History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

William Pitt and the Great War

J. Holland Rose

The work is a scholarly biography that treats William Pitt the Younger’s second, war‑time career as a…

The London pleasure gardens of the eighteenth century

Wroth, Warwick William; Wroth, Arthur Edgar

The book is a scholarly survey of London’s eighteenth‑century pleasure gardens, compiled by Warwick W.

Domestic annals of Scotland: From the Revolution to the Rebellion of 1745

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers’s Domestic Annals of Scotland continues the series that began with the Reformation, turning…

The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography

George D. Wolf

George D. Wolf’s work is a scholarly ethnography that examines a narrow slice of early American history, the…

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1

Henry Hallam

History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767

John Richard Green

History of the English People, Volume VII, The Revolution, 1683‑1760; Modern England, 1760‑1767, by John…

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3

E. K. Chambers

The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 3 is a scholarly study that examines how the physical settings of English drama…

A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

Wallace Notestein

Wallace Notestein’s work is a scholarly monograph that began as his 1908 Yale doctorate and was later…

Books and their makers during the Middle Ages: A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman Empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. I

George Haven Putnam

George Haven Putnam’s work is a scholarly survey of how books were made, sold, and regulated from the…

A general history of the pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time

Johnson, Charles, active 1724-1731

This work is a seventeenth‑century historical treatise that sets out to explain the rise of piracy from the…

A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes

J. M. Robertson

Robert J. M. Robertson’s Short History of Freethought is a sweeping scholarly survey that traces the…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macauley’s work is a sweeping political‑historical narrative that begins with a clear…

The first voyage round the world, by Magellan: translated from the accounts of Pigafetta, and other contemporary writers

Antonio Pigafetta

The work is a translation of the 16th‑century accounts of Antonio Pigafetta, the chronicler who sailed with…

The Ancient Regime

Hippolyte Taine

The work is a sweeping historical‑philosophical study of France from the mid‑eighteenth to the late…

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 2 (of 2): Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

This volume gathers the letters of Elizabeth Montagu, the celebrated “queen of the Bluestocking Society,”…

A History of the Inquisition of Spain; Vol. 1

Henry Charles Lea

The work is a scholarly history of the Spanish Inquisition, written by Henry Charles Lea and published in…

The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed and Mr. Cotton's Letter Examined and Answered

Roger Williams

The work is a scholarly compilation that brings together the writings of early Baptist thinkers, focusing on…

Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

This volume is a scholarly survey of early Spanish exploration and its impact on the sedentary Pueblo peoples…

Robert Boyle: A biography

Flora Masson

Flora Masson’s biography of Robert Boyle is a meticulously documented scholarly work, anchored in a wealth of…

The dissolution of the monasteries: As illustrated by the suppression of the religious houses of Staffordshire

Francis Aidan Hibbert

Francis Aidan Hibbert’s work is a scholarly investigation of the Dissolution of the monasteries as it…

History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Adam Storey Farrar

Adam Storey Farrar’s History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion is a scholarly survey…

The Survey of London

John Stow

The Survey of London is a seventeenth‑century antiquarian topography that blends personal reminiscence with…

France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s France and England in North America, Part II is a scholarly history that concentrates on…

The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham College, Oxford; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester

P. A. Wright Henderson

This work is a modest tribute to Wadham College on the occasion of its three‑centenary, penned by Wright…