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I. The European States
A. Enlightened Absolutism?
B. The Atlantic Seaboard States
1. France: The Problems of the French Monarchs
2. Great Britain: King and Parliament
3. The Decline of the Dutch Republic
C. Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe
1. Prussia: The Army and the Bureaucracy
2. The Austrian Empire of the Habsburgs
3. Russia under Catherine the Great
4. The Destruction of Poland
D. The Mediterranean World
1. Portugal
2. The Italian States
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