History - Modern (1750+)

Staffordshire pottery and its history

Josiah C. Wedgwood

Josiah C. Wedgwood’s Staffordshire pottery and its history is a scholarly account of the pot‑making industry…

The new spirit in India

Henry Woodd Nevinson

The book is a sweeping survey of Indian political, social, and economic developments from the late‑nineteenth…

English Economic History: Select Documents

This volume is a curated anthology of primary documents intended for use in courses on English economic…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 6 History of the European War from Official Sources

The volume is a contemporary official‑history of the First World War, compiled by P. F.

Now It Can Be Told

Philip Gibbs

The work is a first‑hand chronicle of the First World War written by Philip Gibbs, a veteran British…

The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan

Alexander Michie

The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV

The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV is a monumental documentary work that records the final decades of…

The Irish Guards in the Great War, Volume 2 (of 2): The Second Battalion and Appendices

Rudyard Kipling

The volume is a regimental history that chronicles the birth and early campaigns of the 2nd Battalion Irish…

Degeneracy: Its Causes, Signs and Results

Eugene S. Talbot

Degeneracy : Its Causes, Signs and Results is a scholarly treatise that assembles more than two decades of…

The Great Boer War

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Great Boer War is a contemporary historical account of the South African conflict of…

Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

Gregory B. Newby

The work is a nonfiction account that traces the evolution of a pioneering digital library from its modest…

Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 2 (of 3), 1642-1660

Richard Bagwell

Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

M. Hamlin Cannon

This volume is the fifth installment of the United States Army’s official World War II series, specifically…

The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles

Allen, James Edgar; Reidy, John J.

The volume is a contemporary account of the Moro Campaign in Mindanao, compiled by war correspondent James…

Types of Naval Officers, Drawn from the History of the British Navy

A. T. Mahan

This work is a scholarly portrait of six eminent British naval officers, presented as “types” that illustrate…

Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons

Willis J. Abbot

Willis J. Abbot’s Aircraft and Submarines is a contemporary survey of the two technologies that reshaped…

The History of the Post Office in British North America

William Smith

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of the postal system in British North America, written by…

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter

Robert H. Elliot

Robert H. Elliot’s Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore is a sprawling memoir that blends agricultural…

The Republic of Ragusa: An Episode of the Turkish Conquest

Luigi Villari

The work is a scholarly survey of the Republic of Ragusa, written by Luigi Villari, whose focus is the city’s…

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume II

Alexander Wheelock Thayer

The volume is a scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven authored by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, a…

The Haskalah Movement in Russia

Jacob S. Raisin

The work is a scholarly survey of the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, as it unfolded in Russia from the…

Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. I)

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

This work is a first‑hand memoir by Emmanuel‑Auguste‑Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases, who spent eighteen months…

Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914

William H. Atherton

The work is a scholarly chronicle of Montreal’s evolution from the British conquest in 1760 through the early…

The Negro

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a sweeping survey of African peoples and their global connections, written by the…