Yemen history books
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Arabic Authors - F. F. Arbuthnot
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| It has been the most famous and influential of China's Seven Military Classics, and "for the last two thousand years it remained the most important military treatise in Asia, where even the common people knew it by name. It has had an influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond. |
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The Art of War - Sun Tzu
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| They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. |
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
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| The book gives an insight of the French Revolution from 1789 to the height of the Reign of Terror (1793–94) and culminates in 1795. Thus it is considered to be an authoritative account of the early course of the Revolution. |
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The French Revolution - Thomas Carlyle
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| The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green's monumental work, the aim of which is so aptly defined by its full title, A Short History of the English People. This story of our island race from the year 449 to 1960 concentrates, more on the generations that have made up the realm than on a chronicle of its kings and battles" |
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History of the English People, Volume II - John Richard Green
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| Herodotus wrote a nine volume series called The Histories. An Account of Egypt or Euterpe is the second in the series. This is an eyewitness account of life in Egypt written in a simple style which is pleasing to read. |
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An Account of Egypt - Herodotus
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| The struggle by which the Thirteen Colonies on the Atlantic seaboard of North America won independence from Great Britain and became the United States. It is also called the American War of Independence. This book describes the causes and the history of the war. |
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The American Revolution - John Fiske
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| It is a novel book. During the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time. Sea levels were lower and Ireland, like Great Britain, formed part of continental Europe. By 12,000 BC, rising sea levels due to ice melting caused Ireland to become separated from Great Britain. Later, around 5600 BC, Great Britain itself became separated from continental Europe. There is no evidence of any humans being in Ireland before Mesolithic people arrived by boat from Britain between 8000 BC and 7000 BC. From about 4500 BC Neolithic settlers arrived introducing cereal cultivars, a housing culture (similar to those of the same period in Scotland) and stone monuments. A more advanced agriculture was to develop. At the Céide Fields, preserved beneath a blanket of peat in present-day County Mayo, is an extensive field system, arguably the oldest in the world, dating from not long after this period. Consisting of small divisions separated by dry-stone walls, the fields were farmed for several centuries between 3500 BC and 3000 BC. Wheat and barley were the principal crops imported from the Iberian Peninsula. |
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About Ireland - Elizabeth Lynn Linton
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| The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, or as it usually appears in modern English translations, The Jewish War - original title: Phlauiou Iôsêpou historia Ioudaïkou polemou pros Rhômaious bibliona) is a book written by the 1st century Jewish historian Josephus. It is a description of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC to the fall and destruction of Jerusalem in the First Jewish-Roman War in AD 70. The book was written about 75, originally in Josephus's "paternal tongue", probably Aramaic, though this version has not survived. It was later translated into Greek, probably under the supervision of Josephus himself. |
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The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem - Flavius Josephus
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| This book about the history of beginning of the nineteenth century when Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub lieutenant who made himself an emperor, who at his pleasurre made kings and destroyed kingdoms, the ancient eastern part of the contient. |
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Ali Pacha - Alexandre Dumas
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| This book is a novel by Victor Hugo about Napoleon III's takeover of France. |
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The History of a Crime - Victor Hugo
| Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia, And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound, In The Years 1840-1 is an 1845 book written by Edward John Eyre and illustrated by Samuel Thomas Gill. It comprises the edited journals of Eyre's explorations in Australia. The journals were effectively written during Eyre's explorations. Eyre prepared them for publication while en route to London by ship in 1844. The following year, they were published in two volumes by T & W Boone. |
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02 - Edward John Eyre
| Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia, And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound, In The Years 1840-1 is an 1845 book written by Edward John Eyre and illustrated by Samuel Thomas Gill. It comprises the edited journals of Eyre's explorations in Australia. The journals were effectively written during Eyre's explorations. Eyre prepared them for publication while en route to London by ship in 1844. The following year, they were published in two volumes by T & W Boone. |
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 01 - Edward John Eyre
| Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia, And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound, In The Years 1840-1 is an 1845 book written by Edward John Eyre and illustrated by Samuel Thomas Gill. It comprises the edited journals of Eyre's explorations in Australia. The journals were effectively written during Eyre's explorations. Eyre prepared them for publication while en route to London by ship in 1844. The following year, they were published in two volumes by T & W Boone. |
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Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete - Edward John Eyre
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| It is object of this book to trace the story of Japan from its beginnings to the establishment of constitutional government. Concerned as this story is with the period of vague and legendary antiquity as well as with the disorders of mediaeval time and with centuries of seclusion, it is plain that it is not an easy task to present a trustworthy and connected account of the momentous changes through which the empire has been called to pass. |
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Japan - David Murray
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| These letters are really a must read. They are short and really important to history. Henry VIII hated writing letters with a passion, and here he is writing to Anne, often signing "your loving Sovereign and friend":). This can be treated as the short essays of history. |
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The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn - King of England Henry VIII
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| He remembered how it had seemed to him to him, a priest sweet to die if he might die clasping unrebuked this woman in his arms. The blood throbbed in his temples as he recalled the wild thoughts that had swirled in a mad throng through his brain in those moments which had seemed like hours; the blood throbbed, too, in his wounded arm, so that a groan forced itself through his parched lips. He was constantly throwing himself to and fro as if to escape from some teasing thought, always to be by the sharp pang in his wound brought to a sense of his condition. The whole night passed in an agony of mind and body. |
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
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| Beyond the question of certainty is the question of detachment. The process by which principles are discovered and appropriated is other than that by which, in practice, they are applied; and our most sacred and disinterested convictions ought to take shape in the tranquil regions of the air, above the tumult and the tempest of active life.  For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one for opposition and another for office. History compels us to fasten on abiding issues, and rescues us from the temporary and transient. Politics and history are interwoven, but are not commensurate. Ours is a domain that reaches farther than affairs of state, and is not subject to the jurisdiction of governments. |
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A Lecture on the Study of History - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
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| It is a history book. We may hold that the historian should confine himself to giving a record of the objective facts, which can be fully given in dates, statistics, and phenomena seen from outside. But if we allow ourselves to contemplate a philosophical history, which shall deal with the causes of events and aim at exhibiting the evolution of human society--and perhaps I ought to apologise for even suggesting that such an ideal could ever be realised--we should also see that the history of literature would be a subordinate element of the whole structure. The political, social, ecclesiastical, and economical factors, and their complex actions and reactions, would all have to be taken. |
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English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century - Leslie Stephen
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| Antoine-Henri Jomini's The Art of War, which is the foundation of professional military education in the Western world." - from the new introduction .Antoine Henri de Jomini's The Art of War is considered by many to be the definitive work on military strategy and tactics. His impact on professional military thinking, doctrine and vocabulary is unparalleled by any other military theoretician. |
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The Art of War - Henri Jomini
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| This book gives a great historical snapshot of New York in its early growth in the 1860s. Written from a religious and rather puritanical viewpoint it nevertheless paints a fascinating picture of the "big city" before it became the "gigantic city". |
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The Secrets of the Great City - James Dabney McCabe
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| A Short History of the English People, which appeared in 1874, and at once gave him an assured place in the first rank of historical writers. |
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History of the English People, Volume VIII - John Richard Green
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| The book appears originally to have been written for boys, and, indeed, the chapters are called "Lessons". However, it is a very readable history and provides a fascinating insight into both London's past and the government of the City at the time the book was written |
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The History of London - Walter Besant
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| The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green's monumental work, the aim of which is so aptly defined by its full title, A Short History of the English People. This story of our island race from the year 449 to 1960 concentrates, more on the generations that have made up the realm than on a chronicle of its kings and battles" |
