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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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Elizabeth Robins Pennell


"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects…

The Roman Triumvirates

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Charles Merivale


In this short volume, the British historian, Charles Merivale, describes the long conflict by which the rule of one man replaced the Roman R…

Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of …

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Lionel Allshorn


Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries …

Mazarin

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Arthur Hassall


Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Thou…

A Short History of France: From Caesar's Invasion to the Battle of Waterloo

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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson


After the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls adopted Roman culture and speech. The Germanic invasions ultimately transformed France into a Cat…

Life of Sir Walter Ralegh

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Louise Creighton


Sir Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618), English soldier, explorer, courtier, writer, and poet was one of the most notable figures of the Elizabeth…

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…

The Normans in Europe

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Arthur Henry Johnson


This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks …

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…

Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

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Louise Creighton


John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was the oldest surviving son of Sir Winston Churchill, an impoverished country gentlema…

The Early Tudors: Henry VII and Henry VIII

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Charles Edward Moberly


Following the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, the reigns of Henry VII and VIII were autocratic and centralized to an unprecedented degree. T…

Henry II

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Louis Francis Salzman


Born in 1133, King Henry II of England reigned from 1154 until his death in 1189. Before he was forty, he controlled England, large parts of…

Half a Century

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Jane Grey Swisshelm


In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…

Life of Viscount Palmerston

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Lloyd Charles Sanders


This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreig…

The Political History of France, 1789-1910

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Muriel O. Davis


This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…

Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars

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Reginald Bosworth Smith


The Punic Wars (264-146 B.C.) were a series of conflicts between the rapidly expanding Roman Republic and the Phoenician Sea empire, Carthag…

History of Henry the Fourth King of France and Navarre

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott


Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. He was raised in the Protestant …

Early Greek Philosophy

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Alfred William Benn


"Man is the measure of all things," said the early Greek philosopher, Protagoras of Abdera. It was in this spirit of humanistic se…

Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Michel de Montaigne was a contemporary of Shakespeare who, after having played his part in France's terrible wars of religion, retired to hi…

The Early Hanoverians

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Edward Ellis Morris


In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

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