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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 P.-L. (Pierre-Louis) Roederer

by Joseph Marmette

by Edmund Christopherson

by Etienne Grosclaude

by Anonymous

by Eleanor Roosevelt

by Paul Thureau-Dangin

by Charles Nordhoff

by Various Authors

by Ernest Daudet

by Gaston Maugras

by Samuel Adams Drake

by Wilson McCandless, John Quincy Adams

by Various Authors

by John Stoughton

by Tappan Wentworth

by Sir Gilbert Blane

by C. T. (Charles Thomas) Paske

by Adolphe Thiers

by Various Authors

by Allen Upward

by J. C. (John C.) Gorman

by Carl Bernhard Wadström

by Various Authors

by Joseph Bertrand

by active 1830-1872 Thomas Clarke

by Into Konrad Inha

by Various Authors

by Horace Gray Gilliland

by Various Authors

by Abel C. (Abel Charles) Thomas

by Fürst von Karl Max Lichnowsky

by Jeffery Farnol

by Congo resident

by David Cussons

by L.-M.-G de Crassier

by Helen C. (Helen Cross) Knight

by Pedro José Guiteras

by William Coppinger

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Warner A. Ross

by Kurt Kersten

by Christopher Langman, Nicholas Mellen, sailor on the Nottingham galley George White

by Sebastian Dachauer

by John J. Piper

by António Francisco Ferreira da Silva Porto

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Eugenio Barbarich

by Rudyard Kipling

by Albert Gallatin

by Various Authors

by Abram J. (Abram Jesse) Dittenhoefer

by John Lothrop Motley

by J.-B.-J. (Jean-Baptiste-Joseph) Champagnac

by Various Authors

by Pierre Loti

by Jos. Loopuit

by Mauno Rosendal

by James Galloway Cowan

by Freiherr von Manfred Richthofen

by Various Authors

by Karl Marx

by Various Authors

by K. N. (Kalle Nikodemus) Rauhala

by John P. (John Peter) Jones

by Arthur Edward Waite

by Vernon Bartlett

by Harold Stanley Johnson

by H. R. (Hubert Renfro) Knickerbocker

by Various Authors

by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

by Various Authors

by Bertrand Russell

by Henry-Russell Hitchcock

by Various Authors

by Charles Oman

by Pedro Sancho

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

by Francis St. Clair

by Tadayoshi Sakurai

by Otto Jahn

by American Anti-Slavery Society

by Charles Alan Fyffe

by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune

by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston

by W. T. Fyfe

by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake

by Eugene S. Ferguson