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History of the English People, Volume I - John Richard Green
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| According to the author’s introduction, this 1891 book offers “a brief sketch of Britain under the early English conquerors, rather from the social than from the political point of view.” |
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Anglo-Saxon Britain - Grant Allen
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| Es un estracto- De orden de V. A. he visto con gusto la Relación historial de los indios que llaman Chiquitos, etc., y me persuado que el ministro evangélico que fuere menos fervoroso, la leerá con sentimiento y rubor, comparando el apostólico celo de aquellos incomparables misioneros con su tibieza, y sólo sentirá alivio en su dolor pidiendo á Dios que por su infinita piedad se compadezca de los años que ha mal empleado en ociosidad. |
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Relación historial de las misiones de indios chiquitos que en el Paraguay tienen los padres de la Compañía de Jesús - Juan Patricio Fernández
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| Surveys the land and people of Egypt before taking the development of the nation through historic chapters. Told in a level of detail to rival Breasted's classic work on Egypt, this earlier study makes fascinating reading. |
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Ancient Egypt - George Rawlinson
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| The literary education of a Spartan youth was of a most restricted kind. He was taught to despise literature as unworthy of a warrior, while the study of eloquence and philosophy, which were cultivated at Athens with such extraordinary success, was regarded at Sparta with contempt. |
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A Smaller history of Greece - William Smith
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| A book of criticism by the English dramatic critic and author, Edward Dutton Cook, in which he criticizes the transactions of the British theatre. The book includes collections and records of the histrionic life and every other thing related to the theatre. |
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A Book of the Play - Dutton Cook
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| This book is the collection of different type of essay. It is a historical book. What is to be thought of her? What is to be thought of the poor shepherd girl from the hills and forests of Lorraine, that--like the Hebrew shepherd boy from the hills and forests of Judaea--rose suddenly out of the quiet, out of the safety, out of the religious inspiration, rooted in deep pastoral solitudes, to a station in the van of armies, and to the more perilous station at the right hand of kings? The Hebrew boy inaugurated his patriotic mission by an act, by a victorious act, such as no man could deny. But so did the girl of Lorraine, if we read her story as it was read by those who saw her nearest. |
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Miscellaneous Essays - Thomas De Quincey
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| A Short History of the English People, which appeared in 1874, and at once gave him an assured place in the first rank of historical writers. |
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History of the English People, Index - John Richard Green
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| "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries (The War Commentaries of Julius Caesar: The War in Gaul and The Civil War)' is a collection of war writings by Julius Caesar. Included in this volume are the first hand recollections of one the most important figures in the history of human civilization, Julius Caesar. 'The Gallic War (Books 1-8)' and 'The Civil War (Books 1-3)' as translated by W. A. Macdevitt are included in this volume. |
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"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries - Julius Caesar
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| This is a Historical book. For the last twenty-five years, the writer of this work has employed much of his time in the reading and study of the controversy between Roman Catholics and Protestants. And those who have been subscribers to the paper he has edited and published for the Last Seventeen Years, will bear him witness that he has kept up a fierce and unceasing fire against that dangerous and immoral Corporation, claiming the right to be called the Holy Catholc Church. This he has done, and still continues to do, because he believes firmly that the system of Popery, as taught in the standards of the Church of Rome, as enforced by her Bishops and Priests, and as believed and practised by the great body of Romanists, both in Europe and America, is at war with the true religion taught in the Bible, and is injurious to the public and private morals of the civilized world; and, if unchecked, will overturn the civil and religious liberties of the United States. Such, he believes, is its tendency and the design of its leaders. |
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Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; - William Gannaway Brownlow
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| The past has a charms for the Americans. The articles in the collection have been taken by competent artists from the originals of which they purport to be fac-similies . |
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American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 02 - John Fanning Watson
