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Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading

George Park Fisher · Public domain text

319,833 words · about 22 h 24 min to read

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Author
George Park Fisher (1827–1909)
Language
English
Subjects
World history
Length
319,833 words · about 22 h 24 min
Sections
116 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (116)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. Preface about 6 min
  3. I. ANCIENT HISTORY under 1 min
  4. Introduction under 1 min
  5. II. INDIA under 1 min
  6. V. THE PERSIANS under 1 min
  7. Introduction under 1 min
  8. Introduction under 1 min
  9. II. THE FORMATION OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES under 1 min
  10. IV. RELATIONS WITH PERSIA: THE SPARTAN AND THEBAN HEGEMONY under 1 min
  11. II. THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER under 1 min
  12. Introduction under 1 min
  13. II. ROME UNDER THE PATRICIANS (509-304 B.C.) under 1 min
  14. II. WAR WITH PYRRHUS AND UNION WITH ITALY (282-264 B.C.) under 1 min
  15. II. CONQUEST OF MACEDONIA: THE THIRD PUNIC WAR: THE DESTRUCTION OF CORINTH (202-146 B.C.) under 1 min
  16. III. POMPEIUS AND CAESAR: THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE under 1 min
  17. II. MEDIAEVAL HISTORY under 1 min
  18. Introduction under 1 min
  19. IV. MOHAMMEDANISM AND THE ARABIC CONQUESTS under 1 min
  20. III. INVASIONS OF THE NORTHMEN AND OTHERS: THE FEUDAL SYSTEM under 1 min
  21. I. THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF THE EMPIRE: TO THE CRUSADES (A.D. 1096) under 1 min
  22. IV. RISE OF THE BURGHER CLASS: SOCIETY IN THE ERA OF THE CRUSADES under 1 min
  23. I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE: SECOND PERIOD OF RIVALSHIP: THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR (A.D. 1339-1453) under 1 min
  24. III. MODERN HISTORY under 1 min
  25. Introduction under 1 min
  26. Introduction under 1 min
  27. II. INVENTION AND DISCOVERY: THE RENAISSANCE under 1 min
  28. II. THE REFORMATION IN TEUTONIC COUNTRIES: SWITZERLAND, DENMARK, SWEDEN, ENGLAND under 1 min
  29. X. COLONIZATION IN AMERICA: ASIATIC NATIONS: CULTURE AND LITERATURE (1517-1648) under 1 min
  30. Introduction under 1 min
  31. III. THE GREAT NORTHERN WAR: THE FALL OF SWEDEN: GROWTH OF THE POWER OF RUSSIA under 1 min
  32. VI. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION under 1 min
  33. I. FROM THE ASSEMBLING OF THE STATES-GENERAL TO THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. (1789-1793) under 1 min
  34. VII. LITERATURE, ART, AND SCIENCE (1789-1815) under 1 min
  35. III. EUROPE, FROM THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 TO THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN WAR (1866) under 1 min
  36. VII. THE LAST DECADE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY about 1 min
  37. Introduction about 39 min
  38. III. Modern History, from 1453 until the present under 1 min
  39. I. ANCIENT HISTORY about 4 min
  40. I. CHINA about 11 min
  41. II. INDIA about 14 min
  42. I. EGYPT about 23 min
  43. II. ASSYRIA AND BABYLON about 17 min
  44. III. THE PHOENICIANS AND CARTHAGINIANS about 9 min
  45. IV. THE HEBREWS about 20 min
  46. V. THE PERSIANS about 26 min
  47. I. THE PREHISTORIC AGE about 16 min
  48. II. THE FORMATION OF THE PRINCIPAL STATES about 15 min
  49. I. THE PERSIAN WARS about 6 min
  50. II. THE ASCENDENCY OF ATHENS about 17 min
  51. III. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR about 18 min
  52. IV. RELATIONS WITH PERSIA.--THE SPARTAN AND THEBAN HEGEMONY about 4 min
  53. I. PHILIP AND ALEXANDER about 11 min
  54. II. THE SUCCESSORS OF ALEXANDER about 14 min
  55. Introduction about 6 min
  56. I. ROME UNDER THE KINGS (753-509 B.C.) about 12 min
  57. II. ROME UNDER THE PATRICIANS (509-304 B.C.) about 10 min
  58. I. CONQUEST OF THE LATINS AND ITALIANS (304-282 B.C.) about 4 min
  59. II. WAR WITH PYRRHUS AND UNION OF ITALY (282-264 B.C.) about 5 min
  60. I. THE FIRST AND SECOND PUNIC WABS (264-202 B.C.) about 11 min
  61. II. CONQUEST OF MACEDONIA: THE THIRD PUNIC WAR: THE DESTRUCTION OF CORINTH (202-146 B.C.) about 9 min
  62. I. THE GRACCHI: THE FIRST MITHRIDATIC WAR: MARIUS AND SULLA (146-78 B.C.) about 11 min
  63. II. POMPEIUS AND THE EAST: TO THE DEATH OF CRASSUS (78-53 B.C.) about 11 min
  64. III. POMPEIUS AND CAESAR: THE SECOND TRIUMVIRATE about 8 min
  65. I. THE REIGN OF AUGUSTUS about 17 min
  66. II. THE EMPERORS OF THE AUGUSTAN HOUSE about 9 min
  67. III. THE FLAVIANS AND THE ANTONINES about 12 min
  68. IV. THE EMPERORS MADE BY THE SOLDIERS: THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY about 24 min
  69. Introduction about 1 min
  70. I. CAUSES OF THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE: THE TEUTONIC CONFEDERACIES about 9 min
  71. II. THE TEUTONIC MIGRATIONS AND KINGDOMS about 29 min
  72. III. THE EASTERN EMPIRE about 13 min
  73. IV. MOHAMMEDANISM AND THE ARABIC CONQUESTS about 21 min
  74. I. THE CARLOVINGIAN EMPIRE TO THE DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE (A.D. 814) about 13 min
  75. II. DISSOLUTION OP CHARLEMAGNE'S EMPIRE: RISE OF THE KINGDOMS OF FRANCE, GERMANY, AND ITALY about 12 min
