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Empires rise, revolutions ignite, and the modern world takes shape in these vivid firsthand accounts, manifestos, memoirs, and sweeping histories. From Napoleon’s shadow and Victorian transformation to declarations that changed nations and ideas that challenged the old order, this bookshelf captures the thunder of war, politics, exploration, and social change. Step into an age of upheaval where power is contested, borders shift, and history feels startlingly alive.

by duchesse d' Laure Junot Abrantès
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by Commune de Amiens/Nancy

by John Lothrop Motley

by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

by Lord Dunsany

by Various Authors

by John Lothrop Motley

by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite

by William Le Queux

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Károly Eötvös

by John Lothrop Motley

by Georg Brandes

by Olaudah Equiano

by Various Authors

by Gregory B. Newby

by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson

by William Oliver Stevens, Allan F. (Allan Ferguson) Westcott

by Joseph Warren Keifer

by Johann Beckmann

by United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality

by Thomas Paine

by Frank Warren Coburn

by baron de Etienne-Léon Lamothe-Langon

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Frederick Milnes Edge

by Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright

by David Livingstone

by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

by Herman Bernstein

by Stuart Daggett

by Zhen Lin

by Trumbull White

by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

by Marion Harris Neil

by John Morley

by Harold Begbie

by Freiherr von Manfred Richthofen

by Alexander von Humboldt

by Burton Jesse Hendrick

by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

by Giuseppe Mazzini

by William Dampier

by John Morrison

by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

by John Hanning Speke

by Imbert de Saint-Amand

by Various Authors

by Adolphe Thiers

by Roald Amundsen

by William J. Claxton

by William Wells Brown

by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

by Various Authors

by Elizabeth Lee, Lucy Masterman

by New York (State). Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission, Henry Wayland Hill

by James Alexander Kilpatrick

by Arthur Griffiths

by John C. (John Carsten) Chapin

by Furneaux Jordan

by Walter Colton

by E. C. (Ernest Charles) Buley

by Donald Monro

by Herbert W. McBride

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

by John Spencer Bassett

by Earl of Edward Law Ellenborough

by Christopher Merret

by Victor Hugo

by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

by Edwin Erle Sparks

by F.-R. de (Fr.-Richard) Tussac

by Charles Expilly

by Thomas Chapais

by Anonymous

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

by Edward Stratemeyer

by François Guizot

by Henry Fisk Carlton

by chevalier de James Johnstone Johnstone

by Courtney Ryley Cooper, William J. (William James) Flynn

by Albert Perry Brigham

by Samuel A. (Samuel Abbott) Green

by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

by Agustín Aragón

by comte de Charles Montblanc

by Emile de Laveleye

by Henry Box Brown
by Lewis Goldsmith

by Boyd Cable

by J. B. de (Jacques-Benjamin) Saint-Victor

by John Lothrop Motley