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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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Gróf Károlyi Gábor följegyzései (2. kötet)
by Károly Eötvös
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
by Mary Prince
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
by George Henry Makins
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold
The American Empire
by Scott Nearing
Louis XIV. Makers of History Series
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
by Various Authors
Modern Spiritualism
by Uriah Smith
Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2
by Joseph Grego
The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3
by Frederick Whymper
War Letters of a Public-School Boy
by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones
La guerre injuste: lettres d'un Espagnol
by Armando Palacio Valdés
The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77
by Samuel Adams Drake
The History of the Post Office in British North America
by William Smith
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
by Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Japan" (part) to "Jeveros" Volume 15, Slice 3
by Various Authors
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851
by Various Authors
History of Modern Philosophy
by Alfred William Benn
Reflections on War and Death
by Sigmund Freud
Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784
by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay
by Baron G. Shaw-Lefevre (George Shaw-Lefevre) Eversley
My Life in China and America
by Wing Yung
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The Chronicles of Newgate, vol. 1/2
by Arthur Griffiths
A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo
by George Simmons
Herzl-Worte
by Theodor Herzl
The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony
by Thomas Lindsay Buick
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies
by William Hickling Prescott
Political thought in England from Locke to Bentham
by Harold J. (Harold Joseph) Laski
"And they thought we wouldn't fight"
by Floyd Phillips Gibbons
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 8) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900
by Louis Creswicke
The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915
by Various Authors
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789)
by Arthur Phillip
Chronique de 1831 à 1862, Tome 4 (de 4)
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
Scurvy, Past and Present
by Alfred F. Hess
Russian Memories
by Olga Alekseevna Novikova
The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York
by Alfred Henry Lewis
Anarchism and Socialism
by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
The Contest in America
by John Stuart Mill
The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters
by Thomas Wemyss Fulton
Der Judenstaat: Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage
by Theodor Herzl
A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues
by Kencho Suematsu
The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914
by Various Authors
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835
by duchesse de Dorothée Dino
The Oaths, Signs, Ceremonies and Objects of the Ku-Klux-Klan. A Full Expose. By A Late Member
by Anonymous
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19
by Thomas Carlyle
An historical and moral view of the origin and progress of the French Revolution; and the effect it has produced in Europe
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France
by Edmund Gosse
"Barbarous Soviet Russia"
by Isaac McBride
Abraham Lincoln, Volume II
by Jr. (John Torrey) John T. Morse
Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War
by John Buchan, Sir Henry John Newbolt
The heart of Asia : A history of Russian Turkestan and the Central Asian Khanates from the earliest times
by Francis Henry Skrine, Sir E. Denison (Edward Denison) Ross
La Navigation Aérienne L'aviation Et La Direction Des Aérostats Dans Les Temps Anciens Et Modernes
by Gaston Tissandier
Wigwam and war-path; or, The royal chief in chains
by A. B. (Alfred Benjamin) Meacham
The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone
A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis
by Glen W. Watson
A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade Addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire
by William Wilberforce
Wounded and a Prisoner of War, by an Exchanged Officer
by Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904
by John Wilson
Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege
by Henry Woodd Nevinson
Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by George Jacob Holyoake
Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 A study of the evolution of the northwestern frontier, together with a history of Fort Dearborn
by Milo Milton Quaife
Face to Face with Kaiserism
by James W. (James Watson) Gerard
The Monarchs of the Main; Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers. Volume 1 (of 3)
by Walter Thornbury
The Story of Electricity
by John Munro
The Siege of Kimberley Its Humorous and Social Side; Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902); Eighteen Weeks in Eighteen Chapters
by T. Phelan
Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden
Why Bewick Succeeded: A Note in the History of Wood Engraving
by Jacob Kainen
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04
by Richard Hakluyt
The stranger in France : or, a tour from Devonshire to Paris illustrated by engravings in aqua tint of sketches taken on the spot.
by Sir John Carr
The War Book of the German General Staff Being "The Usages of War on Land" Issued by the Great General Staff of the German Army
by Prussia (Germany). Armee. Grosser Generalstab. Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II
History of the war in the Peninsula and in the south of France from the year 1807 to the year 1814, vol. 1
by William Francis Patrick Napier
Chinese mettle
by E. G. (Emily Georgiana) Kemp
Der rote Kampfflieger
by Freiherr von Manfred Richthofen
Explanatory Notes of a Pack of Cavalier Playing Cards, Temp. Charles II. Forming a Complete Political Satire of the Commonwealth
by Edmund Goldsmid
Port Arthur : a monster heroism
by Richard Barry
Der Weltverkehr Telegraphie und Post, Eisenbahnen und Schiffahrt, in ihrer Entwickelung dargestellt
by Michael Geistbeck
Smeaton and Lighthouses A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel
by Anonymous
Peaceless Europe
by Francesco Saverio Nitti
An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916
by Oswald Boelcke
A politica intercolonial e internacional e o tratado de Lourenço Marques Additamento á influencia europea na Africa
by Carlos Testa
England, Canada and the Great War
by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins
The Court of the Empress Josephine
by Imbert de Saint-Amand
America and the World War
by Theodore Roosevelt
One Man's Initiation—1917
by John Dos Passos
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
by Various Authors
Cavour
by contessa Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco
The Last Days of Pekin
by Pierre Loti