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By Brooks Adams

Published 1896
Macmillan & co., ltd.

393 pages

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CHAPTER	1
appius, fustel, sesterces
CHAPTER II	48
ecav, justinian, anastasius
CHAPTER III	79
krak, coucy, ogive
CHAPTER IV	103
edessa, joscelin, nour
CHAPTER V	124
dandolo, hardouin, venetians
CHAPTER VI	152
nogaret, luchaire, boniface

CHAPTER VII	186
dovercourt, darcy, lollards
CHAPTER VIII	220
marillac, shuld, carthusians
CHAPTER X	286
clive, sepoys, nabob
CHAPTER XI	313
overstone, loyd, plassey
CHAPTER XII	352
marwari, humiliores, ryots
INDEX	385
dandolo, hattin, glaston

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Edessa - Page 105
At this time, though Edessa still nominally formed part of the Greek Empire, it was in reality independent, and was governed by an old man named ...
more pages: 86 107

Karak - Page 86
Thus on the north Edessa was the outwork of Christendom, while to the south the castle of Karak, which commanded the caravan road between Suez and ...
more pages: 121 150

Damietta - Page 163
He led a crusade against the Albigenses, was present at the siege of Damietta, and died at Rome in 1240 His sermons burn with his hatred of the ...
more pages: 126 150

Tiberias - Page 122
Three miles from Tiberias the action opened by a furious attack on the rear guard, formed by the Temple.
more pages: 87 119

Poitiers - Page 179
Clement assented, for he was practically a prisoner at Poitiers, a council at Vienne was agreed to, and the Crown seized the Templars without ...
more pages: 112 211

Damascus - Page 95
proverb, Damascus potters were the masters of the potters of France; the silk, brocades, and carpets of Syria and Persia were in the twelfth century ...
more pages: 86 117

Tortosa - Page 171
Step by step the Templars had been driven back, until Tortosa surrendered in £291. Then the Holy Land was closed, the enthusiasm which had generated ...
more pages: 99 130

Venice - Page 125
Therefore it was not through enterprizes sanctioned by the priesthood, that Venice won in the economic competition which began to prevail in the ...
more pages: 53 129

Jerusalem - Page 131
Yet he resolutely resisted the pressure of the clergy to undertake a siege, the inference being that the power which controlled him held Jerusalem to ...
more pages: 119 121

Rome - Page 12
when the island had been parcelled out into great estates stocked by capitalists with eastern slaves who, at Rome, undersold all competitors. ...
more pages: 28 355

Cairo - Page 128
Indian merchants usually sold their cargoes at Aden, whence they were taken to a port in Upper Egypt, floated down the Nile to Cairo, and bought by ...
more pages: 93 167

Tripoli - Page 106
taken out a mangled mass to die, but, as he lay languishing, news came that the Sultan of Iconium had laid siege to one of his castles near Tripoli. ...
more pages: 86 99

Waterloo - Page 316
engine as a part of daily life, and Matthew Boulton was one of the most re-markable of the race of producers whose reign lasted down to Waterloo. ...
more pages: 325 352

Paris - Page 57
1 Here then lay the impassable gulf between Byzantium and Paris; while Byzantium remained economic and materialistic, Paris passed into the glory of ...
more pages: 159 171

Le Mans - Page 158
but the association afterward increased to fifty or sixty, stretching as far west as Le Mans, as far south as the Burgundian frontier, and as far east ...
more pages: 96

London - Page 267
Had it not been for a few opulent nobles, like Norfolk and Shrewsbury, the Pilgrims of Grace might have marched to London and plucked Henry from his ...
more pages: 344 355

Norwich - Page 199
In Wickliffe's time Norwich stood next to London, and Norwich was infested with Lollards, many of whom were executed there. ...
more pages: 203 252

Birmingham - Page 314
no one can doubt that without Boulton's works at Birmingham the engine could not have been produced, and yet before 1760 such works could not.
more pages: 316 341

