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Essai sur les révolutions suivi des Etudes historiques
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Essai historique, politique et moral sur les révolutions anciennes et modernes, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la…
The Old Regime and the Revolution
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville
A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…
Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibit…
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Mary S. Locke
Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…
Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question
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James Bryce
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…
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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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…
Histoire générale du IVe siècle à nos jours. Tome 04. Renaissance et Réforme. L…
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Alfred Nicolas Rambaud
Ouvrage collectif sous la direction d'Ernest Lavisse et Alfred Rambaud. Le quatrième volume de la série raconte l'époqu…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…