Table of Contents Thread

We have threads for maps, flags and coats of arms. Isn't it about time we had one for a book's table of contents?

The purpose of a table of contents is to outline what will be covered in a book.

To get this thing rolling, I will go first.

"The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Empire, 1861-1975" by Jerome Garcia

1. A Hapsburg on the Throne: The Reign of Maximilian I (1861-1879)
2. Viva La Casa de Iturbide: The Reign of Salvador I (1879-1895)
3. The Two Amigos: Agustin II and Relations with the USA (1895-1913)
4. Winds of War: Agustin III, The Zimmermann Telegram and World War I (1913-1918)
5. The Dissolution of an Empire and Birth of a New Republic (1918-1920)
6. Return to Normalcy and the Addition of States: The Presidency of John J. Pershing (1921-1929)
7. Chaos and Anarchy: The Mexican Civil War (1920-1927)
8. Herbert Hoover and The Compromise That Brought Peace to Mexico
9. A Bourbon on the Throne: King Alfonso XIII of Spain accepts the Mexican Crown
10. The Fateful 30s: The End of the Spanish Monarchy, The Great Depression and the Rise of Nazism
11. Lazaro Cardenas: The People's Prime Minister
12. A Day That Will Live in Infamy: The Japanese Attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Port of Acapulco.
13. The Great Alliance: America and Mexico vs. The Axis Powers
14. Mexico Enters The Nuclear Age
15. Emperor Juan Carlos and the Birth of Modern Mexico
16. The End of the Castro Regime and Mexico's Role in the Bay of Pigs
17. 1974: The Year That Nixon Went Down and Puerto Rico Became a State
18. Epilogue
 
ooh, this looks fun! Here's mine:

"Hail Columbia: A Concise History of the Second Union." Published by Capitol Press, New York City, 2008.

Prologue: Decline and Fall of the First Union, 1847-1860
1. The Election of 1860 and Secession
2. The War of Secession, 1861-62
3. The Crisis of Surrender, 1862-63
4. Seward's Impeachment and the Unionist Coup
5. Civil War, 1863-66
6. The National Convention and the Birth of the Second Union
7. Conciliation and Industrialization, 1866-83
8. The Gilded Age
9. The Crash of '93 and the Rise of Labor
10. Rapprochment with Britain
11. The Dawn of the Twentieth Century
12. The First Labor Cabinet, 1900-04
13. The Southern Rival
14. The Canal War, 1914-17
15. Social Change and Social Strife in the Twenties
16. 'Who's in and Who's Out': Rotating-Door Cabinets in the Thirties
17. 'The Snake of the South'
18. The Gathering Storm, 1938-41
19. 'Not One Step Back!'
20. Freedom's Victory
21. Reconstruction
22. 'A New Society,' 1951-61
23. 'The Fruits of All Our Sacrifices,' 1961-73
24. Retrenchment and Reform, 1973-84
25. 'A New Day Dawns in America,' 1984-93
26. 'Colossus of the West'
27. The United States in the New Millenium
 
"The Life and Times of President Napoleon Bonaparte," Published by Harvard University Press, 2005

Chapter 1. Childhood, 1769-1787
Chapter 2. Napoleon Enlists in the Navy
Chapter 3. Friendship With John Quincy Adams
Chapter 4. USA vs. UK, Act II: Victory in the War of 1812
Chapter 5. Making of a Nation: The Republic of Quebec
Chapter 6. American Settlement in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Chapter 7. A Returning Hero Retires to Boston
Chapter 8. The Rise of the Federalists and the Bonaparte Administration (1817-1825)
Chapter 9. Power to the People: Andrew Jackson Elected President in 1824
Chapter 10. The Elder Stateman and the Presidencies of John Quincy Adams (1829-1837) and Henry Clay (1837-41)
Chapter 11. Napoleon Breathes His Last Breath, July 4, 1840
Epilogue: American Expansion
 
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Nice one, glenn.

Here's a counterpart volume to my initial attempt in this thread.

"Dixie: A Concise History of the Confederate States of America." Published by Hotchkiss & Hemmings: Richmond, 2008.

