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The Historians' History of the World in 25 Volumes Volume XVIII England to 1485 [hardcover] Williams, Henry Smith [Jan 01, 1904]
Chapters (979)
- THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD
- Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
- CONTENTS
- SWITZERLAND (Concluded)
- CHAPTER V. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE CONSPIRACY OF HENTZI; THE INSURRECTION AT FRIBOURG
- DISORDERS AT GENEVA (1707-1782 A.D.)
- TUMULTS IN NEUCHÂTEL
- ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY
- FEDERAL RELATIONS OF THE SWISS STATES
- SWITZERLAND FEELS THE SHOCK OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- FRENCH TROOPS IN SWITZERLAND
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VI. SWITZERLAND SINCE 1798
- CHANGES OF CONSTITUTIONS AND ADMINISTRATIONS
- THE EVACUATION OF SWITZERLAND; THE NOMINATION OF DEPUTIES (1802-1803 A.D.)
- THE ACT OF MEDIATION (1813 A.D.); CABALS FOLLOW NAPOLEON’S FALL
- SWITZERLAND DEVELOPS ALONG NEW LINES
- REACTION AND REFORM; EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION OF JULY
- SIEBENER KONKORDAT; DISPUTES OVER ASYLUM AND RELIGION
- THE SONDERBUND WAR (1847 A.D.)
- BRIEF REFERENCE-LIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS
- Chapter I. Switzerland to the Founding of the Confederation (earliest times to 1291 A.D.)
- Chapter II. The Rise of The Swiss Confederation (1288-1402 A.D.)
- Chapter III. The Confederation at the Height of its Power (1402-1516 A.D.)
- Chapter IV. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Chapter V. The Eighteenth Century
- Chapter VI. Switzerland Since 1798
- A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SWISS HISTORY BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT WORK; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- A CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND
- Before the Roman Conquest
- Under Roman Dominion
- From the German Invasions through the Carlovingians
- Time of Burgundian and Alamannian Rulers
- From the Union of Switzerland under the German Emperors to the Founding of the Swiss Confederation
- THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
- THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
- THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- RUSSIA
- INTRODUCTION THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA
- CHAPTER I. LAND AND PEOPLE AND EARLY HISTORY
- EXTENT, CONFIGURATION, AND CLIMATE
- THE SIMILARITY OF EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC RUSSIA
- THE DUALISM OF NORTH AND SOUTH
- THE SOIL OF THE BLACK LANDS AND THE STEPPES
- DIVERSITY OF RACES
- ETHNOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RELIGIONS
- THE SLAVS
- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORGANISATION
- RELIGION
- THE VARANGIAN PERIOD (862-1054 A.D.)
- THE REIGN OF IGOR
- THE REGENCY OF OLGA
- SVIATOSLAV; THE VICTORY OF NORTH OVER SOUTH
- NESTOR’S ACCOUNT OF VLADIMIR’S CONVERSION
- SVIATOPOLK IS SUCCEEDED BY IAROSLAV (1019 A.D.)
- IAROSLAV’S CODE OF LAWS
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER II. THE PERIOD OF THE PRINCIPALITIES
- THE CHARACTER OF THE PRINCIPALITIES
- THE UNITY OF THE PRINCIPALITIES
- THE THEORY OF SUCCESSION
- CIVIL WARS
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER III. THE TIME OF TATAR DOMINATION
- JENGHIZ KHAN; THE TATAR INVASION
- INFLUENCES OF TATAR DOMINATION
- ALEXANDER NEVSKI
- THE GROWING ASCENDENCY OF MOSCOW
- THE DESTRUCTION OF MOSCOW (1382 A.D.)
- THE DEATH OF DMITRI DONSKOI; HIS PLACE IN HISTORY
- THE REIGN OF VASILI-DMITRIEVITCH (1389-1425 A.D.)
- VASILI VASILIEVITCH (AFTERWARDS CALLED “THE BLIND” OR “THE DARK”)
- A REVIEW OF THE INTERNAL DEVELOPMENT DURING THE TATAR PERIOD
- THE INFLUENCE OF TATAR DOMINATION
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER IV. FROM IVAN THE GREAT TO IVAN THE TERRIBLE
- ACCESSION OF IVAN (III) VASILIEVITCH
- CHARACTER AND AIMS OF IVAN
- IVAN VASILIEVITCH MARRIES THE GREEK PRINCESS SOPHIA (1472 A.D.)
