1897. In this volume Victorian soldier, explorer, and scholar, Claude Reignier Conder, aims not to relate a history of the Crusades, but to present a picture of the curious social conditions which resulted from the establishment of a feudal society amid Oriental surroundings, and to trace the growth of civilization and prosperity during the two centuries of Latin rule. Contents: Peter the Hermit; The March to Antioch; The Founding of the Kingdom; The Growth of the Kingdom; The Loss of the Kingdom; The Frank Life in Palestine; The Native Life in Palestine; The Third Crusade; The Thirteenth Century Franks; St. Louis; The Tartars; and The Loss of Acre. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.