Scheme of Contents

BOOK VI
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Chapter XXXII. Muhammad and Arab Islam

§ 1. Arabia before Muhammad

§ 2. Life of Muhammad to the Hegira

§ 3. Muhammad becomes a fighting prophet

§ 4. The teachings of Islam

§ 5. The caliphs Abu Bekr and Omar

§ 6. The great days of the Omayyads

§ 7. The decay of Islam under the Abbasids

§ 8. The intellectual life of Arab Islam

Chapter XXXIII. Christendom and the Crusades

§ 1. The Western world at its lowest ebb

§ 2. The feudal system

§ 3. The Frankish kingdom of the Merovingians

§ 4. The Christianization of the western barbarians

§ 5. Charlemagne becomes emperor of the West

§ 6. The personality of Charlemagne

§ 7. The French and the Germans become distinct

§ 8. The Normans, the Saracens, the Hungarians, and the Seljuk Turks

§ 9. How Constantinople appealed to Rome

§ 10. The Crusades

§ 11. The Crusades a test of Christianity

§ 12. The Emperor Frederick II

§ 13. Defects and limitations of the papacy

§ 14. A list of leading Popes

BOOK VII
THE GREAT MONGOL EMPIRES OF THE LAND WAYS AND THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE SEA WAYS

Chapter XXXIV. The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and his Successors

§ 1. Asia at the end of the twelfth century

§ 2. The rise and victories of the Mongols

§ 3. The travels of Marco Polo

§ 4. The Ottoman Turks, the Turkish Caliph, and Constantinople

§ 5. Why the Mongols were not Christianized

§ 5A. Kublai Khan founds the Yuan Dynasty

§ 5B. The Mongols revert to tribalism

§ 5C. The Kipchak empire and the Tsar of Muscovy

§ 5D. Timurlane

§ 5E. The Mongol empire of India

§ 5F. The Mongols and the Gipsies

Chapter XXXV. The Renascence of Western Civilization

§ 1. Christianity and popular education

§ 2. Europe begins to think for itself

§ 3. The Great Plague and the dawn of communism

§ 4. How paper liberated the human mind

§ 5. Protestantism of the princes and Protestantism of the peoples

§ 6. The reawakening of science

§ 7. The new growth of European towns

§ 8. America comes into history

§ 9. What Machiavelli thought of the world

§ 10. The republic of Switzerland

§ 11A. The life of the Emperor Charles V

§ 11B. Protestants if the prince wills it

§ 11C. The intellectual under-tow

BOOK VIII
THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS

Chapter XXXVI. Princes, Parliaments, and Powers

§ 1. Princes and foreign policy

§ 2. The English republic

§ 3. The Dutch republic

§ 4. The break-up and disorder of Germany

§ 5. The splendours of Grand Monarchy in Europe

§ 6. The growth of the idea of Great Powers

§ 7. The crowned republic of Poland and its fate

§ 8. The first scramble for empire overseas

§ 9. Britain dominates India

§ 10. Russia’s ride to the Pacific

§ 11. What Gibbon thought of the world in 1780

§ 12. The social truce draws to an end

Chapter XXXVII. The New Democratic Republics of America and France

§ 1. Inconveniences of the Great Power system

§ 2. The thirteen colonies before their revolt

§ 3. Civil war is forced upon the colonies

§ 4. The War of Independence

§ 5. The constitution of the United States

§ 6. Primitive features of the United States constitution

§ 7. Revolutionary ideas in France

§ 8. The Revolution of the year 1789

§ 9. The French “crowned republic” of ’89-’91

§ 10. The Revolution of the Jacobins

§ 11. The Jacobin republic, 1792-4

§ 12. The Directory

§ 13. The pause in reconstruction and the dawn of modern Socialism

Chapter XXXVIII. The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte

§ 1. The Buonaparte family in Corsica

§ 2. Bonaparte as a republican general

§ 3. Napoleon First Consul, 1799-1804

§ 4. Napoleon I Emperor, 1804-1814

§ 5. The Hundred Days

§ 6. The cult of the Napoleonic

§ 7. The map of Europe in 1815

Chapter XXXIX. The Realities and Imagination of the Nineteenth Century. The Increase of Knowledge and Clear Thinking. The Nationalist Phase

§ 1. The mechanical revolution

§ 2. Relation of the mechanical to the industrial revolution

§ 3. The fermentation of ideas, 1848

§ 4. The development of the idea of Socialism

§ 5. Shortcomings of Socialism as a scheme of human society

§ 6. How Darwinism affected religious and political ideas

§ 7. Mr. Gladstone and the idea of Nationalism

§ 8. Europe between 1848 and 1878

§ 9. The (second) scramble for overseas empires

§ 10. The Indian precedent in Asia

§ 11. The history of Japan

§ 12. Close of the period of overseas expansion

§ 13. The British Empire in 1914

Chapter XL. The International Catastrophe of 1914 and the Close of the Great Power Period

§ 1. The armed peace before the Great War

§ 2. Imperial Germany

§ 3. The spirit of Imperialism in Britain and Ireland

§ 4. Imperialism in France, Italy, and the Balkans

§ 5. Russia still a Grand Monarchy in 1914

§ 6. The United States and the Imperial idea

§ 7. The immediate causes of the Great War

§ 8. A summary of the Great War up to 1917

§ 9. The Great War from the Russian collapse to the armistice

§ 10. The political, economic, and social disorganization caused by the Great War

§ 11. President Wilson and the problems of Versailles

§ 12. Summary of the first Covenant of the League of Nations

§ 13. A general outline of the treaties of 1919 and 1920

§ 14. A forecast of the “next war”

§ 15. The state of men’s minds in 1920

BOOK IX
THE NEXT STAGE IN HISTORY

Chapter XLI. Man’s Coming of Age. The Probable Struggle for the Unification of the World into one Community of Knowledge and Will

§ 1. The possible unification of men’s wills in political matters

§ 2. How a Federal World Government may come about

§ 3. Some fundamental characteristics of a modern world state

§ 4. What this world might be like, were men united in a common peace and justice

§ 5. The stages beyond?

Five Time Charts of the World’s Affairs from B.C. 1000 to A.D. 1920

A Chronological Table from 800 B.C. to A.D. 1920

Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z