History - Modern (1750+)

History for ready reference, Volume 6: Recent history - 1894-5 to 1901 A-Z

J. N. Larned

History for Ready Reference, Volume 6 presents a sweeping, alphabetically arranged compendium of the events…

The Aristocracy of London: Part I: Kensington Titled, Untitled, Professional, & Commercial

Anonymous

The work is a meticulous register of the London aristocracy as it stood in the mid‑nineteenth century,…

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner

Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders’s A Voyage to Terra Australis is a meticulous record of the three‑year exploration…

The History of the Telephone

Herbert Newton Casson

The work is a concise historical survey of the telephone, written by Herbert Newton Casson in 1910.

Deeds of heroism and bravery: The book of heroes and personal daring

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the fourth installment of the Federal Writers’ Project’s “Slave Narratives” series, gathering…

The plurality of the human race

G. Pouchet

The book is a scholarly treatise on the contested question of whether humanity descends from a single origin…

Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 01 (of 11)

United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality

The work is an official compilation produced by the United States Office of Chief of Counsel for the…

After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819

William Edward Frye

The book is a post‑Napoleonic travel memoir written by Major William Edward Frye, a former British infantry…

Area Handbook for Bulgaria

Keefe, Eugene K.; Baluyut, Violeta D.; Giloane, William; Long, Anne K.; Moore, James M.; Walpole, Neda A.

The Area Handbook for Bulgaria is a government‑style reference work produced by the Foreign Area Studies…

Yesterdays with Authors

James Thomas Fields

Fields makes a lively tour through the literary salons of nineteenth‑century England, presenting his own role…

The Colonial Clippers

Basil Lubbock

The work is a detailed reference on British merchant‑marine clippers, especially those that carried emigrants…

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 3

Henry Mayhew

The third volume of Henry Mayhew’s exhaustive survey of London’s underclass opens with a vivid, almost…

Roentgen Rays and Phenomena of the Anode and Cathode.

Edward P. Thompson

Edward P. Thompson’s work is a systematic survey of the experimental literature on electrical discharge,…

The Modern Railroad

Edward Hungerford

The Modern Railroad is a comprehensive reference work that sets out to give the lay reader a clear picture of…

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

The fourth volume of Thomas Paine’s collected writings presents the second part of his controversial work The…

The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West

W. H. Hamilton Rogers

The work is a Victorian‑era historical survey that weaves together a vivid description of a bustling railway…

Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 2

H. Sutherland Edwards

The work is a sprawling, illustrated reference on Paris, published in 1894 by H.

History of the Commune of 1871

Lissagaray

The dawn in Russia

Henry Woodd Nevinson

In the World War

Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin von und zu Chudenitz

The work is a first‑hand memoir by Count Ottokar Czernin, an Austro‑Hungarian diplomat who served through the…

The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company Including that of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies

George Bryce

George Bryce’s work is a comprehensive survey of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s final eighty‑year chapter,…

Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell

The work is an extended essay that sets out to trace the intellectual and organisational roots of modern…

America's War for Humanity

Thomas Herbert Russell

America’s War for Humanity is a richly illustrated chronicle of the United States’ participation in World War…