ANNOUNCEMENTS
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
HISTORY OF WESTERN EUROPE
By JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON
Professor of History in Columbia University
IN ONE VOLUME
12mo, cloth, 714 pages, with maps and illustrations, $1.60
IN TWO VOLUMES
Volume I. 12mo, cloth, 368 pages, with maps and illustrations, $1.00
Volume II. 12mo, cloth, 364 pages, with maps and illustrations, $1.00
The excellence of Robinson's "History of Western Europe" has been attested by the immediate and widespread adoption of the book in many of the best schools and colleges of the country. It is an epoch-making text-book on the subject, in that it solves in an entirely satisfactory manner the problem of proportion.
The book differs from its predecessors in omitting all isolated, uncorrelated facts, which only obscure the great issues upon which the pupil's attention should be fixed. In this way the writer has gained the space necessary to give a clear and interesting account of the all-important movements, customs, institutions, and achievements of western Europe since the German barbarians conquered the Roman Empire. Such matters of first-rate importance as feudalism, the mediæval Church, the French Revolution, and the development of the modern European states have received much fuller treatment than has been customary in histories of this compass.
The work is thoroughly scholarly and trustworthy, since the writer has relied either upon the most recent treatises of the best European authorities of the day or upon a personal study of the primary sources themselves. Carefully selected illustrations and an abundance of maps accompany the text.
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READINGS IN EUROPEAN
HISTORY
By James Harvey Robinson, Professor of History in Columbia
University. Designed to supplement his "Introduction
to the History of Western Europe"
Volume I. 12mo, cloth, 551 pages, $1.50
Volume II. 12mo, cloth, xxxii + 629 pages, $1.50
Abridged Edition. 12mo, cloth, xxxiv +
573 pages, $1.50
It is now generally recognized among teachers of history that the text-book should be supplemented by collateral reading. Professor Robinson's "Readings" will supply a need that has long been felt by those dealing with the general history of Europe. For each chapter of his text he furnishes from twenty to thirty pages of extracts, mainly from vivid, first-hand accounts of the persons, events, and institutions discussed in his manual. In this way the statements in the text-book may be amplified and given added interest and vividness. He has drawn upon the greatest variety of material, much of which has never before found its way into English.
The extensive and carefully classified bibliographies which accompany each chapter embody the results of careful criticism and selection. They are carefully arranged to meet the needs of students of all grades, from the high-school pupil to one engaged in advanced graduate work.
Volume I corresponds to Chapters I-XXII of the author's "History of Western Europe," and closes with an account of the Italian cities during the Renaissance. Volume II begins with Europe at the opening of the sixteenth century. The Abridged Edition is intended especially for high schools.
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READINGS IN MODERN
EUROPEAN HISTORY
A collection of extracts from sources chosen with the purpose of illustrating
some of the chief phases of the development of Europe
during the last two hundred years
By James Harvey Robinson, Professor of History, and Charles A. Beard,
Adjunct Professor of Politics, in Columbia University
Volume I. The Eighteenth Century: The French Revolution
and the Napoleonic Period. 12mo, cloth, illustrated,
410 pages, $1.40
Volume II. Europe since the Congress of Vienna. 12mo,
cloth, illustrated, 448 pages, $1.50
"READINGS IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY" aims to stimulate the student to real thought and interest in his work by bringing him right to the sources of historical knowledge and enabling him to see the very words of those who, writing when the past was present, can carry him back to themselves and make their times his own. In this way the book offers the proper background and atmosphere for "The Development of Modern Europe," by the same authors, which it accompanies chapter by chapter and section by section.
Bibliographies provided in the Appendix start the student on the path to a really thorough study of the field.
A goodly number of the readings in this volume are of the constitutional kind which merit and richly reward careful study. A still larger number are of the interesting and lively kind which charm and entertain, and which are valuable because they give the flavor of the olden times. The bibliography is no mere list of unappreciated titles, but an excellent critical classification which guides the student quickly on to the fundamental works.—Sidney B. Fay, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College, in The American Historical Review.
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