History - Modern (1750+)

The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage

Norman Angell

Norman Angell’s The Great Illusion is a scholarly treatise that examines why military strength no longer…

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume 3, Number 3, dated March 1863, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana e Statuti Costituzionali del Regno d'Italia

Anonymous

English and American tool builders

Joseph Wickham Roe

The book is a scholarly survey of the people who created the machines that make other machines, focusing on…

Jane's All the World's Aircraft. 1913

Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft (1913) is a technical annual that catalogues the state of aviation at a…

The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2

Sir Edward Tyas Cook

The work is a scholarly biography of Florence Nightingale compiled by Sir Edward Tyas Cook, who bases his…

The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2)

Justin Harvey Smith

The War with Mexico, Volume 2 is a scholarly historical work by Justin Harvey Smith, a former professor of…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 2 (of 5) The Inchon-Seoul Operation

United States. Marine Corps; Canzona, Nicholas A.; Montross, Lynn

The volume is a detailed official history of the United States Marine Corps’ role in the Inchon‑Seoul…

The story of the Congo Free State: Social, political, and economic aspects of the Belgian system of government in Central Africa

Henry Wellington Wack

The work is a nonfiction account written by Henry Wellington Wack that sets out to present a…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Number 5 (May 1864) is a mid‑Civil‑War periodical that blends literary…

South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

The book is Ernest Shackleton’s own account of the Imperial Trans‑Antarctic Expedition of 1914‑1917,…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 8, 1923

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 8 (1923) is a scholarly periodical produced by the Association for the…

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace is a first‑hand analysis of the Versailles…

Some Naval Yarns

Mordaunt Hall

Some Naval Yarns is a wartime memoir that gathers together first‑hand sketches of Royal Navy activity during…

Mentana e il dito di Dio Episodi narrati dal superstite Ettore Pozzi - Seconda edizione, con importanti aggiunte fatte dall'Autore

Ernesto Pozzi

Il volume, pur di piccole dimensioni, si propone come testimonianza vivida di una fase cruciale della storia…

Burmah and the Burmese

Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie

Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie’s Burmah and the Burmese is a nineteenth‑century historical‑geographical study that…

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume 6, Number 5 (November 1864) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

Salt mines and castles: The discovery and restitution of looted European art

Thomas Carr Howe

Thomas Carr Howe’s Salt Mines and Castles is a first‑person account of the U.S.

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.

Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

The work is a detailed scientific and cultural report of the Austrian frigate Novara’s three‑year world…

Handbook of Birmingham Prepared for the Members of the British Association, 1886

British Association for the Advancement of Science

Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour", 1768-71

James Cook

This volume presents the original journal kept by James Cook while commanding H.M.

Scurvy, Past and Present

Alfred F. Hess

Scurvy, Past and Present is a scholarly medical treatise by Alfred F.

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 2: Politician, diplomatist, statesman, 1789-1801

Albert J. Beveridge

The volume is a scholarly biography of John Marshall, the future Chief Justice, covering the turbulent years…

Aviation in Peace and War

Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes

Frederick Hugh Sykes’s Aviation in Peace and War is a scholarly overview that traces the development of…