Amsterdam - Page 285
After many trials and sorrows, these poor people finally assembled in Amsterdam, and thence journeyed to Leyden, where they dwelt some eleven years. ...
more pages: 287 300

Genoa - Page 25
“and, as later the riches acquired in the East flowed to Genoa and Venice, so then the commercial gains of the West flowed back to Tyre and Apamea. ...
more pages: 168 298

Bombay - Page 361
For many years the cotton mills of Bombay have undersold Lancashire in the coarser fabrics, and when, by means of a canal to the Pacific, ...
more pages: 355 358

Delhi - Page 356
Of this province Lucknow is the capital, and while Lucknow was one focus of the insurrection, Delhi, the capital of the ancient Mogul empire, ...
more pages: 358

Florence - Page vi
for the Gothic never flourished in Venice, Genoa, Pisa, or Florence, nor did any pure school of architecture thrive in the mercantile atmosphere. ...
more pages: 53

Oxford - Page 209
At this time he entered Wolsey's service, and made himself of use in suppressing convents to supply endowments for the cardinal's colleges at Oxford ...
more pages: 199 260

Rouen - Page 170
Amiens, Soissons, Roye, Saint Quentin, and Rouen were all in difficulty with their loans, but Noyon was perhaps the worst of alL In 1278 Noyon owed ...
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Ipswich - Page 209
he entered Wolsey's service, and made himself of use in suppressing convents to supply endowments for the cardinal's colleges at Oxford and Ipswich. ...
more pages: 201

Corunna - Page 324
Everywhere victorious, he had defeated the English in Spain, and forced the army of Moore to embark at Corunna; while at Wagram he had brought Austria ...

Barcelona - Page 82
Though poor and of humble birth, he attracted so much attention that he was sent to Spain, where he studied in the Moorish schools at Barcelona and ...

Glasgow - Page 304
I have heard it asserted, that the trade of the city of Glasgow doubled in about fifteen years after the first erection of the banks there; ...
more pages: 303

Colchester - Page 240
In 1539 it had proved impossible to force the three great abbots of Glastonbury, Reading, and Colchester into a surrender to the Crown, ...

Syracuse - Page 17
The reduction of Syracuse by Marcellus broke the Carthaginian power in the island, and, after the fall of Agrigentum in 210 BC, the pacification of ...

Boston - Page 199
He has shown that out of 277 victims, 234 came from the district to the east of a line drawn from Boston to Portsmouth. ...
more pages: 209

Milan - Page 159
century, a convention was made between fifteen ot the more important Italian cities, such as Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan, and Otho of Burgundy, ...
more pages: 203

Edinburgh - Page 304
erection of the banks there; and that the trade of Scotland has more than quadrupled since the first erection of the two public banks at Edinburgh. ...

Portsmouth - Page 199
He has shown that out of 277 victims, 234 came from the district to the east of a line drawn from Boston to Portsmouth. ...

Toulouse - Page 202
No baron in England corresponded with such princes as the dukes of Normandy and Burgundy, the counts of Champagne and Toulouse. ...

Marseilles - Page 159
reached Champagne ordinarily by two routes: one by some Alpine pass to Geneva, and then through Burgundy; the other by water to Marseilles or Aigues. ...

Manchester - Page 341
margin of profit shrink, and at last Manchester and Birmingham believed themselves to be confronted. with ruin unless wages fell proportionately, ...

Montréal - Page 121
He soon married again, this time also another great heiress, Etiennette de Milly, Lady of Karak and Montréal, and, as her husband, Reginald became ...

Cambridge - Page 260
14, all the possessions of the schools, colleges, and guilds of England, except the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and the guilds of London, ...

Bourges - Page 96
Christian sacred architecture was culminating in those marvels of beauty, the cathedrals of Paris, of Bourges, of Chartres, and of Le Mans. ...

