The Historians' History of the World
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of world history
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originally published in English
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near the beginning of the 20th century
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. It is quite extensive but its perspective is entirely Western Eurocentric. It was compiled by Henry Smith Williams
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, a medical doctor and author of many books on medicine, science, and history, as well as other authorities on history, and published in New York in 1904 by Encyclopædia Britannica
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, it was also published in London printed by Morrison & Gibb Limited, of Edinburgh.
Others involved were historian Walter Lynwood Fleming
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, and Rupert Hughes
Rupert Hughes
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as editor.
Digital reproductions of the volumes are available via the Google Books project (links below). Most have been converted to the DjVu
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file format and made available on archive.org.
Volume I: Prolegomena, Egypt, Mesopotamia
Volume II: Israel, India, Persia, Phoenicia, minor nations of Western Asia
Volume III: Greece to the Peloponnesian war
Volume IV: Greece to the Roman conquest
Volume V: The Roman Republic
Volume VI: The early Roman empire
Volume VII: The later Roman Empire
Volume VIII: Parthians, Sassanids, and Arabs, the Crusades and the Papacy
Volume IX: Italy
Volume X: Spain and Portugal
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Volume XI: France, 843-1715
