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The Story of the Nations Library is a historical book series[1] started by the British publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin in 1885.[2] The series was published in the USA by G. P. Putnam, though not in identical form.[3]

There was also a compiled copy that is split up into two parts, of which one has been found that is The Story of the Nations Volume 1 [citation needed]

Number Year Author Title
1 1885 Arthur Gilman Rome: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
2 1885 James Kendall Hosmer The Jews, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern
3 1886 Sabine Baring-Gould Germany
4 1886 Alfred John Church Carthage; or the Empire of Africa
5 1887 John Pentland Mahaffy Alexander's Empire
6 1887 Stanley Lane-Poole The Moors in Spain
7 1887 George Rawlinson Ancient Egypt
8 1887 Arminius Vambery Hungary in Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern Times
9 1887 Arthur Gilman The Saracens: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of Bagdad
10 1887 Emily Lawless Ireland
11 1887 Zenaide Ragozin Chaldea: From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
12 1888 Henry Bradley The Goths: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Gothic Dominion in Spain
13 1888 Zenaide Ragozin Assyria: From the Rise of the Empire to the Fall of Nineveh
14 1888 Stanley Lane-Poole Turkey
15 1886 James E. Thorold Rogers Holland
16 1888 Gustave Masson Mediaeval France: From the Reign of Hugues Capet to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century
17 1888 S. G. W. Benjamin Persia
18 1889 George Rawlinson Phoenicia
19 1888 Zenaide Ragozin Media, Babylon and Persia. Including a Study of the Zend-Avesta or Religion of Zoroasta, from the Fall of Nineveh to the Persian War
20 1889 Helen Zimmern The Hansa Towns[4]
21 1889 Alfred John Church Early Britain
22 1890 Stanley Lane-Poole The Barbary Corsairs
23 1890 William Richard Morfill Russia
24 1896 William Douglas Morrison The Jews under Roman Rule
25 1890 John Mackintosh[5] Scotland: From the Earliest Times to the Present Century
26 1890 Lina Hug
Richard Stead 		Switzerland
27 1891 Susan Hale Mexico
28 1891 Henry Morse Stephens Portugal
29 1891 Sarah Orne Jewett The Normans: Told Chiefly in Relation to their Conquest of England
30 1892 Charles Oman Byzantine Empire
31 1892 Edward A. Freeman Sicily: Phoenician, Greek and Roman
32 1892 Bella Duffy The Tuscan Republics (Florence, Siena, Pisa and Lucca) with Genoa
33 1893 William Richard Morfill Poland
34 1893 George Rawlinson Parthia
35 1893 Greville Tregarthen Australian Commonwealth (New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, New Zealand)
36 1893 Henry Edward Watts Spain: Being a Summary of Spanish History from the Moorish Conquest to the Fall of Granada (711-1492 A.D.)
37 1894 David Murray Japan
38 1894 George McCall Theal South Africa (The Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Free State, South African Republic, Rhodesia) and all other territories south of the Zambesi
39 1894 Alethea Wiel Venice
40 1894 T. A. Archer
Charles Lethbridge Kingsford 		The Crusades: The Story of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
41 1895 Zenaide Ragozin Vedic India; As Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda
42 1896 James Rodway West Indies and the Spanish Main
43 1896 C. Edmund Maurice Bohemia: From the Earliest Times to the Fall of National Independence in 1620, with a short summary of later events
44 1896 William Miller The Balkans: Roumania, Bulgaria, Servia, and Montenegro
45 1896 John George Bourinot Canada
46 1896 R. W. Frazer British India
47 1897 André Lebon Modern France 1789-1895
48 1898 Lewis Sergeant The Franks: From their Origin as a Confederacy to the Establishment of the Kingdom of France and the German Empire
49 1899 Sidney Whitman Austria
50 1898 Justin McCarthy Modern England before the Reform Bill[6]
51 1899 Robert K. Douglas China[7]
52 1899 Justin McCarthy Modern England from the Reform Bill to the Present Time
53 1899 Martin A. S. Hume Modern Spain 1788–1898
54 1900 Pietro Orsi Modern Italy 1748-1898
55 1900 Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen A History of Norway from the Earliest Times
56 1901 Owen Morgan Edwards Wales
57 1901 William Miller Mediaeval Rome: From Hildebrand to Clement VIII, 1073-1600
58 1902 William Francis Barry The Papal Monarchy: From St. Gregory the Great to Boniface VIII (590-1303)
59 1903 Stanley Lane-Poole Mediaeval India under Mohammedan Rule (A.D. 712-1764)
60 1903 Thomas William Rhys Davids Buddhist India
61 1903 Edward Jenks Parliamentary England: The Evolution of the Cabinet System
62 1903 Mary Bateson Mediaeval England 1066-1350
63 1905 L. Cecil Jane The Coming of Parliament: England from 1350-1660
64 1905 Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh Greece: From the Coming of the Hellenes to A.D. 14
65 1908 Henry Stuart Jones The Roman Empire, B.C. 29–A.D. 476[8]

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  1. ^ The Story of the Nations (T. Fisher Unwin/G. P. Putnam's Sons) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  2. ^ Codell, Julie F. "Unwin, Thomas Fisher". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47454. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ George Haven Putnam (1 October 2001). Memories of a Publisher 1865 - 1915. The Minerva Group, Inc. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-89875-600-5.
  4. ^ archive.org, Helen Zimmern, The Story Of The Nations: The Hansa Towns (1891).
  5. ^ Mr Neil Evans; Professor Huw Pryce (28 January 2014). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-4724-0660-6.
  6. ^ Justin McCarthy, The Story Of The Nations: Modern England (1898)
  7. ^ Robert K. Douglas, The Story Of The Nations: China (1899).
  8. ^ "Mr. Stuart Jones's Roman Empire".
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