Ridpath's History of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social institutions and the story of all nations from recent and authentic sources by John Clark Ridpath ... Profusely illustrated with colored plates, race maps and charts, type pictures, sketches and diagrams

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

10 v. : fronts., ill., plates (part col.) ports., maps, charts ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati, O. : The Jones brothers publishing company, 1912-21.

Contents:

I. Egypt. Chaldea. Assyria. Media. Babylonia. Persia.

II. Parthia. Greece. Macedonia. Alexander the Great.

III. Rome: the kingdom, the republic, the empire.

IV. Barbarian ascendency. The Mohammedan ascendency. Charlemagne. The feudal ascendency. The crusades.

V. The people and the kings. New world and reformation.

VI. The English revolution. Age of Frederick the Great. The age of revolution.

VII. The United States. Great Britain. France. Italy.

VIII. Germany. Eastern Europe. Minor-American states. Oriental nations.

IX. The close of the nineteenth and dawn of the twentieth century.

X. The world war.

Notes:

Vols. 1-9 have note: Complete in nine volumes.

Local Notes:

HSP set imperfect: vols. 3, 4, 6, 10 wanting.

OCLC:

20010716