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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 Canada. Post Office Department

by Various Authors

by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel

by Louis Keene

by John Snow

by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

by Winston Churchill

by Reginald Hodder

by Frederick C. (Frederick Collier) Bakewell

by Blanchard Jerrold

by Sir Rowland Hill, George Birkbeck Norman Hill

by Louis Becke

by Charles S. (Charles Snodgrass) Ryan, John Sandes

by Henry Schroeder

by James W. Shepp, Daniel B. Shepp

by Charles Napier

by Gustavus Myers

by John Kimberly Mumford

by Robert Cressman

by Jules Michelet

by Various Authors

by Otto W. H. Inhülsen

by comte Jean Rapp

by Various Authors

by Lord Frederic Hamilton

by Daniel A. (Daniel Alfred) Poling

by Robert M. Vogel

by Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter

by H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

by Otto von Kotzebue

by Various Authors

by Warren T. (Warren Taylor) Vaughan

by Henry Morgenthau

by Gilbert Nobbs

by George Thomas Love

by Mary Wilson Alloway

by Claude Fournier

by Fritz Kreisler

by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

by Australia. Queensland. Department of Ports and Harbours

by Maurice Francis Egan

by Samuel Cranston Benson

by Landon Knight

by Harry Clow Boardman

by Spyridon Trikoupes

by G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany

by George R. (George Ross) Kirkpatrick

by Demetrios Ainian

by Various Authors

by Juliet Bredon

by Various Authors

by Jean Martin

by Freeman Bunting

by Frances Wilson Huard

by Francis Grierson

by Henry Cowling

by A.-V. (Antoine-Vincent) Arnault

by John William Burgess

by Gaston Riou

by Roger Ingpen

by Bartholomäus von Werner

by Georg Biedenkapp

by Various Authors

by Ludwig Ganghofer

by E. Palmer (Edmund Palmer) Conner

by George Billany

by B. E. Tyler

by Emile de La Bédollière

by Franz Doflein

by C. Jackson (Claude Jackson) Craven

by Alfred Dreyfus

by Jaime de Magalhães Lima

by Hilaire Belloc

by Alfredo Oriani

by N. A. (Napoléon-Antoine) Belcourt

by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

by Albert Teichmann

by Various Authors

by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

by Ethel Snowden

by Various Authors

by comte Christophe-Michel Roguet

by James A. (James Albert) Frye

by Various Authors

by Mary Platt Parmele

by John Savory

by Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee to Inquire into the Contract Packet Service