History - Modern (1750+)

Steamships and their story

E. Keble Chatterton

The book is a comprehensive, non‑technical history of the steam‑propelled vessel, written by Edward Keble…

The Eyes of Asia

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a first‑hand account from a veteran of the Great War, written by a former Indian soldier who…

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772

Great Britain. Board of Trade

The work is a formal report of the British Board of Trade, presented in 1772 to the Crown on a petition…

Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native.

Dinabandhu Mitra

Nil Darpan is a Bengali drama translated into English by Dinabandhu Mitra, offering a stage‑focused critique…

Paris as It Was and as It Is A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative Of The Effects Of The Revolution

Francis William Blagdon

Francis William Blagdon’s work is a long‑form travelogue that reads as a series of letters sent from the…

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Sir Douglas Mawson

The Home of the Blizzard is Sir Douglas Mawson’s own account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of…

A Visit to the Philippine Islands

John Bowring

John Bowring’s A Visit to the Philippine Islands is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends historical…

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Elbert Hubbard

The volume is a series of compact biographical sketches that take the reader into the homes and formative…

One Irish Summer

William Eleroy Curtis

One Irish Summer is a travelogue that blends personal observation with a broad survey of Irish geography,…

General Washington's spies on Long Island and in New York

Morton Pennypacker

This volume is a scholarly compilation that explores the covert network of General George Washington’s…

The clipper ship era an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869

Arthur H. Clark

Arthur H. Clark’s work is a scholarly survey of the clipper‑ship age, spanning 1843‑1869, when the race for…

Der Hitler-Ludendorff-Prozeß

Leo Lania

Der vorliegende Band ist ein historischer Bericht, der die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Adolf Hitler und dem…

New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?

Various

The volume is a contemporary wartime periodical, New York Times Current History, devoted to the European…

China under the Empress Dowager: Being the history of the life and times of Tzŭ Hsi

Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy); Backhouse, E. (Edmund), Sir

This volume is a scholarly biography of Empress Dowager Cixi, presented as a chronological study of her life…

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5

Various

The May 1844 issue of The Knickerbocker presents a single, extensive essay that gathers together everything…

Anarchism

Paul Eltzbacher

The work is a scholarly survey of anarchist thought compiled by Paul Eltzbacher, whose own chapters are…

Leaders of the People: Studies in Democratic History

Joseph Clayton

Leaders of the People is a scholarly collection of biographical sketches that traces the evolution of English…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Japan" (part) to "Jeveros" Volume 15, Slice 3

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Eleventh Edition, Volume 15, Slice III, is a reference work that compiles concise…

Night Bombing with the Bedouins

Robert Henry Reece

Robert Henry Reece’s Night Bombing with the Bedouins is a first‑hand account of aerial warfare during the…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 1 (of 5) The Pusan Perimeter

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

The book is a scholarly monograph that records the United States Marine Corps’ first major combat operations…

Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918)

United States. War Department. General Staff

This work is an official intelligence compilation produced by the United States War Department’s General…

The heart of the railroad problem The history of railway discrimination in the United States, the chief efforts at control and the remedies proposed, with hints from other countries

Frank Parsons

Frank Parsons’ “The Heart of the Railroad Problem” is a scholarly investigation into the long‑standing…

History of the United States of America, Volume 9 (of 9): During the second administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

The work is a scholarly chronicle of the United States during James Madison’s second term, written by Henry…

Science and the modern world

Alfred North Whitehead

The work is a philosophical survey of how scientific ideas have reshaped Western culture over the past three…