INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY / J.O. Lindsay -- THE GROWTH OF OVERSEAS COMMERCE AND EUROPEAN MANUFACTURE / C.H. Wilson -- THE SOCIAL CLASSES AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATES / J.O. Lindsay -- THE VISUAL ARTS AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE / Sir Albert Richardson -- THE ENLIGHTENMENT / A. Cobban -- RELIGION / R.W. Greaves -- MONARCHY AND ADMINISTRATION -- European practice / J.O. Lindsay -- The English inspiration / W.R. Brock -- THE ARMED FORCES AND THE ART OF WAR / Eric Robson -- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS / J.O. Lindsay -- THE DECLINE OF DIVINE-RIGHT MONARCHY IN FRANCE / A. Cobban -- ENGLAND / W.R. Brock -- THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALY / J.O. Lindsay -- THE ORGANISATION AND RISE OF PRUSSIA / W.H. Bruford -- RUSSIA / Ian Young -- SCANDINAVIA AND THE BALTIC / R.M. Hatton -- POLAND UNDER THE SAXON KINGS / L.R. Lewitter -- THE HABSBURG DOMINIONS / C.A. Macartney -- THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION / Mark A. Thomson -- THE DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTION / D.B. Horn -- THE SEVEN YEARS WAR / Eric Robson -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES -- Latin America / J.H. Parry -- North America / Frank Thistlethwaite -- RIVALRIES IN AMERICA -- The Caribbean / J.H. Parry -- The North American continent / Frank Thistlethwaite -- RIVALRIES IN INDIA / C.C. Davies -- ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN AFRICA AND THE FAR EAST -- Africa / J. Gallagher -- Asia / Victor Purcell