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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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Fields of Victory
by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Uit Sowjet-Rusland: Beelden en beschouwingen
by Henriette Roland Holst-Van der Schalk
Liége on the line of march : an American girl's experiences when the Germans came through Belgium
by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow
Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal Organization
by E. (Edmond) Buckle
Day by Day with the Russian Army, 1914-15
by Bernard Pares
The True Story of My Parliamentary Struggle
by Charles Bradlaugh
Lord Palmerston
by Anthony Trollope
Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front
by Keith Henderson
Peines, tortures et supplices
by Anonymous
The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War
by D. Thomas (Daniel Thomas) Curtin
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
by Justin McCarthy
Is Spiritualism Based on Fraud? The Evidence Given by Sir A.C. Doyle and Others Drastically Examined
by Joseph McCabe
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846
by Various Authors
The North-West Passage by land Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains
by Viscount William Fitzwilliam Milton, Walter B. (Walter Butler) Cheadle
Greece and the Allies, 1914-1922
by G. F. (George Frederick) Abbott
The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1914
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3 (of 3)
by James Augustus St. John
The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of Germany
by Mary Platt Parmele
Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 14
by Various Authors
Sober by Act of Parliament
by Fred A. (Fred Arthur) McKenzie
The war against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and adjacent areas
by John C. Hatlem, Kenneth E. Hunter, Margaret E. Tackley, United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
Under the Turk in Constantinople: A record of Sir John Finch's Embassy, 1674-1681
by G. F. (George Frederick) Abbott
The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845
by R. W. (Richard William) Church
A Story of the Telegraph
by John Murray
Conscript 2989: Experiences of a Drafted Man
by Irving Crump
The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860
by Charles Greville
The Isthmus of Suez Question
by Ferdinand de Lesseps
The Argentine Republic
by Anonymous
Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
L'Illustration, No. 3727, 1er Août 1914
by Various Authors
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 1 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan
Nationality and Race from an Anthropologist's Point of View Being the Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Oxford university junior scientific club on November 17, 1919
by Sir Arthur Keith
The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race
by Winfield H. (Winfield Hazlitt) Collins
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 3 (of 3)
by Horace Walpole
Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850
by Various Authors
Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours. Tome III
by F.-X. (François-Xavier) Garneau
Beyond the Marne: Quincy, Huiry, Voisins before and during the battle
by Henriette Cuvru-Magot
Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United States
by Auguste Levasseur
La Russie en 1839, Volume II
by marquis de Astolphe Custine
Boche and Bolshevik Experiences of an Englishman in the German Army and in Russian Prisons
by Hereward Thimbleby Price
A military genius : Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
by Sarah Ellen Blackwell
The Diggers: The Australians in France
by Patrick MacGill
A Letter to the Society for the Suppression of Vice, on Their Malignant Efforts to Prevent a Free Enquiry After Truth and Reason
by Richard Carlile
De omwenteling van 1830
by Hendrik Conscience
Il 1859 da Plombières a Villafranca
by Alfredo Panzini
A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield
by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle
Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate
by Thomas Baines
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada
by Clara M. S. Lowe
L'Illustration, No. 3690, 15 Novembre 1913
by Various Authors
History of the Cape Mounted Riflemen With a Brief Account of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
by Richard Cannon
Notes on Old Edinburgh
by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons
by Benjamin Franklin
A Popular Account of the Manners and Customs of India
by Charles Acland
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 584. (Supplement to Vol. 20)
by Various Authors
Civilisation 1914-1918
by Georges Duhamel
Letters from the peninsula, 1808-1812
by Sir William Warre
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 09, September, 1889
by Various Authors
"Speaking of Prussians--"
by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Volume 4 Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe
by Mme. Du Hausset, princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe
Istoria civile del Regno di Napoli, v. 8
by Pietro Giannone
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 46: October 1666
by Samuel Pepys
Profile in black and white : A frank portrait of South Carolina
by Howard H. Quint
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1604-05
by John Lothrop Motley
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave
by Isaac Mason
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 30, June 3, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 727, December 1, 1877
by Various Authors
Deep Furrows
by Herbert Joseph Moorhouse
Free Trade with India An Enquiry into the True State of the Question at Issue Between His Majesty's Ministers, the Honorable the East India Company, and the Public at Large, on the Justice and Policy of a Free Trade to India
by active 1813 Common sense (Writer)
German Atrocities: A Record of Shameless Deeds
by William Le Queux
Diario histórico de la rebelion y guerra de los pueblos Guaranis situados en la costa oriental del Rio Uruguay, del año de 1754
by Tadéas Xavier Henis
Where the Sabots Clatter Again
by Katherine Shortall
Les voix qui crient dans le désert : souvenirs d'Afrique
by Ernest Psichari
Technical School, Sioux Falls Army Air Field
by Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 32: 1582-84
by John Lothrop Motley
Britain's Deadly Peril: Are We Told the Truth?
by William Le Queux
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1605-07
by John Lothrop Motley
W. Kent & Co's Annual Catalogue, April 1859
by W. Kent and Co.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1603-04
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the United Netherlands, 1586d
by John Lothrop Motley
Impressions and Experiences of a French Trooper, 1914-1915
by Christian Mallet
Anglo-Saxon Solidarity
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Our Village in War-time
by S. T. (Sarah Towne) Martyn
An American Crusader at Verdun
by Philip Sidney Rice
Thoughts on Slavery and Cheap Sugar A Letter to the Members and Friends of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Meine Erinnerungen aus Ostafrika
by Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck
Present status and prospects of the Peace Movement
by Bertha von Suttner
La Hyène Enragée
by Pierre Loti
Des conspirations et de la justice politique
by François Guizot
Notes sur Londres
by Brada