Contributor
Ausubel, Herman.
Imprint:New York : Dryden Press, [1951]
Description2 v. (viii, 1183 p.) ; 22 cm.
Note:book 1. The Middle Ages to Waterloo: I. THE NATURE OF HISTORY: Can history educate/ Robert Livingston Schuyler -- Truth in history / William A. Dunning -- II. SOME GLIMPSES OF THE MEDIEVAL SCENE: What is medieval history? / Joseph R. Strayer -- Magna Carta / Sidney Painter -- Technology and invention in the middle ages / Lynn White, Jr. -- III. THE SO-CALLED RENAISSANCE: Renaissance or prenaissance? / Lynn Thorndike -- The Renaissance reconsidered / G.P.V. Akrigg -- The survival of medieval intellectual interests into early modern times / Lynn Thorndike -- Machiavelli's Il Principe / Sir Richard Lodge -- IV. THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTIONS AND THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION: Luther, Luther's critics, and the Peasant Revolt / Harold J. Grimm -- Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion / Wilhelm Pauck -- The Reformation at home and abroad / H. Maynard Smith -- Survival of the Catholic faith in the 16th century / Henry S. Lucas -- V. THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE: The role of monopoly in the overseas expansion and colonial trade of Europe before 1800 / Earl J. Hamilton -- VI. THE HABSBURGS IN EARLY MODERN TIMES: Tendencies and individuals: Charles V and Philip II / Sir Charles Oman -- The Thirty Years' War: a new interpretation / S.H. Steinberg -- The decline of Spain / Earl J. Hamilton -- VII. FRANCE IN EARLY MODERN TIMES: The characteristic features of French economic history from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 18th century / Henri Hauser -- The Huguenot policy of Henry XIV and Pope Innocent XI / Louis O'Brien -- VIII. Late Tudor and early Stuart England: The Elizabethan House of Commons / J.E. Neale -- English political sermons, 1603-1640 / Geoffrey Davies -- A democratic tercentenary / Wilhelm Schenk -- Man in armor / W.C. Abbott -- IX. THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH: Introductory, The English Revolution, 1688-1689 / G.M. Trevelyan -- The farming writers of 18th-century England / G.E. Fussell -- "The Industrial Revolution" / Herbert Heaton -- Mercantilism and the American Revolution / Lawrence A. Harper -- X. THE EMERGENCE OF PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA: The Prussian bureaucracy in the 18th century / Walter L. Dorn -- Peter the Great / B.H. Sumner -- Some forerunners of the Decembrists / D.M. Lang -- XI. SCIENCE IN EARLY MODERN TIMES: The myth about Bacon and the inductive method / Morris R. Cohen -- Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727 / Henry Crew -- L'Encyclopédie and the history of science / Lynn Thorndike -- XII. THE AGE OF REASON: Rationalists and religion in the 18th century / Shelby T. McCloy -- The influence of 18th century ideas on the French revolution / Henri Peyre -- XIII. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON: The place of the American Revolution in the causal pattern of the French Revolution / Louis Gottschalk -- French Revolution / Albert Mathiez -- Songs: colorful propaganda of the French Revolution / Cornwell B. Rogers -- Napoleon's military bulletins / Joseph J. Mathews -- The Europe of Napoleon: a synopsis / Golo Mann.
Note:Book 2: Waterloo to the atomic age: XIV. CONSERVATISM VS. LIBERALISM IN POST-NAPOLEONIC EUROPE: Metternich and internal Austrian policy / R.W. Seton Watson -- The Decembrists / D.S. Mirsky -- The great days of reform / G.M. Trevelyan -- XV. ECONOMIC CHANGE IN POST-NAPOLEONIC EUROPE: The Industrial Revolution / Herbert Heaton -- Economic ideas and facts in the early period of the Risorgimento (1815-1848) / Kent Roberts Greenfield -- Unrest in France in 1848 / Arthur L. Dunham -- XVI. 1848: Storm over the Danube / Otakar Odlozilík -- The year 1848 in German history: reflections on a centenary / Friedrich Meinecke -- XVII. ANOTHER NAPOLEONIC ERA: Saint-Simon on horseback: the economic and social policy of Napoleon III / Albert Guérard -- The Russian peasant and serfdom / Lazar Volin -- Bismarck and the War of 1870 / Erich Eyck -- XVIII. SHAPERS OF 19TH-CENTURY THOUGHT: Charles Darwin, 1809-1882 / Karl Pearson -- Man of the century: a reconsideration of the historical significance of Karl Marx / Solomon F. Bloom -- XIX. CURRENTS IN GERMAN AND ITALIAN HISTORY, 1870-1914: Bismarck's welfare state / Sidney B. Fay -- The Germany of Treitschke / Raymond J. Sontag -- The new Italy coming of age: 1870-1915 / Kent Roberts Greenfield -- XX. CURRENTS IN BRITISH AND FRENCH HISTORY, 1870-1914: Gladstone and Ireland / Michael Tierney -- Constructive reforms [in Britain], 1860-1914 / Edward P. Cheyney -- The Church in the Third Republic / J.V. Ducattillon -- XXI. CURRENTS IN AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN AND RUSSIAN HISTORY, 1870-1914: The political structure of Austria-Hungary before the war / L.B. Namier -- The agrarian problem in Russia before the Revolution / V. Maklakov -- XXII. IMPERIALISM: The climax of anti-imperialism in England / Robert Livingston Schuyler -- A critique of imperialism / William L. Langer -- The Christian missionary movement of the 19th and 20th centuries / Kenneth Scott Latourette -- XXIII. WAR AND PEACE: July 1914: thirty years after / Bernadotte E. Schmitt -- Versailles in perspective / Charles Seymour -- XXIV. THE SOVIET DICTATORSHIP: The Russian Revolution: twenty-five years after / N.S. Timasheff -- The teaching of history under Stalin / Paul Olberg -- XXV. THE FASCIST DICTATORSHIPS: The march on Rome: revised version / Gaetano Salvemini -- The use of atrocity stories in [the Ethiopian] war / Francis O. Wilcox -- Some economic aspects of National Socialism in Germany / W.O. Henderson -- History and citizenship training in National Socialist Germany / R. John Rath -- XXVI. WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH: The Russo-German Treaty of 1939 / L.B. Namier -- Third Republic versus Third Reich / David Thomson -- The missing pages of World War II / Hanson W. Baldwin -- Diagnosing the German malady: the events that led up to the crime / Samuel J. Hurwitz -- Soviet-American relations since the War / Philip E. Mosely -- XXVII. SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE 20TH CENTURY: Freud and psychology / Edna Heidbreder -- Fifty years of atomic physics / Henry D. Smyth -- A historian looks ahead: the future of Christianity in the light of its past / Kenneth Scott Latourette.
