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The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV

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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…

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the Afr…

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Thomas Clarkson


Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Symbolism of Freemasonry

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Albert Mackey


Illustrating and explaining the science and philosophy, the legends, myths and symbols of the fraternity of Freemasons.(Summary by Brother M…

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 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 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…

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 Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

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Wallace Notestein


A chronological survey of witchcraft in early modern Britain, covering witchcraft under the reigns of various monarchs, the literature of wi…

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 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 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…

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…

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…

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