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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 Charles Greville

by Egerton Ryerson

by James Blake Bailey

by Louis Raemaekers

by Carroll Dana Winslow

by Various Authors

by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

by Frederic Austin Ogg

by Jules Michelet

by Logan Marshall

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

by Conde de José María Queipo de Llano Ruiz de Saravia Toreno

by Roger Casement

by comte de Agénor Gasparin

by Ebenezer Davies

by Adolphe Thiers

by Henry Adams

by François Guizot

by Rafaël Hertzberg

by Samuel Adams Drake

by Jean-Louis Pisuisse

by John Lothrop Motley

by Kaarle Alfred Castrén

by Alma Söderhjelm

by William Morgan

by Charles Morris

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by George Borrow

by Augustus F. Lindley

by William E. (William Eleazar) Barton

by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson

by Francis Parkman

by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

by W. C. C. Weetman

by Thomas Carlyle

by Edward Maitland

by Gaston Tissandier

by Sir Samuel White Baker

by Edward Carpenter

by James Mott Hallowell

by Lydia Maria Child

by Stewart Edward White

by Various Authors

by Tom Kettle

by Anti-slavery Convention of American Women

by Albert Mathiez

by Hilaire Belloc

by Various Authors

by Jacques-Henri Meister

by John Lothrop Motley

by Maanpakolainen

by Louis Constant Wairy

by James Kendall Hosmer

by Käthe Schirmacher

by William Hickling Prescott

by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

by Jules Verne

by George McKinnon Wrong

by Sir Hall Caine

by Helen Campbell

by H. Onslow (Henry Onslow) Curling

by Fannie A. Beers

by Walter Hawkins

by Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich) Hourwich

by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

by Lady Hester Stanhope

by John F. Runciman

by Sydney George Fisher

by Various Authors

by Walter Besant

by Henry Johnson Brent

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by John Lothrop Motley

by Károly Eötvös

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

by Viscount James Bryce Bryce

by Friedrich Engels

by vicomte de François-René Chateaubriand

by Paul Eltzbacher