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 [citation needed]
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2023)
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]
^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 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".
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