1. Introductory survey A. Goodwin; 2. Population, commerce and economic ideas John Habakkuk; 3. Literature and thought: the Romantic tendency, Rousseau, Kant W. Stark; 4. Music, art and architecture F. W. Sternfeld and Peter Murray; 5. Science and technology D. McKie; 6. Educational ideas, practice and institutions A. V. Judges; 7. Armed forces and the art of war Christopher Lloyd and J. R. Western; 8. European relations with Asia and Africa Kenneth Ballhatchet and J. D. Hargreaves; 9. European diplomatic relations, 1763-90 M. S. Anderson; 10. The Habsburg possessions and Germany E. Wangermann; 11. Russia I. Young; 12. The partitions of Poland L. R. Lewitter; 13. The Iberian states and the Italian States, 1763-93 J. Lynch and J. M. Roberts; 14. The development of the American communities outside British rule R. A. Humphries; 15. Social and psychological foundations of the revolutionary era R. R. Palmer; 16. American independence in its constitutional aspects Max Beloff; 17. American independence in its imperial, strategic and diplomatic aspects M. A. Jones; 18. American independence in its American context: social and political aspects: western expansion Esmond Wright; 19. The beginnings of reform in Great Britain: imperial problems: politics and administration, economic growth W. R. Ward; 20. French administration and public finance in their European setting J. F. Bosher; 21. The breakdown of the old regime in France D. Dakin; 22. The historiography of the French revolution J. McManners; 23. The outbreak of the French Revolution G. E. Rude; 24. Reform and revolution in France: October 1789-February 1793 A. Goodwin; Appendix. Estimated growth of population in Europe and North America in the eighteenth century; Index.