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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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In Stahlgewittern, aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers
by Ernst Jünger
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
by Stanley Lane-Poole, J. D. Jerrold (James Douglas Jerrold) Kelley
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
by Sir James McCrone Douie
Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 03 (of 11)
by United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914
by Edwin A. Pratt
Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time
by William Andrews
A History of the Four Georges, Volume I
by Justin McCarthy
Women of Modern France
by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme
Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume IV.
by Walter Scott
Cassell's History of England, Vol. 4 (of 8) From the Fall of Marlborough to the Peninsular War
by Anonymous
Geronimo's Story of His Life
by Geronimo
Steamships and their story
by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)
by John Lothrop Motley
Loss of the Steamship "Titanic"
by Great Britain. Court to investigate loss of steamship "Titanic"
History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete
by Friedrich Schiller
Life in a Railway Factory
by Alfred Williams
Campfire and battlefield : an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the great Civil War
by Rossiter Johnson, Selden Connor, John Brown Gordon, Henry W. B. (Henry Ward Beecher) Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis) Howard, John Tyler Morgan, John Clark Ridpath
"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)
by Dr. (John) Doran
History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812
by comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
by Various Authors
History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) From the earliest time to the middle of the nineteenth century
by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe
The Last Days of Fort Vaux, March 9-June 7, 1916
by Henry Bordeaux
Life in Dixie during the War, 1861-1862-1863-1864-1865
by Mary Ann Harris Gay
Principles of Freedom
by Terence J. (Terence Joseph) MacSwiney
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
"1812" : Napoleon I in Russia
by Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin
Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within
by Lala Lajpat Rai
Notable Women of Modern China
by Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine) Burton
A History of Science — Volume 3
by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia — Vol. 1 Performed between the years 1818 and 1822
by Philip Parker King
China under the Empress Dowager : Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi
by J. O. P. (John Otway Percy) Bland, Sir E. (Edmund) Backhouse
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself
by Cole Younger
Fighting for peace
by Henry Van Dyke
Mémoires de madame de Rémusat (1/3) publiées par son petit-fils, Paul de Rémusat
by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat
Eighteenth Century Waifs
by John Ashton
Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research
by Michael Sage
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
by Evangeline Booth, Grace Livingston Hill
German Problems and Personalities
by Charles Sarolea
Gandhi and Anarchy
by Sir C. (Chettur) Sankaran Nair
Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom With a General Introduction and Supplement
by Richard Price
History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
by William Horatio Barnes
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 4 (of 4)
by Horace Walpole
The Social Work of the Salvation Army
by Edwin Gifford Lamb
The Romance of Aircraft
by Laurence Yard Smith
Adventures in the Philippine Islands
by Paul P. de La Gironière
La Principessa Belgiojoso Da memorie mondane inedite o rare e da archivii segreti di Stato
by Raffaello Barbiera
Woman in Modern Society
by Earl Barnes
Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
by Geoffrey Keith Rose
A Journey Through France in War Time
by Joseph G. (Joseph Green) Butler
Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany
by Edward Lyell Fox
The Salvaging of Civilization
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900
by Filson Young
Life and Adventure in the South Pacific
by John D. Jones
The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Thomas Thomson
13 Days: The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison
by John Alan Lyde Caunter
Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1)
by Frances Milton Trollope
India under Ripon: A Private Diary
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments
by Robert P. Multhauf
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
by Robert Valentine Dolbey
La Presse Clandestine dans la Belgique Occupée
by Jean Massart
My Diary: North and South (vol. 2 of 2)
by Sir William Howard Russell
Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by George Jacob Holyoake
Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, (Vol. 07 / 20) faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française
by Adolphe Thiers
Observations on the Disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809
by John Malcolm
The Ancien Régime
by Charles Kingsley
Travels in Morocco, Volume 1.
by James Richardson
Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 3 (of 3) Nuclear Fission; Nuclear Fusion; Beyond Fusion
by Isaac Asimov
Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers
by Thomas Bulfinch
Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899
by Charles Mair
How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine
by W. T. (William Thomas) Massey
On Commando
by Dietlof Van Warmelo
A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks", McElhattan, Pa.
by Henry W. (Henry Wharton) Shoemaker
Non-technical chats on iron and steel, and their application to modern industry
by La Verne W. (La Verne Ward) Spring
The Turks and Europe
by Gaston Gaillard
The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast; The Chief Factory of the Russian American Company
by Clarence Leroy Andrews
The United States Since the Civil War
by Charles Ramsdell Lingley
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
by Henry Hunt
England and Canada A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes
by Sandford Fleming
The Story of the Guides
by G. J. (George John) Younghusband
An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
by Angelina Emily Grimké
The German War
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Second Funeral of Napoleon
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Histoire des Montagnards
by Alphonse Esquiros
Porto Rico: Its History, Products and Possibilities
by A. D. (Arthur D.) Hall
Fields of Victory
by Mrs. Humphry Ward