The Historians' history of the world : a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by the great writers of all ages / edited by Henry Smith Williams ; with the collaboration of many specialists and with contributions by Thomas K. Cheyne ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World history.

Dummies (Bookselling)--Specimens.

Dummies (Bookselling).

Physical Description:

1 v. : ill. ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

London : The Times, 1907

Contents:

v. 1. Prolegomena; Egypt, Mesopotamia

v. 2. Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, Minor nations of western Asia

v. 3. Greece to the Peloponnesian war

v. 4. Greece to the Roman conquest

v. 5. The Roman republic

v. 6. The early Roman empire

v. 7. The later Roman empire

v. 8. Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs, The crusades and the papacy

v. 9. Italy

v. 10. Spain and Portugal

v. 11. France, 843-1715

v. 12. France, 1715-1815

v. 13. France, 1815-1904, Netherlands

v. 14. The Netherlands (concluded), The Germanic empires

v. 15. Germanic empires (concluded)

v. 16. Scandinavia, Switzerland to 1715

v. 17. Switzerland (concluded), Russia and Poland

v. 18. England to 1485

v. 19. England, 1485-1642

v. 20. England, 1642-1791

v. 21. Scotland, Ireland, England since 1792

v. 22. The British colonies, The United States (early colonial period)

v. 23. The United States (concluded), Spanish America

v. 24. Poland, The Balkans, Turkey, Minor eastern states, China, Japan

v. 25. Index.

Notes:

A salesman's dummy.

Local Notes:

D20 W74 1907: Laid in photographic reproduction of binding and illustration of full set on a shelf. Bookseller's description laid in. Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers. Acquired with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Cited in:

Bagnall, M583 (Supplement to ch. 22)

Contains:

Supplementary chapters on the history of Australia and the history of New Zealand.

Other Format:

Online version: Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943. Historians' history of the world.

OCLC:

1534010693

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