The Historical Geography of Europe

lii, 611, 40 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Geographical Aspect of Europe; Effects of Geography on History; Geographical Distribution of Races; Greece and the Greek Colonies: The Eastern or Greek Peninsula; Insular and Asiatic Greece; Ethnology of the Eastern Peninsula; Earliest Geography of Greece and the Neighbouring Lands; Change from Homeric to Historic Greece; The Greek Colonies; Growth of Macedonia and Epeiros; Later Geography of Independent Greece; Formation of the Roman Empire: The Inhabitants of Italy and Sicily; Growth of the Roman Power in Italy; The Western Provinces; The Eastern Provinces; Conquests Under the Empire; The Dismemberment of the Empire: The Later Geography of the Empire; The Division of the Empire; The Teutonic Settlements within the Empire; Settlement of the English in Britain; The Eastern Empire; The Final Division of the Empire: The Reunion of the Empire; Settlement of the Lombards in Italy; The Rise of the Saracens; Settlements of the Slavonic Nations; The Transfer of the Western Empire to the Franks; Northern Europe; The Beginning of the Modern European States: The Division of the Frankish Empire; The Eastern Empire; Origin of the Spanish Kingdoms; Origin of the Slavonic States; Northern Europe; The Ecclesiastical Geography of Western Europe: The Great Patriarchates; The Ecclesiastical Divisions of Italy; The Ecclesiastical Divisions of Gaul and Germany; The Ecclesiastical Divisions of Spain; The Ecclesiastical Divisions of the British Islands; The Ecclesiastical Divisions of Northern and Eastern Europe; The Imperial Kingdoms: The Kingdom of Germany; The Confederation and Empire of Germany; The Kingdom of Italy; The Later Geography of Italy; The Kingdom of Burgundy; The Swiss Confederation; The State of Savoy; The Duchy of Burgundy and the Low Countries; The Dominions of Austria; The Kingdom of France: Incorporation of the Vassal States; Foreign Annexations of France; The Colonial Dominion of France; Acquisitions of France During the Revolutionary Wars; The Eastern Empire: Changes in the Frontier of the Empire; The Kingdom of Sicily; The Crusading States; The Eastern Dominion of Venice and Genoa; The Principalities of the Greek Mainland; The Slavonic States; The Kingdom of Hungary; The Ottoman Power; The Liberated States; The Baltic Lands: The Scandinavian Lands After the Separation of the Empires; The Lands East and South of the Baltic at the Separation of the Empires; German Dominion on the Baltic; The Growth of Russia and Sweden; The Decline of Sweden and Poland; The Modern Geography of the Baltic Lands; The Spanish Peninsula and Its Colonies: The Foundation of the Spanish Kingdoms; Growth and Partition of the Great Spanish Monarchy; The Colonial Dominion of Spain and Portugal; The British Islands and Colonies: The Kingdom of Scotalnd; The Kingdom of England; Ireland; Outlying European Possessions of England; The American Colonies of England; Other Colonies and Possessions of England; Summary; Index.