- THE GROWTH OF AUTOCRACY
- SUBJUGATION OF THE REPUBLICS
- THE FINAL OVERTHROW OF THE TATARS
- AFFAIRS OF LITHUANIA
- LAST YEARS OF IVAN; INHERITANCE LEFT TO HIS SONS
- APPRECIATIONS OF IVAN VASILIEVITCH
- ACCESSION OF VASILI IVANOVITCH (1505 A.D.)
- WARS WITH LITHUANIA
- WARS WITH THE TATARS
- THE GROWING POWER OF RUSSIA
- MAXINE THE GREEK
- PRIVATE LIFE OF VASILI IVANOVITCH; HIS DEATH
- A FORECAST OF THE REIGN OF IVAN (IV) THE TERRIBLE
- THE MINORITY OF IVAN IV
- IVAN ASSUMES THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT
- THE DISCOVERY OF SIBERIA
- THE RESTRAINING INFLUENCE OF ANASTASIA
- IVAN’S ATROCITIES
- THE POLISH INVASION
- THE REIGN OF TERROR
- THE MARCH AGAINST NOVGOROD
- CARNAGE IN MOSCOW
- THE STRUGGLE FOR LIVONIA
- PROJECTS OF ALLIANCE WITH ENGLAND
- DEATH OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE
- KARAMZIN’S ESTIMATE OF IVAN
- IVAN THE TERRIBLE COMPARED WITH PETER THE GREAT
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER V. THE CENTURY AFTER IVAN THE TERRIBLE
- CHARACTER OF BORIS GODUNOV
- WAR WITH SWEDEN
- SERFDOM
- DEATH OF DMITRI (1591 A.D.)
- THE REIGN OF BORIS (1598-1605 A.D.)
- CAREER AND MURDER OF DEMETRIUS (1606 A.D.)
- VASILI IVANOVITCH SHUISKI (1606-1610 A.D.)
- ACCESSION OF THE HOUSE OF ROMANOV (1613 A.D.)
- THE COSSACKS
- LAST YEARS OF MICHAEL
- ALEXIS (1645-1676 A.D.)
- FEODOR (1676-1682 A.D.)
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VI. PETER THE GREAT
- THE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF PETER
- PETER ASSERTS CONTROL
- MILITARY REFORMS
- AZOV TAKEN FROM THE TURKS
- SCHEMES OF CONQUEST
- CONSPIRACY TO MURDER PETER
- PETER TRAVELS TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE
- THE INSURRECTION OF THE STRELITZ
- WAR WITH SWEDEN
- RALLYING FROM DEFEAT
- THE ANTECEDENTS OF AN EMPRESS
- MILITARY SUCCESS: FOUNDATION OF ST. PETERSBURG
- RENEWED HOSTILITIES
- POLISH AFFAIRS
- CHARLES XII INVADES RUSSIA (1707 A.D.)
- REVOLT OF THE COSSACKS OF THE DON; MAZEPPA
- MAZEPPA JOINS CHARLES XII; PULTOWA
- PETER AND THE POWERS
- CATHERINE ACKNOWLEDGED AS PETER’S WIFE (1711 A.D.)
- WAR WITH TURKEY
- WAR WITH SWEDEN (1714 A.D.)
- PETER AT THE HEIGHT OF POWER
- PETER’S SECOND EUROPEAN TOUR (1717 A.D.)
- THE CZAREVITCH ALEXIS DISINHERITED (1718 A.D.)
- DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
- RENEWED HOSTILITIES WITH SWEDEN (1719-1721 A.D.)
- PETER AS ADMINISTRATOR
- WAR WITH PERSIA (1722-1724 A.D.)
- LAST YEARS AND DEATH OF PETER
- SOLOVIEV’S ESTIMATE OF PETER’S WORK
- KOSTOMAROV’S ESTIMATE OF PETER
- HAXTAUSEN’S ESTIMATE OF PETER’S INFLUENCE
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VII. CATHERINE I TO PETER III
- CATHERINE I (1725-1727 A.D.)
- PETER II (1727-1730 A.D.)
- ANNA IVANOVNA (1730-1740 A.D.)
- THE NOMINAL REIGN OF IVAN VI (1740-1741 A.D.)
- ELIZABETH PETROVNA (1741-1762 A.D.)
