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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 Manor House of Lacolle A description and historical sketch of the Manoir of the Seigniory of de Beaujeu of Lacolle
by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
Petroleum
by Albert Lidgett
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917
by Various Authors
Mille et un jours en prison à Berlin
by Henri Béland
Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial
by 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton, J. B. (John Benjamin) Smith, Edward Stanley
Round about a Pound a Week
by Mrs. Pember Reeves
The Pioneer Trail
by Alfred Lambourne
A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama
by H. R. Hill
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 46, September 23, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
The romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway
by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth
Four years aboard the whaleship Embracing cruises in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Antarctic oceans, in the years 1855, '6, '7, '8, '9
by William B. Whitecar
Die großen Mächte
by Leopold von Ranke
A Discourse on the Plague
by Richard Mead
List of post offices in Canada, with the names of the postmasters ... 1863
by Canada. Post Office Department
The Lost Naval Papers
by Bennet Copplestone
Histoire de France 1466-1483 (Volume 8/19)
by Jules Michelet
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, vol. 06, No. 10, October 1900 The Château of Chambord: France; Louis XVI. Sconces
by Various Authors
Two Chancellors: Prince Gortchakof and Prince Bismarck
by Julian Klaczko
Throne-Makers
by William Roscoe Thayer
The Lead Pencil Manufactory of A. W. Faber at Stein near Nürnberg, Bavaria An Historical Sketch
by Faber-Castell (Firm)
La guerra injusta; cartas de un español
by Armando Palacio Valdés
L'Illustration, No. 3737, 17 Octobre 1914
by Various Authors
The Beaver, Vol. 1, No. 05, February, 1921
by Hudson's Bay Company
Old Quebec, the city of Champlain
by Emily P. (Emily Poynton) Weaver
Hunting the Hun
by James Belton, E. G. Odell
Maantiede ja löytöretket 3 : Uusin aika 17.-vuosisadan alusta nykyaikaan (alkupuoli)
by Into Konrad Inha
Seekriege und Seekriegswesen, Zweiter Band in ihrer weltgeschichtlichen Entwicklung. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der grossen Seekriege des XVII. and XVIII. Jahrhunderts.
by Rudolph Rittmeyer
The Thames and its docks
by Alexander Forrow
Notes and Queries, Number 138, June 19, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
The White Road to Verdun
by Kathleen Burke
Il secolo che muore, vol. II
by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
My empress; twenty-three years of intimate life with the empress of all the Russias from her marriage to the day of her exile
by Marfa Mouchanow
Heimat: Erzählungen
by Anna Schieber
The Art of the Bone-Setter: A Testimony and a Vindication
by George Matthews Bennett
List of post offices in Canada, with the names of the postmasters ... 1864
by Canada. Post Office Department
L'Illustration, No. 0060, 20 Avril 1844
by Various Authors
Westafrikanische Kautschuk-Expedition
by Rudolf Schlechter, Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft. Kolonial-Wirtschaftliches Komitee
The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 01, July 4, 1840
by Various Authors
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 684 February 3, 1877
by Various Authors
Cuba
by Emil Deckert
Notes and Queries, Number 242, June 17, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
by Various Authors
Infamous Day: Marines at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
by Robert Cressman, J. Michael Wenger
Correspondence Relating to Executions in Turkey for Apostacy from Islamism
by Various Authors
How the shortage of skilled mechanics is being overcome by training the unskilled
by United States. Council of National Defense. Committee on Labor. Section on Industrial Training for the War Emergency
The Way to Win
by William Le Queux
Observations on the Automaton Chess Player Now Exhibited in London, at 4 Spring Gardens
by Oxford graduate
Martelaren van Rusland
by Jules Michelet
Λόγοι Φιλιππικοί Θεοδώρου : Δεληγιάννη Απαγγελθέντες εντός και εκτός του Συνδερίου Εμμέτρως δε Διασκευασθέντες
by Georgios Souris
With the Scottish Regiments at the Front
by Evelyn Charles Vivian
The Mentor: Belgium the Brave, Vol. 8, Num. 3, Serial No. 199, March 15, 1920
by Ruth Kedzie Wood
De Harmonie van het Dierlijke Leven: De Openbaring van Wetten
by F. C. (Franciscus Cornelis) Donders
History of the United Netherlands, 1587d
by John Lothrop Motley
Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter, March 1829
by Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions
La vita Italiana nel Risorgimento (1831-1846), parte 3 Seconda serie - Lettere, scienze e arti
by Various Authors
Catharine de Bora: Social and Domestic Scenes in the Home of Luther
by John G. (John Gottlieb) Morris
The Silk-Hat Soldier, and Other Poems in War Time
by Richard Le Gallienne
Higher Education for Women in Great Britain
by Phoebe Sheavyn
The New Wonder of the World: Buffalo, the Electric City
by A. E. Richmond
Briefe eines Soldaten: Deutsche Ausgabe der Lettres d'un soldat
by Eugène Emmanuel Lemercier
Work of the Colored Law and Order League, Baltimore, Md.
by James H. N. Waring
Zes maanden bij de commando's
by Nico J. Hofmeyr
Cottage scenes during the cholera : being extracts from a diary written in July and August, 1832
by William Isaac Coppard
Croquis d'Extrême-Orient, 1898
by Claude Farrère
History of the United Netherlands, 1588b
by John Lothrop Motley
Compulsory manumission : or, An examination of the actual state of the West India question
by Alexander McDonnell
The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of injustice meted out to the black race
by J. C. (John Clay) Coleman
Juicio razonado sobre los acontecimientos de Europa, situacion del Sumo Pontífice, y tambien sobre la ventajosa posicion en que se encuentra la España, respecto del resto de Europa
by Antonio Villarragut y Aquiriano
The Jesuits
by Edward Hoare
Voyage aux montagnes Rocheuses Chez les tribus indiennes du vaste territoire de l'Orégon dépendant des Etats-Unis d'Amérique
by Pierre-Jean de Smet
L'Illustration, No. 1594, 13 Septembre 1873
by Various Authors
To arms for liberty: A pageant of the war for schools and societies
by Catherine T. (Catherine Turner) Bryce
Famous days in the century of invention
by Gertrude L. (Gertrude Lincoln) Stone, M. Grace (Mary Grace) Fickett
The Marylebone Penny Readings and Their Critics
by Henry Taylor
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 134, vol. III, July 24, 1886
by Various Authors
The New Crystal Palace and the Christian Sabbath
by John Weir
Wages in 1873: Address read before the Social Science Association at Norwich
by Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey
The Importance of Marking Historic Spots, an Address
by Henry W. (Henry Wharton) Shoemaker
Ravachol und die Pariser Anarchisten
by Arthur Holitscher
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Twenty Unsettled Miles in the Northeast Boundary [From the Report of the Council of the American Antiquarian Society, presented at the Annual Meeting held in Worcester, October 21, 1896]
by Thomas C. (Thomas Corwin) Mendenhall
Sünndagsklocken: Stadt- un Dörp-Predigten
by Friedrich Köhn
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Louis Philippe Makers of History Series
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Life and sport in China Second Edition
by Oliver George Ready
Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
by Henry Baerlein
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915
by G. B. (George Brenton) Laurie
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany
by Arthur Henry Chamberlain
The Evolution of Naval Armament
by Frederick Leslie Robertson
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914
by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves
China Revolutionized
by John Stuart Thomson
