CRISTO RAUL'
THE BOOK OF HISTORY
Volumes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

 

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PRESENT

This is the story of the earth from the first thing we know of it to the
time in which we live. It is the story of man from the first thing we know
of him to the last thought that the vision of modern science can suggest

AN INTRODUCTION

BY VISCOUNT BRYCE

CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

W. M. Flinders Petrie Hans F. Helmolt Stanley Lane-Poole Robert Nisbet Bain
Hugo Winckler Archibald H. Sayce Alfred Russel Wallace Holland Thompson
W. Stewart Wallace Maurice Maeterlinck Dr. Emile J. Dillo Arthur Mee
Sir Harry H. Johnston Johannes Rank Sir William Lee-Warner K. G. Brandis
And many other Specialists

A VIEW ACROSS THE AGES

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF HISTORY

by the Viscount Bryce

UNIVERSAL DOOR

 

The Life-Story of the Earth and of All Nations

TOLD IN SEVEN GRAND DIVISIONS

 

First Grand Division - Man and the Universe

THE WORLD AND ITS STORY

 

MAKING OF THE EARTH AND THE COMING OF MAN

1.-THE BEGINNING OF THE EARTH
2.-THE AGE OF THE EARTH by Professor W.J. Sollas

3.-HOW LIFE BECAME POSSIBLE ON THE EARTH by Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace.

4.-CONTINENTAL AND ISLAND LIFE: THEIR PRESENT STATE AND PAST HISTORY. A REVIEW OF WALLACE,With Reference to the Bearing of Geological Facts AND Theories of Evolution on the Distribution of Life. By J. W. DAWSON

6.-THE ORIGIN OF ORGANIC LIFE. HEREDITY AND VARIATION by C. W. Saleeby
7.-DARWIN'S PREDECESSORS by J. Arthur Thomson
8.-The Mastery of the Earth and how Man obtained it by Dr. Archdald Reid
9.-BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS, AN OUTLINE OF THE RISE OF BIOLOGY-1-From Aristotle to Harvey
10.- ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR by Lloyd Morgan

13. FOSSIL MAMMALIA. THE FOSSIL REMAINS OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM,
by
Edward Pidgeon

14. Essay On The Theory Of The Earth. by Baron G. CUVIER
15.-The Introduction to the Microscope and the Progress of Independent Observation With a Life of ANTONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK (1632-1723) by Clifford Dobell,

NIAGARA. Glacial and Post-Glacial Phenomena ByThomas Belt

18.-THE LAST GLACIAL EPOCH OF GEOLOGY by L. C. Drayson

19.-The Life of Man in the Stone Age

20.-Relics of Man in the Glacial Period, by Frederick Wright.
21.-The Cause of the Glacial Period and its Date, by F- Wright.
22.- Primitive Man in the Past and the Present
23. THE HEROIC AGE OF GEOLOGY, FROM 1790 TO 1820.
24-THE HOME LIFE OF PRIMITIVE FOLK
25.- WHEN HISTORY WAS DAWNING
26. A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY OF HUMAN PALAEONTOLOGY
27. THE MATERIAL PROGRESS OF MANKIN
28. THE HIGHER PROGRESS OF MANKIND
29. THE SEVEN WONDERS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION

 

 

THE RISE OF MAN AND THE EVE OF HISTORY

 

The Great Steps In Man’s Development

BIRTH OF CIVILISATION & THE GROWTH OF RACES

The Beginnings of Civilization

How Civilization Came to Europe

The Triumph of Race

An Alphabet of the World’s Races

MAKING OF NATIONS & THE INFLUENCE OF NATURE

The Birth and Growth of Nations

Influence of Land and Water on National History

How Nations are Affected by Their Environment

The Size and Power of Nations

The Future History of Man

 

SECOND GRAND DIVISION -THE FAR EAST

 

 

A life of Mr. Yukichi Fukuzawa (PDF)
 

