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B. Hill from a popular French work ; William Coxe, House of Austria, 4 vols. Ill; C. M. Knatchbull-Hugessen, The Political Evolution of the Hungarian Nation, Vol. I , ch. iv-vii; Armin Vambery, The Story of Hungary , in the "Story of the Nations" Series. In German: Franz Krones, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs, 5 vols.
For political events in the Germanies in the sixteenth century: E. F. Henderson, A Short History of Germany, 2 vols. in 1 ; Sidney Whitman, Austria ; Gustav Welf, Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation , an elaborate study; Franz Krones, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs von der aeltesten Zeit, Vol. I, ch. iii-v; G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, 4th ed.
III, an excellent account though somewhat antiquated; Franz Krones, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs, Vol. II , ch. xix-xxi; G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, Vol. VIII , ch. ii- iv; E. J. Lowell, The Eve of the French Revolution , an able survey; Sophia H. MacLehose, The Last Days of the French Monarchy , a popular narrative. VIII, Part II, Regne de Louis XV, 1715-1774 , and Vol.
FOREIGN WARS OF LOUIS XIV. On Louis XIV's relations with the Dutch: P. J. Blok, History of the People of the Netherlands, Part IV, Frederick Henry, John DeWitt, William III, abridged Eng. trans. by O. A. Bierstadt . On his relations with the empire: Ruth Putnam, Alsace and Lorraine from Caesar to Kaiser, 58 B.C.-1871 A.D. , a popular narrative; Franz Krones, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs, Vol.
On the history of the Germanies from the religious peace of Augsburg to the peace of Westphalia there is the painstaking Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des dreissigjaehrigen Krieges, 1555-1648, by Moritz Ritter, 3 vols. For the history of Austria during the period, see Franz Kroncs, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs von der aeltesten Zeit, Vol.
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