History - Modern (1750+)

An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800

Mary Francis Cusack

An illustrated history of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800, authored by Mary Francis Cusack, presents a sweeping…

Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

Arthur James Lyon Fremantle’s Three Months in the Southern States, April‑June 1863, is a first‑hand travel…

The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World

William W. Sanger

The book is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey of prostitution, begun in 1856 and hurried to press after a…

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole

The work is an autobiographical travel narrative by Mary Seacole, a Jamaican‑born Creole woman of mixed…

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition

Agnes M. Clerke

Agnes M. Clerke’s work is a popular history of nineteenth‑century astronomy, revised for a fourth edition in…

The U-boat hunters

James B. Connolly

James B. Connolly’s The U‑boat Hunters is a World‑War‑I naval memoir that blends reportage with a…

An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians

Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane’s work is a meticulous ethnographic account of Egyptian life as observed between 1833 and…

La Francia dal primo impero al 1871. Volume 2

Heinrich von Treitschke

Il volume 2 di La Francia dal primo impero al 1871 di Heinrich von Treitschke è una storia politica che…

The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

Edward W. Byrn

Edward W. Byrn’s The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century is a sweeping survey of the era’s…

臺灣外紀

Jiang, Risheng, active 1692

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition

Charles Darwin

The work is a scholarly treatise on biological evolution, presenting Charles Darwin’s sixth edition of The…

London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1

Henry Mayhew

The work is a nineteenth‑century social survey that sets out to catalogue the myriad occupations and…

The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier

A.L.O.C.

The work is a polemical narrative that blends factual reportage with a moral‑ist’s call to action.

The Evolution of Naval Armament

Frederick Leslie Robertson

Frederick Leslie Robertson’s work is a technical survey of naval material development, aimed at filling the…

Steam-ships: The story of their development to the present day

R. A. Fletcher

The work is a comprehensive technical history of steam‑propelled vessels, tracing their evolution from the…

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

Matthew Alexander Henson

The work is a first‑person memoir by Matthew A. Henson, the African‑American aide who accompanied Robert E.

Pan-Islam

G. Wyman Bury

Pan‑Islam is presented as a sweeping political‑religious analysis that seeks to explain the drive to unite…

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a scholarly monograph that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the United States’ long‑term effort…

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, December 1878

Various

The December 1878 issue of Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science presents a sprawling…

William Pitt and the Great War

J. Holland Rose

The work is a scholarly biography that treats William Pitt the Younger’s second, war‑time career as a…

The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt

Remey, Oliver E.; Bloodgood, Wheeler P.; Cochems, Henry F.

The work is a contemporaneous historical narrative of the October 1912 attempt on former President Theodore…

A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878

Charles Alan Fyffe

Charles Alan Fyffe’s A History of Modern Europe, 1792‑1878 is a scholarly survey that traces the political…

Modern ships of war

Reed, Edward J. (Edward James), Sir; Simpson, Edward

The work is a technical survey of contemporary naval forces, assembled by Sir Edward J.

The Popish Plot: A study in the history of the reign of Charles II

John Pollock

John Pollock’s “The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II” is a scholarly…