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PART I. THE NAPOLEONIC ERA

• The Beginning of Political Caricature 1
• Hogarth and his Times 12
• James Gillray 19
• Bonaparte As First Consul 28
• The Emperor at his Apogee 35
• Napoleon's Waning Power 44

PART II. FROM WATERLOO THROUGH THE CRIMEAN WAR

• After the Downfall 57
• The "Poire" 65
• The Baiting of Louis-Phillipe 73
• Mayeux and Robert Macaire 90
• From Cruikshank to Leech 97
• The Beginning of Punch 101
• Retrospective 111
• '48 and the Coup d'État 119
• The Struggle in the Crimea 128

PART III. THE CIVIL AND FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WARS

• The Mexican War and Slavery 143
• Neglected Opportunities 159
• The South Secedes 166
• The Four Years' Struggle 175
• Nations and Men in Caricature 188
• The Outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War 197
• The Débâcle 206

PART IV. THE END OF THE CENTURY

• The Evolution of American Caricature 231
• The Third French Republic 236
• General European Affairs 245
• Thomas Nast 255
• The American Political Campaigns of 1880 and 1884 269
• The Influence of Journalism 278
• Years of Turbulence