Early Modern
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…
The Pianoforte Sonata
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John South Shedlock
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…
The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years' War
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Various
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
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…
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…
Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings
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Frank James Adkins
Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I f…
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…
History of the Kingdom of Siam
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François-Henri Turpin
Turpin's History of Siam, published at Paris in the year 1771 consists of two volumes, the first of which deals merely with the natural Hist…
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14
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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…
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, Part 1
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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…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2
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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 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…
Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire
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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 Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
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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: a Story of Revolution, Intervention and War
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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…
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle was an antiquarian historian of the New England region where she was raised. But rather than focusing as most historians d…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 2
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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 Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I
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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…
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…