History - Modern (1750+)

The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892

Friedrich Engels

The work is Friedrich Engels’s 1844 survey of the English working‑class, first published in German in 1845…

Great Britain at War

Jeffery Farnol

Jeffery Farnol’s Great Britain at War is a wartime reportage assembled from a series of articles the author…

The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 1

Miss Pardoe

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical biography by Julia Pardoe, presented in two volumes and published…

Opportunities in Aviation

Sweetser, Arthur; Lamont, Gordon

The book is a practical treatise on aviation written just after World War I by two experienced pilots, an…

Rowlandson the Caricaturist; a Selection from His Works. Vol. 2

Joseph Grego

Rowlandson the Caricaturist, Volume 2 is a reference work that gathers the titles of Thomas Rowlandson’s…

A Lucta Civil Brazileira e o Sebastianismo Portuguez

José Soares da Cunha e Costa

A Lucta Civil Brasileira e o Sebastianismo Portuguez, de José Soares da Cunha e Costa, é um tratado‑manifesto…

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873

Various

Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No.

A Retrospect

James Hudson Taylor

A Retrospect is a first‑person narrative that traces the author’s spiritual journey from childhood skepticism…

Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work

Johann Nikolaus Forkel

This work is a scholarly biography of Johann Sebastian Bach written by his first biographer, Johann Nikolaus…

The history of steam navigation

John Kennedy

The work is a meticulously compiled reference on the rise of steam‑driven vessels, assembled from…

A History of Sea Power

Stevens, William Oliver; Westcott, Allan F.

This work is a concise survey of naval history that aims to trace the development and influence of sea power…

Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 2—The Church of the Commonwealth

John Stoughton

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4

Frederick Whymper

Frederick Whymper’s The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism is a sprawling, encyclopedic…

A history of Canada, 1763-1812

Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas

Charles Prestwood Lucas’s work is a scholarly survey of Canada’s formative years from the 1763 proclamation…

The French Revolution - Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine

The work is a scholarly history of the French Revolution that begins by explaining the author’s method of…

Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Lord George Bentinck’s political biography, penned by Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield, is a…

The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti With an introductory memoir of eminent linguists, ancient and modern

Charles William Russell

The work is a scholarly biography that grew out of an 1855 Edinburgh Review article on the famed polyglot…

Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 4—The Church of the Restoration [part 2]

John Stoughton

Secret armies: the new technique of Nazi warfare

John L. Spivak

John L. Spivak’s Secret Armies is a polemical investigation into Nazi espionage and propaganda networks that,…

Elizabeth Montagu, the queen of the bluestockings, Volume 1 (of 2): Her correspondence from 1720 to 1761

Mrs. Montagu

This volume presents the early portion of Elizabeth Montagu’s extensive correspondence, spanning from 1720 to…

A History of the Inquisition of Spain; Vol. 3

Henry Charles Lea

The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl

Katharine Duncan Morse

The book is a first‑person wartime diary presented as a series of unsent letters from a young American…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The November 1864 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a vivid, first‑person account of the Union’s…

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (of 8) The United States of North America, Part I