PREFACE.
UNIVERSAL HISTORY. INTRODUCTION.
PART I. ANCIENT HISTORY. FROM THE BEGINNING OF AUTHENTIC
DIVISION I. ORIENTAL HISTORY.
SECTION I. CHINA AND INDIA.
CHAPTER I. CHINA.
CHAPTER II. INDIA.
SECTION II. THE EARLIEST GROUP OF NATIONS.
CHAPTER I. EGYPT.
CHAPTER II. ASSYRIA AND BABYLON.
CHAPTER III. THE PHOENICIANS AND CARTHAGINIANS.
CHAPTER IV. THE HEBREWS.
CHAPTER V. THE PERSIANS.
DIVISION II. EUROPE.
SECTION I. GRECIAN HISTORY.
PERIOD I. GREECE PRIOR TO THE PERSIAN WARS.
CHAPTER I. THE PREHISTORIC AGE.
CHAPTER II. THE FORMATION OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES.
PERIOD II. THE FLOURISHING ERA OF GREECE.
CHAPTER I. THE PERSIAN WARS.
CHAPTER II. THE ASCENDENCY OF ATHENS.
CHAPTER III. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR. I. TO THE PEACE OF NICIAS (421 B.C.).
CHAPTER IV. RELATIONS WITH PERSIA. THE SPARTAN AND THEBAN HEGEMONY.
PERIOD III. THE MACEDONIAN ERA.
CHAPTER I. PHILIP AND ALEXANDER.
CHAPTER II. THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER.
SECTION II. ROMAN HISTORY. INTRODUCTION.
PERIOD I. ROME UNDER THE KINGS AND THE PATRICIANS. (753-304 B.C.)
CHAPTER I. ROME UNDER THE KINGS (753-509 B.C.).
CHAPTER II. ROME UNDER THE PATRICIANS (509-304 B.C.).
PERIOD II. TO THE UNION OF ITALY. (304-264 B.C.)
CHAPTER I. CONQUEST OF THE LATINS AND ITALIANS (304-282 B.C.).
CHAPTER II. WAR WITH PYRRHUS AND UNION OF ITALY (282-264 B.C.).
PERIOD III. THE PUNIC WARS: TO THE CONQUEST OF CARTHAGE AND OF THE GREEK STATES. (264-146 B.C.)
CHAPTER I. THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WABS (264-202 B.C.).
CHAPTER II. CONQUEST OF MACEDONIA: THE THIRD PUNIC WAR: THE DESTRUCTION OF CORINTH (202-146 B.C.).
PERIOD IV. THE ERA OF REVOLUTION AND OF THE CIVIL WARS. ( 146-31 B.C .)
CHAPTER I. THE GRACCHI: THE FIRST MITHRIDATIC WAR: MARIUS AND SULLA (146-78 B.C.).
CHAPTER II. POMPEIUS AND THE EAST: TO THE DEATH OF CRASSUS (78-53 B.C.).
CHAPTER III. POMPEIUS AND CAESAR: THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE.
PERIOD V. THE IMPERIAL MONARCHY: TO THE MIGRATIONS OF THE TEUTONIC TRIBES (375 A.D.).
CHAPTER I. THE REIGN OF AUGUSTUS.
THE CLAUDIAN IMPERIAL HOUSE.
CHAPTER II. THE EMPERORS OF THE AUGUSTAN HOUSE.
CHAPTER III. THE FLAVIANS AND THE ANTONINES.
CHAPTER IV. THE EMPERORS MADE BY THE SOLDIERS: THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY.
PART II. MEDIAEVAL HISTORY. INTRODUCTION.
PERIOD I. FROM THE MIGRATIONS OF THE TEUTONIC TRIBES TO THE
CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE: THE TEUTONIC CONFEDERACIES.
CHAPTER II. THE TEUTONIC MIGRATIONS AND KINGDOMS.
CHAPTER III. THE EASTERN EMPIRE.
CHAPTER IV. MOHAMMEDANISM AND THE ARABIC CONQUESTS.
PERIOD II. FROM THE CARLOVINGIAN LINE OF FRANK KINGS TO THE ROMANO-GERMANIC EMPIRE. ( A.D. 751-962. )
CHAPTER I. THE CARLOVINGIAN EMPIRE TO THE DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE (A.D. 814).
CHAPTER II. DISSOLUTION OP CHARLEMAGNE'S EMPIRE: RISE OF THE KINGDOMS OF FRANCE, GERMANY, AND ITALY.
CHAPTER III. INVASIONS OF THE NORTHMEN AND OTHERS: THE FEUDAL SYSTEM.
PERIOD III. FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ROMANO-GERMANIC
CHAPTER I. THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF THE
CHAPTER II. THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF THE CHURCH: TO THE END OF THE CRUSADES, A.D. 1270.
