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Cover of Der Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich Engels und Karl Marx 1844 bis 1883, Erster Band

Der Briefwechsel zwischen Friedrich Engels und Karl Marx 1844 bis 1883, Erster Band

Engels, Friedrich; Marx, Karl

Der vorliegende Band ist eine sorgfältig editierte Sammlung des Briefwechsels zwischen Friedrich Engels und…

Cover of Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals

Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals

Alfred Marks

Alfred Marks’s Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals is a scholarly survey of England’s most infamous execution…

Cover of The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 2 of 2)

The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 2 of 2)

William E. Barton

The work is a biographical study of Clara Barton, the pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross,…

Memoirs of General Lafayette With an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824.

Memoirs of General Lafayette With an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824.

Samuel L. Knapp

Samuel L. Knapp’s “Memoirs of General Lafayette” is a nineteenth‑century compilation that chronicles the…

Cover of Demobilization: Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice, 1918-1920

Demobilization: Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice, 1918-1920

Crowell, Benedict; Wilson, Robert Forrest

Cover of Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss.
 Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine

Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine

Samuel Smiles

Samuel Smiles’s volume is a biographical study that treats the intertwined lives of Matthew Boulton and James…

Area Handbook for Romania

Area Handbook for Romania

Keefe, Eugene K.; Bernier, Donald W. (Donald Wayne); Brenneman, Lyle E.; Giloane, William; Moore, James M.; Walpole, Neda A.

This handbook is a systematic reference work produced by the Foreign Area Studies program of The American…

Cover of Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland

Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland

Thomas M'Crie

Thomas M’Crie’s Life of John Knox is a scholarly biography that doubles as a illustrated survey of the…

The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft

The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft

Charles G. Harper

The work is a historical survey of British smuggling, presented as a series of “picturesque chapters” that…

Cover of Florence Nightingale: A Biography

Florence Nightingale: A Biography

Annie Matheson

Annie Matheson’s “Florence Nightingale: A Biography” is a modestly sized work that leans heavily on the…

Cover of Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 1 of 2

Eminent doctors: Their lives and their work; Vol. 1 of 2

G. T. Bettany

The work is a biographical survey of the most distinguished British physicians and surgeons, concentrating on…

Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

Alison, Archibald, Sir; Tytler, Patrick Fraser

The work is a two‑volume travel memoir that records Sir Archibald Alison’s and Patrick Fraser Tytler’s…

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

American Negro Slavery is a scholarly survey that traces the origins, economics, and institutional control of…

A Short History of the Great War

A Short History of the Great War

A. F. Pollard

A Short History of the Great War is a scholarly overview that seeks to explain how a cascade of diplomatic…

Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02

Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02

Nicolay, John G. (John George); Hay, John

The work is a comprehensive, chronologically organized history of Abraham Lincoln’s political rise set…

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

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

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

The third volume of Emmanuel‑Auguste‑Dieudonné Las‑Cases’s memoirs records a day in July 1816 when Napoleon,…

Pius IX. And His Time

Pius IX. And His Time

Æneas MacDonell Dawson

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography that treats the life of Pope Pius IX as the culmination of a…

Cover of The Turk and his lost provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia

The Turk and his lost provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia

William Eleroy Curtis

The book is a journalist’s report on the volatile Balkan region at the close of the nineteenth‑century,…

Cover of Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 1 of 2)

Memoirs of Bertha von Suttner: The Records of an Eventful Life (Vol. 1 of 2)

Bertha von Suttner

Bertha von Suttner’s memoirs are a self‑conscious chronicle that intertwines the author’s personal history…

Cover of My Diary: North and South (vol. 1 of 2)

My Diary: North and South (vol. 1 of 2)

Sir William Howard Russell

This work is a first‑hand travel diary by Sir William Howard Russell, the veteran correspondent who witnessed…

The Story of the Philippines Natural Riches, Industrial Resources, Statistics of Productions, Commerce and Population; The Laws, Habits, Customs, Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, With Episodes of Their Early History; The Eldorado of the Orient; Personal Character Sketches of and Interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila; History and Romance, Tragedies and Traditions of our Pacific Possessions; Events of the War in the West with Spain, and the Conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico

The Story of the Philippines Natural Riches, Industrial Resources, Statistics of Productions, Commerce and Population; The Laws, Habits, Customs, Scenery and Conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies and the Thousand Islands of the Archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, With Episodes of Their Early History; The Eldorado of the Orient; Personal Character Sketches of and Interviews with Admiral Dewey, General Merritt, General Aguinaldo and the Archbishop of Manila; History and Romance, Tragedies and Traditions of our Pacific Possessions; Events of the War in the West with Spain, and the Conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico

Murat Halstead

Murat Halstead’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends travelogue, reportage, and political…

Cover of The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent

The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent

Albert Howe Lybyer

Albert Howe Lybyer’s scholarly work is a systematic study of Ottoman governance at the height of its power…

Cover of Pelts and palisades: The story of fur and the rivalry for pelts in early America

Pelts and palisades: The story of fur and the rivalry for pelts in early America

Nathaniel C. Hale

Nathaniel C. Hale’s Pelts and Palisades is a narrative history that traces the rise of the fur trade from its…

Cover of Mutiny of the Bounty and story of Pitcairn Island, 1790-1894

Mutiny of the Bounty and story of Pitcairn Island, 1790-1894

Rosalind Amelia Young

The work is a historical account that blends personal testimony with a broader narrative of the Bounty mutiny…