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| List of illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Note on transliteration | |
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| The Bulgarian Lands From Prehistory to the Arrival of the Bulgarians | |
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| Mediaeval Bulgaria, 681-1393 | |
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| Bulgaria under the Khans, 681-852 | |
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| The reign of Boris I (852-888) and the conversion to Christianity | |
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| The reign of Simeon the great (893-927) | |
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| The end of the first empire, 896-1018 | |
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| Bulgaria under Byzantine rule, 1018-1185 | |
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| The second Bulgarian empire, 1185-1393 | |
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| Ottoman Rule in the Bulgarian Lands | |
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| Ottoman society and administration | |
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| The Bulgarian population under Ottoman rule | |
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| The Bulgarian church under Ottoman rule | |
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| Protest against Ottoman power | |
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| The decline of the Ottoman empire | |
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| The National Rfvival and the I Iberation | |
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| The Awakeners | |
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| Economic, social and political change in the Ottoman empire | |
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| The background to the Bulgarian cultural revival | |
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| The cultural revival: education, literacy and literature | |
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| The struggle for a separate Bulgarian church | |
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| The struggle for political independence and the liberation of 1878 | |
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| The Consolidation of the Bulgarian State, 1878-1896 | |
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| The Constituent Assembly and the Turnovo constitution | |
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| Constitutional conflicts, 1879-1883 | |
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| The national question and union with Rumelia, 1884-1885 | |
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| The war with Serbia and the deposition of Alexander Battenberg, 1885-1886 | |
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| The regency and the election of Prince Ferdinand, 1886-1887 | |
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| The Stambolovshtina, 1887-1894 | |
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| The recognition of Prince Ferdinand | |
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| Ethnic and social change after the liberation | |
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| Ferdinand's Personal Rule, 1896-1918 | |
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| Stoilov's programme for modernisation | |
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| The establishment of Ferdinand's personal rule | |
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| Social crisis and the emergence of the agrarian movement, 1895-1908 | |
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| The Macedonian crisis and the declaration of independence, 1900-1908 | |
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| Balkan diplomacy and the Balkan wars, 1908-1913 | |
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| Bulgaria and the first world war | |
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| Bulgaria, 1918-1944 | |
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| The peace settlement of 1919 | |
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| Agrarian rule, 1919-1923 | |
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| The Rule of the Democratic Alliance, 1923-1931 | |
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| The rule of the devetnaiseti, May 1934-January 1935 | |
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| The personal rule of King Boris, 1934-1941 | |
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| Bulgaria and the second world war, 1941-1944 | |
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| Bulgaria Under Communist Rule, 1944-1989 | |
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| The communist takeover, 1944-1947 | |
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| Destalinisation and the rise of Todor Zhivkov, 1953-1965 | |
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| The zhivkovshtina, 1965-1981 | |
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| The decline and fall of Todor Zhivkov, 1981-1989 | |
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| Post-Communist Bulgaria | |
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| Incomplete transition, 1989-1997 | |
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| Dismantling the apparatus of totalitarianism, November 1989-December 1990 | |
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| Constructing the apparatus of democracy, December 1990-October 1991 | |
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| The UDF government, October 1991-October 1992 | |
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| The Berov government, December 1992-September 1994 | |
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| The failure of economic reform, 1989-1994 | |
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| The Videnov government and the catastrophe of 1996 | |
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| Real transition, 1997-2004 | |
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| The Kostov government and the attainment of stability, April 1997-June 2001 | |
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| The government of 'the king'; the road to the EU and NATO | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bulgarian monarchs | |
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| Prime ministers of Bulgaria, 1879-2004 | |
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| Suggestions for further reading | |
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| Index | |