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Cover of The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. 2
 Commonly Called the Minor

The Expositor's Bible: The Book of the Twelve Prophets, Vol. 2 Commonly Called the Minor

George Adam Smith

The Expositor’s Bible, Volume II, is a scholarly commentary on the nine “minor” prophets that follow Amos,…

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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India

James Tod

Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Volume II, is a scholarly survey of the central and western Rajput…

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A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s A Popular History of Ireland is a sweeping nineteenth‑century survey that traces Irish…

Cover of Error's chains: How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Error's chains: How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Frank S. Dobbins

Frank S. Dobbins’s Error’s Chains is an ambitious survey of humanity’s “false gods” from the earliest…

A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 1 (of 6)

A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 1 (of 6)

Leopold von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke’s work is a scholarly survey of English history with a special focus on the seventeenth…

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The Life of Jesus Critically Examined (4th ed.)

David Friedrich Strauss

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined is a scholarly work of theological history first issued in 1835, in…

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Church History (Volumes 1-3)

J. H. Kurtz

The work is a comprehensive textbook of church history, originally published in German in 1849 and later…

Cover of The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants

The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants

Thomas Longueville

Thomas Longueville’s work is a biographical study that intertwines the life of Sir Everard Digby with the…

Cover of The reformation in Poland: Some social and economic aspects

The reformation in Poland: Some social and economic aspects

Paul Fox

Paul Fox’s study, The Reformation in Poland: Some Social and Economic Aspects, is a scholarly monograph that…

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Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition

Edward Lewes Cutts

The work is a scholarly sketchbook rather than a continuous narrative, offering a series of illustrated…

Cover of The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

The work is the fifth volume of François‑René Chateaubriand’s six‑part Mémoires d’outre‑tombe, a sprawling…

The English Church in the Middle Ages

The English Church in the Middle Ages

William Hunt

William Hunt’s work is a scholarly survey of the English Church from its Roman‑mission origins in 597 through…

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Annals of the persecution in Scotland: From the Restoration to the Revolution

James Aikman

The work is a historical chronicle of the Scottish Reformation’s darker side, tracing the persecution of…

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 From the Beginning until the Death of Alexander I (1825)

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 1 [of 3] From the Beginning until the Death of Alexander I (1825)

Simon Dubnow

Simon Dubnow’s History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 1 is a scholarly survey that traces Jewish…

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Chronicles of the house of Borgia

Frederick Rolfe

Frederick Rolfe’s Chronicles of the House of Borgia is a sweeping historical essay that treats the rise and…

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 Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Sæwulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville, de la Brocquière, and Maundrell

Early Travels in Palestine Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Sæwulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville, de la Brocquière, and Maundrell

This volume gathers a series of medieval pilgrimage accounts that chronicle the Holy Land from the…

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A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume II

Henry Charles Lea

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 Father Gerard's Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot

The Condition of Catholics Under James I. Father Gerard's Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot

John Gerard

The work is a first‑person historical account that combines a detailed autobiographical sketch with Father…

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 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…

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 Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Or, Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy

Madhava

The Sarva‑Darsana‑Samgraha is a scholarly survey of the sixteen Hindu philosophical schools that flourished…

The Haskalah Movement in Russia

The Haskalah Movement in Russia

Jacob S. Raisin

The work is a scholarly survey of the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment, as it unfolded in Russia from the…

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative by Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower that sets out to…

Cover of Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island

Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island

James D. Knowles

James D. Knowles’s memoir is a scholarly biography of Roger Williams, the controversial founder of Rhode…

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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…