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History - Modern (1750+)
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.
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The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813 A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Histoire de l'Émigration pendant la Révolution Française. Tome 1 De la Prise de la Bastille au 18 fructidor
by Ernest Daudet
Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 1)
by François Guizot
The Struggle between President Johnson and Congress over Reconstruction
by Charles E. (Charles Ernest) Chadsey
The Past Condition of Organic Nature Lecture II. (of VI.), "Lectures to Working Men", at the Museum of Practical Geology, 1863, on Darwin's Work: "Origin of Species"
by Thomas Henry Huxley
Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 : From the eighteenth century to its demolition
by Arthur Griffiths
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"
by George Davidson
Lettre à l'Empereur Alexandre sur la traite des noirs
by William Wilberforce
The Speeches (In Full) of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and William O'Brien, M.P., on Home Rule, Delivered in Parliament, Feb. 16 and 17, 1888.
by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone, William O'Brien
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3
by Henry Hunt
Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals
by D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
Prisoners of Poverty: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives
by Helen Campbell
If Not Silver, What?
by John W. (John Wesley) Bookwalter
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850
by Various Authors
Six Letters From the Colonies
by R. C. (Robert Cooper) Seaton
Suffrage Songs and Verses
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
My .75: Reminiscences of a Gunner of a .75m/m Battery in 1914
by Paul Lintier
Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom
by Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley
Journal of a Soldier of the Seventy-First, or Glasgow Regiment, Highland Light Infantry, from 1806-1815
by Anonymous
Copy of Letters Sent to Great-Britain by His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, the Hon. Andrew Oliver, and Several Other Persons
by Thomas Hutchinson, Andrew Oliver
Constituição politica da Monarchia portugueza
by Portugal
Manuel da Maya e os engenheiros militares portugueses no Terramoto de 1755
by Christóvam Ayres de Magalhães Sepúlveda
Mémoires de madame de Rémusat (2/3) publiées par son petit-fils, Paul de Rémusat
by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
De 'handel in blanke slavinnen'.
by Wolter Louis Albert Collard
Pictures of Southern Life, Social, Political, and Military.
by Sir William Howard Russell
The Pentecost of Calamity
by Owen Wister
Lincoln's Last Hours
by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Leale
Paz e Arbitragem
by S. de Magalhães (Sebastião de Magalhães) Lima
Réflexions sur le sort des Noirs dans nos colonies
by baron Daniel Lescallier
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1
by Lewis Goldsmith
The first French Republic : A study of the origin and the contents of the declaration of the rights of man, of the constitution, and of the adoption of the republican form of government in 1792
by Horace Mann Conaway
The Woman's Part: A Record of Munitions Work
by L. K. Yates
Apontamentos sobre a via de communicação do rio Madeira
by Antonio Pereira Rebouças
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 02
by Louis Constant Wairy
"How Can I Help to Abolish Slavery?" or, Counsels to the Newly Converted
by Maria Weston Chapman
Della guerra nazionale d'insurrezione per bande, applicata all'Italia Trattato dedicato ai buoni Italiani da un amico del Paese
by Carlo Bianco
L'épopée blanche
by Louis-Frédéric Rouquette
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1609-14
by John Lothrop Motley
L'Illustration, No. 0075, 1 August 1844
by Various Authors
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I
by John Lothrop Motley
The Cornhill Magazine (vol. XLI, no. 245 new series, November 1916)
by Various Authors
Best o' luck: How a fighting Kentuckian won the thanks of Britain's King
by Alexander McClintock
An English woman-sergeant in the Serbian Army
by Flora Sandes
Shall Turkey Live or Die?
by Thomas Carlyle
Dans le cloaque Notes d'un membre de la Commission d'enquête sur l'affaire Rochette
by Maurice Barrès
Histoire anecdotique du tribunal révolutionnaire
by Charles Monselet
Visite chez le prince
by Jean Giraudoux
Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918
by Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I
by Sir John Ross
History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815
by John Richard Green
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade: August 1914 to March 1915
by Lord Edward Gleichen
The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902
by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell, D. E. van Velden
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn
A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee Retrospect
by James Wilson Hyde
A short history of Pittsburgh : 1758-1908
by Samuel Harden Church
A Revolução Portugueza: O 5 de Outubro (Lisboa 1910)
by Francisco Jorge de Abreu
The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon
by Newell Dwight Hillis
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
by Elbert Hubbard
Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 1 (of 2) A picturesque history of the coaching age
by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922
by Various Authors
Crimes and Punishments Including a New Translation of Beccaria's 'Dei Delitti e delle Pene'
by James Anson Farrer
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War
by Winston Churchill
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
by A. E. (Adolf Erik) Nordenskiöld
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century
by Richard Muther
Woman and Socialism
by August Bebel
Woodworking Tools 1600-1900
by Peter C. Welsh
The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon
The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century
by Clarence Henry Haring
The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 2. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England
by Moncure Daniel Conway
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
by Alexis de Tocqueville
The German Fleet Being The Companion Volume to "The Fleets At War" and "From Heligoland To Keeling Island
by Archibald Hurd
Historical records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment (3rd Foot) : Formerly designated the Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment
by R. S. H. (Richard Stanley Hawks) Moody
Two Years Before the Mast
by Richard Henry Dana
A Revision of the Treaty Being a Sequel to The Economic Consequence of the Peace
by John Maynard Keynes
Non-Criminal Prisons English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands
by Arthur Griffiths
Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed
The British Expedition to the Crimea
by Sir William Howard Russell
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915
by Various Authors
Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict
by Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) May
The Great War As I Saw It
by Frederick George Scott
The Life of La Fayette, the Knight of Liberty in Two Worlds and Two Centuries
by Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Liberty in the Nineteenth Century
by Frederic May Holland
Journal of a West India Proprietor Kept During a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
Hortense Makers of History Series
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The village labourer, 1760-1832 A study in the government of England before the Reform Bill
by J. L. (John Lawrence) Hammond, Barbara Bradby Hammond
Paris nouveau et Paris futur
by Victor Fournel
An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation
by Thorstein Veblen
Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover
by United States Food Administration, Katharine Blunt, Florence Powdermaker, Frances Lucy Swain
Salt mines and castles: The discovery and restitution of looted European art
by Thomas Carr Howe
Steam, Steel and Electricity
by James W. Steele
