History - European

The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Jacob Burckhardt

Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy is a scholarly survey that treats the Italian…

Histoire de France 1724-1759 (Volume 18/19)

Jules Michelet

Ce volume, tiré de la série « Histoire de France » de Jules Michelet, couvre la période 1724‑1759, soit la…

The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon

J. M. Gordon

The work is a sprawling family memoir that treats the Gordons as a case study in the restless spirit of…

Louis XIV. Makers of History Series

John S. C. Abbott

John S. C. Abbott’s “Louis XIV” is a nineteenth‑century scholarly biography that treats the Sun King as the…

Der Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit.

Iwan Bloch

Der vorliegende Band ist eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Monographie über den Marquis de Sade und das 18.

William the Conqueror Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a scholarly biography that treats William the Conqueror as one of the “great personages” whose…

The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

Z. F. Smith

Z.F. Smith’s work is a scholarly history of the Battle of New Orleans, presented as the nineteenth Filson…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5

Edward Gibbon

The work is the fifth volume of Edward Gibbon’s monumental survey of Rome’s waning power, extending his…

The Promised Land

Mary Antin

The Promised Land is a memoir by Mary Antin, a Jewish immigrant born in Polotzk (now Polatsk, Belarus) in the…

The Story of Russia

R. Van Bergen

The work is a historical survey of Russia, written by Robert Van Bergen as a concise textbook for American…

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4

Edward Gibbon

The fourth volume of Edward Gibbon’s monumental History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire continues…

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)

Shearjashub Spooner

The work is a compendium of biographical sketches and critical commentary on the great masters of European…

Pushed and the Return Push

George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

The work is a first‑hand memoir of a British artillery officer who returns to the Western Front after a…

Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900

A. T. Mahan

The work is a historical study of the South African War of 1899‑1902, written by the American naval officer…

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

Harvey W. Hewett-Thayer

Harvey W. Thayer’s scholarly monograph offers a detailed examination of how Laurence Sterne’s works were…

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 2 is a compendium of concise biographical sketches that together portray the…

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1

Henry Baerlein

The work is a scholarly survey of the formation of Yugoslavia, written by Henry Baerlein.

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade: August 1914 to March 1915

Lord Edward Gleichen

The work is a first‑hand campaign diary of the 15th Infantry Brigade, written by Edward Lord Gleichen, who…

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

Various

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 6, September 1, 1812-August 5, 1813: The siege of Burgos, the retreat from Burgos, the campaign of Vittoria, the battles of the Pyrenees

Charles Oman

Charles Oman’s sixth volume in his monumental “History of the Peninsular War” picks up where the previous…

Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) The Catholic Reaction

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds’s final two volumes of Renaissance in Italy turn from the political narrative of the…

London and the Kingdom - Volume 1 A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.

Reginald R. Sharpe

Reginald R. Sharpe’s London and the Kingdom is a scholarly survey that treats the City of London not merely…

Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire: A study of pagan and Christian education in the last century of the Western empire

T. J. Haarhoff

The work is a scholarly study of education in Gaul during the fourth and fifth centuries, examining the shift…

Fra Angelico

I. B. Supino

The work is a scholarly essay on the life and art of Fra Giovanni di Pietro, better known as Fra Angelico,…