Volume I Corresponds to Chapters I-Xxii of the Author's "history of

Western Europe," and closes with an account of the Italian cities during the Renaissance. Volume II begins with Europe at the opening of the sixteenth century. The Abridged Edition is intended especially for high schools.

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READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY

A collection of extracts from sources chosen with the purpose of illustrating some of the chief phases of the development of Europe during the last two hundred years

By JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON, Professor of History, and CHARLES A. BEARD, Adjunct Professor of Politics, in Columbia University