The Story of the Nations
The Story of the Nations Library is a historical book series[1] started by the British publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin in 1885.[2] The series was published in the USA by G. P. Putnam, though not in identical form.[3]
There was also a compiled copy that is split up into two parts, of which one has been found that is The Story of the Nations Volume 1
| Number | Year | Author | Title | 
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1888 | 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 | 1889 | Helen Zimmern | The Hansa Towns[4] | 
| 21 | 1889 | Alfred John Church | Early Britain | 
| 22 | 1890 | Stanley Lane-Poole | The Barbary Corsairs | 
| 23 | 1890 | William Richard Morfill | Russia | 
| 24 | 1896 | William Douglas Morrison | The Jews under Roman Rule | 
| 25 | 1890 | John Mackintosh[5] | Scotland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Century | 
| 26 | 1890 | Lina Hug Richard Stead | 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 | Greville Tregarthen | 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 | Alethea Wiel | 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 | C. Edmund Maurice | 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 | R. W. Frazer | 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 | Sidney Whitman | Austria | 
| 50 | 1898 | Justin McCarthy | Modern England before the Reform Bill[6] | 
| 51 | 1899 | Robert K. Douglas | China[7] | 
| 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 | Pietro Orsi | 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 | L. Cecil Jane | 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[8] | 
See also
Notes
- ^ The Story of the Nations (T. Fisher Unwin/G. P. Putnam's Sons) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
- ^ Codell, Julie F. "Unwin, Thomas Fisher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47454. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access 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 Roman Empire".