Early Modern
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 5
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Friedrich Schiller
Volume 5 concludes the History of the Thirty Years War in Germany. [Note From the first PG etext of this work: Separate sources indicate th…
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714)
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George Henry Wakeling
This slim volume by the Oxford University lecturer, George Henry Wakeling, deals with the period in British history from the reign of King J…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac
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Charles W. Colby
The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded theCompany of One Hundred Asso…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720…
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William Wood
Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrar…
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (Version 2)
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J. D. Jerrold Kelley and Stanley Lane-Poole
The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Ottoman and Berber pirates and privateers who operated from…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm
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William Wood
Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in…
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
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Arthur Young
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst o…
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire
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Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
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John Lord
The eleventh volume of the Beacon Lights of History series, this volume is the first that directly refers to the United States. In this volu…
The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)
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Thomas Carlyle
The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…
History of New England, 1630-1649
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John Winthrop
John Winthrop served as governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony for several years. His History of New England, 1630-1649 details life in th…
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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John Bagnell Bury
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…
The South American Republics, Part I
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Thomas Cleland Dawson
The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?&quo…
The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine
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Thomas Carlyle
Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…
Europe in Renaissance and Reformation 1453-1660
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Mary A. Hollings
In a small space the Oxford-educated historian, Mary Hollings, provides a panoramic view of a tumultuous age. We meet Cesare Borgia and Savo…
Poems of American History, The Colonial Era
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Various
A History through Poetry of the exploration and settling of North American by Europeans. Beginning with Leif Erikson, and continuing throug…
The Court and Character of King James whereunto Is Now Added the Court of King …
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Anthony Weldon
Gossipy exposés of shenanigans at the heart of government are nothing new. The author, Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648), was a courtier…
Locke
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Thomas Fowler
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…
The Cossacks: Their History and Country
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William Penn Cresson
One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack s…