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Book - Reference Book/History, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians History of the World Vol 9 set 1 - Edited by Henry Smith Williams L.L.D. Published by “The Times” 1908, 1908
... The Historians History of the World Vol 9 set 1 - Edited by Henry Smith Williams L.L.D. ...the historians history of the world vol 9 set 1...set, Volume 9 is significant for several reasons, the way Williams didn't just write a summary he curated it by pulling the best descriptions of Italy from legendary historians like Gibbon, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Sismondi. By reading this volume, you aren't just getting 1908-era scholarship; you are reading a "Greatest Hits" of historical writing from the last 500 years.
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The 1908 edition of The Historians' History of the World is a monumental work of Edwardian scholarship, representing a specific era of "universal history" where the goal was to synthesise all human knowledge into a single narrative. While previous volumes dealt with the Roman Empire, Volume 9 picks up the story after the "Fall of Rome" and tracks the peninsula’s evolution through the dawn of the 20th century.
The Book is part of a 25 volume set with red cloth bindings and gold filigree design to ribnon-fictionThe 1908 edition of The Historians' History of the World is a monumental work of Edwardian scholarship, representing a specific era of "universal history" where the goal was to synthesise all human knowledge into a single narrative. While previous volumes dealt with the Roman Empire, Volume 9 picks up the story after the "Fall of Rome" and tracks the peninsula’s evolution through the dawn of the 20th century.
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