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The making of men

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Herbert George Wells

Macmillan, 1921 - World history

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Contents

Arabia before Muhammad 2 Life of Muhammad to the Hegira	1

Arabia and Adjacent Countries	2

3 Civil war is forced upon the colonies	3

The War of Independence	4

The constitution of the United States	5

The Growth of Moslem Power in 25 Years	25

a d	33

CHRISTENDOM AND THE CRUSADES 1 The Western world at its lowest ebb 2 The feudal system	40

European Trade Routes in the 14th Century	190

Switzerland	198

Martin Luther	206

PRINCES PARLIAMENTS AND POWERS	215

Central Europe 1648	233

The Partitions of Poland	250

Britain France and Spain in America 1750	256

THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICS OF AMERICA	278

Europe at the Death of Charlemagne	55

France at the Close of the 10th Century	65

84	76

The First Crusade Map	77

The Crusades a test of Christianity 12 The Emperor Frederick II	80

BOOK VII	103

THE GREAT EMPIRE OF JENGIS KHAN AND HIS SUCCESSORS 1 Asia at the end of the twelfth century 2 The rise and victories of the Mongols...	105

Europe and Asia 1200	107

Travels of Marco Polo	117

The Ottoman Turks the Turkish Caliph and Constantinople	120

Ottoman Empire before 1453	123

Empire of Timurlane	131

THE RENASCENCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION	139

We have the payne John Bulls Speech	164

American Colonies 1760	279

PAGE	286

The Directory	338

The pause in reconstruction and the dawn of modern Socialism	339

THE CAREER OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 1 The Buonaparte family in Corsica 2 Bonaparte as a republican general 3 Napoleon First Consul 17...	348

The development of the idea of Socialism 5 Shortcomings of Socialism as a scheme of human society 6 How Darwinism affected religious and polit...	384

3 The fermentation of ideas 1848	399

Mr Gladstone and the idea of Nationalism 8 Europe between 1848 and 1878	470

The armed peace before the Great War 2 Imperial Germany	475

MANS COMING OF AGE THE PROBABLE STRUGGLE	579

The stages beyond?	594

A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE FROM 800 B C TO A D 1920	605

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Title	The making of men Volume 2 of The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind, Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
Author	Herbert George Wells
Editor	James Francis Horrabin
Illustrated by	James Francis Horrabin
Publisher	Macmillan, 1921
Original from	the University of California
Digitized	19 Dec 2008

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