Story of the Nations series
The Story of the Nations Library was a British book series started by Thomas Fisher Unwin in 1885.[1] The series was published in the USA by G. P. Putnam, though not in identical form.[2]
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Number | Year | Author | Title |
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1 | 1885 | Arthur Gilman | Rome: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic |
2 | 1885 | James Kendall Hosmer | The Jews, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern |
3 | 1886 | Sabine Baring-Gould | Germany |
4 | 1886 | Alfred John Church | Carthage; or the Empire of Africa |
5 | 1887 | John Pentland Mahaffy | Alexander's Empire |
6 | 1887 | Stanley Lane-Poole | The Moors in Spain |
7 | 1887 | George Rawlinson | Ancient Egypt |
8 | 1887 | Arminius Vambery | Hungary in Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Times |
9 | 1887 | Arthur Gilman | The Saracens: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Bagdad |
10 | 1887 | Emily Lawless | Ireland |
11 | 1887 | Zenaide Ragozin | Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria |
12 | 1888 | Henry Bradley | The Goths: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain |
13 | 1888 | Zenaide Ragozin | Assyria: From the Rise of the Empire to the Fall of Nineveh |
14 | 1888 | Stanley Lane-Poole | Turkey |
15 | 1886 | James E. Thorold Rogers | Holland |
16 | 1888 | Gustave Masson | Mediaeval France: From the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century |
17 | 1887 | S. G. W. Benjamin | Persia |
18 | 1889 | George Rawlinson | Phoenicia |
19 | 1888 | Zenaide Ragozin | Media, Babylon and Persia. Including a Study of the Zend-Avesta or Religion of Zoroasta, from the Fall of Nineveh to the Persian War |
20 | 1891 | Helen Zimmern | The Hansa Towns[3] |
21 | 1889 | Alfred John Church | Early Britain |
22 | 1890 | Stanley Lane-Poole | The Barbary Corsairs |
23 | 1890 | William Richard Morfill | Russia |
24 | 1896 | The Jews under Roman Rule | |
25 | 1890 | John Mackintosh (1833–1907)[4] | Scotland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Century |
26 | 1890 | Switzerland | |
27 | 1891 | Susan Hale | Mexico |
28 | 1891 | Henry Morse Stephens | Portugal |
29 | 1891 | Sarah Orne Jewett | The Normans: Told Chiefly in Relation to their Conquest of England |
30 | 1892 | Charles Oman | Byzantine Empire |
31 | 1892 | Edward A. Freeman | Sicily: Phoenician, Greek and Roman |
32 | 1892 | Bella Duffy | The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa and Lucca) with Genoa |
33 | 1893 | William Richard Morfill | Poland |
34 | 1893 | George Rawlinson | Parthia |
35 | 1893 | Australian Commonwealth (New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New Zealand) | |
36 | 1893 | Henry Edward Watts | Spain: Being a Summary of Spanish History from the Moorish Conquest to the Fall of Granada (711-1492 A.D.) |
37 | 1894 | David Murray | Japan |
38 | 1894 | George McCall Theal | South Africa (The Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, South African Republic, Rhodesia) and all other territories south of the Zambesi |
39 | 1894 | Venice | |
40 | 1894 | T. A. Archer Charles Lethbridge Kingsford |
The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem |
41 | 1895 | Zenaide Ragozin | Vedic India; As Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda |
42 | 1896 | James Rodway | West Indies and the Spanish Main |
43 | 1896 | Bohemia: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of National Independence in 1620, with a short summary of later events | |
44 | 1896 | William Miller | The Balkans: Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia, and Montenegro |
45 | 1896 | John George Bourinot | Canada |
46 | 1896 | British India | |
47 | 1897 | André Lebon | Modern France 1789-1895 |
48 | 1898 | Lewis Sergeant | The Franks: From their Origin as a Confederacy to the Establishment of the Kingdom of France and the German Empire |
49 | 1899 | Austria | |
50 | 1898 | Justin McCarthy | Modern England before the Reform Bill[5] |
51 | 1899 | Robert K. Douglas | China[6] |
52 | 1899 | Justin McCarthy | Modern England from the Reform Bill to the Present Time |
53 | 1899 | Martin A. S. Hume | Modern Spain 1788–1898 |
54 | 1900 | Modern Italy 1748-1898 | |
55 | 1900 | Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen | A History of Norway from the Earliest Times |
56 | 1901 | Owen Morgan Edwards | Wales |
57 | 1901 | William Miller | Mediaeval Rome: From Hildebrand to Clement VIII, 1073-1600 |
58 | 1902 | William Francis Barry | The Papal Monarchy: From St. Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII (590-1303) |
59 | 1903 | Stanley Lane-Poole | Mediaeval India under Mohammedan Rule (A.D. 712-1764) |
60 | 1903 | Thomas William Rhys Davids | Buddhist India |
61 | 1903 | Edward Jenks | Parliamentary England: The Evolution of the Cabinet System |
62 | 1903 | Mary Bateson | Mediaeval England 1066-1350 |
63 | 1905 | The Coming of Parliament: England from 1350-1660 | |
64 | 1905 | Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh | Greece: From the Coming of the Hellenes to A.D. 14 |
65 | 1908 | Henry Stuart Jones | The Roman Empire, B.C. 29–A.D. 476[7] |
Notes[]
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Wikisource has original text related to this article: |
- ^ Codell, Julie F. "Unwin, Thomas Fisher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47454. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ George Haven Putnam (1 October 2001). Memories of a Publisher 1865 - 1915. The Minerva Group, Inc. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-89875-600-5.
- ^ archive.org, Helen Zimmern, The Story Of The Nations: The Hansa Towns (1891).
- ^ Mr Neil Evans; Professor Huw Pryce (28 January 2014). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-4724-0660-6.
- ^ Justin McCarthy, The Story Of The Nations: Modern England (1898)
- ^ Robert K. Douglas, The Story Of The Nations: China (1899).
- ^ "Mr. Stuart Jones's".
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