JAPAN

PICTURES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT

THE MAKING AND SHAPING OF THE NATION.IS PEOPLE, RULERS, AND INSTITUTIONS

ORGANISATION OF THE EMPIRE & WARS OF GREAT FAMILIES
RISE OF THE SAMURAI AND THE SHOGUNATE

THE GOLDEN AGE OF OLD JAPAN

THE EVE OF THE GREAT CHANGE

RELIGION IN JAPAN

THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF BUDDHISM

THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN

NEW JAPAN

THE KNOCKING AT THE GATES

SCENES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

THE OPENING OF THE GATES

THE REAL CREATORS OF NEW JAPAN

THE RESTORATION OF THE MIKADO AND THE GREAT EMANCIPATION

REORGANISING THE NATION

NEW JAPAN OVERCOMES OLD CHINA

THE TRIUMPH OF NEW JAPAN

SIBERIA

CHINA

ANCIENT CHINA

MODERN CHINA

KOREA

MALAYSIA

Races of Primitive Culture

Wanderings of the Malays

Coming of the Asiatics

Europeans in Malaysia

THE ISLANDS AND THEIR STORY

Java: The Centre of the Dutch Indies

Sumatra: The Stepping-Stone from Asia

Borneo: Largest of the Malay Islands

Celebes: Smallest of the Larger Islands

Moluccas and the Sunda Islands

Philippine Islands

OCEANIA

Men and Manners in Oceania

The Island Nations of the South Seas

THE OCEANIC ISLANDS AND THEIR STORY

Hawaii: Beginning and End of a Kingdom

Samoa and its Settlement by the Powers

Tonga: The Last South Sea Kingdom .

New Zealand

Later Events in New Zealand

The Western Powers in the South Seas .

Oceania and Malaysia in our own Time .

AUSTRALIA

The Nature of the Country

Native Peoples of Australia and Tasmania

British in Australia

Development of New South Wales

EARLY HISTORY OF THE COLONIES

Tasmania: The Garden Colony

Victoria and Queensland .

Western Australia: The Youngest State

South Australia in Development

Modern Development of Australia

Australia in our own Time

Later Events in Australia

Great Dates in the History of Australia

PACIFIC OCEAN

Before Magellan's Voyages

Pacific Ocean in Modern Times

THIRD GRAND DIVISION - THE MIDDLE EAST

Plan of Third Grand Division

Interest and Importance of the Middle East

INDIA

Beauties of Nature and Art

The Land and the People

Gems of Indian Architecture

ANCIENT INDIA

The Aryan Invasion

The Aryan Expansio

Buddhism and Jainism

Indian Temples

From Alexander to the Mohammedans

MOHAMMEDAN INDIA

India before the Moguls

The Mogul Empire

Disruption of the Empire

MODERN INDIA

Princes and People of Modern India

The Foundation of British Dominion

Expansion of British Dominion

Completion of British Dominion

The Story of the Mutiny

Edward VII in India

After the Mutiny

The Wonder of India

The New Empire of India

India in our own Time

Great Dates in the History of India

CEYLON

Land, People, and the Legendary Period

Ceylon in the Historical Period

The Europeans in Ceylon .

FURTHER INDIA

The Land, its Peoples, and Early History

Burma and the Malay Peninsula

Champa, Cambodia, and Siam

Tonquin, Annam, and Cochin-China

INDIAN OCEAN

The Indian Ocean in Early Times

The Indian Ocean in Modern Times

CENTRAL ASIA

Spring Carnival at a Tibetan Monastery

The Country and the Peoples

Primitive Peoples

EARLY AND MEDIAEVAL HISTORY

Ancient Turkestan and the Early Nomads

Mediaeval Turkestan

Rise and Fall of the Old Empire of Tibet

Early Civilisation of Central Asia

The Great Mongol Empire

The Later Mongol Empires

MODERN HISTORY

Tibet, the Land of the Lamas

A Traveller's First Sight of Lhasa

Eastern or Chinese Turkestan

Western Turkestan

Russian Advance in Central Asia

Afghanistan and Baluchistan

Great Dates in History of Central Asia

Central Asia in our own Time

 

