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'''''The Historians' History of the World''''', subtitled ''A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development as Recorded by over two thousand of the Great Writers of all Ages''', is a 25-volume encyclopedia of [[World history (field)|world history]], published in 1902. It was compiled by [[Henry Smith Williams]], a medical doctor and author of many books on medicine, science, and history, as well as other authorities on history including historian [[Walter L. Fleming]], and [[Rupert Hughes]] as editor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/bai/kemm.htm|title=Books at Iowa: The Literary Legacy of Rupert Hughes|website=digital.lib.uiowa.edu|access-date=5 April 2019}}</ref>
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== List of volumes ==
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! Part
! Based on authors or works including
! Topics covered
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| colspan=3 | '''I: Prolegomena, Egypt, Mesopotamia'''
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| I: ''[[wikt:prolegomenon|Prolegomena]]''
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| Prefatory discussion on various topics relating to the practice of historical study
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| II: ''Egypt''
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| [[Ancient Egypt]]
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| III: ''Mesopotamia''
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| [[Mesopotamia]]
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| colspan=3 | '''II: Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, minor nations of Western Asia'''
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| IV: ''The History of Israel''
| [[Ernest Babelon]], [[The Bible]], [[Thomas Kelly Cheyne]], [[Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker]], [[Heinrich Ewald]], [[Edward Gibbon]], [[Ferdinand Hitzig]], [[Johann Jahn]], [[Josephus]], [[Rudolf Kittel]], {{ill|Eugène Ledrain|fr}}, [[Max Loehr]], [[Louis Ménard]], [[Henry Hart Milman]], [[Salomon Munk]], [[Francis William Newman]], [[Ernest Renan]], [[Archibald Sayce]], [[George Adam Smith]], [[Bernhard Stade]]
| Biblical history of [[Abraham]] and the early [[Israelites]], [[Moses]], the [[Book of Judges|Judges]], [[Samuel]], [[Saul]], [[David]], [[Nehemiah]], the [[Maccabean Revolt]], [[early Christianity]], the [[Fall of Jerusalem, AD 70|Fall of Jerusalem]]
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| V: ''The History of Phoenicia''
| [[Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren]], [[John Kenrick (historian)|John Kenrick]], {{ill|Otto Meltzer|de}}, [[Theodor Mommsen]], [[Franz Karl Movers]], {{ill|Richard Pietschmann|de}}
| The origins of the people of [[Phoenicia]], and their rise to maritime supremacy under [[Hiram I]] and his successors, Phoenicia under the [[Persian Empire|Persians]] and [[Greeks]] the [[history of Carthage]] and its decline with the [[Punic Wars]]
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| VI: ''The History of Western Asia''
| Ernest Babelon, Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, [[Eduard Meyer]], [[Georges Perrot]] & [[Charles Chipiez]], [[Georges Radet]], [[Archibald Sayce|A.H. Sayce]], [[Albert Socin]]
| The story of the [[Hittites]], the [[Scythians]], the [[Cimmerians]], the [[Lydians]] and a handful of other peoples of the [[Ancient Near East]]
|-
| VII: ''The History of Ancient India''
| [[Arrian]], [[Gustave Le Bon]], [[Eugene Bournouf]], [[Mountstuart Elphinstone]], [[William Wilson Hunter]], [[William Jones (philologist)|William Jones]], [[Ferdinand Justi]], [[Salomon Lefmann]], [[James Mill]], [[Vedas]], [[H. H. Wilson]]
| The early Hindus, the [[Vedas]], the [[Brahmin]]s, the [[rise of Buddhism]]
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| VIII: ''The History of Ancient Persia''
