THE EMPEROR CHARLES V 309 LII.    THE AGE OF POLITICAL EXPERIMENTS; OF GRAND MONARCHY AND PARLIAMENTS AND REPUBLICANISM IN EUROPE 318 LIII.    THE NEW EMPIRES OF THE EUROPEANS IN ASIA AND OVERSEAS 329 LIV.    THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE 335 LV.    THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE RESTORATION OF MONARCHY IN FRANCE 341 LVI.    THE UNEASY PEACE IN EUROPE THAT FOLLOWED THE FALL OF NAPOLEON 349 LVII.    THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIAL KNOWLEDGE 355 LVIII.    THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 365 LIX.    THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IDEAS 370 LX.    THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES 382 LXI.    THE RISE OF GERMANY TO PREDOMINANCE IN EUROPE 390 LXII.    THE NEW OVERSEAS EMPIRES OF THE STEAMSHIP AND RAILWAY 393 LXIII.    EUROPEAN AGGRESSION IN ASIA, AND THE RISE OF JAPAN 399 LXIV.    THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1914 405 LXV.    THE AGE OF ARMAMENT IN EUROPE, AND THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-18 409 LXVI.    THE REVOLUTION AND FAMINE IN RUSSIA 415 LXVII.    THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE WORLD 421    CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 429    INDEX 439

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Luminous Spiral Clouds of Matter	2
Nebula seen Edge-on	3
The Great Spiral Nebula	6
A Dark Nebula	7
Another Spiral Nebula	8
Landscape before Life	9
Marine Life in the Cambrian