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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 M. (Jean Baptiste Honoré Raymond) Capefigue

by Richard Harding Davis

by Primo Uccellini

by T. D. Hallam

by Reginald Bateman

by Various Authors

by Giuseppe Ripamonti

by Julian Stafford Corbett

by E. D. (Edward William Dirom) Cuming

by Horace Green

by Giuseppe Garibaldi

by Various Authors

by Lodovico Antonio Muratori

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

by John W. (John Wesley) Judd

by Henry Warren

by Adolphe Thiers

by of Vermont John Reynolds

by May Kellogg Sullivan

by Princess Catherine Radziwill
by Jules Michelet

by C. Perry (Caleb Perry) Patterson

by Mrs. Pember Reeves

by Henry Woodd Nevinson

by Albert Francis Zahm

by Joseph Wardle

by Eric Moore Ritchie

by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

by P. T. (Per Teodor) Cleve

by Pietro Giannone

by Arthur Applin

by Rheta Childe Dorr

by Various Authors

by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson

by Sir John Henry Cooke, J. W. Dunbar (John Wedderburn Dunbar) Moodie, Earl of George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence Munster

by Thomas Anderton

by William James Stillman

by Harold Rosher

by Tom Kettle

by Anonymous

by Edward Streeter

by Robert de La Sizeranne

by Francisco Ferrer Guardia

by prince Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte

by Ida Saint-Elme

by William B. (William Bennet) Arnold, Edward T. Bouvé, La Salle Corbell Pickett

by Daniel C. (Daniel Clarke) Eddy

by C. M. Shumsky-Solomonov

by Emily Manners

by Various Authors

by Edwin North McClellan, United States. Marine Corps

by Marie Connor Leighton

by Olive Schreiner

by John F. Mesick

by Society for Pure English

by Johann Ulrich Bilguer

by Friedrich Schiller

by Various Authors

by Léon Faucher

by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee

by Barão de Antônio Luiz von Hoonholtz Teffé

by Arthur St. John Adcock

by T. C. (Thomas Cornelius) Brennan

by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

by Enrique Piñeyro

by Various Authors

by J. Z. (John Zephaniah) Holwell

by Christian Flor

by René-Louis-Jules Radiguet

by Gerrit Verschuur

by Arveds Bergs

by Joshua M. (Joshua Melancthon) Addeman

by Jacques Bainville

by John Lothrop Motley

by William Hewitt

by B. D. H. (Bernard Dominicus Hubertus) Tellegen

by Sartell Prentice

by Various Authors

by Ruth Gaines

by John Lothrop Motley

by Felix A. (Felix Aaron) Theilhaber

by Various Authors

by England) Union and Emancipation Society (Manchester

by Henry Philip Picot

by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

by Bernhard Kellermann

by Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

by Cornelis Lely

by Konni Zilliacus

by Richard Hildreth, Edward Carbery