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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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Ein Volk in Waffen
by Sven Anders Hedin
The Martyrdom of Belgium Official Report of Massacres of Peaceable Citizens, Women and Children by The German Army
by des lois et des coutumes de la guerre Belgium. Commission d'enquête sur la violation des règles du droit des gens, Gerard Cooreman
The Vampire of the Continent
by Graf E. (Ernst) Reventlow
The Thirteen Travellers
by Hugh Walpole
An Open Letter to the Right Honorable David Lloyd George Prime Minister of Great Britain
by Lala Lajpat Rai
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 21: 1573-74
by John Lothrop Motley
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 07
by Louis Constant Wairy
Le Tour du Monde; Éducation des nègres aux États-Unis Journal des voyages et des voyageurs; 2e Sem. 1905
by Various Authors
L'Illustration, No. 3672, 12 Juillet 1913
by Various Authors
Dinsmore Ely, One Who Served
by Dinsmore Ely
The battle of the Swash and the capture of Canada
by Samuel Barton
The Invasion of America: a fact story based on the inexorable mathematics of war
by J. W. (Julius Washington) Muller
Het leven van Hugo de Groot
by Jacob Klinkhamer
The Cornhill Magazine, (vol. XLI, no. 243 new series, September 1916)
by Various Authors
Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, (Vol. 17/20) faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française
by Adolphe Thiers
Trial of Pedro de Zulueta, jun., on a Charge of Slave Trading, under 5 Geo. IV, cap. 113, on Friday the 27th, Saturday the 28th, and Monday the 30th of October, 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London A Full Report from the Short-hand Notes of W. B. Gurney, Esq.
by Pedro de Zulueta, William Brodie Gurney
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 06: 1560-61
by John Lothrop Motley
History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 01
by Friedrich Schiller
News from No Man's Land
by James Green
Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. Kelly
by Russell Anthony Kelly
On the Eve of Redemption
by S. M. Melamed
The Burgomaster of Stilemonde: A Play in Three Acts
by Maurice Maeterlinck
My Memory of Gladstone
by Goldwin Smith
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 01
by Count Anthony Hamilton
Notes of a Gold Digger, and Gold Diggers' Guide
by James Bonwick
L'Illustration, No. 3733, 12-19 Septembre 1914
by Various Authors
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 47, September 30, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
L'Illustration, No. 0072, 11 Juillet 1844
by Various Authors
A caution to Great Britain and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes in the British dominions
by Anthony Benezet
The Survey, Volume 30, Number 2, Apr 12, 1913
by Various Authors
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 12: 1567, part I
by John Lothrop Motley
Sir Isaac Brock
by Hugh S. (Hugh Sterling) Eayrs
Storia d'Italia dal 1789 al 1814, tomo II
by Carlo Botta
Geschichte von England seit der Thronbesteigung Jakob's des Zweiten. Elfter Band: enthaltend Kapitel 21 und 22.
by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
Mémoires de Garibaldi, tome 2/2
by Alexandre Dumas
José Estevão
by Jaime de Magalhães Lima
Schilderungen des Treibens im Leben und Handel in den Vereinigten Staaten und Havana. Gezeichnet auf Reisen in den Jahren 1838 und 1839
by Julius Ries
L'Illustration, No. 3661, 26 Avril 1913
by Various Authors
An Englishwoman's adventures in the German lines
by Ann Gladys Lloyd
Report of the naval committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia: also to increase the steam navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States. : With an appendix added by the American Colonization Society.
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
Mr Britling pääsee selvyyteen II
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The Aviator and the Weather Bureau
by Ford A. (Ford Ashman) Carpenter
Al fronte (maggio-ottobre 1915)
by Luigi Barzini
La vita Italiana nel Risorgimento (1846-1849), parte 2 Terza serie - Storia
by Various Authors
Voyages au front, de Dunkerque à Belfort
by Edith Wharton
Puolan kapinat vv. 1831 ja 1863
by Yrjö Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters
by Charles Darwin
池北偶談
by Shizhen Wang
A Retrospect
by James Hudson Taylor
Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.
by Charlotte-Adelaïde Dard, Pierre-Raymond de Brisson, Jean Godin des Odonais
Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II
by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1
by Jefferson Davis
The Red Cross in Peace and War
by Clara Barton
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
by Henry Reeve
Life of Adam Smith
by John Rae
Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions
by Alexis Soyer
The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
by Various Authors
English and American tool builders
by Joseph Wickham Roe
Opportunities in Aviation
by Arthur Sweetser, Gordon Lamont
Dickens' London
by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Mentana e il dito di Dio Episodi narrati dal superstite Ettore Pozzi - Seconda edizione, con importanti aggiunte fatte dall'Autore
by Ernesto Pozzi
Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)
by United States. Warren Commission
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)
by Edward Gibbon
The History and Practice of the Art of Photography
by Henry Hunt Snelling
Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark
by Harris Newmark
Wellington's Army, 1809-1814
by Charles Oman
Railroad Reorganization
by Stuart Daggett
Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1
by Duke of Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos
The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, Etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years
by active 1854-1890 John Werge
Eminent Victorians
by Lytton Strachey
The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time
by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
English Poor Law Policy
by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb
Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results
by Eugene S. (Eugene Solomon) Talbot
With the Boer Forces
by Howard Clemens Hillegas
The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922
by C. G. Bruce
The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster
by Samuel Henry Prince
Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Various Classes of Parisian Society
by Alvan F. (Alvan Francis) Sanborn
A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volumes 1 and 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
by James Fergusson
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History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day
by Simon Dubnow
20 hrs., 40 min. : our flight in the Friendship : the American girl, first across the Atlantic by air, tells her story
by Amelia Earhart
The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
by George Spring Merriam
A History of Science — Volume 5
by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
by John Lothrop Motley
The French Revolution
by Hilaire Belloc
The Facts of Reconstruction
by John Roy Lynch
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe
by Various Authors
Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia
by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
Concerning the bi-literal cypher of Francis Bacon discovered in his works
by Elizabeth Wells Gallup
Lest We Forget: World War Stories
by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson, Inez Bigwood
A Book of Scoundrels
by Charles Whibley
Byron: The Last Phase
by Richard Edgcumbe
Socialism as it is : a survey of the world-wide revolutionary movement
by William English Walling
Project Trinity, 1945-1946
by Carl R. Maag, Steve Rohrer