History - Modern (1750+)

Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete

Lewis Goldsmith

The work is a collection of clandestine letters penned by a French gentleman for a British nobleman, offering…

The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States

Walter L. Fleming

The work is a historical narrative that treats the immediate post‑war South as a landscape of ruin and…

Mahan on naval warfare: Selections from the writing of Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan

A. T. Mahan

This volume is a curated collection of the writings of Rear Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American naval…

The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

Frederic Seebohm

Frederic Seebohm’s work is a scholarly essay in economic history that investigates the English village…

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04

Richard Hakluyt

The fourth volume of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the…

Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

Frank B. Goodrich

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 42, 1670-1700 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 of ecclesiastical and civil documents that trace the political,…

Harriet, the Moses of Her People

Sarah H. Bradford

The work is a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, presented as a tribute to the “Moses of her people.”…

The five republics of Central America: their political and economic development and their relations with the United States

Dana Gardner Munro

Dana Gardner Munro’s study is a systematic survey of the five Central American republics, written from the…

Hong Kong

Gene Gleason

The book is a sweeping historical study of Hong Kong, written by Gene Gleason, that opens with a vivid…

History of the United States of America, Volume 6 (of 9): During the first administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

The work is a scholarly chronicle of the United States’ early nineteenth‑century foreign policy, focusing on…

The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879

Various

The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879, gathers a series of essays on politics, the arts, and…

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia — Vol. 1 Performed between the years 1818 and 1822

Philip Parker King

This work is a detailed survey of Australia’s intertropical and western coastlines, compiled from the voyages…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 5 Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War

Garcia the Centenarian and His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science

M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay

The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

George Spring Merriam

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical study that treats the development of American slavery from its…

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.

Edward Edwards

Edward Edwards’s work is a scholarly catalogue rather than a narrative history.

History of the United States of America, Volume 5 (of 9): During the first administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

The work is a scholarly chronicle of the United States during James Madison’s first administration, written…

Makers of Japan

J. (John) Morris

Morris’s Makers of Japan is a biographical survey that charts the turbulent transition from the Tokugawa…

Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, Volume 3 (of 3)

Lady Hester Stanhope

Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, Volume 3, continues the vivid chronicle of the English aristocrat’s…

The Life of Galileo Galilei, with Illustrations of the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy Life of Kepler

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly biography of Galileo Galilei, written by John Elliot Drinkwater…

The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete

Azel Ames

Ames’s work is a scholarly reconstruction of the Mayflower’s 1620‑1621 voyage, presented as a “log” that…

An History of Birmingham (1783)

William Hutton

An History of Birmingham, written in 1783 by William Hutton, is a locally‑focused chronicle that sets out to…

Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4

Wolfgang Menzel

Wolfgang Menzel’s Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 is a sweeping survey of German cultural history,…