. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO n 1\ \ 03 COPYRIGHT, 19X4, BY WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISALL RIGHTS RESERVED First Printing, May IQ14 M -2 1914 fclje JUutrafoe &xti* CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTSU . S . A ©CU374292 PREFACE The main purpose of this book is to tell the story of thebuilding of Europe, in a way useful for students in the secon-dary schools, or, in other words, to answer the question howthe European nations, especially the prime units in civiliza-tion, — England, France, Germany, and Italy, — came to bewhat th


. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO n 1\ \ 03 COPYRIGHT, 19X4, BY WILLIAM STEARNS DAVISALL RIGHTS RESERVED First Printing, May IQ14 M -2 1914 fclje JUutrafoe &xti* CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTSU . S . A ©CU374292 PREFACE The main purpose of this book is to tell the story of thebuilding of Europe, in a way useful for students in the secon-dary schools, or, in other words, to answer the question howthe European nations, especially the prime units in civiliza-tion, — England, France, Germany, and Italy, — came to bewhat they are to-day. There has been an earnest effort not totake too much for granted in the way of previous information,not to overload the student with facts and names of which solittle can be told that they cannot body-out in his imagina-tion, and not to cover any but the essential features of the mainsubjects. While our story must for completeness go back to the fallof the Roman Empire, common sense dictates that for moststudents the mediaeval era is of


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