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Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

Allen Howard Godbey

Allen Howard Godbey’s Great Disasters and Horrors in the World’s History is a sweeping survey of natural…

China Revolutionized

John Stuart Thomson

The book is a sweeping historical study of the 1911‑1912 Chinese Revolution, written by John Stuart Thomson.

Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers

W. E. Winks

The work is a biographical collection that gathers the lives of men who began as cobblers and rose to…

The Fight for the Republic in China

B. L. Putnam Weale

Putnam Weale’s The Fight for the Republic in China is a scholarly survey of the tumultuous years from the…

Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784

W. O. Raymond

This work is a scholarly chronicle of the Saint John River region from its first European sighting in 1604…

The Position of Woman in Primitive Society: A Study of the Matriarchy

C. Gasquoine Hartley

Hartley’s work is a scholarly essay that frames the “Woman’s Movement” of the early twentieth century as a…

Women artists in all ages and countries

E. F. Ellet

The work is a sweeping survey of women who have practiced the visual arts from antiquity to the late…

The History of Java, v. 1-2

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical survey of Java, compiled by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, a former…

Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 1 (of 2)

Walter H. Tregellas

Walter H. Tregellas’s Cornish Worthies is a biographical compendium that gathers sketches of notable men and…

The attaché at Peking

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

The work is a series of letters by Algernon Baron Redesdale, a British diplomat who spent many years inside…

Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time

Frederick Litchfield

Frederick Litchfield’s Illustrated History of Furniture is a scholarly survey that pairs a careful selection…

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 1 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy

Edward Luther Stevenson

Edward Luther Stevenson’s Terrestrial and Celestial Globes, Volume I is a scholarly survey of the development…

The Heroic Age

H. Munro Chadwick

The work is a scholarly comparative study of heroic poetry, divided into three parts that examine the early…

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development

C. Reginald Enock

The work is a sweeping survey of Mexico that treats the nation as a single geographic and political entity,…

Nigeria: Its peoples and its problems

E. D. Morel

E. D. Morel’s Nigeria, its peoples and its problems is a nonfiction study that blends travel narrative,…

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The work is a scholarly survey of the many castes and tribal groups that populate southern India, compiled by…

How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index

Serviss, Garrett Putman; Selwyn-Brown, Arthur

The work is the concluding volume of the Popular Science Library, a sixteen‑part series that gathers the most…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 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 series of contemporary letters, reports, and maps that document the first decade of…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 3 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

The work is a scholarly survey of maritime commerce, the third installment in a four‑volume series that…

New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

John Morrison

John Morrison’s work is a scholarly survey drawn from a series of university lectures delivered in Glasgow…

Ancient and Modern Ships, Part 1: Wooden Sailing Ships

Sir George Charles Vincent Holmes

The work is a scholarly handbook that sets out to chart the evolution of wooden sailing vessels from…

To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir; Cameron, Verney Lovett

The work is a first‑volume travelogue and mining report that blends personal observation with a broader…

The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea

Trumbull White

Trumbull White’s The War in the East offers a sweeping historical survey of China, Japan, and Corea, framed…

Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru

Hiram Bingham

The work is a first‑person account of Hiram Bingham’s series of scientific and exploratory trips through the…