Pamela Nagami
Life of Prince Metternich
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George Bruce Malleson
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipula…
Walpole
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John Morley
Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biograph…
A History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1
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Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
A History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 2
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Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
Lectures on Tropical Diseases
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Patrick Manson
This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco …
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 3
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Justin Mccarthy
In Volume III of this series on the Hanoverian Kings, Justin McCarthy is joined by his son, Justin Hartly McCarthy, a liberal Irish MP like …
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4
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Justin Mccarthy
In Volume IV of this series on the Hanoverian kings, Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Huntly McCarthy, both Liberal Irish MPs., bring on …
The Normans in European History
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Charles Homer Haskins
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …
Cardinal de Richelieu
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Eleanor C. Price
Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642), the dreaded red eminence, mentor and manager of Louis XIII, skilled in logistics,…
Pitt
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Archibald Primrose
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, liberal prime minister (1894-1895), wrote this short biography of William Pitt, the Younger (1759-…
Maria Theresa
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James Franck Bright
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…
The Life of Charlemagne
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Thomas Hodgkin
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope…
Philip Augustus
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William Holden Hutton
Philip Augustus (Philip II of France 1165-1223), grandfather of Saint Louis, was one of France's greatest kings. While England's Henry II wa…
Sleeping Sickness
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Fleming Mant Sandwith
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…
Mazarin
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Arthur Hassall
Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Thou…
Cardinal Wolsey
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Mandell Creighton
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530) will always be remembered as the Lord Chancellor who fell from power when he failed to obtain the annulme…
Queen Elizabeth
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Mandell Creighton
"The Princess Elizabeth of England was born at Greenwich, between three and four of the afternoon of September 7, 1533. Her birth was a…
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
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Elizabeth Robins Pennell
"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects…
Bismarck
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Georges Lacour-Gayet
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I
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Justin Mccarthy
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the d…
The Story of Gladstone's Life
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Justin Mccarthy
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimatel…
Edward the First
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Thomas Frederick Tout
Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) …
Life of Viscount Palmerston
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Lloyd Charles Sanders
This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreig…
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II
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Justin Mccarthy
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the d…
England Since Waterloo
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John Arthur Ransome Marriott
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many edition…
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen
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Mary Edwards Walker
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…
Madame de Staël
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Bella Duffy
Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Pa…
Louis Pasteur
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Albert Keim
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to t…
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was hig…
Emily Brontë
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, …
Warwick the Kingmaker
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Charles William Chadwick Oman
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), wealthy and powerful peer of England, was one of the leaders of the Wars of the Roses (14…
England and the Hundred Years' War
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Charles William Chadwick Oman
This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English …
Wellington
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George Hooper
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with…
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714)
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George Henry Wakeling
This slim volume by the Oxford University lecturer, George Henry Wakeling, deals with the period in British history from the reign of King J…
The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
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Eleanor Constance Lodge
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…
King and Baronage (A.D. 1135-1327)
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William Holden Hutton
William Holden Hutton (1860-1930) was a British historian and Dean of Winchester Cathedral. In this slim volume, Hutton writes of the long p…
The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918
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John Howard Bertram Masterman
This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The …
The Central Period of the Middle Age 918-1273
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Beatrice A. Lees
Beatrice Lees writes that the history of the period of the Middle Ages from 918 to 1273 is that of "a heroic period, the age of feudali…
Half a Century
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Jane Grey Swisshelm
In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peac…
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Osmund Airy
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic
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Charles Oman and Charles William Chadwick Oman
While there are many general histories of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the Oxford historian, Charles Oman, writes that his li…
Captain Cook
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Walter Besant
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …
Hildebrand and his Times
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William Richard Ward Stephens
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…
Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to tha…
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William Wolfe Capes
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…
Sir Francis Drake
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Julian Corbett
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
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Justin Mccarthy
An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McC…
Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of …
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Lionel Allshorn
Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries …
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines
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William Wolfe Capes
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignori…
Life of Edward the Black Prince
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Louise Creighton
Edward the Black Prince (1330-1376) was the eldest son of King Edward III of England. He commanded the vanguard at the Battle of Créc…
Early Rome, from the Foundation of the City to its Destruction by the Gauls
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Wilhelm Ihne
In this short scholarly work the German historian, Wilhelm Ihne, elucidates what is known or can be deduced about Rome's early history, from…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
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Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
Life of Sir Walter Ralegh
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Louise Creighton
Sir Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618), English soldier, explorer, courtier, writer, and poet was one of the most notable figures of the Elizabeth…
History of Henry the Fourth King of France and Navarre
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. He was raised in the Protestant …
The Wars of the Roses 1377-1471
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Robert Balmain Mowat
The Wars of the Roses, 1377-1471, were a series of English civil wars fought for the control of the throne of England between two rival cade…
Some Famous Women
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Louise Creighton
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
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Justin Mccarthy
Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…
Charles James Fox
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Henry Offley Wakeman
Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…
Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
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Louise Creighton
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was the oldest surviving son of Sir Winston Churchill, an impoverished country gentlema…
Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409
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Oscar Browning
The High Middle Ages in Italy, 1250-1409, were a time of incessant strife between rival city-states, some the Ghibelline allies of the Holy …
The Early Hanoverians
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Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
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Justin Mccarthy
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530
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Oscar Browning
Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary comp…
The Age of Elizabeth
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Mandell Creighton
This short history by the eminent British historian, Mandell Creighton, places Elizabeth and her reign within the context of 16th century Eu…
The Age of Anne
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Edward Ellis Morris
This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborou…
The Crusades
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George William Cox
The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought between 1096 and 1272 to recover the Holy Land from Islamic rule. According to the Latin…
Social Life in England 1750-1850
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F. J. Foakes-Jackson
In 1916, the Cambridge historian, F.J. Foakes-Jackson braved the wartime Atlantic to deliver the Lowell Lectures in Boston. In these wide-ra…
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green
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John Maccunn
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. …
The Beginning of the Middle Ages
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Richard William Church
In 395 A.D. Theodosius, the last ruler of the undivided Roman Empire died. To his young and incompetent son, Honorius, he left the governmen…
Henry II
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Louis Francis Salzman
Born in 1133, King Henry II of England reigned from 1154 until his death in 1189. Before he was forty, he controlled England, large parts of…
History of Modern Philosophy
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Alfred William Benn
This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Le…
Cavour
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Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…
Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
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Will Durant
In this Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Vol…
The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy
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Will Durant
This little Blue Book No. 39, by Will Durant, deals with Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), a Macedonian pupil of Plato, who became the teacher of …
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
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Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire
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Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political his…
Locke
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Thomas Fowler
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…
Life and Writings of Addison
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, wi…
The Making of the British Empire (A.D. 1714-1832)
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Arthur Hassall
At its height, the British Empire was the largest in history. This short volume traces its development through the long 18th century, from 1…
Milton
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…
The Political History of France, 1789-1910
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Muriel O. Davis
This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…
Charles II
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Osmund Airy
This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am a…
A Short History of France: From Caesar's Invasion to the Battle of Waterloo
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
After the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls adopted Roman culture and speech. The Germanic invasions ultimately transformed France into a Cat…
The Roman Triumvirates
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Charles Merivale
In this short volume, the British historian, Charles Merivale, describes the long conflict by which the rule of one man replaced the Roman R…
Modern England 1820-1885
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Oscar Browning
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
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Arthur Young
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst o…
The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla
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A. H. Beesly
During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…
Europe in Renaissance and Reformation 1453-1660
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Mary A. Hollings
In a small space the Oxford-educated historian, Mary Hollings, provides a panoramic view of a tumultuous age. We meet Cesare Borgia and Savo…
On the Nature of Things (Munro translation)
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Titus Lucretius Carus
Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99-55 BC), the author of "De Rerum Natura" or "On the Nature of Things," was a Roman poet and …
The Normans in Europe
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Arthur Henry Johnson
This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks …
The Eighteenth Century (National History of France)
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Casimir Stryienski
This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…
The Early Tudors: Henry VII and Henry VIII
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Charles Edward Moberly
Following the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, the reigns of Henry VII and VIII were autocratic and centralized to an unprecedented degree. T…
The Counter-Reformation
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Adolphus Ward
The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resur…
The Athenian Empire
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George William Cox
The British historian, George W. Cox writes that the "whole duration of the Athenian empire extends over little more than two generatio…
Edward III
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William Parsons Warburton
Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …
William the Third
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Henry Duff Traill
William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …
The Houses of Lancaster and York with the Conquest and Loss of France
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James Gairdner
The Wars of the Roses took place during the last phase of the Hundred Years' War. In 1377 the great warrior king, Edward III, died leaving h…
The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1
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Leopold Von Ranke
Leopold von Ranke was a German Lutheran historian and a founder of modern historical writing based on primary sources. This is a panoramic a…
Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars
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Reginald Bosworth Smith
The Punic Wars (264-146 B.C.) were a series of conflicts between the rapidly expanding Roman Republic and the Phoenician Sea empire, Carthag…
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution 1603-1660
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…
Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne was a contemporary of Shakespeare who, after having played his part in France's terrible wars of religion, retired to hi…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume I
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Mandell Creighton
Volume I of the "History of the Papacy" by the Anglican Lord Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, deals with the popes, princes, a…
Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV
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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume II
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Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…
Early Greek Philosophy
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Alfred William Benn
"Man is the measure of all things," said the early Greek philosopher, Protagoras of Abdera. It was in this spirit of humanistic se…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
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George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
The Later Middle Ages: A History of Western Europe 1254-1494
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Robert Balmain Mowat
The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and…
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…
Rise of the Macedonian Empire
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Arthur M. Curteis
Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…
The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610
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Emmeline Tanner
Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III
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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…
From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History
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Lionel Cecil Jane
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815
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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…