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Folklore as an Historical Science

George Laurence Gomme

George Laurence Gomme’s Folklore as an Historical Science is a scholarly treatise that treats a single…

Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete

Lyndon Orr

Famous Affinities of History, by Lyndon Orr, is a sweeping biographical survey that treats England’s monarchs…

All about coffee

William H. Ukers

William H. Ukers’s All About Coffee is a comprehensive historical survey that traces the beverage from its…

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3): The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources

The volume presents a scholarly compilation of Hawaiian mythology, legends, genealogies and traditional…

The loyalists of America and their times: from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 1 of 2

Egerton Ryerson

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Volume 1, is a scholarly, documentary‑style history by Egerton…

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Canot, Theodore; Mayer, Brantz

The work is an autobiographical memoir that doubles as a first‑person account of a young sailor’s immersion…

The decline of the West: Volume 1, Form and actuality

Oswald Spengler

The work is Oswald Spengler’s first volume of The Decline of the West, subtitled “Form and Reality.” It opens…

Great Britain and the American Civil War

Ephraim Douglass Adams

Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American Civil War is a scholarly examination of how the…

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

Keppel, Henry, Sir; James, Rajah of Sarawak

The work is a first‑hand narrative of a mid‑nineteenth‑century naval expedition, written by Sir Henry Keppel…

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard A. Proctor

Richard A. Proctor’s Myths and Marvels of Astronomy is a Victorian‑era popular‑science collection that…

A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century

A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography is a reference work that assembles concise sketches of notable Canadians…

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.

Anonymous

This volume is a compendium of true‑to‑life sea narratives that span the early nineteenth century to the turn…

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries

W. F. Dawson

The work is a scholarly survey of Christmas customs, politics, and ceremonies from the medieval period…

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present: Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce

P. C. Remondino

The work is a nineteenth‑century medical treatise that surveys the practice of circumcision from its earliest…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 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 presents a collection of 1636 documents that illuminate the daily realities of the Philippine…

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

Henry Charles Lea

Henry Charles Lea’s work is a scholarly chronicle of the Roman and Spanish Inquisitions as they unfolded…

The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.

Mrs. Jameson

The work is a scholarly anthology that gathers together the poems, letters, and critical commentary…

Historia de la literatura y del arte dramático en España, tomo II

Adolf Friedrich von Schack

Este tomo II de la obra de Adolf Friedrich von Schack constituye una investigación histórica y crítica de la…

The Red True Story Book

The Red True Story Book is a historical narrative that dramatizes the siege of Orléans through the eyes of…

The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765

J. E. Heeres

The work is a scholarly compilation that gathers and annotates primary documents relating to Dutch…

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography

Ellen Churchill Semple

The work is a scholarly attempt to translate and expand Friedrich Ratzel’s German treatise on…

Cornish Characters and Strange Events

S. Baring-Gould

Sabine Baring‑Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events is a lively compendium of local legend, biography…

The True Story Book

The True Story Book is a sprawling historical narrative that begins with a vivid first‑person account of a…

The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the Sixth Century A.D., Volume 1 (of 2)

William Gordon Holmes

The work is a scholarly survey of the sixth‑century Byzantine world, focusing on the reign of Emperor…