Early Modern
La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…
The Early Hanoverians
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Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
Renaissance et Réforme. Les nouveaux mondes
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Alfred Nicolas Rambaud
Ouvrage collectif sous la direction d'Ernest Lavisse et Alfred Rambaud. Le quatrième volume de la série raconte l'époqu…
The Eighteenth Century
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Casimir Stryienski
This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…
The Wars of Religion
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Various
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy
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John Tulloch
In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…
The Counter-Reformation
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Adolphus Ward
The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resur…
The Age of Anne
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Edward Ellis Morris
This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborou…
Essai sur les révolutions
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Essai historique, politique et moral sur les révolutions anciennes et modernes, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la…
A General History of the Pyrates
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Captain Charles Johnson
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…
History of the Jews in America
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Peter Wiernik
Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…
The Old Regime and the Revolution
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville
A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…
Conquest of New France
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George Wrong
The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…
Margaret Fuller
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Julia Ward Howe
A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
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Mercy Otis Warren
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
The Story of the Trapper
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Agnes C. Laut
Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…
The Magic of the Horse-Shoe
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Robert Means Lawrence
The study of the origin and history of popular customs and beliefs affords an insight, otherwise unattainable, into the operations of the hu…
The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon
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James Anthony Froude
"The story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII" (subtitle). Froude weaves his tale from a wide…
Poems of American History
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Various
This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…