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…
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
Starr, being an anthropologist and a historian, visited Mexico extensively. As he wrote this book, a highly disruptive, deadly revolution wa…
Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
A chronological survey of witchcraft in early modern Britain, covering witchcraft under the reigns of various monarchs, the literature of wi…
