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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 William Walker

by William John Hardy

by Frances E. (Frances Ellen) Colenso

by Thomas E. (Thomas Edward) Watson

by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

by Horst von der Goltz
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by Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa

by William L. (William Leonard) Laurence

by Robert E. (Robert Emmet) Welsh

by William Alexander Harvey

by Horace G. (Horace Gordon) Hutchinson

by E. C. H. (Ernest Charles Holtom) (Surgeon)

by Georges Aimel

by Guglielmo Ferrero

by Alice Brayton

by Inter-Allied Commission of Enquiry into Atrocities in Yalova and Guemlek

by Sir Walter Gilbey

by Gustave Le Bon

by Cavalié Mercer

by Zsigmond Móricz

by Heikki Välisalmi

by Lucina Hagman

by Henry W. (Henry Wharton) Shoemaker

by Gustave Le Bon

by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

by Gustave Le Bon

by Canada. Military Service Council

by Thomson Burtis

by Vilho Helanen

by Santeri Ivalo

by Aarne Mustasalo

by Sulo-Weikko Pekkola

by Simo Eronen

by Sir Edward J. (Edward James) Reed, Edward Simpson

by Evan John David

by R. A. (Richard Alfred) Davenport

by Francis Henry Gribble

by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

by David Pollock

by Frances Anne Wister

by Victor Ross

by Charlotte A. (Charlotte Albina) Aikens

by Jr. Francis A. March, Richard J. (Richard Joseph) Beamish

by Robert H. Whitlow

by Sir James Willcocks

by C. T. (Charles Thomas) Buckland

by T. Watson (Thomas Watson) Greig

by F. J. (Frederick John) Foakes-Jackson

by Emma Goldman

by Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner

by Ernest Erwin Leisy

by Edward Herbert Maxwell

by Valentine Erskine Inglefield

by Reginald Rowan Belknap

by Jean Tilho

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

by Grace Humphrey

by Jacques Rivière

by P. H. (Peter Henderson) Bryce

by Georges Goyau

by Walter William Wall

by Arthur Mills

by Various Authors

by Baron Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell

by Mór Jókai

by Dávid Angyal

by Viktor Rákosi

by J. N. (Josephus Nelson) Larned

by A. O. (Alexandre Olivier) Exquemelin, Daniel Defoe

by Gaillard Hunt

by Frederick P. Gibbon

by Henry White

by Auguste Chevalier, Mission Chari-Lac Tchad (1902-1904)

by James Slough Zerbe

by Jay Henry Mowbray

by a S. Bartholomaeo Paulinus

by John Rushworth Jellicoe

by John Buchan

by Henry Adams

by William Snelgrave

by Augustin Bernard, Napoléon Lacroix

by C. F. (Constance Frederica) Gordon Cumming

by Octave Homberg, Fernand Jousselin

by A. (André) Rançon

by Jacob Green, Erskine Hazard

by A.-J. (Alphonse-Jules) Wauters

by Constance Hill

by Giovanni Visconti Venosta

by Francis Galton

by Jesse Page

by Jr. Francis A. March, Richard J. (Richard Joseph) Beamish

by William Avery Bishop