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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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Boy Labour and Apprenticeship
by Reginald A. (Reginald Arthur) Bray
German Barbarism: A Neutral's Indictment
by Léon Maccas
Tri-nitro-glycerine, as Applied in the Hoosac Tunnel, Submarine Blasting, etc., etc., etc.
by George M. Mowbray
The Sorrows of Belgium: A Play in Six Scenes
by Leonid Andreyev
Narrative of the Life and Travels of Serjeant B——
by Robert Butler
The Anti-Slavery Record, Volume 1, No. 7
by American Anti-Slavery Society
Toronto by Gaslight: The Night Hawks of a Great City As Seen by the Reporters of "The Toronto News"
by Toronto News
L'Illustration, No. 3273, 18 Novembre 1905
by Various Authors
What I Saw in Kaffir-Land
by Stephen Lakeman
John Law of Lauriston Financier and Statesman, Founder of the Bank of France, Originator of the Mississippi Scheme, Etc.
by A. W. Wiston-Glynn
History of Iridotomy Knife-Needle vs. Scissors—Description of Author's V-Shaped Method
by S. Lewis (Samuel Lewis) Ziegler
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 982, October 22, 1898
by Various Authors
The Belgian Front and Its Notable Features
by Willy Breton
Greuze
by Harold Armitage
Letters from Australia
by John Martineau
L'Illustration, No. 3276, 9 Décembre 1905
by Various Authors
L'Illustration, No. 3267, 7 Octobre 1905
by Various Authors
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 106, Vol. III, January 9, 1886
by Various Authors
The Belgian Mother, and Ballads of Battle Time
by Thaddeus A. (Thaddeus Augustine) Browne
Colored Troops in the French Army A Report from the Department of State Relating to the Colored Troops in the French Army and the Number of French Colonial Troops in the Occupied Territory
by United States. Department of State
Rada: A Belgian Christmas Eve
by Alfred Noyes
L'Illustration, No. 0023, 5 Août 1843
by Various Authors
Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee
by England) Knaresbrough Rail-Way Committee (Knaresborough
L'Illustration, No. 0048, 27 Janvier 1844
by Various Authors
L'Illustration, No. 0045, 6 Janvier 1844
by Various Authors
L'Illustration, No. 3262, 2 Septembre 1905
by Various Authors
Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Stile in der bildenden Kunst. Zweiter Band.: Von der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart
by Ernst Cohn-Wiener
Dagboek eener reize ter walvisch- en robbenvangst, in de jaren 1777 en 1778 door Hidde Dirks Kat
by Hidde Dirks Kat
Histoire du Canal de Suez
by Ferdinand de Lesseps
A nagy háboru anekdotakincse
by Endre Nagy
L'Illustration, No. 1602, 8 novembre 1873
by Various Authors
War Prisoner Money and Medals
by Guido Kisch
L'Illustration, No. 3258, 5 Août 1905
by Various Authors
Notes Upon Indigo
by John L. (John Lord) Hayes
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 24, 1916
by Various Authors
Correspondance Diplomatique de Bertrand de Salignac de La Mothe Fénélon, Tome Troisième
by active 16th century seigneur de La Mothe-Fénelon Bertrand de Salignac
Sevastopoli
by graf Leo Tolstoy
Holland en de oorlog
by Albert Verwey
Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2
by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812
by Edward (Edward A.) Foord
The White Slaves of England
by John C. Cobden
The story of the Congo Free State : Social, political, and economic aspects of the Belgian system of government in Central Africa
by Henry Wellington Wack
England in the Days of Old
by William Andrews
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times
by Gustavus Myers
James Gilmour of Mongolia: His diaries, letters, and reports
by James Gilmour
History for ready reference, Volume 6 : Recent history - 1894-5 to 1901 A-Z
by J. N. (Josephus Nelson) Larned
History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1
by James MacCaffrey
Gli avvenimenti di Sicilia e le loro cause
by Napoleone Colajanni
Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2)
by Francis Trevithick
La vita in Palermo cento e più anni fa, Volume 2
by Giuseppe Pitrè
Automobile Biographies An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads
by Lyman Horace Weeks
La Duchesse de Châteauroux et ses soeurs
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
The Matabele Campaign Being a Narrative of the Campaign in Suppressing the Native Rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896
by Baron Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell
A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.
by Bulstrode Whitelocke
The Exiles of Florida or, The crimes committed by our government against the Maroons, who fled from South Carolina and other slave states, seeking protection under Spanish laws.
by Joshua R. (Joshua Reed) Giddings
From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917
by Philip Gibbs
Merkwaardige Kasteelen in Nederland, Deel II (van VI)
by J. van (Jacob) Lennep, W. J. (Willem Jacobszoon) Hofdijk
The Fairfax County Courthouse
by Ross De Witt Netherton, Ruby Waldeck
Impressionist painting: its genesis and development
by Wynford Dewhurst
Violence and the Labor Movement
by Robert Hunter
Salvador of the Twentieth Century
by Percy F. (Percy Falcke) Martin
The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Vol. 1 (of 2) Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East
by A. N. (Alekseĭ Nikolaevich) Kuropatkin
Recollections of a Military Life
by Sir John Adye
Madame Roland: A Biographical Study
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
Makers of Japan
by J. (John) (Writer on Japan) Morris
Records of Steam Boiler Explosions
by Edward Bindon Marten
Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War
by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe
by Frederick B. Richards
Women and War Work
by Helen Miller Moyes
The Old Printer and the Modern Press
by Charles Knight
The German Secret Service in America 1914-1918
by John Price Jones, Paul M. (Paul Merrick) Hollister
Elizabeth Fry
by Emma Raymond Pitman
Die Sebalduskirche in Nürnberg
by Friedrich Wilhelm Hoffmann
The Wonder of War on Land
by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4
by Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, Chautauqua Institution
Bonaparte et les Républiques Italiennes (1796-1799)
by Paul Gaffarel
A year of prophesying
by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Prison Life in the Old Capitol and Reminiscences of the Civil War
by James J. Williamson
The Open Polar Sea A narrative of a voyage of discovery towards the North pole, in the schooner "United States"
by I. I. (Isaac Israel) Hayes
L'Instruction Publique en France et en Italie au dix-neuvième siècle
by Charles Dejob
The United States and Latin America
by John Holladay Latané
Historia del levantamiento, guerra y revolución de España (4 de 5)
by Conde de José María Queipo de Llano Ruiz de Saravia Toreno
Sir Rowland Hill: The Story of a Great Reform
by Eleanor C. Hill Smyth
My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
by Mary King Waddington
Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
by University of Pittsburgh. School of Medicine
Ways of War and Peace
by Delia Austrian
A Woman's Part in a Revolution
by Natalie Harris Hammond