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Hostility between Russia and Great Britain
Death of Catharine I. Accession of Peter II
The domination of Menshikoff
549
550
Effects of the "Hanoverian Alliance." Supreme Privy Council
551
552
553
554
555
556
557
Demetrius Galitsin. Anne elected Empress
"Articles of Mittau" cancelled by Anne
CHAPTER XVIII
THE SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOMS
By W. F. REDDAWAY, M.A., Fellow and Lecturer in History of
King's College
562
Her dangers abroad and at home. Early years of Charles XI
Swedish victory of Lund. Other victories. Losses in Germany
Treaties of Saint-Germain, Fontainebleau, and Lund
570
571
By R. NISBET BAIN
The minority of Charles XII. His natural gifts
584
Charles XII assumes the sovereignty. Signs of an autocratic rule
585
The Reformation in Brandenburg. Joachim I and II
626
Lutheranism. Joachim Frederick. The first Council of State
627
The Rhenish duchies. John Sigismund a Calvinist
628
Early history of Prussia
629
The German Order
630
The Order conquers Prussia
631
The Order's greatness and decline
632
Political weakness of the Order. Henry of Plauen
633
Decay of the Order.
Polish suzerainty
Margrave Albert invested with the duchy of Prussia
635
Progress towards union
636
Brandenburg-Prussia in the Thirty Years' War
Brandenburg-Prussia towards the end of the War
637
638
Ryswyk
The fall of Danckelmann
Aspirations of Frederick III
Brandenburg's share in the War against France. Peace of
Negotiations as to a royal Crown
660
661
662
663
By E. A. BENIANS, M.A., Fellow of St John's College
Transitional period in colonial history
The progress of Brazil
The expulsion of the Dutch from Brazil
673
674
674-6
676
The Indians. Commercial policy of Spain
683
Loss of the Spanish monopoly. French colonisation in North
By P. E. ROBERTS, B.A., late Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford
EUROPEAN SCIENCE IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLIER
YEARS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
(1) MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE
By W. W. Rouse BALL, M.A., Fellow and late Tutor of
Trinity College
Scientific progress in the seventeenth and the earlier years of the
By the late SIR MICHAEL FOSTER, K.C.B., F.R.S., Fellow of
Trinity College, formerly Professor of Physiology