ABSTRACT

This book is intended as a sequel to author’s earlier volume on The Remaking of Modern Europe (1789-1871), first published in 1909, and has been written in response to requests for a continuation of the narrative. It is offered as a preliminary survey of a large tract of country.

chapter I|23 pages

Introductory

The New Era

chapter III|23 pages

The Eastern Question (1875–8)

Russia and Turkey. The Balkan States

chapter V|12 pages

The Egyptian Problem

The British Occupation—The Regeneration of Egypt and the Conquest of the Soudan

chapter VI|21 pages

The Expansion of Russia

The Franco-Russian Alliance (1890–98): England and Russia in Central Asia

chapter VII|19 pages

The United States of America as a World-Power

The Spanish-American War (1898)

chapter VIII|21 pages

The English in South Africa

chapter IX|25 pages

West and East

China and Japan. Europe in the Far East. Reform Movement in Russia

chapter X|26 pages

The Diplomatic Revolution (1890–1911)

German World-Policy—The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente

chapter XI|15 pages

The Problem of the Near East (1888–1911)

A New Factor. “Mitteleuropa” and the Ottoman Empire

chapter XII|27 pages

The Balkan League and the Balkan Wars

chapter XIII|43 pages

The World-War (1914–18)

Its Antecedents and an Outline of its Course

chapter XIV|26 pages

The World Settlement

The Treaties of Versailles, Rapallo, and Sèvres, 1919–20