History - European

Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete

Holinshed, Raphael; Harrison, William

The work is a monumental compilation of British history, assembled by Raphael Holinshed and William Harrison,…

Area Handbook for Romania

Keefe, Eugene K.; Bernier, Donald W. (Donald Wayne); Brenneman, Lyle E.; Giloane, William; Moore, James M.; Walpole, Neda A.

This handbook is a systematic reference work produced by the Foreign Area Studies program of The American…

The history of the harlequinade, volume 2 (of 2)

Maurice Sand

Maurice Sand’s second volume of The History of the Harlequinade is a scholarly survey that begins by tracing…

Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland

Thomas M'Crie

Thomas M’Crie’s Life of John Knox is a scholarly biography that doubles as a illustrated survey of the…

A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)

Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Thomas Adolphus Trollope’s A Decade of Italian Women offers a scholarly survey of notable female figures from…

Area Handbook for Albania

Keefe, Eugene K.; Elpern, Sarah Jane; Giloane, William; Moore, James M.; Peters, Stephen; White, Eston T.

The Area Handbook for Albania is a government‑style reference work produced by the Foreign Area Studies…

Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 2)

Frances Milton Trollope

The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

The volume is a scholarly edition of the letters and biographical material of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, the…

Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

Alison, Archibald, Sir; Tytler, Patrick Fraser

The work is a two‑volume travel memoir that records Sir Archibald Alison’s and Patrick Fraser Tytler’s…

A Short History of the Great War

A. F. Pollard

A Short History of the Great War is a scholarly overview that seeks to explain how a cascade of diplomatic…

Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III)

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

The third volume of Emmanuel‑Auguste‑Dieudonné Las‑Cases’s memoirs records a day in July 1816 when Napoleon,…

Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685

Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina, grevinde

This work is a nineteenth‑century English translation of the memoirs written by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt,…

The Turk and his lost provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia

William Eleroy Curtis

The book is a journalist’s report on the volatile Balkan region at the close of the nineteenth‑century,…

Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 1 of 2)

Bertha von Suttner

Bertha von Suttner’s memoirs are a self‑conscious chronicle that intertwines the author’s personal history…

The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent

Albert Howe Lybyer

Albert Howe Lybyer’s scholarly work is a systematic study of Ottoman governance at the height of its power…

Pelts and palisades: The story of fur and the rivalry for pelts in early America

Nathaniel C. Hale

Nathaniel C. Hale’s Pelts and Palisades is a narrative history that traces the rise of the fur trade from its…

Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting…

"1683-1920" The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics

Frederick Franklin Schrader

Frederick Franklin Schrader’s 1920 volume is a polemical reference work that assembles a sprawling inventory…

Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 03 (of 11)

United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality

This volume is a primary‑source collection assembled by the United States Office of Chief Counsel for the…

Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts

Andrew Dickson White

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation of primary documents concerning the Spanish Inquisition,…

Catherine De Medici

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a French‑language historical essay by Honoré de Balzac, rendered here in English translation,…

The Empresses of Constantinople

Joseph McCabe

Joseph McCabe’s work is a scholarly survey of the women who occupied the imperial throne of Constantinople,…

The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire Paris Society in the Sixties; Including Letters of Napoleon III., M. Pietri, and Comte de la Chapelle, and Portraits of the Period

Edward Legge

The book is a richly illustrated historical study that seeks to balance the public perception of the Second…

Voltaire's history of Charles XII, king of Sweden

Voltaire

Voltaire’s “History of Charles XII, King of Sweden” is a concise, eight‑book narrative that traces the…