
and Canning. The Wellington Ministry. The Reform Bili 465
IL The Repeal of the Corn Laws. Disraeli and Peel. Whigs and
Palmerston. Civil Service. Queen Victoria. Crimea. The
Second Reform Bili 478
HL Character of the Second British Empire. Growth of Canada.
Relations with the United States. Australasia. South
Africa. India 49!
IV. Gladstone. Disraeli. Home Rule. The Era of the Jubilees,
Social Reform and Imperialism 511
v0 Boer War to the War of 1914-18. The Last Liberal
Ministry 524
End of Xsolation. Lansdowne and Grey. Ententes with
Francé and Russia. Europe's Drift to War. 1914 535
vil The War and the Peace. Between the Wars 544
Chronological Outline 561
Index 587
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