Talk:The Historians' History of the World

Criticism
There's no real analysis in this article, and I was hoping to add Asimov's (very positive and personal) comments on the books. But I don't have the books at hand, and Google Books refuses to show me anything at all inside. So this is what Google Books turns up of Asimov on The Historian's History of the World:


 * In joy still felt: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1954-1978‎ - Page 327 by Isaac Asimov - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 828 pages
 * The Historians' History of the World came at just the right time, for Words from Greek History took an odd turn. On January 2, I had had a birthday lunch ...


 * Puzzles of the black widowers‎ - Page 97 by Isaac Asimov - Fiction - 1990 - 253 pages
 * And one of the things I came across was The Historians' History of the World in twenty-four volumes. It was published in 1902, with a second edition in 1907 ...


 * It's been a good life‎ - Page 86 by Isaac Asimov, Janet Asimov - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 309 pages
 * [One of the backsliding moments, in 1967] It seems that I had once read in The Historians' History of the World that Abd er- Rahman III, the greatest King ...

--Prosfilaes (talk) 13:28, 21 June 2009 (UTC)


 * I have to concur. I've owned a 1908 edition for 15 years and this article is abysmal. It has less information than most things listed as stubs, and some of what is there is misleading at best. Even the scant publication details are misleading - the British editions are from The Times of London, not Encyclopoedia Britannica, and the US edition was expanded to 26 volumes. At the very least, some of the most well-known historians of the age contributed articles and deserve a mention.


 * I have never heard of this supplement on Australia and New Zealand. In my 1908 edition, they have their own entries (including photo's and engravings) as part of the British Commonwealth section, which makes up half of Volume XXII. Does anyone have any information on this? 220.233.34.248 (talk) 23:29, 6 July 2014 (UTC)


 * If you care, then improve it. It's not a good article because nobody with the interest and knowledge has chosen to work on it.--Prosfilaes (talk) 16:34, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Augmentation
There's really no substance to this article. I love bibliographies; I live for bibliographies. Since each section gives in its front matter a list of authors on whom the work is "based chiefly upon", I thought it useful to add those names, both to give some substance beyond a bunch of empty headings to the article as well as a doorway for the would-be student of history. It is not easy, but I have done my best to align each initial + surname combo to the appropriate entry in either English or German (or, rarely, French or Italian) wikipedia. I shall endeavor to do the rest when I have the time. Furthermore, once this is done, I intend on translating those articles which have no English equivalent from the German. Philologick (talk) 07:29, 8 March 2016 (UTC)