- PETER III (1762 A.D.)
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER VIII. THE AGE OF CATHERINE THE GREAT
- CATHERINE’S OWN VIEWS ON RUSSIA
- THE POLISH SUCCESSION; THE POLICY OF THE NATIONS
- POLAND IS DISMEMBERED
- THE MIGRATION OF THE KALMUCKS
- INSURRECTIONS AND PRETENDERS
- FAVOURITISM UNDER CATHERINE II
- GENERAL SUVAROV
- THE FAVOURITES LANSKOI AND IERMOLOV
- JOSEPH II VISITS CATHERINE; A SPECTACULAR TOUR
- OUTBREAK OF THE AUSTRO-RUSSIAN WAR WITH TURKEY
- THE SWEDISH WAR (1788-1790 A.D.)
- PROGRESS OF THE AUSTRO-RUSSIAN WAR WITH TURKEY
- THE DEATH OF POTEMKIN (1792 A.D.); SÉGUR’S CHARACTERISATION
- THE QUESTION OF THE IMPERIAL SUCCESSION
- THE LAST OF THE FAVOURITES
- THE SUBJUGATION AND FINAL PARTITION OF POLAND (1796 A.D.)
- THE ANNEXATION OF COURLAND (1795 A.D.)
- LAST YEARS AND DEATH OF CATHERINE
- A RUSSIAN ESTIMATE OF CATHERINE
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER IX. RUSSIA IN THE NAPOLEONIC EPOCH
- EARLY MEASURES OF THE REIGN OF PAUL I
- THE CAMPAIGNS OF KORSAKOV AND SUVAROV (1798-1799)
- PAUL RECONCILED WITH FRANCE (1800 A.D.)
- THE ARMED NEUTRALITY (1800 A.D.)
- ASSASSINATION OF PAUL (1801 A.D.)
- THE ACCESSION OF ALEXANDER I (1801 A.D.); HIS EARLY REFORMS
- THE INCORPORATION OF GEORGIA
- RUSSIA JOINS THE THIRD COALITION
- THE CAMPAIGN OF AUSTERLITZ (1805 A.D.)
- THE CAMPAIGN OF EYLAU AND FRIEDLAND (1806-1807 A.D.)
- RUSSIA DECLARES WAR AGAINST ENGLAND (1807 A.D.)
- THE CONQUEST OF FINLAND (1807 A.D.)
- WAR WITH PERSIA AND WITH TURKEY
- CONGRESS OF ERFURT (1808 A.D.)
- RENEWED WAR WITH TURKEY (1810 A.D.)
- WAR WITH NAPOLEON
- CAMPAIGNS OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE (1813-1814 A.D.)
- ALEXANDER I AT THE CAPITULATION OF PARIS (1814 A.D.)
- THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF PARIS
- ALEXANDER I AND THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (1815 A.D.)
- ALEXANDER’S RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM; BARONESS KRÜDENER
- ALEXANDER’S HOLY ALLIANCE (1815 A.D.)
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER X. ALEXANDER I, MYSTIC AND HUMANITARIAN
- THE COMPLEX CHARACTER OF ALEXANDER I
- MINISTERIAL INFLUENCES; SPERANSKI AND ARAKTCHEIEV
- EDUCATIONAL ADVANCES; THE LYCÉE AND THE LIBRARY
- EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM ST. PETERSBURG
- LIBERATION OF THE PEASANTS OF THE BALTIC PROVINCES (1816-1818 A.D.)
- THE EMPEROR AND THE QUAKERS
- SECRET SOCIETIES UNDER ALEXANDER I
- LITERARY ACTIVITY OF THE PERIOD
- FAILURE OF THE POLISH EXPERIMENT
- CONSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS
- THE MILITARY COLONIES (1819 A.D.)
- ALEXANDER AND THE GREEK UPRISING
- THE GREAT INUNDATION OF 1824
- THE CLOSE OF ALEXANDER’S REIGN
- ALISON’S ESTIMATE OF ALEXANDER I
- SKRINE’S ESTIMATE OF ALEXANDER I
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XI. THE REIGN OF NICHOLAS I
- THE INTERREGNUM
- THE ACCESSION OF NICHOLAS
- TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS (1826 A.D.)
- THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS (1826 A.D.)
- CHANGES IN INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION
- WAR WITH PERSIA (1826-1828 A.D.)
