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LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE Gossard Memorial Library
THE
BRITISH IN INDIA
Imperialism or Trusteeship?
PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION UNDER THE EDITORIAL DIRECTION OF
Ralph W. Greenlaw* and Dwight E. Lee j Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Why Did It Collapse? f The Pirenne Thesis — Analysis, Criticism, and Revision* The Coronation of Charlemagne — What Did It Signify? * The Gregorian Epoch -— Reformation, Revolution, Reaction? * Innocent
III — Vicar
of Cfirist or Lord of the World? f
The Crusades — Motives and Achievements* The Renaissance — Medieval or Modern? * Machiavelli — Cynic, Patriot, or Political Scientist? * The Reformation — Material or Spiritual? * The Character of Philip
II — The
Problem of Moral Judgments in History*
Protestantism and Capitalism — The Weber Thesis and Its Critics* The Origins of the English Civil War — Conspiracy, Crusade, or Class Conflict? * The Revolution of 1688 — Whig Triumph or Palace Revolution? t Peter the Great — Reformer or Revolutionary? f The Greatness of Louis
XIV — Myth
or Reality? *
The Eighteenth-Century Revolution — French or Western? f The Influence of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution — Creative, Disastrous, or Non-Existent? * The Economic Origins of the French Revolution — Poverty or Prosperity? * Metternich, the “Coachman of Europe” — Statesman or Evil Genius? * The Industrial Revolution in Britain — Triumph or Disaster? * 1848 —
A
Napoleon
Turning Point? *
III —
Buffoon, Modern Dictator, or Sphinx? f
Otto von Bismarck —
A
Historical Assessment*
The “New Imperialism” — Analysis of Late Nineteenth-Century Expansion*
A
Free Churcfi in a Free State? — The Catholic Church, Italy, Germany, France, 1864-1914f
The Dreyfus Affair —
A
Tragedy of Errors? f
The Outbreak of the First World War — Who Was Responsible? * The Russian Revolution and Bolshevik Victory — Why and How? * The Versailles Settlement — Was It Doomed to Failure? * The Ethiopian Crisis — Touchstone of Appeasement? * The Nazi Revolution — Germany’s Guilt or Germany’s Fate? * The British in India — Imperialism or Trusteeship? f The Outbreak of the Second World War — Design or Blunder? f The Cold War — Ideological Conflict or Power Struggle? f
Other volumes in preparation
THE BRITISH IN INDIA Imperialism or Trusteeship ?
Edited with an introduction by
Martin Doming Lewis %\
SIR
GEORGE
WILLIAMS
UNIVERSITY, QUEBEC
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