Early Modern
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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Watkin Tench
Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia, landing in January 1788. He first wrote…
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was, arguably, the first person to explore North and South America from Cape Hatteras to Uruguay or Argentina, 35° nort…
History of the Revolutions in Europe
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Christoph Wilhelm Von Koch
The View of the Revolutions of Europe by M. Koch, has been long known and highly esteemed on the Continent as a work of incontestable merit,…
Anti-Dictator
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Étienne De La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…
The Diaries of John Evelyn
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John Evelyn
John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…
The Great Events by Famous Historians
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
Mexico and the United States
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Frederick Starr
Starr, being an anthropologist and a historian, visited Mexico extensively. As he wrote this book, a highly disruptive, deadly revolution wa…
The Spirit of the Curé of Ars
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Alfred Monnin
St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
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Mercy Otis Warren
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
The Partition of Europe
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Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…
The Pioneer Mothers of America
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Mary Wolcott Green and Harry Clinton Green
This work has been prepared to perpetuate the memory of the women dedicated in each chapter as well as the lessons they have left behind in …
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
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Mandell Creighton
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
Oliver Cromwell
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The following work gives within a short compass a history of Oliver Cromwell from a biographical point of view. The text has been revised b…
Epochs of American History
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
This first of four volumes is a description and detailed analysis of the formation and development of the thirteen colonies of America. A ti…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution
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Mercy Otis Warren
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
Hobbes
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Leslie Stephen
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
España y América
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Antonio Sánchez Moguel
Conjunto magestral de obras literarias e históricas de personajes hispanoparlantes de ambos lados del Atlántico. El autor exam…
Logick
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Isaac Watts
The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth with a Variety of Rules to guard against error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life,…