The World's Greatest Books volume 12: Modern History [Abridgements]

First published in 1910, abridgements of such works as: Eliot's History of the United States; Prescott's History fo the Conquest of Mexico and History of the Conquest of Peru; Hyde's History of the Rebellion; Macaulay's History f England; Buckle's History of Civilizatino in England; Bagehot's English Constitution; Voltaire's Age of Louis XIV; Tocqueville's Old Regime; Mignet's History fo the French Revolution; Carlyle's History fo the French Revolution; Lamartine's History fo the Girondists; Taine's Modern Regime; Carlyle's Frederick the Great; Finlay's History of Greece; Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic and History of the United Netherlands; Elphinstone's History of India; Voltaire's Russia Under Peter the Great; Prescott's Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella; Voltaire's History ofCharles XII; Milman's History of Latin Christianity; and Von Ranke's History of the Popes.