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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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War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery
by Austin Thomas Anderson
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845
by Various Authors
From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade
by Frederic C. (Crawford) Curry
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
by Various Authors
South Africa, vol. II.
by Anthony Trollope
North-Pole Voyages Embracing Sketches of the Important Facts and Incidents in the Latest American Efforts to Reach the North Pole, from the Second Grinnell Expedition to That of the Polaris
by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Europe Since 1918
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
My Escape from Donington Hall, Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915
by Gunther Plüschow
Letters from Palestine Written during a residence there in the years 1836, 7 and 8
by J. D. (John D.) Paxton
Mémoires du prince de Talleyrand, Volume 4
by prince de Bénévent Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917
by Various Authors
White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor
by Louis Albert Banks
Soldier silhouettes on our front
by William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger
Contestaciones y Consideraciones Al Pueblo y Congreso Norte-Americanos
by Apolinario Mabini
The condition of England
by Charles F. G. (Charles Frederick Gurney) Masterman
Ten Years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers, and Three Years in South Africa, in the Cape Corps Levies
by W. J. D. Gould
The Thirty Years War — Volume 02
by Friedrich Schiller
L'esprit dans l'histoire: Recherches et curiosités sur les mots historiques
by Edouard Fournier
Scapa and a Camera Pictorial Impressions of Five Years Spent at the Grand Fleet Base
by C. W. Burrows
The blackest page in modern history: Events in Armenia in 1915 the facts and the responsibilities
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 03: Military Career
by Giacomo Casanova
La Renaissance de la littérature hébraïque (1743-1885)
by Nahum Slouschz
A Colored Man Round the World
by David F. Dorr
History and Ecclesiastical Relations of the Churches of the Presbyterial Order at Amoy, China
by John Van Nest Talmage
Russia in 1916
by Stephen Graham
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 3 (of 4)
by Horace Walpole
Lamarck et son OEuvre
by Emile Corra
Vie de Christophe Colomb
by baron de Pierre-Marie-Joseph Bonnefoux
The Retreat from Mons
by George Stuart Gordon
Rogers-isms, the Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference
by Will Rogers
Aircraft in war
by Eric Stuart Bruce
My Escape from Germany
by Eric A. Keith
Sidelights on Negro Soldiers
by Charles H. (Charles Halston) Williams
Doing Their Bit: War Work at Home
by Boyd Cable
Home Rule Second Edition
by Harold Spender
Les Huguenots: Cent ans de persécution, 1685-1789
by baron de Janzé
The Dawn Patrol, and other poems of an aviator
by Paul Bewsher
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 3
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
The Story of Our Submarines
by John Graham Bower
Histoire de la Monarchie de Juillet (Volume 4 / 7)
by Paul Thureau-Dangin
The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota
by Ray H. Mattison, Robert A. Grom
Canada for Gentlemen
by James Seton Cockburn
History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 2 (of 3) Third Edition
by Sir John William Kaye
John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884.
by Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 130, April 24, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Estampas de viaje: España en los días de la guerra
by Luis G. (Luis Gonzaga) Urbina
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914
by Various Authors
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 10
by Louis Constant Wairy
Africa and the American Flag
by Andrew H. (Andrew Hull) Foote
Japan and the Pacific, and a Japanese View of the Eastern Question
by Manjiro Inagaki
From Dixie to Canada: Romances and Realities of the Underground Railroad
by H. U. (Homer Uri) Johnson
What's the Matter with Ireland?
by Ruth Russell
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 19: 1572-73
by John Lothrop Motley
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 18, March 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
Descobrimentos dos Portuguezes nos Seculos XV e XVI
by A. F. Marx de Sori
Luck on the Wing: Thirteen Stories of a Sky Spy
by Elmer Haslett
Meine Mission nach Abessinien Auf Befehl Sr. Maj. des Deutschen Kaisers im Winter 1880/81 unternommen
by Gerhard Rohlfs
Yanks : A.E.F. verse originally published in "The Stars and Stripes," the official newspaper of the American expeditionary forces
by Various Authors
La voz de España contra todos sus enemigos
by José María Avilés
American slavery, and the means of its abolition
by Jonathan Ward
Fighting Germany's Spies
by French Strother
Projet de la constitution française de 1791
by Maximilien Robespierre
L'Illustration, No. 3263, 9 Septembre 1905
by Various Authors
England and the Orléans Monarchy
by John Hall
L'Illustration, No. 3234, 18 Février 1905
by Various Authors
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
by Stephen Coleridge
Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Vol. 75, No. 462, April 1854
by Various Authors
La vita Italiana nel Risorgimento (1849-1861), parte 1 Quarta serie - Storia
by Various Authors
The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race: A Discourse Delivered at the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1848
by Henry Highland Garnet
Voyage des souverains: Inauguration du Canal de Suez
by Gustave Nicole
L'Illustration, No. 1587, 26 Juillet 1873
by Various Authors
Thoughts on religion at the front
by N. S. (Neville Stuart) Talbot
Le Dix-huit Brumaire
by Jacques Bainville
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 41, August 19, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
Briefe aus Frankfurt und Paris 1848-1849 (1/2)
by Friedrich von Raumer
"White man bery unsartin": "Nigger haint got no friends, no how"; the blackest chapter in the history of the Republican Party; the men who robbed and combined to rob the freedmen of their hard earnings.
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
The Mentor: Napoleon Bonaparte, Serial No. 38
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
The Grey Wave
by A. Hamilton (Arthur Hamilton) Gibbs
Zur Geschichte der englischen Volkswirthschaftslehre aus dem III. Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
by Wilhelm Roscher
John Chinaman on the Rand
by Anonymous
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03
by John Lothrop Motley
The Story of My Life — Volume 03
by Georg Ebers
Les condamnés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Récit de deux évadés
by Paschal Grousset, François Jourde
The Road Past Kennesaw: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864
by Richard M. McMurry
Camion cartoons
by Kirkland Hart Day
Der Mädchenhandel
by Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Wagener
Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman written during his expedition to the Kittar Mountains, between Kenneh (on the Nile) and the Red Sea, 1891
by Herbert Edward Pretyman
Lettres d'un innocent
by Alfred Dreyfus