FOURTH GRAND DIVISION - THE NEAR EAST

 

THE ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS

Early Peoples of Mesopotamia and Egypt

Phoenicia, Israel, Assyria, and Persia

WESTERN ASIA

BABYLONIA

Babylonia and its Peoples

Early States of Babylonia

Rise of Babylon

Babylonian Empire in Eclipse

New Babylonian Empire

Mesopotamian Civilisation

ASSYRIA

Assyria in the Making

Old Empire of Assyria

Middle Assyrian Empire

New Empire of Assyria

Assyrian Characteristics

Empire of the Elamites

THE EARLY NATIONS

Syria and the Hittite Empire

Phoenicia and Canaan

The Hebrew Peoples

Kingdoms of Israel and Judah

Judaism and its Development

Armenia before the Armenians

Ancient Asia Minor

Media and the Persians .

Rise of the Persian Empire

FROM THE RISE OF PERSIA TO MAHOMET

Asia Minor after Alexander

Empire of the Seleucidae

Bactria: A Greek Centre in the East

The Jews after the Captivity .

Roman Empire in Asia

Destruction of Jerusalem

Empire of Parthia

New Persian Dominion

Arabia before Islam

FROM THE TIME OF MAHOMET

Heroic Age of Islam

Companions of the Prophet

Rule of the Mecca Caliphs

The Great Days of Bagdad

The Passing of Bagdad

Western Asia under the Seljuks

Ancient Civilisation: Within the Palace of an Assyrian King

In the Grip of the Mongols

The Turks in Western Asia

Persia in Modern Times

Western Asia in our own Time

 

FIFTH GRAND DIVISION - AFRICA

 

The Character of the Continent and its Native Races

EGYPT

At the Dawn of History

ANCIENT EGYPT

To the Time of the Pyramid Builders

The Early Dynasties

Splendour of Ancient Egypt

Great Days of the Old Empire

The New Empire

Egypt Magnificent in Ruin

The Reign of the Heretic King

The Splendid Dynasty

The Last Dynasties

From Alexander to Mahomet

LATER EGYPT

In the Middle Ages

Since the Ottoman Conquest

The British Occupation

Egypt in our times

The development of the Sudan

NORTH AFRICA

MEDITERRANEAN NORTH AFRICA

The Country and Its Inhabitants

Carthage in its Splendour and its Downfall

Romans and Vandals in North Africa

Barbary States in the Middle Ages

The Modern Barbary States

TROPICAL NORTH AFRICA

The Western Sudan

The Central Sudan

The Eastern Sudan

Abyssinia's Mountain Kingdom .

The Gold Coast and Slave Coast

From the Kamerun to the Horn of Afric

The Europeans in North Africa

SOUTH AFRICA

The Yellow Races of the South-west

The Kaffir Peoples of the South-east

The Arab Settlements on the East

Tribes of North and Central East Airica

Tribes of the Centre and West

BRITISH AND DUTCH IN SOUTH AFRICA

Cape Colony and its Expansion

South African States in Development

The War and Reconstruction

South Africa Today

PORTUGAL, BELGIUM, AND GERMANY IN SOUTH AFRICA

MADAGASCAR AND THE MASCARENES

 

SIXTH GRAND DIVISION - EUROPE

The Continuity of Civilisation

EUROPE TO THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Its Significance in World History

The Dominance of Greece and Rome

The Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

THE EARLY PEOPLES OF SOUTH AND WESTERN EUROPE

Peoples of the Main Balkan Peninsula

The Ancient Peoples of Greece

The Early Peoples of the Italian Peninsula

The Celts and their Characteristics

Early Peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

The Scythians, Cimmerians, and Sarmatians

THE INFLUENCE OF GREECE ON THE WORLD

THE STORY OF ANCIENT GREECE

The Heroic or Legendary Age

"The Glory that was Greece"

The Political Development of Hellas

The Golden Age of Athens

Rivalry of the Greek States

MACEDON

The Earlier History of Macedon

Philip of Macedon, and the Founding of the Empire

Alexander the Great, as Judged by an Early Historian

Alexander the Great and the Making of his Empire

Alexander's World Empire to the Death of the Great Conqueror

The Macedonian Supremacy and the Last of Alexander's Empire

The Passing of Ancient Greece .

Great Dates in Ancient Greek History ..

Hellenism: A General Survey of Greek Civilisation

THE ROMAN EMPIRE

THE SPIRIT OF ANCIENT ROME

THE STORY OF ANCIENT ROME

A Pageant of Ancient Rome

The Beginnings of Ancient Rome

The Struggle with Carthage

The Decline of the Republic

Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar

Antony and Octavian, and the Dawn of th

Rome in the Augustan Age

Rome under Tiberius Caesar .

The Degradation of the Purple

"The Grandeur that was Rome"

Rome under the Good Emperors

The Praetorian Emperors .

The Reconstructed Empire: Constantine

The Coming of the Goths

Great Dates in the History of Rome

Why Rome Fell

THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

The Development of Slavery

Slavery in the Ancient Empires

Slavery among the Greeks and Romans

The Effects of the Slave System

THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH

The Dawn of a New Epoch

The Apostolic Era

The Spread of Christianity

The Catholic Church in Being

The Church Established

EASTERN EUROPE TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

General Survey of the Period

BYZANTIUM

Theodora, Byzantine Empress

Rise of the Byzantine Empire

Civilisation of the Early Byzantine Empire

The Days of the Image-Breakers

Byzantium at its Zenith

Byzantium on the Down Grade

Fall of the Byzantine Empire .

The End of Byzantium

OTTOMAN EMPIRE

The Rise of tlhe Turkish Power

The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium

Life in a Turkish Harem

The Shining of the Crescent

The Wanins of the Crescent

ARMENIA AND THE ARMENIANS

THE HUNS

THE BULGARIANS

The Old Bulgaarian Kingdom

The Later Bulgarian Kingdom

THE ROUMANIANS

The Struggles of the Wallachian Kingdom

The Moldavian People

THE ALBANIANS

THE SOUTHERN SLAVS

The Southern Slav Peoples

Croatia and its Warrior Race

The Servian Era of Independence

Under the Heel of the Turk

Great Dates in the History of South-eastern Europe

THE STORY OF THE GIPSIES

HUNGARY

The Magyars inthe Middle Ages

The Hapsburg Power in Hungary

German Element in Hungary

THE WESTERN SLAVS

Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia

Bohemia and the Reformation

Bohemia's Elective Monarchy

ORIGIN OF THE EASTERN SLAVS

POLAND

The Old Polish Empire

Lithuania to the Union with Poland

Union of Lithuania with Poland

The New Dominion of Poland

Poland under the Jagellons

The Decline of Poland

The Great Days of Cossack Power

The Fall of Poland

Thaddeus Reyten at the Diet of Warsaw

RUSSIA

The Beginning of the Russian Nation

Russia under the Mongols

The Monarchs of Moscow

Peter the Great, Founder of Modern Russia

When Women ruled in Russia .

Great Dates in History of Eastern Europe

Rise of the Kingdom of Russia

Historical Importance of the Baltic .

WESTERN EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

GENERAL SURVEY OF THE PERIOD

The Moulding of the Nations

The Crusades, and the Duel betweer

Passing of the Age of Chivalry

The End of the Middle Ages .

