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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 17
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395,206 words · about 27 h 41 min to read
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About this book
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- World history
- Length
- 395,206 words · about 27 h 41 min
- Sections
- 60 reader sections · Table of contents
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #73369
Contents (60)
- Opening about 1 min
- Chapter V under 1 min
- Chapter VI under 1 min
- Chapter I about 1 min
- Chapter II under 1 min
- Chapter III under 1 min
- Chapter IV about 1 min
- Chapter V under 1 min
- Chapter VI about 1 min
- Chapter VII about 1 min
- Chapter VIII about 1 min
- Chapter IX about 1 min
- Chapter X about 1 min
- Chapter XI about 1 min
- Chapter XII under 1 min
- Chapter XIII under 1 min
- Appendix under 1 min
- V. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY about 1 h
- VI. SWITZERLAND SINCE 1798 about 53 min
- I. SWITZERLAND TO THE FOUNDING OF THE CONFEDERATION (earliest times to 1291 A.D.) about 1 min
- II. THE RISE OF THE SWISS CONFEDERATION (1288-1402 A.D.) about 1 min
- III. THE CONFEDERATION AT THE HEIGHT OF ITS POWER (1402-1516 A.D.) under 1 min
- IV. THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES under 1 min
- V. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY under 1 min
- VI. SWITZERLAND SINCE 1798 about 52 min
- XXI. THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA about 1 min
- Introduction about 20 min
- I. LAND AND PEOPLE AND EARLY HISTORY about 1 h 32 min
- II. THE PERIOD OF THE PRINCIPALITIES about 35 min
- III. THE TIME OF TATAR DOMINATION about 1 h 21 min
- IV. FROM IVAN THE GREAT TO IVAN THE TERRIBLE about 2 h
- V. THE CENTURY AFTER IVAN THE TERRIBLE about 1 h 31 min
- VI. PETER THE GREAT about 3 h 21 min
- VII. CATHERINE I TO PETER III about 1 h 54 min
- VIII. THE AGE OF CATHERINE THE GREAT about 2 h 16 min
- IX. RUSSIA IN THE NAPOLEONIC EPOCH about 3 h 12 min
- X. ALEXANDER I, MYSTIC AND HUMANITARIAN about 1 h 22 min
- XI. THE REIGN OF NICHOLAS I about 1 h 52 min
- XII. ALEXANDER II, THE CZAR LIBERATOR about 1 h 15 min
- XIII. REACTION, EXPANSION, AND THE WAR WITH JAPAN about 56 min
- I. ON THE SYSTEM OF ARBITRATION under 1 min
- II. ON THE PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION about 1 min
- III. ON ARBITRAL PROCEDURE about 2 min
- I. ON THE QUALIFICATIONS OF BELLIGERENTS about 1 min
- II. ON PRISONERS OF WAR about 1 min
- III. ON THE SICK AND WOUNDED under 1 min
- I. ON MEANS OF INJURING THE ENEMY, SIEGES, AND BOMBARDMENTS about 5 min
- I. LAND AND PEOPLE AND EARLY HISTORY (to 1054 A.D.) under 1 min
- II. THE PERIOD OF THE PRINCIPALITIES (1054-1224 A.D.) under 1 min
- III. THE TIME OF TATAR DOMINATION (1235-1462 A.D.) under 1 min
- IV. FROM IVAN THE GREAT TO IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1462-1584 A.D.) under 1 min
- V. THE CENTURY AFTER IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1584-1682 A.D.) under 1 min
- VI. PETER THE GREAT (1682-1725 A.D.) under 1 min
- VII. CATHERINE I TO PETER III (1725-1796 A.D.) under 1 min
- VIII. THE AGE OF CATHERINE II (1769-1796 A.D.) under 1 min
- IX. RUSSIA IN THE NAPOLEONIC EPOCH (1796-1815 A.D.) under 1 min
- X. ALEXANDER I, MYSTIC AND HUMANITARIAN (1801-1825 A.D.) under 1 min
- XI. THE REIGN OF NICHOLAS I (1825-1854 A.D.) under 1 min
- XII. ALEXANDER II, THE CZAR LIBERATOR (1855-1881 A.D.) under 1 min
- XIII. REACTION, EXPANSION, AND THE WAR WITH JAPAN (1881-1904 A.D.) about 1 h 2 min
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