History - Modern (1750+)

The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune

Francis St. Clair

The work is a historical study that concentrates on the secret societies behind the Philippine Revolution of…

A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee Retrospect

James Wilson Hyde

James Wilson Hyde’s A Hundred Years by Post: A Jubilee Retrospect is a sweeping historical essay that charts…

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 4 (of 5): being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855

Heinrich Barth

Heinrich Barth’s fourth volume of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa is a meticulous…

The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century

Richard Muther

Richard Muther’s The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 is a scholarly survey that continues his…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7 (1922) is a scholarly periodical that opens with a sweeping survey of…

The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916: Its Creation, Development and Work

John Rushworth Jellicoe

The work is a first‑hand account by Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, later Viscount Jellicoe, of the British…

Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1

Wallace, Alfred Russel; Marchant, James, Sir

The work is a scholarly compilation of Alfred Russel Wallace’s own letters and reminiscences, edited by James…

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom

Agnes C. Laut

The work is a sweeping, popular‑history narrative that sets out to give readers a vivid picture of Canada’s…

Profile in black and white: A frank portrait of South Carolina

Howard H. Quint

The work is a scholarly examination of race relations in South Carolina, written by Howard H.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Matter" to "Mecklenburg" Volume 17, Slice 8

Various

The entry “Matter” opens this portion of the 11th‑edition Encyclopaedia Britannica with a dense survey of…

Danton: A study

Hilaire Belloc

This work is a scholarly biography of Georges‑Jacques Danton, the charismatic leader who rose to prominence…

A History of Champagne, with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France

Henry Vizetelly

The work is a scholarly survey of the history and production of Champagne and other French sparkling wines,…

Paris and Its Story

Thomas Okey

Thomas Okey’s Paris and Its Story is a sweeping historical narrative that treats the capital of France as a…

Las Casas: "The Apostle of the Indies"

Alice J. Knight

Alice J. Knight’s work is a biographical narrative that places Bartolomé de las Casas within the broader…

Hobson-Jobson A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive

Yule, Henry, Sir; Burnell, A. C.

Hobson‑Jobson is a scholarly glossary that records the Anglo‑Indian vocabulary that grew up as English…

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880

John Morley

John Morley’s second volume of The Life of William Ewart Gladstone is a scholarly biography that situates…

Norman Ten Hundred: A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

A. Stanley Blicq

Norman Ten Hundred is a regimental history of the 1st (Service) Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry,…

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (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 nineteenth‑century scientific and travel narrative documenting the Austrian frigate Novara’s…

A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2)

Thomas M. Lindsay

Thomas M. Lindsay’s A History of the Reformation is the first volume of a two‑part scholarly series intended…

Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India.

Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue and scientific report by Sir Clements R.

The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon

Newell Dwight Hillis

The work is a polemical collection of wartime sermons and pamphlets assembled by Newell Dwight Hillis, a…

Through St. Dunstan's to Light

James H. Rawlinson

The work is a first‑person wartime memoir that follows a Canadian soldier from the front lines of the Great…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5

François Guizot

Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe

John J. McLaurin

John J. McLaurin’s Sketches in Crude‑oil is a self‑styled “collection of anecdotes and incidents” that offers…