Papacy and Empire

PEOPLES OF WESTERN EUROPE

Origins of the Teutons

Rising Tide of Teuton Power

The Great Teutonic Deluge

EMERGING OF THE NATIONS

Italy and the Lombards

Rise of the Frankish Dominion

The Empire of Charlemagne

Roland, Hero of France's National Epic

The British Isles

Spain and its Conquerors

Rise of the Church in the West

The Land of the Northmen

Great Days of the Northmen

Denmark and its Sister States

Norway's Rise and Fall

Sweden and Finland

DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONS

Revival of the Holy Roman Empire

The Franconian Emperors

The Triumphs of Barbarossa

The Emperors of Germany

The Germanic Empire

Reign of the Emperor Sigismund

Fortunes of the House of Austria

German Towns and Territories

Maximilian and Imperial Reform

German Expansion on the East

Knights of the Sword and the Teutonic Order

THE PAPACY

During the Middle Ages and the Reformation

Zenith of the Papal Power

Decline of the Papal Power

Approach of the Reformation

FRANCE

Beginnings of the Kingdom of France

France under the Early Capets

The Last of the Old Capets

Evolution of Mediaeval France .

France as the Land of Liberty

France under the Valois

France under the Later Valois

THE BRITISH ISLES

Alfred, Hero King of England .

England before the Norman Conquest

William the Conqueror described by a contemporary

A Pageant of the Norman Conquest

The Norman Period in England

King John granting Magna Charta

England's Angevin Kings

Simon de Montfort .

The First Two Edwards

The Hundred Years' War

The Wars of the Roses

Scotland: Its Struggle for Independence

Robert the Bruce and what he did for Scotland

Scenes from Scotland's Story

Beginnings of Irish History

ITALY

End of Charlemagne's Empire

German Supremacy in Italy

Florence and Venice in the Days of their Splendour

Sicilian Revolt and Spanish Supremacy

SPANISH PENINSULA

Moorish Ascendancy in Spain

The Rising Christian Realms

Waning of the Moorish Power

The Unification of Spain

Portugal and her Maritime Triumphs

THE CRUSADES

Birth of the Crusading Spirit

Story of the First Crusade

The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem

Saladin and, the Crusades

The Passing of the Crusades

Why the Crusades failed

TRADE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Commercial Rivalry in the Levant

Beginnings of Western Commerce

Commerce of the North

Rise of the Hanseatic League

Era of Hanseatic Ascendancy

Great Dates in Western Europe before the Reformation

THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF THE MEDIAEVAL WORLD

Origin of the Feudal System

The Chaos of the Feudal Age

The Flourishing of Feudalism

Close of the Feudal Age

THE RENAISSANCE

Its Great Men and their Achievements

The Passing of Mediaevalism

The Reformation and the Wars of Religion

Ascendancy and Decline of the Bourbons

Founding of England's Colonial Empire

THE REFORMATION AND AFTER

Wolsey's Last Interview with King Henry VIII

Economic Conditions in the Empire and Europe

The Man and the Reformation

The Problem of the Reformation

The Triumph of Protestantism

The Empire under Charles V

Rise and Character of Spanish Power

Spain and France in the Time of Charles V

England under Henry VIII

England under Edward and Mary

Place of Henry VIII in History

Spain and the Netherlands

Place of Philip II of Spain in European History

The Spacious Days of Elizabeth

What England owes to Queen Elizabeth

France under Catherine de Medici

The Empire after Charles V

The Thirty Years' War

The France of Richelieu and Mazarin

Decline of the Spanish Power

England under Charles I

Charles I on his Way to Execution, 1649

Scotland from Flodden to the Restoration

Ireland before the Restoration

The Scandinavian States

Sweden under the Vasas

The Founding of Prussia

THE REFORMATION AND AFTER

THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV

The Grand Monarque

Austria and the Empire

England and the Netherlands

France's Wars of Aggression .

