Historic Tales - Volume XII

Historic Tales - Volume XII

Charles Morris, american journalist, novelist and author (1833-1922)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- THE FIRST OF THE MIKADOS

-03- HOW CIVILIZATION CAME TO JAPAN

-04- YAMATO DAKÉ, A HERO OF ROMANCE

-05- JINGU, THE AMAZON OF JAPAN

-06- THE DECLINE OF THE MIKADOS

-07- HOW THE TAIRA AND THE MINAMOTO FOUGHT FOR POWER

-08- THE BAYARD OF JAPAN

-09- THE HOJO TYRANNY

-10- THE TARTAR INVASION OF JAPAN

-11- NOBUNAGA AND THE FALL OF THE BUDDHISTS

-12- HOW A PEASANT BOY BECAME PREMIER

-13- THE FOUNDER OF YEDO AND OF MODERN FEUDALISM

-14- THE PROGRESS OF CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN

-15- THE DECLINE AND FALL OF CHRISTIANITY IN JAPAN

-16- THE CAPTIVITY OF CAPTAIN GOLOWNIN

-17- THE OPENING OF JAPAN

-18- THE MIKADO COMES TO HIS OWN AGAIN

-19- HOW THE EMPIRE OF CHINA AROSE AND GREW

-20- CONFUCIUS, THE CHINESE SAGE

-21- THE FOUNDER OF THE CHINESE EMPIRE

-22- KAOTSOU AND THE DYNASTY OF THE HANS

-23- THE EMPRESS POISONER OF CHINA

-24- THE INVASION OF THE TARTAR STEPPES

-25- THE  CRIMSON EYEBROWS

-26- THE CONQUEST OF CENTRAL ASIA

-27- THE SIEGE OF SINCHING

-28- FROM THE SHOEMAKER'S BENCH TO THE THRONE

-29- THREE NOTABLE WOMEN

-30- THE REIGN OF TAITSONG THE GREAT

-31- A FEMALE RICHELIEU

-32- THE TARTARS AND GENGHIS KHAN

-33- HOW THE FRIARS FARED AMONG THE TARTARS

-34- THE SIEGE OF SIANYANG

-35- THE DEATH STRUGGLE OF CHINA

-36- THE PALACE OF KUBLAI KHAN

-37- THE EXPULSION OF THE MONGOLS

-38- THE RISE OF THE MANCHUS

-39- THE MANCHU CONQUEST OF CHINA

-40- THE CAREER OF A DESERT CHIEF

-41- THE RAID OF THE GOORKHAS

-42- HOW EUROPE ENTERED CHINA

-43- THE BURNING OF THE SUMMER PALACE

-44- A GREAT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT AND ITS FATE

-45- COREA AND ITS NEIGHBORS

-46- THE BATTLE OF THE IRON CLADS

-47- PROGRESS IN JAPAN AND CHINA