History - Modern (1750+)

British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871

Various

Chemical warfare

Fries, Amos A. (Amos Alfred); West, Clarence J.

The work is a technical and historical survey of chemical warfare written by Brigadier General Amos A.

English Poor Law Policy

Webb, Sidney; Webb, Beatrice

The work is a scholarly survey of English Poor Law policy from its 1834 reform through the early…

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811: Massena's retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona

Charles Oman

Charles Oman's A History of the Peninsular War continues its meticulous chronicle of the conflict, focusing…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 5 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a sprawling collection of essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, gathered in the fifth volume of…

Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work

A. S. Packard

This work is a scholarly biography of Jean‑Baptiste Lamarck, the French naturalist whose ideas laid early…

The Old East Indiamen

E. Keble Chatterton

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

The work is a contemporary, nonfiction chronicle of the Titanic disaster, beginning with a reflective essay…

A Short History of Italy (476-1900)

Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Henry Dwight Sedgwick’s A Short History of Italy is a concise, outline‑style survey that spans from the…

The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs

Thomas Frost

The work is a historical survey of London’s great fairs and the itinerant entertainers who populated them.

The Great Company: being a history of the honourable company of merchants-adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay

Beckles Willson

The work is a historical study of the Hudson’s Bay Company, presented as a comprehensive chronicle of the…

America, Volume 6 (of 6)

Joel Cook

The work is a geographic and cultural survey of the Ohio River valley, presented as a continuous travelogue…

100 New Yorkers of the 1970s

Max Millard

The book is a nonfiction collection of interviews that Max Millard conducted while working for the…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 3 History of the European War from Official Sources

The Irish Guards in the Great War, Volume 1 (of 2): The First Battalion

Rudyard Kipling

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti‑Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, is a mid‑nineteenth‑century periodical issued by the American…

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

J. B. Bury

The work is a scholarly investigation into the concept of progress as a driving force of Western…

The Swiss Republic

Boyd Winchester

The work is a scholarly survey of Swiss political development, written by Boyd Winchester and organized as a…

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson

Samuel Smiles

The work is a sweeping historical survey of railway development, written by Samuel Smiles as part of his…

Rogers' Directory of Norwich and Neighbourhood

Edmund Dawson Rogers

Rogers’ Directory of Norwich and Neighbourhood is a nineteenth‑century reference work that combines a…

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3

Frederick Whymper

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

Bismarck: some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor

Moritz Busch

This volume is the second of three in a series of diary entries kept by Dr Moritz Busch, who spent…

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865

Abraham Lincoln

The seventh volume of The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln gathers the president’s official…

Railway Adventures and Anecdotes: Extending over More Than Fifty Years

The work is a compendium of railway anecdotes and adventures gathered from a wide range of contemporary…