- WAR WITH TURKEY (1828-1829 A.D.)
- THE POLISH INSURRECTION (1830-1831 A.D.)
- THE OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA AND THE RIOTS OCCASIONED BY IT (1830 A.D.)
- THE WAR IN THE CAUCASUS (1829-1840 A.D.)
- THE EMPEROR’S CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTISM
- UNVEILING OF THE MONUMENT AT BORODINO
- DEATH OR RETIREMENT OF THE OLD MINISTERS
- GREAT FIRE IN THE WINTER PALACE
- THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS I (1851 A.D.)
- THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS’ VIEWS ON LOUIS NAPOLEON
- EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE CRIMEAN WAR
- OUTBREAK OF THE CRIMEAN WAR (1853 A.D.)
- FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND TURKEY IN ALLIANCE
- THE TAKING OF BOMARSUND
- THE SEAT OF WAR TRANSFERRED TO THE CRIMEA (1854 A.D.)
- THE BATTLE OF THE ALMA (1854 A.D.)
- THE SEIZURE OF BALAKLAVA (1854 A.D.)
- THE ADVANCE ON SEBASTOPOL
- THE BATTLE OF BALAKLAVA
- THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN (NOVEMBER 5TH, 1854)
- DEATH OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS I
- SKRINE’S ESTIMATE OF NICHOLAS
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XII. ALEXANDER II, THE CZAR LIBERATOR
- THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL
- AMELIORATION IN THE CONDITION OF THE SOLDIER
- THE EMANCIPATION OF THE SERFS (1861 A.D.)
- EFFECTS OF THE NEW CONDITIONS
- ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (1863 A.D.)
- REFORMS IN THE COURTS OF JUSTICE
- THE POLISH INSURRECTION OF 1863
- THE SUBJECTION OF THE CAUCASUS (1864 A.D.)
- WARS WITH KHOKAND AND BOKHARA
- A GLANCE AT THE PAST HISTORY OF BOKHARA
- THE CONQUEST OF KHIVA (1873 A.D.)
- THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR (1877-1878 A.D.)
- SPREAD OF EDUCATION AND CIVILISATION
- THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER II
- FOOTNOTES
- CHAPTER XIII. REACTION, EXPANSION, AND THE WAR WITH JAPAN
- THE REACTIONARY POLICY UNDER ALEXANDER III
- THE RUSSIFICATION OF THE PROVINCES.
- FOREIGN POLICY; THE FRENCH ALLIANCE
- THE CONQUEST OF THE TEKKE-TURCOMANS (1877-1881 A.D.)
- ACCESSION OF NICHOLAS II (1894 A.D.)
- KUROPATKIN ON THE RUSSIAN POLICY OF EXPANSION
- RUSSIA IN MANCHURIA
- THE WAR WITH JAPAN
- APPENDIX. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO RUSSIAN HISTORY
- I TREATY OF PARIS
- II TREATY OF BERLIN, 1878
- III THE HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE
- BRIEF REFERENCE-LIST OF AUTHORITIES BY CHAPTERS
- Chapter I. Land and People and Early History (to 1054 A.D.)
- Chapter II. The Period of The Principalities (1054-1224 A.D.)
- Chapter III. The Time of Tatar Domination (1235-1462 A.D.)
- Chapter IV. From Ivan the Great to Ivan the Terrible (1462-1584 A.D.)
- Chapter V. The Century After Ivan the Terrible (1584-1682 A.D.)
- Chapter VI. Peter the Great (1682-1725 A.D.)
- Chapter VII. Catherine I to Peter III (1725-1796 A.D.)
- Chapter VIII. The Age of Catherine II (1769-1796 A.D.)
- Chapter IX. Russia in the Napoleonic Epoch (1796-1815 A.D.)
- Chapter X. Alexander I, Mystic and Humanitarian (1801-1825 A.D.)
- Chapter XI. The Reign of Nicholas I (1825-1854 A.D.)
- Chapter XII. Alexander II, The Czar Liberator (1855-1881 A.D.)
- Chapter XIII. Reaction, Expansion, and the War with Japan (1881-1904 A.D.)
- Appendix. Documents Relating to Russian History
- A GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RUSSIAN HISTORY BASED ON THE WORKS QUOTED, CITED, OR CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THE PRESENT HISTORY; WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- A CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA
- THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
- THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
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