TY - BOOK AU - Brendon,J.A AU - Brendon,A TI - The building of the modern world U1 - 909.08 PY - 1956/// CY - London PB - Edward Arnold LTD KW - Modern World N1 - I THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: --- 1. The Flight to Varennes --- 2. The First Republic --- 3. King Louis on Trial --- 4. The Reign of Terror --- 5. Enter Napoleon Bonaparte--- II EUROPE AND NAPOLEON: --- 1. The Man of Destiny--- 2. The First Consul--- 3. Emperor of the French--- 4. Exit the Holy Roman Empire --- 5. The Peninsular War--- 6. Moscow--- 7."The Battle of the Nations "--- 8. The Hundred Days--- III THE SECOND FRENCH EMPIRE :--- 1. "The July Monarchy--- 2. The Revolution of 1848--- 3. Napoleon III, Emperor of the French--- IV REACTION AND REFORM:--- 1. The Congress of Vienna--- 2. The Holy Alliance--- 3. Spain and her Colonies --- 4. Modern Greece--- 5. "A Scrap of Paper--- V How ITALY BECAME A KINGDOM:--- 1. Mazzini--- 2. "The Cavalier King--- VI PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA : --- 1. "Prussia takes the Lead--- " 2. The Emperor Francis Joseph --- 3. The Austro-Prussian War --- VIII PRUSSIA AND FRANCE : --- 1. Napoleon the Little" --- 2. The Mexican Adventure --- 3. A Treaty of Versailles --- IMPERIAL GERMANY:---- 1. The Triple Alliance --- 2. The Emperor William I--- MODERN AFRICA:--- 1. Fifty Years of Development. --- 2. Britain and Boer--- 3. Egypt and the Sudan--- THE FAR EAST:--- 1. The Great Wall of China--- 2. The Awakening of Japan 3. The Boxer Rising--- 4. The Russo-Japanese War--- THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: --- 1. Told by the Map.--- 2. The Great Civil War--- 3. Colonial Expansion--- XII THE TRIPLE ENTENTE:--- 1. France after 1870--- 2. The Entente Cordiale--- 3. An Anglo-Russian Agreement--- SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE:--- 1. The Balkan States--- 2. The Serajevo Crime--- RUSSIA:--- 1. Under the Czars-I--- 2. Under the Czars-II --- 3. In Revolution •---- THE GREAT WAR AND AFTER : --- 1. Some Facts and Figures --- 2. Germany's Defeat--- 3. The League of Nations --- EPILOGUE:--- The British Commonwealth of Nations CHRONOLOGICAL CHART--- DIARY OF THE GREAT WAR :--- ER -