  76. III. INVASIONS OF THE NORTHMEN AND OTHERS: THE FEUDAL SYSTEM about 25 min
  77. I. THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF THE EMPIRE: TO THE CRUSADES, A.D. 1096 about 19 min
  78. II. THE CHURCH AND THE EMPIRE: PREDOMINANCE OF THE CHURCH: TO THE END OF THE CRUSADES, A.D. 1270 about 42 min
  79. III. ENGLAND AND FRANCE: THE FIRST PERIOD OF THEIR RIVALSHIP (1066-1217) about 25 min
  80. IV. RISE OF THE BURGHER CLASS: SOCIETY IN THE ERA OF THE CRUSADES about 21 min
  81. I. ENGLAND AND FRANCE: SECOND PERIOD OP RIVALSHIP: THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR (A.D. 1339-1453) about 36 min
  82. II. GERMANY: ITALY: SPAIN: THE SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRIES: POLAND AND RUSSIA: HUNGARY: OTTOMAN TURKS: THE GREEK EMPIRE about 50 min
  83. III. THE COUNTRIES OF EASTERN ASIA about 12 min
  84. III. MODERN HISTORY under 1 min
  85. Introduction about 47 min
  86. II. INVENTION AND DISCOVERY: THE RENAISSANCE about 19 min
  87. Introduction about 2 min
  88. I. THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY, TO THE TREATY OF NUREMBERG (1517-1532) about 12 min
  89. II. THE REFORMATION IN TEUTONIC COUNTRIES: SWITZERLAND, DENMARK, SWEDEN, ENGLAND about 10 min
  90. III. THE REFORMATION IN GERMANY, FROM THE PEACE OF NUREMBERG TO THE PEACE OF AUGSBURG (1532-1555) about 6 min
  91. IV. CALVINISM IN GENEVA: BEGINNING OF THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION about 6 min
  92. V. PHILIP II., AND THE BEVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS about 6 min
  93. VI. THE CIVIL WARS IN FRANCE, TO THE DEATH OF HENRY IV. (1610) about 10 min
  94. VII. THE THIRTY-YEARS' WAR, TO THE PEACE OP WESTPHALIA (1618-1648) about 12 min
  95. VIII. SECOND STAGE OF THE REFORMATION IN ENGLAND: TO THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH (1547-1603) about 11 min
  96. IX. THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION AND THE COMMONWEALTH (1603-1658) about 12 min
  97. X. COLONIZATION IN AMERICA: ASIATIC NATIONS; CULTURE AND LITERATURE (1517-1648) about 21 min
  98. Introduction about 37 min
  99. III. THE GREAT NORTHERN WAR: THE FALL OP SWEDEN: GROWTH OF THE POWER OF RUSSIA about 39 min
  100. VI. LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND RELIGION about 17 min
  101. Introduction about 4 min
  102. I. FROM THE ASSEMBLING OF THE STATES GENERAL TO THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. (1789-1793) about 17 min
  103. II. FROM THE EXECUTION OF LOUIS XVI. TO THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE (JAN. 21, 1793-JULY 27, 1794) about 11 min
  104. III. FROM THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE TO THE EMPIRE OF NAPOLEON (1794-1804) about 16 min
  105. IV. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIBE TO THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (1804-1812) about 14 min
  106. V. FROM THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN (1812) TO THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (1814-15) about 13 min
  107. VI. AMERICAN HISTORY IN THIS PERIOD (1789-1815) about 14 min
  108. VII. LITERATURE, ART, AND SCIENCE (1789-1815) about 9 min
  109. Introduction about 3 min
  110. I. EUROPE, FROM THE CONGRESS OP VIENNA (1815) TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1830 about 11 min
  111. II. EUROPE FROM THE REVOLUTION OF 1830 TO THE REVOLUTIONARY EPOCH OF 1848 about 25 min
  112. III. EUROPE, FROM THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 TO THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN WAR (1866) about 19 min
  113. IV. EUROPE, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE AUSTRO-PRUSSIAN WAR TO THE END OF THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR (1866-1871) about 16 min
  114. V. EUROPE, THE THIRD FRENCH REPUBLIC, AND THE UNION OF ITALY (1871-) about 35 min
  115. VI. THE UNITED STATES (1815-1890): MEXICO: SOUTH AMERICAN STATES: EASTERN ASIA about 35 min
  116. VII. THE LAST DECADE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY about 1 h 27 min

The opening of Preface

In writing this work I have endeavored to provide a text-book suited to more advanced pupils. My idea of such a work was, that it should present the essential facts of history in due order, and in conformity to the best and latest researches; that it should point out clearly the connection of events and of successive eras with one another; that through the interest awakened by the natural, unforced view gained of this unity of history, and by such illustrative incidents as the brevity of the narrative would allow to be wrought into it, the dryness of a mere summary should be, as far as possible, relieved; and that, finally, being a book intended for pupils and readers of all classes, it should be free from sectarian partiality, and should limit itself to well-established judgments and conclusions on all matters subject to party contention. Respecting one of the points just referred to, I can say that, in composing this work, I have myself been more than ever impressed with the unity of history, and affected by this great and deeply moving drama that is still advancing into a future that is hidden from view.

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