| Italic Title: | A World History |
| A World History | |
| Title Orig: | A világ történelme |
| Orig Lang Code: | hu |
| Illustrator: | Richard Geiger |
| Country: | Hungary |
| Language: | Hungarian |
| Series: | Six volumes |
| Subject: | World history |
| Genre: | World history |
| Publisher: | Műintézet és Kiadóvállalat R.-T. |
| Pub Date: | 1906–1908 |
A History of the World, (Hungarian: A világ történelme) edited by and illustrated by Richard Geiger, is a six-volume history of the world in Hungarian published between 1906 and 1908.
Written for the general public, the books are Art Nouveau style, large-format, gilded, and bound. Illustrated with hundreds of black-and-white and color images, printed on polished paper by Richard Geiger, and was published by Műintézet és Kiadóvállalat R.-T. in Budapest. The six volumes range from the Ancient East to the present (i.e. the beginning of the 20th century). They cover the period of ancient Greeks, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages and the modern age. In each volume, the editor used works by Victor Duruy, Fekten Károly, H. Grimme, Heyck Ödön, Huber Alfonz, and Alfred Nicolas Rambaud.
The series is divided into six volumes, but some parts extend into other volumes, and some parts start in the middle of a volume. This makes it difficult to use the work. There is no reprint of this work.
| Book spine | Volume number | Volume title | Era | Period covered | Pages | Year of publication |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume I | People of the East Egypt • Ancient Asian • The Age of Egypt's Revival • The People of Israel • Assyria and Babylon • Lydian Kingdom • Medean Empire • Persian Empire • India | Ancient | ca. 3000 BC – 330 BC | 750 p. | 1906 | |
| Volume II | Classical Peoples Part I – History of the Greek Peoples Greek Mythology • History of the Greeks | Ancient | ca. 1300 BC – 323 BC | 560 p. | 1906 | |
| Volume III | Classical Peoples Part II – History of the Romans Roman Republic • Roman Empire • Pax Romana • Decline of the Roman Empire | Ancient | 753 BC – 337 | 506 p. | 1907 | |
| Volume IV | The Age of Migration and the Crusades The Age of Migration • The Age of the Crusades | Middle Ages | 337–1440 | 604 p. | 1908 | |
| Volume V | The Age of Discovery and the Reformation Age of Discovery • The Reformation | Modern history | 1440–1789 | 444 p. | 1908 | |
| Volume VI | The Age of the Victory of Human Rights The French Revolution • Napoleon • Great European Changes • The Death of William I | Current age | 1789–1888 | 138 p. | 1908 |
The volumes featured hundreds of illustrations by Richard Geiger in the Art Nouveau style.
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