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The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, 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…
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…
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
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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…
The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - 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…
A General History of the Pyrates (version 2)
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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…
A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718
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Wallace Notestein
A chronological survey of witchcraft in early modern Britain, covering witchcraft under the reigns of various monarchs, the literature of wi…
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 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…
Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
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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 …
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…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6
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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'…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
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Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…
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…
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
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James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 1
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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 Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV
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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…
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the Afr…
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Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …
Essai sur les révolutions suivi des Etudes historiques
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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…
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…
Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibit…
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Mary S. Locke
Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…