History - Modern (1750+)

The Franco-German War of 1870-71

Moltke, Helmuth, Graf von

The work is a concise, first‑person account of the Franco‑German War of 1870‑71 written by Helmuth von…

Socialism as it is: A Survey of the World-wide Revolutionary Movement

William English Walling

The work is a systematic survey of the worldwide revolutionary movement, presented as a study of socialism in…

The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East

Sydney Tyler

The work is an illustrated chronicle of the Russo‑Japanese War of 1904‑1905, written by Sydney Tyler and…

Fields, factories and workshops: or, Industry combined with agriculture and brain work with manual work

Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Fields, Factories and Workshops is a scholarly treatise that blends economic analysis with a sweeping survey…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

The volume is a scholarly compilation that gathers a range of primary documents covering the Philippines from…

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This work is a documentary companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel, assembling the factual sources,…

International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. Protocols of the Proceedings

International Meridian Conference

The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison: containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.

C. Andrews

The work is a first‑hand chronicle of American captives taken during the War of 1812, compiled by Charles…

John Redmond's Last Years

Stephen Lucius Gwynn

Stephen L. Gwynn’s work is a scholarly memoir that draws on the private papers of John Redmond, made…

Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials

Theodore Roosevelt

The massacre of St. Bartholomew: Preceded by a history of the religious wars in the reign of Charles IX

Henry White

The work is a scholarly history that traces the turbulent religious conflicts in France from the early reign…

The Catholic World, Vol. 13, April to September, 1871

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 13 (April‑September 1871) is a nineteenth‑century Catholic periodical that gathers a…

The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852

Charles Greville

Charles Greville’s work is a multi‑volume diary that records the political and social currents of Queen…

Dickens and His Illustrators Cruikshank, Seymour, Buss, "Phiz," Cattermole, Leech, Doyle, Stanfield, Maclise, Tenniel, Frank Stone, Landseer, Palmer, Topham, Marcus Stone, and Luke Fildes 2nd. Ed.

Frederic George Kitton

Frederic G. Kitton’s Dickens and His Illustrators is a scholarly catalogue that gathers, for the first time,…

The Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South

Charles G. Harper

Facundo

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

El Facundo es la obra emblemática del escritor y político argentino Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, escrita en la…

Highways and Byways in London

Emily Constance Baird Cook

Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812

Edward Foord

Edward A. Foord’s work is a scholarly survey of the 1812 Russian campaign, drawing on a wealth of official…

A History of EBooks

Marie Lebert

The work is a nonfiction chronicle that traces the emergence and expansion of electronic books from the early…

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

Charlotte Biggs

The work is a collection of letters written by an English lady who lived in France during the turbulent years…

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part 1 (of 2)

Herndon, William Lewis; Gibbon, Lardner

The work is a formal naval report by Lieutenant William Lewis Herndon, written with Lieutenant Lardner…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The volume gathers a series of Edmund Burke’s political papers and reflections dated between 1792 and 1793, a…

France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s “France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World” is a…

An Englishwoman in Angora

Grace Ellison

Grace Ellison’s An Englishwoman in Angora is a first‑person travelogue that doubles as a political commentary…