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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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The Circe of the deserts
by Paule Henry-Bordeaux
Hints to Husbands: A Revelation of the Man-Midwife's Mysteries
by George Morant
Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850
by Various Authors
Personal reminiscences of early days in California, with other sketches : to which is added the story of his attempted assassination by a former associate on the supreme bench of the state
by Stephen J. (Stephen Johnson) Field, George C. (George Congdon) Gorham
Recipes Used in the Cooking Schools, U. S. Army
by United States. Army
Trench Warfare: A Manual for Officers and Men
by Joseph S. (Joseph Shuter) Smith
Lord Elgin
by John George Bourinot
The Red Vineyard
by B. J. (Benedict Joseph) Murdoch
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
The Arctic regions and the northern whale-fishery
by William Scoresby
Government by the Brewers?
by Adolph Keitel
Dr. Southwood Smith: A Retrospect
by Gertrude Hill Lewes
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 56, December 2, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
The life savers of Cape Cod
by J. W. (John Wilfred) Dalton
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827
by Various Authors
The Communist Threat in the Taiwan Area
by Dwight D. (Dwight David) Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles
L'Illustration, No. 3235, 25 Février 1905
by Various Authors
Le littoral de la France, vol. 1: Côtes Normandes de Dunkerque au Mont Saint-Michel
by Valentine Vattier d'Ambroyse
The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres
by Lord Ernest Hamilton
The Indians' Last Fight; Or, The Dull Knife Raid
by Dennis Collins
A Refutation of the Charges Made against the Confederate States of America of Having Authorized the Use of Explosive and Poisoned Musket and Rifle Balls during the Late Civil War of 1861-65
by Horace Edwin Hayden
The Grip cartoons: vols. I & II, May 1873 to May 1874
by J. W. (John Wilson) Bengough
The platinum metals
by Arthur Douglas Lumb
The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin
by Ernest Augustus Boyd
Life on the Congo
by W. Holman (William Holman) Bentley
Hacking Through Belgium
by Edmund (Military historian) Dane
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 27, May 13, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
The American Missionary — Volume 33, No. 06, June, 1879
by Various Authors
Two war years in Constantinople : sketches of German and Young Turkish ethics and politics
by Harry Stürmer
The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One in the Government of the United States. Its Cause, and How It Should Be Met
by Abel D. Streight
Mémoires du duc de Rovigo, pour servir à l'histoire de l'empereur Napoléon, Tome 6
by duc de Rovigo Anne-Jean-Marie-René Savary
Battles & Bivouacs: A French soldier's note-book
by Jacques Roujon
Krakatau en de Straat Soenda De Aarde en haar Volken, 1886
by Edmond Cotteau
L'amiral Du Casse, Chevalier de la Toison d'Or (1646-1715) Étude sur la France maritime et coloniale (règne de Louis XIV)
by baron Robert Emmanuel Léon Du Casse
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 51, October 28, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
What Price Peace?
by Frederick J. (Frederick Joseph) Libby, National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.)
The "Land & Water" edition of Raemaekers' cartoons, volume 1
by Louis Raemaekers
War in the Underseas
by Harold Wheeler
Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire, (Vol. 16 / 20) faisant suite à l'Histoire de la Révolution Française
by Adolphe Thiers
A Merchant Fleet at War
by Archibald Hurd
The Story of the Alphabet
by Otto F. Ege
Essai sur Talleyrand
by Baron Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer
The neutral merchant in relation to the law of contraband of war and blockade under the order in Council of 11th March, 1915
by Francis Taylor Piggott
The Last Campaign of the Twenty-Second Regiment, N.G., S.N.Y. June and July, 1863
by George Wood Wingate
Erinnerungen eines Achtundvierzigers
by Stephan Born
De val van Antwerpen (october 1914)
by Jozef Muls
Napoleone: La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero
by Anton Giulio Barrili
The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 47 and 48, January 1909)
by Pennsylvania Prison Society
L'Illustration, No. 1599, 18 Octobre 1873
by Various Authors
The Progress of the Women's Suffrage Movement Presidential Address to the Cambridge Branch of the C. & U. W. F. A. at the Annual Meeting on May 23rd, 1913
by Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
Ferdinand Lassalle: Eine Würdigung des Lehrers und Kämpfers
by Eduard Bernstein
Foreign Exchange
by Robert L. (Robert Latham) Owen
Mezzo secolo di patriotismo: Saggi storici
by Romualdo Bonfadini
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 18: 1572
by John Lothrop Motley
Il Regno d'Etruria La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero
by vicomte de Eugène-Melchior Vogüé
L'Illustration, No. 3256, 22 Juillet 1905
by Various Authors
Compulsory Vaccination Report of a Public Meeting, held in the Marylebone Vestry Hall, London, on Wednesday evening, October 19, 1870.
by Marylebone Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League
Brought Forward
by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
Report on the Cost of Living in Ireland, June 1922
by Ireland. Ministry of Economic Affairs
The Cholera Gazette, Vol. I. No. 4. Wednesday, August 1st, 1832.
by Various Authors
An Estimate of the True Value of Vaccination as a Security Against Small Pox
by T. M. (Thomas Michael) Greenhow
O Padroado Portuguez na China
by Alberto Feliciano Marques Pereira
De positie van Nederland
by Abraham Kuyper
L'Illustration, No. 3252, 24 Juin 1905
by Various Authors
The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, November 4, 1897, No. 52 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat
by John H. B. (John Hazlehurst Boneval) Latrobe
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 16: 1569-70
by John Lothrop Motley
A világegyetem élete és megismerésének története a legrégibb időtől napjainkig
by Svante Arrhenius
L'Illustration, No. 3246, 13 Mai 1905
by Various Authors
A Second Letter to the Bishop of Exeter
by Sir Edward Hall Alderson
The Washington Peace Carillon
by James Marion Shull
A record of St. Cybi's Church, Holyhead : and the sermon preached after its restoration, 1879
by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
War Flying
by L. F. Hutcheon
Storia del Quindici Maggio in Napoli con l'esposizione di alcuni fatti che han preparato la catastrofe
by Tommaso Cimino
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 52, Vol. I, December 27, 1884
by Various Authors
Il romanzo della guerra nell'anno 1914
by Alfredo Panzini
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 753, June 1, 1878
by Various Authors
Storia delle cinque gloriose giornate di Milano nel 1848
by Antonio Vismara
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585e
by John Lothrop Motley
Harcz a nemzeti hadseregért
by Károly Eötvös
From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
With the Naval Brigade in Natal, 1899-1900: Journal of Active Service
by C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne
Pan-Islam
by G. Wyman (George Wyman) Bury
Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France
by George Wharton Edwards
The Origin of Finger-Printing
by William James Herschel
La Francia dal primo impero al 1871. Volume 2
by Heinrich von Treitschke
Chelsea
by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830
by Arthur Clinton Boggess
Victorian worthies : sixteen biographies
by George Henry Blore
Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 2
by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards