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Epochs of History
EDITED BY
EDWARD E. MORRIS, M.A.
THE ERA
OF
S. R. GARDINER.
THE ERA OF THE PROTESTANT REVOLUTION. By F. Seebohm, Author of 'TheOxford Reformers.'—Now ready.
THE CRUSADES. By the Rev. G. W. Cox, M.A.; Author of the 'Historyof Greece.'—Now ready.
THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR, 1618-1648. By Samuel RawsonGardiner.—Nearly ready.
THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES; CHARLES the GREAT and ALFRED; theHISTORY of ENGLAND in its connexion with that of EUROPE in theNINTH CENTURY. By the Very Rev. R. W. Church, M.A. Dean of St.Paul's.
THE NORMAN KINGS AND THE FEUDAL SYSTEM. By the Rev. A. H. Johnson,M.A.
THE EARLY PLANTAGENETS and their relation to the HISTORY of EUROPE;the foundation and growth of CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. By the Rev.William Stubbs, M.A. &c. Regius Professor of Modern History in theUniversity of Oxford.
EDWARD III. By the Rev. W. Warburton, M.A.
THE HOUSES OF LANCASTER AND YORK; with the CONQUEST and LOSS ofFRANCE. By James Gairdner of the Public Record Office.
THE AGE OF ELIZABETH. By the Rev. M. Creighton, M.A.
THE STUARTS AND THE PURITAN REVOLUTION. By J. Langton Sanford,Author of 'Studies and Illustrations of the Great Rebellion.'
THE FALL OF THE STUARTS; and WESTERN EUROPE from 1678 to 1697. Bythe Rev. Edward Hale, M.A. Assistant-Master at Eton.
THE AGE OF ANNE. By Edward E. Morris, M.A. Editor of the Series.
FREDERICK THE GREAT and the SEVEN YEARS' WAR. By F. W. Longman, ofBalliol College, Oxford.
THE WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. By John Malcolm Ludlow.
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