Liverpool - Page 345
In 1849 the first Californian gold reached Liverpool. In four years the supply of the precious metals trebled, prices rose, crops sold again at a ...

Lisbon - Page 332
A similar fall, but not to so great an extent, took place at Lisbon. What could the Act of 1819 have to do with these places?” ...

Cologne - Page 71
Noyon, Langres, and others, were counts; while in Germany the Archbishops of Mayence, of Treves, and of Cologne were princes and electors, ...

Madrid - Page 310
curses of Mexico or Lima, entered Madrid with a long train of gilded coaches, and of sumpter-horses trapped and shod with silver, were now outdone. ...

Megara - Page 38
“She can with much difficulty raise three thousand men, which number the single city of Megara sent heretofore to the battle of Platza. ...

Toulon - Page 81
The Mediterranean swarmed with Saracenic corsairs, who took Fraxinetum, near Toulon, seized the passes of the Alps, and levied toll on travel into ...

Canterbury - Page 284
London, was translated to Canterbury. Within a week he was at work. He had already prepared a Book of Canons with which to test the clergy, and ...
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Sheffield - Page 249
It was conjectured “that all the said poor people were abiding and dwelling within thirty miles' compass of Sheffield. ...

Moscow - Page 324
By so doing Alexander repudiated the “continental system” of Napoleon, made a breach with him inevitable, and thus brought on the campaign of Moscow, ...

Amiens - Page 157
Noyon was chartered in 1108, Laon in 1111, Amiens in 1113, and then free boroughs sprang up on every side. For want of the mariner's compass, ...

Bristol - Page 203
When Henry VIII. came to the throne in 1509, London may have had forty or fifty thousand inhabitants, York eleven thousand, Bristol nine or ten ...

Hamburg - Page 300
1 Smith estimated the depreciation at Hamburg at fourteen per cent, and at Amsterdam, early in the previous century, at nine per cent; in short, ...

York - Page 203
When Henry VIII. came to the throne in 1509, London may have had forty or fifty thousand inhabitants, York eleven thousand, Bristol nine or ten ...

Mayence - Page 77
In his own words, to save his life he “sent to Mayence the crown, the sceptre, the cross, the sword, the lance.” ...

Derby - Page 66
The nuns of Saint Mars', at Derby, had part of the shirt of Saint Thomas, reverenced by pregnant women; so was the girdle of Saint Francis at Grace ...

Halifax - Page 315
“The nearer we came to Halifax, we found the houses thicker, and the villages greater, in every bottom; - . - for the land being divided into small ...

Saint Denis - Page 380
all the passion of religious enthusiasm, the monks who built the abbeys of Cluny and Saint Denis took no thought of money, for it regarded them not. ...
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Calcutta - Page 309
Upon the plundering of India there can be no better authority than Macaulay, who held high office at Calcutta when the administration of Hastings was ...
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Arcot - Page 307
Clive began his campaigns by the capture and defence of Arcot, one of the most daring deeds of a generation given over to perpetual war. ...

Saint Louis - Page 179
Some have thought it was in I 306, while sheltered in the Temple, when, he having suddenly raised his debased money to the standard of Saint Louis, ...
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Madras - Page 308
The Company appointed him governor of Fort Saint David, a settlement near Madras; but he had hardly assumed his office before an event occurred which ...
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Pondicherry - Page 306
the issue of the struggle lay undecided between the French and English, the prize being the peninsula. Dupleix, the French governor of Pondicherry,.

Caracas - Page 324
In April i8io Bolivar obtained control at Caracas, and, with the outbreak of the South American revolutions, the gigantic but imaginative empire of ...

Lima - Page 310
curses of Mexico or Lima, entered Madrid with a long train of gilded coaches, and of sumpter-horses trapped and shod with silver, were now outdone. ...

Saint Augustine - Page 281
“The King: ‘Answer me neither out of Saint Augustine, nor by the authority of any other; but tell me plainly, whether thou sayest it is the body of ...