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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 two million words. Sadly, the series is incomplete: doesn't mention the events after the Age of Napoleon. The reason for this is that in the first book of the series, Mr. Durant wanted to include the events from the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to the 20th century.

Series Outline

*I. Our Oriental Heritage (1935)

  1. The Establishment of Civilization
  2. The Near East
  3. India and her Neighbors
  4. The Far East
  5. Japan

*II. The Life of Greece (1939)

  1. Aegean Prelude: 3500-1000 B.C.
    1. Crete
    2. Before Agamemnon
    3. The Heroic Age
  2. The Rise of Greece: 1000-480 B.C.
    1. Sparta
    2. Athens
    3. The Great Migration
    4. The Greeks in the West
    5. The Gods of Greece
    6. The Common Culture of Early Greece
    7. The Struggle for Freedom
  3. The Golden Age: 480-399 B.C.
    1. Pericles and the Democratic Experiment
    2. Work and Wealth in Athens
    3. The Morals and Manners of the Athenians
    4. The Art of Periclean Greece
    5. The Advancement of Learning
    6. The Conflict of Philosophy and Religion
    7. The Literature of the Golden Age
    8. The Suicide of Greece
  4. The Decline and Fall of Greek Freedom: 399-322 B.C.
    1. Philip
    2. Letters and Arits in the Fourth Century
    3. The Zenith of Philosophy
    4. Alexander
  5. The Hellenistic Dispersion: 322-146 B.C.
    1. Greece and Macedonia
    2. Hellenism and the Orient
    3. Egypt and the West
    4. Books
    5. The Art of the Dispersion
    6. The Climax of Greek Science
    7. The Surrendur of Philosophy
    8. The Coming of Rome
Epilogoue: Our Greek Heritage
Glossary of Foreign Words
Bibliography
Notes
Pronouncing and Biographical Index
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Bust of Julius Caesar

*III. Caesar and Christ (1944)

  1. The Republic: 508-30 B.C.
  2. The Revolution: 145-30 B.C.
  3. The Principate: 30 B.C.-A.D. 192
  4. The Empire: A.D. 146-A.D. 192
  5. The Youth of Christianity: 4 B.C.-A.D. 325

*IV. The Age of Faith (1950)

*V. The Renaissance (1953)

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Venus of Urbino by Titian, one of the Renaissance's most distinguished artists
  1. Prelude: 1300-77
    1. The Age of Petrarch and Boccaccio: 1304-75
    2. The Pope in Avignon: 1309-77
  2. The Florentine Renaissance: 1378-1534
    1. The Rise of the Medici: 1378-1464
    2. The Golden Age: 1464-92
    3. Savonarola and the Republic: 1492-1534
  3. Italian Pageant: 1378-1534
    1. Milan
    2. Leonardo da Vinci
    3. Tuscany and Umbria
    4. Mantua
    5. Ferrara
    6. Venice and Her Realm
    7. Emilia and the Marches
    8. The Kingdom of Naples
  4. The Roman Renaissance: 1378-1521
    1. The Crisis in the Church: 1378-1521
    2. The Renaissance Captures Rome: 1447-92
    3. The Borigas
    4. Julius II: 1503-13
    5. Leo X: 1513-21
  5. Debacle
    1. The Intellectual Revolt
    2. The Moral Release
    3. The Political Collapse: 1494-1534
  6. Finale: 1534-76
    1. Sunset in Venice
    2. The Waning of The Renaissance
  7. Envoi
  8. Bibliography
  9. Notes
  10. Index

*VI. The Reformation (1957)

  1. From Wyclif to Luther
  2. The Religious Revolution: 1517-64
  3. The Strangers in the Gate: 1300-1566
  4. Behind the Scenes: 1517-1564
  5. The Counter Reformation: 1517-65

*VII. The Age of Reason Begins (1961)

  1. The English Ecstasy: 1558-1648
  2. The Faiths Fight For Power: 1556-1648
  3. The Tentatives of Reason: 1558-1648


*VIII. The Age of Louis XIV (1963)

Louis XIV King of France, by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701

*IX. The Age of Voltaire (1965)

  1. Prolouge
    1. France: The Regency
  2. England: 1714–56
    1. The People
    2. The Rulers
    3. Religion and Philosophy
    4. Literature and the Stage
    5. Art and Music
  3. France: 1723–56
    1. The People and the State
    2. Morals and Manners''
    3. The Worship of Beauty
    4. The Play of the Mind
    5. Voltaire in France
  4. Middle Europe: 1713–56
    1. The Germany of Bach
    2. Frederick the Great and Maria Theresa
    3. Switzerland and Voltaire
  5. The Advancement of Learning: 1715–89
    1. The Scholars
    2. The Scientific Advance
    3. Medicine
  6. The Attack Upon Christianity: 1730–74
    1. The Athiests
    2. Diderot and the Encyclopedie
    3. Diderot Proteus
    4. The Spreading Campaign
    5. Voltaire and Christianity
    6. The Triump of the Philosophes


*X. Rousseau and Revolution (1967)

This volume received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1968.
  1. Prelude
  2. France Before the Deluge: 1757–74
  3. The Catholic South: 1715–89
  4. Islam and the Slavic East: 1715–96
  5. The Protestant North: 1756–89
  6. Johnson's England: 1756–89
  7. The Collapse of Feudal France: 1774–89

*XI. The Age of Napoleon (1975)

  1. The French Revolution: 1789–99
  2. Napoleon Ascendant: 1799–1811
  3. Britain: 1789–1812
  4. The Challenged Kings: 1789–1812
  5. Finale: 1811–1815
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