Prologue: The South in the Union, 1776-1860
1. Disputed Election and Secession
2. War of Independence, 1861-62
3. Birth of a Nation, 1863-67
4. The Davis Administration, 1867-73
5. The Old Guard in Command, 1873-85
6. The Coming of Industry, 1885-97
7. 'Forward to the Future!'
8. The Wilson Era and the Canal War, 1909-17
9. Return of the Old Guard, 1918-27
10. 'Dixie! Dixie! Dixie!': The Rise of the Dixiecrats
11. The Crash of '28
12. 'Bread and Order': The Election of '33
13. 'The Glory of the Race': Hilmer's First Term
14. 'The Chief'
15. Lightning Strike
16. 'The Just Vengeance of God'
17. Occupation, 1945-51
18. Rebirth of a Nation
19. A New Dixie, 1961-79
20. 'Open for Business': The Age of Investment, 1979-93
21. 'Let's Go SOFT!'
Epilogue: The New Milennium
 
Thor's Hammer: Nuclear Weapons And Great Britain, 1936-2007
Sir Miles Hayworth
Oxford University Press, 2007


Foreword (Air Marshall Richard Dalton, RAF Strategic Command)

Introduction
1. Einstein's Legacy.
2. A Gathering Storm, Britain and the 1930s
3. Rutherford and the Uranium Committee, 1936-1941
4. The Phoenix and Science I: France
5. The Phoenix and Science II: Hungary
6. The Phoenix and Science III: Invictian America
7. Project Shiva (1941-46)
8. The Coalition and the Atom I: Germany
9. The Coalition and the Atom II: Russia
10. The Coalition and the Atom III: Argentina
11. The Coalition and the Atom IV: Mexico
12. The Phoenix War (1941-1947)
13. The Fall of Germany
14. The Bear and the Phoenix
15. The Great North American War (1941-1946)
16. Codename Kali
17. By Dawn's Early Light I: The Atom Bombing of Baltimore
18. By Dawn's Early Light II: The Atom Bombing of St. Louis
19. Twilight's Last Gleaming: The Fall of Invictian America
20. Britannia's Wrath: The Atom Bombing of Toulouse
21. Rule Britannia: British Atomic Supremacy (1947-1952)
22. Russian Sunrise: The Russian Bomb (1952)
23. The Great Game (1949-2001)
24. Deutchland Uber Alles: The German Bomb (1957)
25. Argentina and the Atom Bomb (1961)
26. The Afghan Rocket Controversy (1967)
27. Arms Limitation (1970-2007)
28. The Mexican Bomb (1977)
29. Nippon's Bomb (1981)
30. The Statute of Westminster and the Reformation of the Empire (2001)
31. The Commonwealth of Nations and Atomic Weapons (2001-2007)
32. The United Kingdom of the Canadas (2001-2007)
33. Oregon (2001-2003)
34. Oceania (2001-2007)
35. India (2001-2007)
36. Drakia (2001-2004)
37. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (2001-2007)
38. Normandy (2001)
 
A Slain Lion: The Victorious Armada and its Aftermath

Prologue: The Beard is Singed: Struggle between England and Spain

1. That Blessed Banner: The Armada Sets Sail
2. Mortally Wounded: The Battle of Calais
3. "A Beautiful Day for Conquest": The Landing
4. An Uncivil War: Terror and Treachery in the Invasion's Opening
5. "Trifles": The Logistical Problems of the Armada
6. Unstoppable: The Expansion of Spanish Power in England
7. Settle In: The Defeat at York and the beginning of the Great Stalemate
8. A War without War: The nature of the Great Stalemate
9. Distractions: Scotland and France in the Anglo-Spanish War
10. Not Worth a Mass: Henri IV takes Paris
11. Casting About: The marriage of Elizabeth I and Henri IV
12. "Damnable Fury": The resumption of hostilities and the end of the Great Stalemate
13. The Bane of Spain: England's Victories
14. This is the End...: The Death of Elizabeth
15. ...or a New Beginning: The Death-Child, the Heir of Fate--The Child of Henri IV and Elizabeth
16. The Bane is Dead: The End of Victory
17. Here Comes the Tide: Spanish Victories
18. London Calling: The Last Days of the Great Capital
19. The Death Blow: The Battle of Cardiff
20. Off with His Head: The Fall of London, the end of the war

Epilogue: Henri V, the King of France and Heir of England, Franco-Spanish Wars, The Zenith of Spanish Power
 
Thor's Hammer: Nuclear Weapons And Great Britain, 1936-2007
Sir Miles Hayworth
Oxford University Press, 2007

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good one; sounds very dystopic though. Is Invictian meant to be an alt-word for fascist? I like it a lot.

A Slain Lion: The Victorious Armada and its Aftermath
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I like this too; it's like a worst case-scenario for England but it seems plausible. And the French get the English throne after all those years of the English trying to get the French one? ha ha!

