First published in 1934 by Routledge, Trench, Trubner
Reprinted in 1996,1998 by Routledge

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British Cataloguing in Publication Data

ISBN: 0-415-15593-2
ISBN Eastern Civilization (10 volume set): 0-415-15614-9
ISBN History of Civilization (50 volume set): 0-415-14380-2

Publisher's Note

The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent