CHAPTER I. Before the Brush (to 645 CE)
CHAPTER II. Emperors and Aristocrats: Rule by Law and Taste (645-1160)
CHAPTER III. Warriors: The Long Rise (1160—1550)
CHAPTER IV. Peace—And Its Benefits (1550-1850)
CHAPTER V. The Nation Transformed (1850-1905)
CHAPTER VI. Engaging the World, for Good and for Ill (1905-1945)
CHAPTER VII. A New Kind of Power (after 1945)