Early Modern

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…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac

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Charles W. Colby


The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded theCompany of One Hundred Asso…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720…

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William Wood


Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrar…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs (Version 2)

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J. D. Jerrold Kelley and Stanley Lane-Poole


The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Ottoman and Berber pirates and privateers who operated from…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm

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William Wood


Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in…

Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

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Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet


An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders

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John Lord


The eleventh volume of the Beacon Lights of History series, this volume is the first that directly refers to the United States. In this volu…

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…

History of New England, 1630-1649

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John Winthrop


John Winthrop served as governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony for several years. His History of New England, 1630-1649 details life in th…

The South American Republics, Part I

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Thomas Cleland Dawson


The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?&quo…

Poems of American History, The Colonial Era

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Various


A History through Poetry of the exploration and settling of North American by Europeans. Beginning with Leif Erikson, and continuing throug…

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

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John Bagnell Bury


John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 2: The Constitution (Version 2)

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Thomas Carlyle


The second volume of this famous and idiosyncratic history covers events from October 1789, after Louis XVI has been 'persuaded' to leave Ve…

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…

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…

The Court and Character of King James whereunto Is Now Added the Court of King …

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Anthony Weldon


Gossipy exposés of shenanigans at the heart of government are nothing new. The author, Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648), was a courtier…

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine

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Thomas Carlyle


Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

The Cossacks: Their History and Country

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William Penn Cresson


One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack s…

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1

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John Tulloch


This work addresses the birth and development of a rationalist stream in the Christianity of England in the seventeenth century. In this vol…

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