The Problem of the Spanish Throne

War of the Spanish Succession

England's Restored Monarchy

Denmark's Despotic Monarchy

The Great Northern War

THE ENDING OF THE OLD ORDER

The Bourbon Powers and Great Britain

Great Britain under the Whigs

The Great Hapsburg Monarchy

The Development of Prussia

Frederic the Great

Great Britain and the American War

German Powers after the Peace

The Bourbon Powers and the Approach of the Revolution

Denmark's Great Era of Progress

Sweden's Time of Strife

Great Dates from the Reformation to the Revolution

THE COMMERCE OF WESTERN EUROPE

Effects of the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries

International Capitalism

Competition for the World's Commerce

British Maritime Supremacy

The Development of France

The Rise of European Trade

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEONIC ERA

Map of Europe during the Revolutionary Era

Napoleon the Great

General Survey of the Period .

The Flight of the King

The Revolution Triumphant

Under the Reign of Terror

The Conquering General of the Directory

Napoleon in Portraiture

France under the New Despotism

Napoleon on the Battlefield in Victory and Defeat

Napoleon as Emperor of the French

How Trafalgar changed the Face of the World

The Awakening of Nationalism

The Rising of the Nations

The Settlement of Europe

Great Britain and Ireland in the Napoleonic Wars

THE REMAKING OF EUROPE

Plan of the Sixth Division

General Survey of Europe since 1815

Map of Modern Europe

EUROPE AFTER WATERLOO

The Great Powers in Concord

The British Era of Reform

The Reaction in Central Europe

The Restored French Monarchy

The Cross and the Crescent

Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy

The New Revolutionary Period

The Welding of the States

The New Kingdom of Greece

The State of Religion in Europe

The Spread of Liberalism

EUROPE IN REVOLUTION

The Fall of Louis Philippe

Italy's Fruitless Revolt

The Hungarian Rebellion

Struggles of the German Duchies

The Second Republic in France

The Problem of the German States

Reaction in Central Europe

THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE POWERS

The United Kingdom in the Mid-Victorian Era

Turkey after the Crimean War

The Second Empire of France

The Unification of Italy

Prussia under King William I

Prussia and Austria on the Eve of War

The Advance of Prussia

The Prussian Ascendancy

The Decline of Napoleon III

The French Soldiers' unrealised Dream of Victory

The Downfall of the Second French Empire

The Birth of the German Empire

Scandinavia in the Nineteenth Century

EUROPE SINCE 1871

The Close of the Victorian Era

Reaction triumphant in Russia

The German and Austrian Empires

France under the Third Republic

Minor States of Western Europe

THE SOCIAL QUESTION

Britain's Industrial Revolution

The Rise and Fall of Chartism

The Triumph of Trades Unions

The March of Social Reform

Social Problems in France

Social Democracy in Germany

EUROPEAN POWERS TODAY

Great Dates from the French Revolution to our own Time

Glimpses of Europe's Capital Cities

Russia

The Balkan Wars of 1912-13

Austria-Hungary

Germany

Holland and Belgium

The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg

Switzerland

Italy

The Republic of San Marino

France

The Principality of Monaco

The Republic of Andorra

Spain

Portugal

The Scandinavian States

United Kingdom

Types of British Battleships

THE BRITISH EMPIRE

The Empire in the Making

British Trade and the Flag

Slave Trade as a Factor in Colonial Expansion

Colonies grown from Convict Settlements

Wars of the Empire

British Conquests in the East

Britain's Contests in Africa

Fighting Forces of the British Empire

Outposts of Empire

Composition of the Empire

Great Britain's Inner Empire

Parliaments of the Outer Empire

The Sinews of Empire

British Expansion in Europe

British Expansion in America

Britain's Great Indian Empire

British Expansion in Africa

Man's Triumph over Nature

Civilisation and Christianity

The Future of the Empire

SEVENTH GRAND DIVISION - AMERICA

THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

The Atlantic before Columbus

The Atlantic after Columbus

AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS

Where did American Man come from?

