The Story of Civilization
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The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant (ISBN 0-671-21988-X) is an 11 volume set of books. It was written over a lifetime and totals 6 million words.
Series Outline
- I. Our Oriental Heritage (1935)
- The Establishment of Civilization
- The Near East
- India and her Neighbors
- The Far East
- Japan
- II. The Life of Greece (1939)
- Aegean Prelude: 3500-1000 B.C.
- The Rise of Greece: 1000-480 B.C.
- The Golden Age: 480-399 B.C.
- The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom: 399-322 B.C.
- The Hellenistic Dispersion: 322-146 B.C.
- III. Caesar and Christ (1944)
- The Republic: 508-30 B.C.
- The Revolution: 145-30 B.C.
- The Principate: 30 B.C.-A.D. 192
- The Empire: A.D. 146-A.D. 192
- The Youth of Christianity: 4 B.C.-A.D. 325
- IV. The Age of Faith (1950)
- V. The Renaissance (1953)
- VI. The Reformation (1957)
- VII. The Age of Reason Begins (1961)
- The English Ecstasy: 1558-1648
- The Faiths Fight For Power: 1556-1648
- The Tentatives of Reason: 1558-1648
- England: 1714–56
- France: 1723–56
- Middle Europe: 1713–56
- The Advancement of Learning: 1715–89
- The Attack Upon Christianity: 1730–74
- X. Rousseau and Revolution (1967)
- This volume received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968.
- Prelude
- France Before the Deluge: 1757–74
- The Catholic South: 1715–89
- Islam and the Slavic East: 1715–96
- The Protestant North: 1756–89
- Johnson's England: 1756–89
- The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774–89
- XI. The Age of Napoleon (1975)
- The French Revolution: 1789–99
- Napoleon Ascendant: 1799–1811
- Britain: 1789–1812
- The Challenged Kings: 1789–1812
- Finale: 1811–1815