| [[Ctesias]], [[Herodotus]], [[Gaston Maspero]], [[Theodor Nöldeke]], [[Henry Creswicke Rawlinson]]
| The [[Achaemenid Empire]], the [[Medes]], [[Elam]]ites, the civilization of Persia under [[Cyrus the Great]] and [[Darius I]], [[Xerxes I]] and [[Artaxerxes III]], the fall of the empire
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| colspan=3 | '''III: Greece to the Peloponnesian war'''
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| colspan=3 |'''IV: Greece'''
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| colspan=3 | '''V: The Roman Republic'''
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| 
| [[Ammianus Marcellinus]], [[Appian]], [[Thomas Arnold]], the [[Augustan History]], [[Julius Caesar]], [[Henry Fynes Clinton]], [[Cicero]], [[Cassius Dio]], [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], [[Eutropius (historian)|Eutropius]], [[Florus]], [[Victor Gardthausen]], [[Edward Gibbon]], [[Adolf von Harnack]], [[Gustav Hertzberg]], [[Herodian]], [[Otto Hirschfeld]], [[Thomas Hodgkin (historian)|Thomas Hodgkin]], [[Karl Hoeck]], [[Wilhelm Ihne]], [[Jordanes]], [[Josephus]], [[George Cornewall Lewis]], [[Henry Liddell]], [[Livy]], [[Joachim Marquardt]], [[Charles Merivale]], [[Eduard Meyer]], [[Theodor Mommsen]], [[Monumentum Ancyranaum]], [[Cornelius Nepos]], [[Barthold Georg Niebuhr]], [[Pliny the Elder]], [[Pliny the Younger]], [[Plutarch]], [[Polybius]], [[Leopold von Ranke]], [[Sallust]], [[Strabo]], [[Suetonius]], [[Tacitus]], [[Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont]], [[Velleius Paterculus]], [[Georg Weber (historian)|Georg Weber]], [[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]]
| Early legends of the [[Founding of Rome]] and of the [[Roman Kingdom]], the [[Roman Republic]]'s development and rise to supremacy via the [[Punic Wars]], [[Samnite Wars]], [[Macedonian Wars]], and the [[Roman conquest of Italy]], the final days of the Republic, the reforms of [[Tiberius Gracchus]], [[Gaius Gracchus]], and [[Gaius Marius]] and his conflict with [[Sulla]] following the [[Jugurthine War]] in Africa, the rise of [[Pompey]] and his war against [[Julius Caesar]], the [[Second Catilinarian conspiracy]], the [[Crisis of the Roman Republic]] and its fall
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| colspan=3 | '''VI: The early Roman empire'''
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| 
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| [[Augustus]], the [[fall of the Western Roman Empire]], the [[rise of Christianity]], the many emperors who held power in Rome during the founding and the fall of the [[Roman Empire]], the division of the Roman Empire and the many barbarian invasions ([[Huns]], [[Goths]], [[Vandals]]) leading up to Rome's fall
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| colspan=3 | '''VII: The later Roman Empire'''
|-
| Part XI, ''The History of the Later Roman Empire'', Book I: ''The Later Roman Empire in the East'' 
| [[Agathias]], Appian, the Augustan History, [[J. B. Bury]], Henry Fynes Clinton, [[George Kedrenos]], [[Anna Komnene]], Cassius Dio, [[Doukas (historian)]], [[Einhard]], Eutropius, [[George Finlay]], [[Heinrich Gelzer]], Edward Gibbon, [[Wilhelm von Giesebrecht]], [[Ferdinand Gregorovius]], Gustav Hertzberg, Thomas Hodgkin, Jordanes, [[John Malalas]], [[Procopius]], Leopold von Ranke, Strabo, Tacitus, Velleius Paterculus, Georg Weber, [[Joannes Zonaras]], Zosimus
| the reign of [[Arcadius]] in 395, deals with the [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern Roman Empire]] through to the [[Fall of Constantinople]] in 1453, detailing as well the [[Siege of Constantinople (1204)]] by the members of the [[Fourth Crusade]] which led to the short-lived [[Latin Empire]] along with the various incidents in the history of [[Constantinople]] with several chapters dedicated to [[Justinian I]]
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| Part XI, ''The History of the Later Roman Empire'', Book II: ''The Later Roman Empire in the West''
