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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.

by Various Authors

by Louis W. Pratt

by Barlow Cumberland

by Annette Kolb

by Various Authors

by Bernard Shaw

by Various Authors

by John Lothrop Motley

by Michele Lessona

by Gustave Le Bon

by Désiré Joseph Joulin

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Julius Krohn

by William Jowett

by C. J. (Charles John) Vaughan

by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge

by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

by Various Authors

by Heinrich von Treitschke

by Various Authors

by Henry Vizetelly

by Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield) Searight

by Hartmann Grisar

by J. E. (Joseph Ernest) De Becker

by Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton

by Theodore Roosevelt

by German Emperor William II

by Various Authors

by Arthur H. Clark

by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

by Voltaire

by Herbert Ernest Cushman

by Moncure Daniel Conway

by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke

by E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia) Pankhurst

by United States. Marine Corps, Pat Meid, James M. Yingling
![The Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment, [v. 1,] from 1684 to 1902](/api/img/6638c674972dc5c80ef74430/cover.jpg)
by G. le M. (George Le Mesurier) Gretton

by Thomas Okey

by Frederic William Wile

by Thomas K. Hervey

by Charles Morris

by Emily Constance Baird Cook

by Charles Gide, Charles Rist

by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

by Alexis de Tocqueville

by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

by Isabel Anderson

by Sir Charles Bright

by Various Authors

by Thomas Carlyle

by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

by Frank Harris

by A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales

by Friedrich Engels

by F. Clive Grimwade

by Hubert Howe Bancroft

by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan

by John Martin Hammond

by Samuel Charles Hill

by Robert Grant Watson

by Sir John William Kaye

by George B. (George Blagden) Bacon

by John Gallishaw

by David Masson

by Henry I. Shaw

by Gabriel Richou

by G. B. (Gabriel Beato) Francisco

by R. M. P. (Richard Martin Peter) Preston
![Manassas (Bull Run) National Battlefield Park, Virginia [1953]](/api/img/6638c0ff972dc5c80ef68040/cover.jpg)
by Francis Wilshin

by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

by Baron Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton

by Jon T. Hoffman

by I. Winslow Ayer

by H. Mortimer (Henry Mortimer) Durand

by Philip W. Bishop

by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

by Various Authors

by Harriot Stanton Blatch

by Emile Joseph Dillon

by Mary Ethel McAuley

by Claude G. (Claude Gernade) Bowers

by Edward Corbett

by Coningsby Dawson

by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

by Kate John Finzi

by Richard Carlile

by Rossiter Johnson

by David Levi

by Paul Mariéton

by Charles M. (Charles Mattathias) Jacobs

by Henriette McDougall