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ReadThe Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay
G. Shaw-Lefevre (George Shaw-Lefevre) Eversley
The work is a concise, scholarly survey of the Ottoman Empire from its modest beginnings in the…
ReadStoria degli Italiani, vol. 07 (di 15)
Cesare Cantù
Il volume è il settimo di una serie di quindici che traccia la storia dell’Italia, scritto da Cesare Cantù.
ReadLife of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III.
Walter Scott
Walter Scott’s third volume in his extensive “Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” continues the author’s exhaustive…
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner’s work is a scholarly survey of the Thirty Years’ War, presented as part of the…
ReadFrance in eighteen hundred and two: Described in a series of contemporary letters
Henry Redhead Yorke
This work is a series of letters written by Henry Redhead Yorke after his 1802 return to France, offering a…
ReadThe Bronze Age and the Celtic World
Harold Peake
Harold Peake’s The Bronze Age and the Celtic World is a scholarly study first presented as a six‑lecture…
The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
The work is an autobiographical memoir by Louise‑Elisabeth Vigée‑Lebrun, the celebrated French portraitist…
Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2
Various
Current History : A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918, Vol. VIII, Part I, No.
ReadEspaña Contemporánea Obras Completas Vol. XIX
Rubén Darío
El libro es una crónica de viaje que combina observación social, recuerdos literarios y reflexiones sobre la…
ReadNazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 02 (of 11)
United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
The volume is a legal‑historical document produced by the United States Office of Chief Counsel for the…
ReadThe Story of Nuremberg
Cecil Headlam
Cecil Headlam’s work is a guide‑book‑like survey of Nuremberg, blending description, history and travel…
Modern French Philosophy: a Study of the Development Since Comte
John Alexander Gunn
The book is a scholarly survey of French philosophical thought from the aftermath of the Revolution through…
ReadIreland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888)
William Henry Hurlbert
William Henry Hurlbert’s Ireland Under Coercion is a two‑volume diary that blends travelogue, political…
ReadThe British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1916 is a detailed military history of the…
ReadLes Français peints par eux-mêmes, tome 2 Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle
Ce deuxième tome de l’« Encyclopédie morale du XIXᵉ siècle » se présente comme un vaste tableau sociologique…
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly’s My Days of Adventure offers a first‑hand chronicle of the Franco‑Prussian War,…
ReadGranada and the Alhambra A brief description of the ancient city of Granada, with a particular account of the Moorish palace
Albert Frederick Calvert
Albert Frederick Calvert’s Granada and the Alhambra is a richly illustrated guide to the Moorish capital and…
ReadTalleyrand: A Biographical Study
Joseph McCabe
Joseph McCabe’s work is a scholarly biography that seeks to untangle the notoriously opaque life of…
ReadRevolutionary Europe, 1789-1815
H. Morse Stephens
This work is a scholarly survey of European history from the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 to the…
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
Emily Leigh Lowes
Emily Leigh Lowes’s Chats on Old Lace and Needlework is a scholarly survey of the history, technique, and…
ReadThe Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts.
Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola
The work is a scholarly history of the Moluccan and Philippine archipelagos, written by the learned cleric…
ReadA short history of Belgium
Léon van der Essen
Léon van der Essen’s A Short History of Belgium is a scholarly overview that traces the region from its…
ReadLuther, vol. 2 of 6
Hartmann Grisar
Hartmann Grisar’s second volume in his six‑part biography of Martin Luther offers a scholarly,…
The century of Columbus
James J. Walsh
James J. Walsh’s The Century of Columbus is a sweeping survey of the Renaissance, framed as a “general…