History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal: A new translation, with historical introduction and notes, by the Rev. Thomas M'Crie

Blaise Pascal

The work is a fresh English rendering of Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters, accompanied by a scholarly…

Woman's Life in Colonial Days

Carl Holliday

Carl Holliday’s Woman’s Life in Colonial Days is a scholarly survey that seeks to reshape popular ideas about…

The Age of the Reformation

Preserved Smith

The Age of the Reformation is a scholarly survey written by Preserved Smith, a Harvard‑trained historian, and…

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2

Henry Hallam

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 1

J. H. Merle d'Aubigné

Merle d’Aubigné’s History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century is a sweeping scholarly work that…

Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic History

Joseph Clayton

Leaders of the People is a scholarly collection of biographical sketches that traces the evolution of English…

Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster

Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

Thomas Potts’s Discovery of Witches is a seventeenth‑century pamphlet that treats the witch‑trials of…

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 2 (of 7) The Revival of Learning

John Addington Symonds

The work is a scholarly survey of the Italian Renaissance’s intellectual resurgence, the second volume in a…

History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 5 The Reformation in England

J. H. Merle d'Aubigné

The work is the fifth volume of Merle d’Aubigné’s sweeping “History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth…

The British battle fleet, Vol. 1 (of 2): Its Inception and Growth Throughout the Centuries to the Present Day

Fred T. Jane

The work is a scholarly survey of the British battle fleet from its myth‑laden origins to the modern…

Travels in Turkey and back to England

Edmund Chishull

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that records the observations of Edmund Chishull, a former…

A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This work is Rousseau’s prize‑winning philosophical essay that sets out to answer the Academy of Dijon’s…

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare

J. J. Jusserand

The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare is a scholarly survey that traces the emergence of English prose…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

This volume is a meticulously compiled record of the Philippine colony between 1588 and 1591, drawn from…

Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study

W. G. Waters

This work is a scholarly biography of Girolamo Cardano, the celebrated 16th‑century Italian mathematician and…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

Lane-Poole, Stanley; Kelley, J. D. Jerrold

The censorship of the Church of Rome and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature, volume 1 (of 2)

George Haven Putnam

This work is a scholarly survey of Roman Catholic censorship from its earliest recorded council prohibition…

Woodworking Tools 1600-1900

Peter C. Welsh

This work is a scholarly survey of American woodworking hand tools from the seventeenth through the early…

The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1.

George Parker Winship

Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

Justin Winsor

The work is a scholarly, documentary‑driven history of Christopher Columbus that opens with a formal…

British Campaigns in Flanders 1690-1794 Being Extracts from "A History of the British Army"

Sir J. W. (John William) Fortescue

The work is a scholarly survey of Britain’s military involvement in the Low Countries from the late…

Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences

The volume is a nineteenth‑century compilation of true‑to‑life sketches of Britain’s most infamous felons,…

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610-1613

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610‑1613 is a scholarly compilation that gathers…

The Life of Cesare Borgia

Rafael Sabatini

The work is a historical study of Cesare Borgia, the flamboyant son of Pope Alexander VI, set against the…