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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 10

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388,719 words · about 27 h 13 min to read

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The text of The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 10 comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #66694. It is public domain in the United States. Edited by Henry Smith Williams. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built

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Language
English
Subjects
World history
Length
388,719 words · about 27 h 13 min
Sections
61 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (61)
  1. Opening about 1 min
  2. XV. THE HISTORY OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL about 1 min
  3. Chapter I under 1 min
  4. Chapter II under 1 min
  5. Chapter III about 1 min
  6. Chapter IV under 1 min
  7. Chapter V under 1 min
  8. Chapter VI under 1 min
  9. Chapter VII under 1 min
  10. Chapter VIII under 1 min
  11. Chapter IX under 1 min
  12. Chapter X under 1 min
  13. Chapter XI under 1 min
  14. Chapter XII under 1 min
  15. Chapter XIII under 1 min
  16. Chapter XIV about 1 min
  17. Chapter I under 1 min
  18. Chapter II under 1 min
  19. Chapter III under 1 min
  20. Chapter IV under 1 min
  21. Chapter V about 1 min
  22. Book I under 1 min
  23. I. LAND AND PEOPLE; AND GOTHIC SWAY about 1 h 25 min
  24. II. THE TIME OF MOSLEM DOMINATION about 1 h 7 min
  25. III. THE HISTORY OF CASTILE TO THE DEATH OF PEDRO THE CRUEL about 1 h 15 min
  26. IV. ARAGON TO THE UNION WITH CASTILE about 50 min
  27. V. HENRY OF TRASTAMARA AND ISABELLA OF CASTILE about 48 min
  28. VI. FERDINAND AND ISABELLA about 1 h 46 min
  29. VII. THE REGENCIES OF FERDINAND about 1 h 18 min
  30. VIII. THE EMPEROR CHARLES V about 52 min
  31. IX. THE REIGN OF PHILIP II about 1 h 6 min
  32. X. THE LAST OF THE SPANISH HABSBURGS about 42 min
  33. XI. REVIVAL OF SPAIN UNDER THE FIRST BOURBONS about 1 h 15 min
  34. XII. SPAIN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION about 1 h 2 min
  35. XIII. THE PENINSULAR WAR about 1 h 34 min
  36. XIV. THE RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS about 1 h 46 min
  37. I. LAND AND PEOPLE AND EARLY HISTORY about 1 min
  38. II. THE TIME OF MOSLEM DOMINATION about 1 min
  39. III. CASTILE, TO DEATH OF PEDRO THE CRUEL under 1 min
  40. IV. ARAGON, TO THE UNION WITH CASTILE under 1 min
  41. V. TRASTAMARA, TO ISABELLA under 1 min
  42. VI. FERDINAND AND ISABELLA about 1 min
  43. VII. THE REGENCY OF FERDINAND about 1 min
  44. VIII. THE EMPEROR CHARLES V under 1 min
  45. IX. PHILIP II about 1 min
  46. X. LAST OF THE SPANISH HABSBURGS under 1 min
  47. XI. REVIVAL UNDER THE FIRST BOURBONS under 1 min
  48. XII. SPAIN AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION under 1 min
  49. XIII. THE PENINSULAR WAR under 1 min
  50. XIV. THE BOURBON RESTORATION about 1 min
  51. Book II under 1 min
  52. I. EARLY HISTORY TO JOÃO I about 1 h 7 min
  53. II. THE PERIOD OF GLORY AND DISCOVERY about 1 h 31 min
  54. III. THE FALL, THE CAPTIVITY, AND THE REVOLUTION about 1 h
  55. IV. JOÃO IV TO JOÃO VI about 1 h 15 min
  56. V. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY about 2 h 33 min
  57. I. EARLY HISTORY TO JOÃO I under 1 min
  58. II. THE PERIOD OF GLORY AND DISCOVERY about 1 min
  59. III. THE FALL, THE CAPTIVITY, AND THE REVOLUTION under 1 min
  60. IV. JOÃO IV TO JOÃO VI under 1 min
  61. V. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY about 2 h 40 min

The opening of I. LAND AND PEOPLE; AND GOTHIC SWAY

[Sidenote: [TO 711 A.D.]]

Few histories afford lessons of greater value than those of Spain and Portugal. They teem with proofs that independence and liberty are not less important to the wealth and political power of a country than to its happiness; that neither natural advantages nor the character of the inhabitants, neither increase of territory nor external peace and domestic tranquillity can in any measure counterbalance the destructive effects of a foreign yoke, or of a despotic government.

The Spanish peninsula, considered as a whole, combines most of the advantages of an insular, with those of a continental, position. Almost entirely surrounded by the sea, Spain is an island with regard to trade and fisheries; whilst the neck of land that connects her with France at once furnishes in the Pyrenees a mountainous barrier against that country, and preserves her from entire dependence upon winds and waves in her external relations.

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