History - Modern (1750+)

Fire prevention and fire extinction

James Braidwood

Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915

G. B. Laurie

This volume is a collection of letters written by Lieutenant‑Colonel George Brenton Laurie, commander of the…

L'isthme de Panama Examen historique et géographique des différentes directions suivant lesquelles on pourrait le percer et des moyens à y employer; suivi d'un aperçu sur l'isthme de Suez.

Michel Chevalier

Ce volume est un traité d’histoire‑géographie consacré à l’isthme de Panama et aux diverses routes envisagées…

Roster of the Rainbow division (Forty-Second) Major General Wm. A. Mann commanding

Harold Stanley Johnson

Harold Stanley Johnson’s work is a straightforward military register, compiled in the autumn of 1917 for the…

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.

William Still

William Still’s The Underground Railroad is a nineteenth‑century compilation of first‑hand testimonies,…

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century

Clarence Henry Haring

The work is a scholarly study of seventeenth‑century English and French buccaneers in the Caribbean, written…

Bulgaria

Frank Fox

Frank Fox’s work is a first‑hand travelogue and wartime report rather than a conventional guidebook.

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters

Jonathan Swift

The volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s “Drapier’s Letters,” a series of political pamphlets written in the early…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380 (June 1847) gathers a series of contemporary essays and…

The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

Gilbert Slater

Gilbert Slater’s work is a scholarly investigation of the transformation of English village life through the…

The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2)

Dean C. Worcester

Dean C. Worcester’s The Philippines: Past and Present is a first‑hand chronicle that blends travelogue,…

The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct” is a contemporary, polemical account of…

An Account of the Conquest of Peru

Pedro Sancho

Pedro Sancho’s An Account of the Conquest of Peru is a seventeenth‑century chronicle that blends historical…

The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)

C. R. M. F. Cruttwell

The work is a regimental history of the 1/4 Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, compiled by C. R. M.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume III, Number 1 (January 1863) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The work is a political pamphlet produced in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the official platform…

Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose

Willis J. Abbot

The book is a sprawling illustrated survey of the Panama Canal and its surrounding zone, written by Willis J.

The treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire Documents presented to Viscount Grey of Fallodon

The volume is a compiled dossier of contemporary testimonies, official reports, and newspaper extracts that…

The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902

Kestell, J. D. (John Daniel); Velden, D. E. van

This work is a formal record of the diplomatic talks that ended the South African War, compiled by J. D.

History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Adam Storey Farrar

Adam Storey Farrar’s History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion is a scholarly survey…

The Development of Rates of Postage: An Historical and Analytical Study

A. D. Smith

The work is a scholarly investigation of postal pricing, written by Alfred Daniel Smith, an economist who…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The September 1866 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a miscellany of essays, poetry and short fiction…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847

Various

The May 1847 issue of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine presents a lengthy essay that treats the French…

John Deere's Steel Plow

Edward C. Kendall

Edward C. Kendall’s work is a scholarly study of the invention and early development of John Deere’s steel…