(A) Textbook of modern history : 1643-1848 / by George W. Southgate

Includes genealogical tables and index.

Mazarin -- Louis XIV -- The foreign policy of Louis XIV - to the peace of Ryswick -- The foreign policy of Louis XIV - the Spanish succession -- The united provinces -- Brandenburg Prussia, 1640-1740 -- The earlier part of Louis XV's reign -- Philip V and Elizabeth Farnese -- The Austrian succession -- The diplomatic revolution and the seven years war -- Benevolent despotism -- The church and the Jesuits in the eighteenth century -- Poland -- Sweden -- The ancient regime in France -- The French Revolution -- The French Revolutionary war -- Napoleon's rule in France -- The Napoleonic wars - to the Treaty of Tilsit -- The decline of Napoleon's power -- Prussia 1740-1815 -- The Congress of Vienna -- The breakup of the concert of Europe -- Metternich and the German confederation -- The restored monarchy in France -- Belgian independence -- Italy in the first half of the nineteenth century -- Russia -- The Turks -- The year of revolutions