General preface; Editor's preface; Book I. Zenith of the Swiss Confederation, 1499-1519: 1. The separation of Switzerland from the Empire; 2. The confederation of the thriteen cantons and their allies; 3. Mercenary campaigns in Italy; 4. Matthew Schinner and the war with France; Book II. Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1519-1648: 5. Ecclesiastical conditions prior to the Reformation; 6. Ulrich Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich; 7. Spread of the Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland; 8. The Kappel wars; 9. Geneva and West Switzerland prior to the Reformation; 10. Guillaume Farel and the conquest of Vaud; 11. Calvin in Geneva; 12. The Counter-Reformation; 13. The Swiss in the Huguenot wars; 14. The Swiss during the Thirty Years' War; 15. Swiss civilisation in the age of the Reformation; Book III. Age of Aristocracy, 1648-1798: 16. The aristocracy and the Peasants' War; 17. Protestant Switzerland and Oliver Cromwell. The first Villmergen War; 18. Switzerland and Louis XIV; 19. The dispute concerning the Neuchâtel succession. The second Villmergen War; 20. Swiss civilisation in the eighteenth century; 21. Federal conditions in the eighteenth century; 22. The Swiss democracies during the eighteenth century; 23. The Swiss aristocracies during the eighteenth century; 24. Disturbances in Geneva, Neuchâtel, and the Bishopric of Basel; 25. Premonitions of the revolution; Book IV. Period of Revolution, 1798-1815: 26. The fall of the old confederation; 27. The Helvetic Republic one and indivisible; 28. Switzerland as the theatre of European war; 29. Coups d'état and mediation; 30. Switzerland under the Act of Mediation; 31. Overthrow of the Act of Mediation; Book V. Epoch of the Federal Pact, 1815-48: 32. Epoch of the Restoration; 33. Liberal and democratic regeneration in the Cantons; 34. The Sonderbund War; Book VI. Switzerland as a Federal State, 1848-1914: 35. Under the Federal Constitution of 1848; 36. The Federal Constitution of 1874; Appendix. The historical relations of England and Switzerland; Bibliography; Index.