History - European

A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I

Henry Charles Lea

Lea’s work is a scholarly survey of the medieval Inquisition, divided into two major parts that bracket the…

Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire

William Holden Hutton

William Holden Hutton’s work is a compact, illustrated survey of Constantinople’s long history, aimed at…

Venice and Its Story

Thomas Okey

The work is a comprehensive survey of Venice that blends a chronological narrative of the Republic’s…

Under the Turk in Constantinople: A record of Sir John Finch's Embassy, 1674-1681

G. F. Abbott

The work is a scholarly narrative that draws on Sir John Finch’s dispatches as English ambassador to the…

History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies

William Hickling Prescott

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts

John Addington Symonds

The work is a scholarly survey of Italian Renaissance art, written by John Addington Symonds in the late…

The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century

Richard Muther

Richard Muther’s The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 is a scholarly survey that continues his…

Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II. Written by Herself

Empress of Russia Catherine II

The work is a first‑person memoir penned by Catherine II herself, the celebrated Empress of Russia who ruled…

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

Agnes C. Laut

The work is a sweeping, popular‑history narrative that sets out to give readers a vivid picture of Canada’s…

Danton: A study

Hilaire Belloc

This work is a scholarly biography of Georges‑Jacques Danton, the charismatic leader who rose to prominence…

Christopher Columbus and his monument Columbia: being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose

The volume is a nineteenth‑century tribute anthology that gathers together a selection of writings,…

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. II

George Haven Putnam

George Haven Putnam’s second volume of Books and Their Makers During the Middle Ages offers a scholarly…

A History of Champagne, with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France

Henry Vizetelly

The work is a scholarly survey of the history and production of Champagne and other French sparkling wines,…

Paris and Its Story

Thomas Okey

Thomas Okey’s Paris and Its Story is a sweeping historical narrative that treats the capital of France as a…

Las Casas: "The Apostle of the Indies"

Alice J. Knight

Alice J. Knight’s work is a biographical narrative that places Bartolomé de las Casas within the broader…

Hobson-Jobson A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive

Yule, Henry, Sir; Burnell, A. C.

Hobson‑Jobson is a scholarly glossary that records the Anglo‑Indian vocabulary that grew up as English…

Il partito radicale e il radicalismo italiano

Romolo Murri

Il volume di Romolo Murri è un saggio storico‑politico che si propone di analizzare la crisi e le prospettive…

The history of fashion in France: or, the dress of women from the Gallo-Roman period to the present time

Augustin Challamel

The work is a scholarly survey of women’s dress in France from the Gallo‑Roman era to the late nineteenth…

A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2)

Thomas M. Lindsay

Thomas M. Lindsay’s A History of the Reformation is the first volume of a two‑part scholarly series intended…

Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time; or, The Jarls and The Freskyns

James Gray

The work is a scholarly survey of the Norse occupation of northern Scotland, concentrating on the families of…

Walks in Rome

Augustus J. C. Hare

Walks in Rome is a guide‑style work that sets out to ease the bewildered traveler’s pilgrimage through the…

The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon

Newell Dwight Hillis

The work is a polemical collection of wartime sermons and pamphlets assembled by Newell Dwight Hillis, a…

Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilisation

Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin’s work is a scholarly biography that treats Theodoric the Ostrogoth as a pivotal, if…

A year in Russia

Maurice Baring

This work is a year‑long diary of observations on Russian politics, society and history, compiled by Maurice…