| As above 
| [[Odoacer]] and the [[Visigoths]]' invasion of Italy, the [[Lombard invasion of Italy]], the [[Carolingian dynasty]], [[Charlemagne]], the birth of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [[Investiture controversy]], [[Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor]]
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| colspan=3 | '''VIII: Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs, the Crusades and the Papacy'''
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| XII: ''The History of the Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs'' 
| [[Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer)|Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi]], [[Bar Hebraeus]], [[Abulfeda]], Maximilian Wolfgang Duncker, [[Ignác Goldziher]], [[Alfred von Gutschmid]], [[William Muir]], [[Theodor Nöldeke]], [[Louis-Pierre-Eugène Sédillot]], [[Julius Wellhausen]], [[Gustav Weil]]
| The [[Parthian Empire]], the conquests of [[Mithridates I of Parthia]], the [[Mithridatic Wars]] with [[Mithridates VI of Pontus]], the [[Sasanian Empire]] and the continuation of the [[Roman–Persian Wars]], the [[Hephthalite–Persian Wars]], the history of [[Pre-Islamic Arabia]], [[Muhammad]] and the [[spread of Islam]], the [[Umayyad Caliphate]], the [[Abbasid Caliphate]], the medieval history of [[Islam in Spain]], [[Fiqh]] (Islamic jurisprudence)
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| XIII: ''The History of the [[Crusades]] and of the [[Papacy]]''
| Abu'l-Fida, Choiseul, [[Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad]], [[James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce|James Bryce]], William Denton, [[John William Draper]], Einhard, Edward Gibbon, [[Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler]], [[Henry Hallam]], [[Henry Charles Lea]], [[Joseph François Michaud]], [[Charles Mills (historian)]], [[Henry Hart Milman]], [[Johann Lorenz von Mosheim]], Leopold von Ranke, [[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]]
| The [[Crusades]], the [[history of the papacy]]
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| colspan=3 | '''IX: Italy'''
|-
| 
| [[Ammirato]], [[Jacob Burckhardt]], [[Samuel Astley Dunham]], [[Francesco Guicciardini]], [[William Carew Hazlitt]], Anna Komnene, [[Heinrich Leo]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Henry Edward Napier]], [[Alfred von Reumont]], [[William Roscoe]], [[Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi]], [[John Addington Symonds]], [[Voltaire]]
| 
|-
| colspan=3 | '''X: Spain and Portugal'''
|-
| XV: ''The History of Spain and Portugal'', Book I
| [[Pero López de Ayala]], {{ill|Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink (born 1810)|lt=Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink|nl|Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink}}, [[Hermann Baumgarten]], [[Samuel Astley Dunham]], [[Martin Sharp (historian)|Martin Sharp]], [[William Francis Patrick Napier]], [[William H. Prescott]], [[Jerónimo Zurita y Castro]]
| Spain's earliest known history under the [[Celts]], the [[Phoenicia]]ns, the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greeks]] through to the [[Roman conquest of Hispania]], the Gothic invasion, the [[Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula]] and their later overthrow, the [[Kingdom of Aragon]] and [[Kingdom of Castile]], the reigns of [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]], [[Isabella I of Castile]], and the monarchs of [[Habsburg Spain]]; the [[House of Bourbon]] during the [[French Revolution]], the [[Peninsular War]], the regency of [[Maria Christina of Austria]]
|-
| XV: ''The History of Spain and Portugal'', Book II
| As above