Here's a new one by me, from an ATL where Russia never goes Communist but becomes a constitutional monarchy; say Alexander III never gets assassinated. One consequence of this is that Russia isn't as isolated and censored culturally, and by 2000 the Russian film industry is second only to the USA in terms of production and global popularity.

"The Russian Cinema in the Twentieth Century," by Viktor Ivanovich Markov: First English-Language Edition (Oxford, 2003; trans. Basil Weatherbie).

1. Beginnings--1900-1924
2. The Age of Eisenstein--1924-33
3. Eisenstein's "War and Peace" (1930)--Russian Cinema Goes Global
4. Eisentstein in Hollywood--1933-40
5. The Young Wolves--A New Generation of Russian Directors
6. Cinema for the Motherland--Film During the Second Great War, 1943-7
7. The Golden Age--1948-65
8. The Age of the 'Frontier Epic'
9. The 'New Wave' Comes to Russia
10. "We Say No to Hollywood, We Are Russians Making Russian Films"
Epilogue: The Global Popularity of Russian Cinema
 
"The Life and Times of President Napoleon Bonaparte," Published by Harvard University Press, 2005

Chapter 1. Childhood, 1769-1787
Chapter 2. Napoleon Enlists in the Navy
Chapter 3. Friendship With John Quincy Adams
Chapter 4. USA vs. UK, Act II: Victory in the War of 1812
Chapter 5. Making of a Nation: The Republic of Quebec
Chapter 6. American Settlement in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Chapter 7. A Returning Hero Retires to Boston
Chapter 8. The Rise of the Federalists and the Bonaparte Administration (1817-1825)
Chapter 9. Power to the People: Andrew Jackson Elected President in 1824
Chapter 10. The Elder Stateman and the Presidencies of John Quincy Adams (1829-1837) and Henry Clay (1837-41)
Chapter 11. Napoleon Breathes His Last Breath, July 4, 1980
Epilogue: American Expansion
Napoleon lives 220 years!? Awesome! :)

(Sorry about that, but it was too much)
 
good one; sounds very dystopic though. Is Invictian meant to be an alt-word for fascist? I like it a lot.

One of them. The Phoenix movement is the European version. Invictian is the American one. The Invictian Americans are basically US Nazis. The French *fascists are more along the lines of Italy, but competent.

The breakpoint is actually no Mexican-American War, though. that said, the US and a stable Mexico come to blows in the 1920s, and the US loses. In Europe, France loses a WWI analogue (it was France vs everyone else but Britain) and slowly slides into revanchism and dictatorship. The 1940s see a rematch in North America (which expands into an Anglo-American war in a Barbarossa analogue) and a (shorter) redo of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.

The end with the breakup of the British Empire is modelled more or less after the collapse of the USSR. Russia is a constitutional monarchy, and in many way is that world's US-analogue. The "Great Game" is the Cold War.

Yours are pretty good. That Alt US probably wasn't a nice place to live in during the 20th century. Russian cinema is probably something that we here got to miss out on. Unless you count some of the epics that the Soviets put out. Stalinist propaganda or no.
 
Okay, here's one I made:

"To Tread Into the Unknown": Spaceflight In The 20th Century
published by Oxford University Press 2005

Prologue: The Eternal Dream
Chapter I: Inventors, Fools, and Charlatans
Chapter II: Daring Dreamer: Robert Goddard
Chapter III: "Cranks, the lot of them": The Early BIS
Chapter IV: German Geniuses
Chapter V: The Hidden Russians
Chapter VI: World War II
Chapter VII: Operation Paperclip (United States)
Chapter VIII: Operation Madman (United Kingdom)
Chapter IX: Tyuratam
Chapter X: A Dream Defered
Chapter XI: A Red Dawn
Chapter XII: Drake
Chapter XIII: Vanguard
Chapter XIV: A Joint Effort
Chapter XV: The Motherland Hears
Chapter XVI: A Joint Response
Chapter XVII: The Early Race
Chapter XVIII: Tragedy
Chapter XIX: "We came for all...": The Soviet Landing
Chapter XX: "Just like Woomera...": The Anglo-American Response
Chapter XXI: The New Dreamers
Chapter XXII: A Decline, A Rise
Chapter XXIII: "A beautiful view...": Unmanned Exploration, 1960-1980
Chapter XXIV: "This nation should commit itself...": The Race Goes On
Chapter XXV: Salyut and Skylab
Chapter XXVI: An Economic Response
Chapter XXVII: Trials and Tribulations
Chapter XXVIII: Island One
Chapter XXIX: Mir
Chapter XXXV: "Woah, look at that!": Unmanned Exploration, 1980-2000
Chapter XXX: The End of Crisis
Chapter XXXI: New Nations, New Ways
Chapter XXXII: Collapse of a Titan
Chapter XXXIII: Cast Adrift
Chapter XXXIV: A New Mission
Epilogue: Spaceflight In The New Millenium

...well, I like it.
 
