CONTENTS.

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Introduction...

I. Beginnings of the German People...
II. Migrations and Fall of the Empire...

III. The Franks and the Merovingian Dynasty..
IV. Charlemagne, King and Roman Emperor..
V. The Successors of Charlemagne....
VI. Henry of Saxony and His Successors..
VII. The House of Franconia...

VIII. The Hohenstaufen Dynasty..
Society Church Influence.

IX. From Conrad to the Death of Louis..
X. From Charles IV. to Albert II......
XI. From Albert II. to the Reformation
German Cities and their Leagues..

Life of the People.-Science and Art....

The House of Hapsburg...........

XII. Luther and the Reformation....

XIII. From the Peace of Augsburg to the Edict of Restitution.....

German Civilization during the Thirty Years' War....

Decline of the Hapsburg Monarchy...

War of the Spanish Succession...

Rise and Growth of Russia....

XIV. Frederick the Great and his Reign..

XV. The Seven Years' War......

XVI. From the Peace to the French Revolution...
XVII. The French Revolution and Napoleon I.....
XVIII. From the Treaty of Luneville to that of Tilsit..
XIX. Napoleonic Supremacy in Germany.
XX. The Period of the Confederation....
Prussian Influence in the Confederation..

XXI. The North German Bund...
XXII. The Franco-Prussian War...
XXIII. The Restored German Empire....

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The Berlin Conference.-Later Events...
Prince Bismark.....

Political Leaders in the Restored Empire..

MARTIN LUTHER AND MELANCTHON AT THE DIET OF AUGSBURG.