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The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles

Allen, James Edgar; Reidy, John J.

The volume is a contemporary account of the Moro Campaign in Mindanao, compiled by war correspondent James…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 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 Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

The volume gathers a dense collection of official correspondence, royal decrees, and contemporary narratives…

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter

Robert H. Elliot

Robert H. Elliot’s Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore is a sprawling memoir that blends agricultural…

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 1 of 3)

Shearjashub Spooner

This volume is a scholarly anthology of anecdotes and curiosities concerning painters, engravers, sculptors…

續世說

Pingzhong Kong

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The volume is a scholarly survey of South Indian castes and tribal groups, compiled by Edgar Thurston, a…

To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in disguise: with historical notices of the Kurdish tribes and the Chaldeans of Kurdistan

Ely Banister Soane

Ely Banister Soane’s work is a sprawling travel‑and‑history narrative that weaves personal observation with…

Siwa: the oasis of Jupiter Ammon

Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave

The work is a memoir‑like study by a British officer who spent two years in the remote Siwa Oasis during the…

The Negro

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a sweeping survey of African peoples and their global connections, written by the…

A memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P.C., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., sometime minister at the court of Morocco

Brooks, Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay; Drummond-Hay, Alice Emily; Hay, John H. Drummond

The memoir is a post‑retirement recollection of Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, a long‑serving British Consul…

Beer, its history and its economic value as a national beverage

F. W. Salem

The work is a scholarly treatise that frames beer as a temperance‑friendly alternative to distilled spirits.

Guernsey Folk Lore a collection of popular superstitions, legendary tales, peculiar customs, proverbs, weather sayings, etc., of the people of that island

Sir Edgar MacCulloch

Guernsey Folk‑Lore is a scholarly compilation of the island’s popular superstitions, legendary tales,…

Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales

Jonathan Ceredig Davies

Jonathan Ceredig Davies’s “Folk‑Lore of West and Mid‑Wales” is a field‑work anthology that records, in…

The Story of Florence

Edmund G. Gardner

The work is a concise yet richly illustrated survey of Florence’s political and artistic development,…

The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins

Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George); Allen, Grant; Griffiths, Arthur; Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. (Eustace Alfred); Traill, H. D.

The work is a travel‑essay that sets out from the western edge of the Mediterranean, using the dramatic…

Pioneers in Canada

Harry Johnston

Harry Johnston’s Pioneers in Canada is a sweeping historical survey that traces the European incursion into…

A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767

R. B. Cunninghame Graham

R. B. Cunninghame Graham’s A Vanished Arcadia offers a personal, almost confessional, survey of the Jesuit…

A History of Chinese Literature

Herbert Allen Giles

Herbert Allen Giles’s A History of Chinese Literature is a scholarly survey aimed at the English‑speaking…

Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)

This volume, Studies in the History and Method of Science, is a scholarly collection of essays edited by…

An outline of humor Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century

An Outline of Humor presents itself as a sweeping survey of wit from the earliest recorded jokes to the turn…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 1 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a sprawling collection of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s early critical, historical, and…

Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology

James Freeman Clarke

James Freeman Clarke’s Ten Great Religions is a nineteenth‑century comparative study that seeks to give…

Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity

John Henry Newman

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly compilation by John Henry Newman, who first delivered the material…

The Essenes: Their history and doctrines

Christian D. Ginsburg

The work is a scholarly essay by Christian D. Ginsburg that sets out to give an impartial statement of the…