Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index
Contents:
The Absolutist rulers of Europe by Alfred Cobban The War of the Spanish Succession by Maurice Ashey French rout in Flanders by Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon A day in the life of Louis XIV by Gilette Ziegler French peasant's life by Henry Sée Age of the composer by Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis Wheeler Davis The accomplishment of Peter the Great by Will and Ariel Durant Slavery in New England by Lorenzo Johnston Greene Philosophers of the enlightenment by George Rudé Montesquieu's thoughts on government by Charles Louis de Brède, Baron de Montesquieu Philosophy of Rousseau by Diané Collinson The life and times of Voltaire by George R. Havens Birth of the Paris Art Salon by Thomas E. Crow Morsels of wisdom from Ben Franklin by Benjamin Franklin The discoveries of vitus Bering by William R. Hunt First days of the Seven Years' War by Russell F. Weigley The French and Indian war by Samuel Eliot Morison The Iroquois clash with British settlers by David Horowitz A Swedish visitor describes American slavery by Peter Kalm Catherine the Great reforms Russia by Vincent Cronin James Watt's steam engine by Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas Revolution against Britain by Howard Zinn Boston Massacre by James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren, and Samuel Pemberton The Declaration of Independence A White travels among the native American Indians by Jonathan Carver Music of mozart William Mann Forming a constitutional government D.W. Meinig Immigrants in America's wilderness by Jean de Crèvecoeur Ben Franklin's antislavery views by Benjamin Franklin Execution of Louis XVI by Hilaire Belloc The French Reign of Terror by J.F. Bosher-- Child laborers in the Industrial Revolution by Paul Mantoux English convicts populate Australia Russel Ward