| The history of [[Portugal]] beginning with [[Afonso I of Portugal]], other kings including [[Afonso II of Portugal]], [[Denis of Portugal]], and [[John I of Portugal]], the role of Portugal in the [[Age of Discovery]], [[Portuguese India]], the [[Portuguese conquest of Goa]], the decline of Portugal as a major European power, the [[1755 Lisbon earthquake]], [[Invasion of Portugal (1807)|Napoleon's invasion of Portugal]], the reign of [[Carlos I of Portugal]], the [[Inquisition]], [[Catharism]], the [[Waldensians]] and the [[Albigensian Crusade]], the [[history of the Jews in Spain]], the [[auto-da-fé]], [[Tomás de Torquemada]]
|-
| colspan=3 | '''XI: France, 843–1715'''
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| XVI: ''The History of France''
| [[Louis Pierre Édouard, Baron Bignon]], [[Louis Blanc]], [[Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue]], [[Thomas Carlyle]], [[Hippolyte Castille]], [[Symphorien Champier]], [[François-René de Chateaubriand]], [[Pierre Adolphe Chéruel]], [[John Wilson Croker]], [[Philippe de Commines]], [[Edmond Jurien de La Gravière]], [[Alexis de Tocqueville]], [[Victor Duruy]], [[Gabriel-Henri Gaillard]], [[François Guizot]], [[Ernest Hamel]], [[Ludwig Häusser]], [[Karl Hillebrand]], [[Alphonse de Lamartine]], [[Jules Michelet]], [[Enguerrand de Monstrelet]], [[Guillaume de Nangis]], [[Jules Quicherat]], [[Alfred Nicolas Rambaud]], [[Edmond Henri Adolphe Schérer]], [[Walter Scott]], [[Charles Seignobos]], [[Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi]], [[Albert Sorel]], [[Heinrich von Sybel]], [[Adolphe Thiers]], Voltaire
| The later [[Carolingian dynasty]], the foundation of the [[House of Capet]], the rise of the [[House of Valois]], the [[Hundred Years' War]], [[Cardinal Mazarin]], [[Cardinal Richelieu]], the [[House of Bourbon]], the death of [[Louis XIV of France]]
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| colspan=3 | '''XII: France, 1715–1815'''
|-
| XVII
| 
| The early years of [[Louis XV of France]], [[Madame de Pompadour]], Voltaire, [[Louis XVI of France]] and [[Marie Antoinette]], the [[French Revolution]] under [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau]], the [[Execution of Louis XVI]] and the [[Girondins]], the [[Reign of Terror]], the rise of [[Napoleon]], the [[Napoleonic Wars]], the [[Treaties of Tilsit]], the [[Battle of Waterloo]]
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| colspan=3 | '''XIII: France, 1815–1904; Netherlands'''
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| colspan=3 | '''XIV: The Netherlands (concluded), the Germanic empires'''
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| XVIII: ''The History of the Germanic Empires''
| [[Alfred von Arneth]], {{ill|Adolf Beer|de}}, [[Friedrich Karl Biedermann]], [[Thomas Carlyle]], [[Robert Buckley Comyn]], [[William Coxe (historian)|William Coxe]], [[Mandell Creighton]], [[Hans Delbrück]], [[Eduard Duller]],  {{ill|Heinrich Theodor Flathe|de}}, Frederick II, {{ill|Bruno Gebhardt|de}}, [[Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler]], [[Anton Gindely]], [[Karl Rudolf Hagenbach]], [[James Wycliffe Headlam-Morley]], {{ill|Otto Kaemmel|de}}, [[Friedrich Kohlrausch (educator)|Friedrich Kohlrausch]], {{ill|Reinhold Koser|de}}, [[Franz Krones]], [[Karl Gotthard Lamprecht]], [[János Majláth]], [[Wolfgang Menzel]], [[Wilhelm Oncken]], {{ill|Johann David Erdmann Preuß|de}}, [[Hans Prutz]], [[Leopold von Ranke]], [[Heinrich von Sybel]], [[Heinrich von Treitschke]], [[Georg Waitz]]
| The [[Netherlands]] from 1722: [[William IV, Prince of Orange]], the [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)|Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]], the [[Fourth Anglo-Dutch War]], the impact of the French Revolution on the Netherlands and its absorption into the [[First French Empire]], the ministry of [[Johan Rudolph Thorbecke]], [[Wilhelmina of the Netherlands]], the role of [[Belgium]] during the [[War of the Austrian Succession]], the [[Brabant Revolution]], the [[Belgian Revolution]], the reigns of [[Leopold I of Belgium]] and [[Leopold II of Belgium]]
|-
| Book I: ''The Holy Roman Empire''
| As above
