Early Modern

The Life of Frederick William von Steuben

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Friedrich Kapp



The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…

Story-Lives of Great Musicians

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Francis Jameson Rowbotham



Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…

Galateo

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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa



A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …

The Diamond Necklace

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Thomas Carlyle



In the years preceding the French Revolution, the reputation of Queen Marie Antoinette was severely harmed by the publication of details rel…

The Capture of Fort William and Mary

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Charles Lathrop Parsons



The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …

Artículos Varios

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José Milla Y Vidaurre



Relaciones de eventos históricos acontecidos en Centro América durante la época colonial y hasta 1900. - Summary by Mar…

Spies

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Joseph Gollomb



The author retells some of the great wartime spy stories from history, beginning with Biblical references and ending with World War I and Ma…

Pascal and the Port Royalists

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William Clark



Pascal is of the small number of those [men] in whom the man infinitely transcends his actions. The writings of Pascal are the finest that F…

Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences

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John Erskine



Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …

La América Vindicada de la Calumnia

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Antonio Sánchez Valverde



Estudio científico sobre el origen del gálico (enfermedad venérea), su origen, y la vindicación de Améric…

An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution

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Noah Webster



An early influential work describing the features contained within the new Constitution that was produced out of the Constitutional Conventi…

Compendio de Historia de la América Central

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Agustín Gómez Carrillo



Este es un trabajo de texto para el estudio académico de la historia de Centro América. Son visitados los orígenes de …

Ireland Under the Tudors

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Richard Bagwell



Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…

Ireland Under the Tudors

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Richard Bagwell



Volume 1 of Ireland Under the Tudors describes in great detail the process of making Celtic Ireland a part of the Protestant English empire.…

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