History - Modern (1750+)

Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the Revolution

John Stoughton

The work is a scholarly ecclesiastical history that continues John Stoughton’s multi‑volume survey of the…

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

Various

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July 1851, gathers a series of essays and historical sketches that…

Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.

Dard, Charlotte-Adelaïde; Brisson, Pierre-Raymond de; Godin des Odonais, Jean

The volume is a three‑part collection of true‑to‑life adventure narratives drawn from the late eighteenth‑…

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899

Louis Creswicke

Louis Creswicke’s first volume of “South Africa and the Transvaal War” is a comprehensive historical study…

Op den Uitkijk, Jaargang 1909 Bijblad bij De Aarde en haar Volken

Various

Dit nummer van Op den Uitkijk is een geografisch tijdschrift uit 1909, een bijlage bij De Aarde en haar…

Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History

Jacob Abbott

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that treats the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, as a…

Os deputados brasileiros nas Côrtes Geraes de 1821

Manuel Emílio Gomes de Carvalho

Esta obra, escrita por Manuel Emílio Gomes de Carvalho, é um estudo histórico que se concentra nos deputados…

James Watt

Andrew Carnegie

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of James Watt, the Scottish inventor whose steam engine…

Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 2 (of 2)

Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers’s Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution is a chronologically…

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition

P. T. Ross

A Yeoman’s Letters is a first‑hand collection of wartime correspondence by P. T.

The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)

J. Holland Rose

The work is a scholarly biography that seeks to rewrite the conventional narrative of Napoleon’s career by…

Napoleon's British visitors and captives, 1801-1815

John Goldworth Alger

John Goldworth Alger’s work is a scholarly survey of the tangled web of British individuals who found…

Six Years in the Prisons of England

Six Years in the Prisons of England is an autobiographical account that traces the author’s rapid ascent from…

The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells‑Barnett’s The Red Record is a meticulously compiled statistical expose that documents the brutal…

The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)

J. Holland Rose

This work is a scholarly survey of European political development from the unification of Germany in 1870…

An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England

Edward Potts Cheyney

This work is a scholarly textbook designed for college and secondary‑school courses, presenting a systematic…

Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party

Martin Robison Delany

The work is an official record of the Niger Valley Exploring Party, authored by Martin Robison Delany, a…

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899

Louis Creswicke

The Indian Question

Francis Amasa Walker

Francis A. Walker’s The Indian Question is a historical‑political study that opens with a sweeping, polemical…

The Modern Regime, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine

The Modern Regime, Volume 1 is Hippolyte Taine’s ambitious attempt to map the political and social…

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method

Wm. Audley Maxwell

Crossing the Plains, Days of ’57 is a first‑person narrative of an 1857 overland emigrant party that travels…

History of Zionism, 1600-1918, Vol. 2 (of 2)

Nahum Sokolow

This work is a scholarly history of Zionism that spans the period from 1600 to the end of World War I,…

The American Empire

Scott Nearing

Scott Nearing’s The American Empire is a sweeping historical study that traces the United States from its…

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Charles Mackay

Charles Mackay’s Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a sweeping survey of…