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One of them. The Phoenix movement is the European version. Invictian is the American one. The Invictian Americans are basically US Nazis. The French *fascists are more along the lines of Italy, but competent.

The breakpoint is actually no Mexican-American War, though. that said, the US and a stable Mexico come to blows in the 1920s, and the US loses. In Europe, France loses a WWI analogue (it was France vs everyone else but Britain) and slowly slides into revanchism and dictatorship. The 1940s see a rematch in North America (which expands into an Anglo-American war in a Barbarossa analogue) and a (shorter) redo of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe.

The end with the breakup of the British Empire is modelled more or less after the collapse of the USSR. Russia is a constitutional monarchy, and in many way is that world's US-analogue. The "Great Game" is the Cold War.

Very cool; I would totally read that timeline.

Yours are pretty good. That Alt US probably wasn't a nice place to live in during the 20th century. Russian cinema is probably something that we here got to miss out on. Unless you count some of the epics that the Soviets put out. Stalinist propaganda or no

Thanks; my first two entries are actually roughly modelled on my plans for the timeline in my sig. It also involves a POD that avoids a Mexican War in the 1840's ;). And the alt USA isn't _that_ bad of a place; at least it's better than the CSA :D! Those two have a relationship kind of like France and Germany in OTL; they have a war over which one will get to dig the first canal through Central America, then a rematch 25 years later in which the USA initially does very badly but eventually wins (more like the Soviets, I guess). The USA then has 30-40 years of socialist governments (the main conservative party is blamed for failing to prevent the war), before a Reagan analogue takes power and privatizes everything. At first this just makes things a lot worse, but by the 1990's the economy is growing again.
 
"The History of Germany: 1946 - 2009", published by the Spiegel Verlag

Chapter 1: A new order (1946 - 1954)
Chapter 2: Domination (1954 - 1959)
Chapter 3: Adolf Hitler: Life and Death in his Reich (1946 - 1954)
Chapter 4: Confrontation (1959 - 1961)
Chapter 5: The Normandian Missile Crisis (1961 - 1962)
Chapter 6: At the height (1962 - 1971)
Chapter 7: Stagnation (1971 - 1979)
Chapter 8: War in Turkey (1979 - 1989)
Chapter 9: Revolution (1989 - 1991)
Chapter 10: A new beginning (1991 - 2009)
Chapter 11: A look into the future (2009 -)
 
Alternate Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon does not go to Russia, but Russia goes to Napoleon.

War and Peace By Leo Tolstoy

Part 1: Before Tilsit (-1807)
Part 2: The Long Wait (1807-1813)
Part 3: The Long March to Paris (1813-1815)
Part 4: End of a Dynasty (1815-1817)
 
from a TL where Finland stays under Tsarist Russian rule until the late twentieth century; let's just say it's from the same TL as the Russian cinema book so I don't have to come up with another explanation for why there's still a tsar.

"The Long Twilight Struggle: Finland in the Twentieth Century," by Jessica Barlow (UChicago, 2008).

1. A Generation of Freedom: The Finnish State, 1916-43
2. 'At the Side of Our German Friends': Finland's Participation in the Second Great War
3. 'A Temporary Situation': The Russian Occupation, 1946-48
4. The Helsinki Crisis, Russian Annexation, and the End of the Triple Entente
5. Restoration of the Grand Duchy, 1948-55
6. 'Living Quietly Next to the Bear': Autonomous Government, 1955-76
7. Demographics, Part 1: Finnish Emigration to Sweden, Germany, and America
8. Demographics, Part 2: Russian Immigration to Finland
9. 'Slaves No More': The Resurgence of Nationalism in the Seventies
10. The Formation of the Finnish Revolutionary Organization: Berlin, 1971
11. The Socialist Ascendancy in the FRO
12. 'The Hour of Revolution is at Hand!': The General Strike and the Beginning of Guerilla Combat, 1974
13. Martial Law, 1976
14. 'The Dance of Death Under the Northern Lights': Guerilla War in the Northern Woods, 1977-88
15. 'There Must Be Some Way Out of Here': Changes in Russian Policy After the Death of Nicholas IV
16. The Stockholm Conference, 1990: Timetables for Independence
17. The National Election, 1991
18. 'O Finland Awake!': Independence, 1993
 
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