Prehistoric South America

Races of the North and East .

American Peoples of the West

ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA

The Land and the Peoples

Remarkable Civilisation of a Vanished Race

End of the Maya Civilisation

Advance of the Nahua Peoples

Nahua Religion and Mythology

The Chichimec Supremacy

The Rise of the Aztecs

The Mexican Supremacy

NATIVE CIVILISATIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA

Manners and Customs of the Vanished Races

The States of the Magdalena

Mixed Races of the West Coast

Rise of the Great Inca Kingdom

Growing Power of the Incas

The Flourishing of the Incas

Last Days of the Inca Kingdom

DISCOVERY OF AMERICA AND THE SPANISH CONQUEST

The Lure of the Golden East

The Discovery of America

The Coming of the Conquistadors

The Spaniards in Mexico

The Spanish Conquest of Peru

Last of the Spanish Conquests

SPAIN'S EMPIRE IN AMERICA

Organisation of the Colonies

The Jesuits in South America

Spain's Golden Era in America

Spain's Fight for her Empire

Spain's Colonies in Revolt

The Liberation of the South

The Independent South since the Revolution

Mexico and its Revolutions

THE WORLD AROUND THE POLES

The Search for the North Pole

The Finding of the North Pole

The Lure of the South Pole

The Discovery of the South Pole

NORTH AMERICA

The Age of Discovery and Exploration

English Settlements in the South

The New England Colonies

The Middle Colonies

The Colonies in the Eighteenth Century

The Beginnings of the Revolution

The American Revolution

The Confederation and the Constitution

THE UNITED STATES

Bulding the Nation

The Period of Virginia Ascendency

The Growing West

Slavery Becomes the Leading Issue

The United States in 1860

The War to Preserve the Union

The Reconstruction of the Union

The Growth of the United Nation

The Question of Immigration

The Outlying Territory of the United States

Notable Cities of the United States

CANADA

THE DISCOVERY OF CANADA

The Marine Explorers.

The Pathfinders of New France.

Hudson Bay Men and Nor'Westers.

Explorers of the Last Century.

THE COLONY OF NEW FRANCE

The Early Trading Companies.

The Company of New France.

The Period of Royal Government.

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CONTINENT

THE STORY OF CANADIAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

The Period of Arbitrary Government.

Representative and Irresponsible Government

The Winning of Responsible Government.

UNION AND CONFEDERATION

The Dominion of Canada.

The Imperial Tie.

THE RELATIONS BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

The War of the Revolution.

The War of 1812.

The Boundary and Fisheries Disputes.

The Annexation Movement in Canada.

THE GROWTH OF THE CANADIAN WEST

The Selkirk Settlement.

The Regime of the Hudson's Bay Company.

The Royal North-West Mounted Police.

Material Development.

SCENES OF AGRICULTURAL LIFE IN CANADA

CANADA IN OUR OWN TIME

CANADA PAST AND PRESENT

NEWFOUNDLAND, THE OLDEST BRITISH COLONY

THE WEST INDIES

Leading Dates in History of the American Continent

 

THE WORLD'S GREATEST WAR

 

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I

I.- THE WORLD WAR AND OTHER WARS

II.- SOME CAUSES OF THE WORLD WAR

III.- THE TOTTERING EMPIRE OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