| The [[Hohenstaufen]]s, [[Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Conrad III of Germany]] and his [[Second Crusade]], [[Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor]] and his conflicts with the Pope, the [[Peace of Constance]], the [[Third Crusade]], [[Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor]] and the [[Sixth Crusade]], the [[House of Habsburg]], [[Rudolf I of Germany]], [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor]], the rise of the [[Hanseatic League]], the [[Swabian League]], and the [[Hussites]], [[Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor]], [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]] and the [[Diet of Worms]], and to [[Martin Luther]] and the [[Protestant Reformation]]; the [[Schmalkaldic War]], the [[Protestant Union]], the [[Thirty Years' War]], the [[Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg)|Grand Alliance]], the [[Treaty of Ryswick]], the [[Treaty of Passarowitz]], the [[Treaty of Versailles]], the [[Seven Years' War]], the reign of [[Maria Theresa]], the decline of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the [[Treaty of Reichenbach (1790)|Treaty of Reichenbach]], [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]], the [[Second Congress of Rastatt]], the abdication of [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor]]
|-
| Book II: ''The Empire of Austria-Hungary'' 
| As above
| The [[Napoleonic Wars]], [[Klemens von Metternich]], the [[Treaty of Paris (1814)|Treaty of Paris]], the [[Prague uprising of 1848]], the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]] and its declaration of independence, the [[Battle of Novara (1849)|Battle of Novara]]
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| colspan=3 | '''XV: Germanic empires (concluded)'''
|-
| colspan=3 | '''XVI: Scandinavia, Switzerland to 1715'''
|-
| XIX: ''The History of Scandinavia''
| [[Adam of Bremen]], [[Carl Ferdinand Allen]], {{ill|Jean-Pierre Guillaume Catteau-Calleville|de}}, [[Andrew Crichton]], [[Olof von Dalin]], [[Samuel Astley Dunham]], [[Anders Fryxell]], [[Erik Gustaf Geijer]], [[Samuel Laing (travel writer)|Samuel Laing]], [[Sven Lagerbring]], [[Paul Henri Mallet]], [[Oscar Montelius]], [[Friedrich Münter]], [[Erik Pontoppidan]], [[Snorri Sturluson]], H. von Treitschke, [[Henry Wheaton]]
|
|-
| XX: ''The History of Switzerland''
| [[W. A. B. Coolidge]], {{ill|Karl Dändliker|de}}, [[Johannes Dierauer]], [[Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler]], [[Johannes von Müller]], [[Wilhelm Oechsli]], [[Élisée Reclus]], {{ill|Johannes Strickler|de}} [[Johannes Vitoduranus]], [[Louis Vulliemin]]
|
|-
| colspan=3 | '''XVII{{endash}}XXVII'''
|-
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* XVII: Switzerland (concluded), Russia and Poland
* XVIII: England to 1485
* XIX England, 1485–1642
* XX: England, 1642–1791
* XXI: Scotland, Ireland, England since 1792
* XXII: The British colonies, the United States (early colonial period)
* XXII supplement: Australia and New Zealand
* XXIII: The United States (concluded), Spanish America
* XXIV: Poland, the Balkans, Turkey, minor Eastern states, China, Japan
* XXV: Index
* XXVI-XXVII: These eventful years, parts I and II: additional volumes in the 5th edition of 1926, dealing with the [[First World War]]
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== Reception ==
''The Spectator'', writing on 25 January 1908 and prior to the release of the second half of the series, notes a handful of shortcomings including a fleeting portrayal of [[Homer]] and a questioning of the historicity of [[Jesus Christ|Christ]], but states that "the general reader...will find here a great treasury of knowledge" and that "they form an extremely interesting shelfful."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/25th-january-1908/36/the-historians-history-of-the-world-the-most-intre|title=The Historians' History of the World|date=25 January 1908|work=The Spectator|access-date=12 March 2016}}</ref>

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