The Historians’ History of the World, Volume XVII

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Editor

Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943

Title

The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 17 : Switzerland (concluded), Russia and Poland

Original Publication

New York: The Outlook Company, 1905.

Credits

David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

World history

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 73369

Release Date

April 10, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE HISTORIANS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD
2. 2.Contributors, and Editorial Revisers.
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.SWITZERLAND ( Concluded )
5. 5.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
6. 6.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.)
7. 7.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
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.RUSSIA — INTRODUCTION THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF RUSSIA
11. 11.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
12. 12.CHAPTER II. THE PERIOD OF THE PRINCIPALITIES — THE CHARACTER OF THE PRINCIPALITIES — THE UNITY OF THE PRINCIPALITIES — THE THEORY OF SUCCESSION — CIVIL WARS — FOOTNOTES
13. 13.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
14. 14.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
15. 15.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
16. 16.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
17. 17.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
18. 18.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
19. 19.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
20. 20.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
21. 21.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
22. 22.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
23. 23.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
24. 24.APPENDIX. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO RUSSIAN HISTORY — I TREATY OF PARIS — II TREATY OF BERLIN, 1878 — III THE HAGUE PEACE CONFERENCE
25. 25.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
26. 26.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
27. 27.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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