IV.- THE TURBULENT BALKANS

V.- THE FATEFUL TWELVE DAYS

VI.- THE CRIME AGAINST BELGIUM

VII.- ON TO PARIS: THE GERMAN CRY

VIII.- THE MARNE AND THE RACE FOR THE SEA

IX.- THE RUSSIAN STEAM ROLLER HALTED

X.- AUSTRIA FAILS TO CONQUER SERBIA

XI.- THE WAR SPREADS OVER THE WORLD

XII.- THE WAR ON THE WATER

XIII.- THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF WAR

XIV.- THE WAR UNDER THE WATER

XV.- THE BEGINNING OF WAR IN THE AIR

XVI.- WAR AND THE NEUTRAL NATIONS

XVII.- FIGHTING IN FLANDERS, 1915

XVIII.- FIGHTING IN FRANCE, 1915

XIX.- THE EASTERN FRONT DURING 1915

XX.- THE GALLIPOLI EXPEDITION

XXI.- ITALY ENTERS THE WAR

XXII.- THE TRAGEDY OF SERBIA

XXIII.- THE ATTACK ON THE SUEZ CANAL

XXIV.- THE WAR IN THE NEAR EAST

XXV.- THE CONQUEST OF GERMAN AFRICA

XXVI.- THE WAR DURING 1915 .

XXVII.- THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD WAR .

XXVIII.- THEY SHALL NOT PASS : THE STORY OF VERDUN I

XXIX.-THE BATTLE OF VERDUN II

XXX.- THE BRITISH NAVY AND THE JUTLAND FIGHT

XXXI.- FRANCE IN WAR TIME

XXXII.- THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME I

XXXIII.- THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME II

XXXIV.- THE FIRST OPERATIONS AROUND SALONIKI

XXXV.- THE FIRST ITALIAN CAMPAIGNS

XXXVI.- ON THE EASTERN FRONT DURING 1916

XXXVII.- THE SACRIFICE OF RUMANIA

XXXVIII.- THE WAR IN THE NEAR EAST

XXXIX.- THE COURSE OF THE WAR DURING 1916

XL.- THE BRITISH PEOPLE AT WAR

XLI.- M. POILU, AS I KNEW HIM

XLII.- THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

XLIII.- GREECE AND THE WAR THE VENIZELIST REVOLT

XLIV.- MILITARY OPERATIONS DURING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

XLV.- THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE WAR

XLVI.- THE CAPTURE OF BAGDAD

XLVII.- THE ITALIAN DISASTER AT CAPORETTO

XLVIII.- ON THE FRENCH FRONT IN 1917

XLIX.- ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN 1917

L.- THE CONQUEST OF PALESTINE

LI TRAINING THE CITIZEN ARMY

LII.- THE COURSE OF THE WAR DURING 1917

LIII.- THE COMMISSION FOR RELIEF IN BELGIUM

LIV.- PRUSSIAN MAPS AND IMPERIAL PLANS

LV.- BLUNDERS OF GERMAN NAVAL POLICY

LVI.- LATER DEVELOPMENTS OF WAR IN THE AIR

LVII.- THE GERMAN EMPIRE AT WAR

LVIII.- THE CONQUEST OF GERMAN EAST AFRICA

LIX.- RUSSIA MAKES A SEPARATE PEACE

LX.- BELGIUM UNDER THE GERMAN YOKE

LXI.- THE GERMAN OFFENSIVE OF MARCH AND APRIL

LXII.- THE MARNE: THE BEGINNING OF VICTORY

LXIII.- THE CANADIAN PEOPLE AND THE WAR .

LXIV.- THE UNITED STATES NAVAL FORCES IN EUROPEAN WATERS

LXV.- ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTEND

LXVI.- THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE

LXVII.- THE COLLAPSE OF THE BALKAN FRONT

LXVIII.- THE FIGHTING DURING THE LAST THREE MONTHS .

LXIX.- THE ARMY MACHINE

LXX.- ITALY'S HOUR OF TRIUMPH

LXXI.- THE CANADIAN AS A SOLDIER

LXXII.- THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE WAR .

LXXIII.-RELIEF AND WELFARE ORGANIZATIONS

LXXIV.- THE LAST OFFENSIVE ON THE NORTHERN FRONT

LXXV.- ST. MIHIEL AND THE MEUSE-ARGONNE

LXXVI.- THE ARMISTICE IS SIGNED

LXXVII MAKING THE PEACE TREATIES