THE EXPANSION OF EUROPE

THE CULMINATION OF MODERN HISTORY

BY RAMSAY MUIR

PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

SECOND EDITION

TO MY MOTHER





PREFACE


The purpose of this book is twofold.

We realise to-day, as never before, that the fortunes of the
world, and of every individual in it, are deeply affected by the
problems of world-politics and by the imperial expansion and the
imperial rivalries of the greater states of Western civilisation.
But when men who have given no special attention to the history of
these questions try to form a sound judgment on them, they find
themselves handicapped by the lack of any brief and clear resume
of the subject. I have tried, in this book, to provide such a
summary, in the form of a broad survey, unencumbered with detail,