CHAPTER III. ENGLAND AND FRANCE: THE FIRST PERIOD OF THEIR RIVALSHIP (1066-1217).
CHAPTER IV. RISE OF THE BURGHER CLASS: SOCIETY IN THE ERA OF THE CRUSADES.
PERIOD IV. FROM THE END OF THE CRUSADES TO THE FALL OF
CHAPTER I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE: SECOND PERIOD OP RIVALSHIP: THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR (A.D. 1339-1453).
THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR: PERIOD I. (TO THE PEACE OF BRETIGNY. 1360).
THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR: PERIOD II. (TO THE PEACE OF TROYES, 1420).
THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR: PERIOD III. (TO THE END, 1463).
THE THREE NORTHERN KINGDOMS BEFORE THE UNION OF CALMAR.
CHAPTER II. GERMANY: ITALY: SPAIN: THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES:
CHAPTER III. THE COUNTRIES OF EASTERN ASIA. I. CHINA.
PART III. MODERN HISTORY. FROM THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE (1453) TO THE PRESENT TIME. INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. FRANCE: ENGLAND: SPAIN: GERMANY: ITALY: THE OTTOMAN
CHAPTER II. INVENTION AND DISCOVERY: THE RENAISSANCE.
PERIOD II. THE ERA OF THE REFORMATION. (1517-1648) INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY, TO THE TREATY OF NUREMBERG (1517-1532).
CHAPTER II. THE REFORMATION IN TEUTONIC COUNTRIES: SWITZERLAND, DENMARK, SWEDEN, ENGLAND.
CHAPTER III. THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY, FROM THE PEACE OF
CHAPTER IV. CALVINISM IN GENEVA: BEGINNING OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION.
CHAPTER V. PHILIP II., AND THE BEVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS.
CHAPTER VI. THE CIVIL WARS IN FRANCE, TO THE DEATH OF HENRY IV. (1610).
CHAPTER VII. THE THIRTY-YEARS' WAR, TO THE PEACE OP WESTPHALIA (1618-1648).
FRANCE. THE BOURBON KINGS.
THIRD STAGE IN THE WAR (1632-1648).
CHAPTER VIII. SECOND STAGE OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND: TO THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH (1547-1603).
CHAPTER IX. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND THE COMMONWEALTH (1603-1658).
CHAPTER X. COLONIZATION IN AMERICA: ASIATIC NATIONS; CULTURE
ASIATIC NATIONS. I. CHINA.
CHAPTER I. THE PREPONDERANCE OF FRANCE: FIRST PART OF THE REIGN
CHAPTER II. WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION (TO THE PEACE OF
CHAPTER III. THE GREAT NORTHERN WAR: THE FALL OP SWEDEN: GROWTH OF THE POWER OF RUSSIA.
CHAPTER IV. WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION; GROWTH OP THE POWER OF PRUSSIA: THE DESTRUCTION OF POLAND.
CHAPTER V. CONTEST OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN AMERICA: WAR OF
CHAPTER VI. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION. LITERATURE. I. FRANCE.
PERIOD IV. THE ERA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (1789-1815.) INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. FROM THE ASSEMBLING OF THE STATES GENERAL TO THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. (1789-1793).
CHAPTER II. FROM THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. TO THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE (JAN. 21, 1793-JULY 27, 1794).
CHAPTER III. FROM THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE TO THE EMPIRE OF NAPOLEON (1794-1804).
CHAPTER IV. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIBE TO THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (1804-1812).
CHAPTER V. FROM THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (1812) TO THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (1814-15).
CHAPTER VI. AMERICAN HISTORY IN THIS PERIOD (1789-1815).
CHAPTER VII. LITERATURE, ART, AND SCIENCE (1789-1815).
PERIOD V. FROM THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (1815) TO THE PRESENT TIME. INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER I. EUROPE, FROM THE CONGRESS OP VIENNA (1815) TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1830.
CHAPTER II. EUROPE FROM THE REVOLUTION OF 1830 TO THE REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH OF 1848.
CHAPTER III. EUROPE, FROM THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 TO THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN WAR (1866).
CHAPTER IV. EUROPE, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN
CHAPTER V. EUROPE, THE THIRD FRENCH REPUBLIC, AND THE UNION OF ITALY (1871-).
CHAPTER VI. THE UNITED STATES (1815-1890): MEXICO: SOUTH AMERICAN STATES: EASTERN ASIA.
CHAPTER VII. THE LAST DECADE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Title: Outline of Universal History
Author: George Park Fisher
Edition: 10
Language: English
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OUTLINES OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading
By
George Park Fisher, D.D., LL.D.
Professor in Yale University
Inscribed by the author as a token of love and thankfulness to his daughter
C. R. F.