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| "It is but a step from Confucius to confusion", said I, in a brief discussion of the Chinese question. "Then let us take it by all means", replied the artist, who had been an indulgent listener for at least ten minutes. We were strolling upon the verge of the Chinese Quarter in San Francisco, and, turning aside from one of the chief thoroughfares of the city, we plunged into the busiest portion of Chinatown. From our standpoint the corner of Kearny and Sacramento Streets we got the most favorable view of our Mongolian neighbors. Here is a goodly number of merchant gentlemen of wealth and station, comfortably, if not elegantly, housed on two sides of a street that climbs a low hill quite in the manner of a tea box landscape. A few of these gentlemen lodge on the upper floors of their business houses, with Chinese wives, and quaint, old fashioned children gaudily dressed, looking like little idols, chatting glibly with one another, and gracefully gesticulating with hands of exquisite slenderness. Confucius, in his infancy, may have been like one of the least of these. There are white draymen and porters in the employ of these shrewd and civil merchants, and the outward appearance of traffic, as conducted in the immediate vicinity, is rather American than otherwise. |
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A Bit of Old China - Charles Warren Stoddard
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| An indispensable reference for the history of monasticism in the western work, Montalembert's seven-volume masterpiece on the subject still reads with depth and conviction. Covering the monastic movement from its precursors to the period of the Venerable Bede, this set contains substantial information on a number of western saints. |
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The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea - George Rawlinson
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| The historical book deals with the American revolution. Since the year 1875 we have witnessed, in many parts of the United States, public processions, meetings, and speeches in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of some important event in the course of our struggle for national independence. This series of centennial celebrations, which has been of great value in stimulating American patriotism and awakening throughout the country a keen interest in American history, will naturally come to an end in 1889. |
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The War of Independence - John Fiske
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| period of the Continental Congress and the Articles of Confederation. Elucidates the origins of the colonial governments by the regions and their eventual development into statehood. |
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The Critical Period of American History - John Fiske
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| The American Crisis (1776- 1783), a pro-revolutionary pamphlet series, which learns about the mentality of those during the Revolutionary War. |
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Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis - Thomas Paine
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| François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revolution of 1830, then in government service to the "citizen king" Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His "Popular History of France" is an attractive and engrossing narravative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black, first published in 1898. |
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A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 - François Guizot
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| Le caractère commun de toute la race gallique, dit Strabon d'après le philosophe Posidonius, c'est qu'elle est irritable et folle de guerre, prompte au combat, du reste simple et sans malignité. Si on les irrite, ils marchent ensemble droit à l'ennemi, et l'attaquent de front, sans s'informer d'autre chose. Aussi, par la ruse, on en vient aisément à bout; on les attire au combat quand on veut, où l'on veut, peu importent les motifs; ils sont toujours prêts, n'eussent-ils d'autre arme que leur force et leur audace. Toutefois, par la persuasion, ils se laissent amener sans peine aux choses utiles; ils sont susceptibles de culture et d'instruction littéraire. Forts de leur haute taille et de leur nombre, ils s'assemblent aisément en grande foule, simples qu'ils sont et spontanés, prenant volontiers en main la cause de celui qu'on opprime'. Tel est le premier regard de la philosophie sur la plus sympathique et la plus perfectible des races humaines. Le génie de ces Galls ou Celtes n'est d'abord autre chose que mouvement, attaque et conquête; c'est par la guerre que se mêlent et se rapprochent les nations antiques. Peuple de guerre et de bruit, ils courent le monde l'épée à la main, moins, ce semble, par avidité que par un vague et vain désir de voir, de savoir, d'agir; brisant, détruisant, faute de pouvoir produire encore. Ce sont les enfants du monde naissant; de grands corps mous, blancs et blonds; de l'élan, peu de force et d'haleine; jovialité féroce, espoir immense. Vains, n'ayant rien encore rencontré qui tînt devant eux, ils voulurent aller voir ce que c'était que cet Alexandre, ce conquérant de l'Asie, devant la face duquel les rois s'évanouissaient d'effroi[5]. Que craignez-vous? leur demanda l'homme terrible. Que le ciel ne tombe, dirent-ils; il n'en eut pas d'autre réponse. Le ciel lui-même ne les effrayait guère; ils lui lançaient des flèches quand il tonnait. Si l'Océan même se débordait et venait à eux, ils ne refusaient pas le combat, et marchaient à lui l'épée à la main. C'était leur point d'honneur de ne jamais reculer; ils s'obstinaient souvent à rester sous un toit embrasé. Aucune nation ne faisait meilleur marché de sa vie. On en voyait qui, pour quelque argent, pour un peu de vin, s'engageaient à mourir; ils montaient sur une estrade, distribuaient à leurs amis le vin ou l'argent, se couchaient sur leurs boucliers, et tendaient la gorge. |
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Histoire de France - Jules Michelet
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| This books contains eventful period of American history Commencing its career with the Republic slavery grew with its growth and strengthened with its strength. The dark spectre kept pace and company with liberty until separated by the sword Beginning with the struggle for restriction or extension of slavery. The development and decay of anti slavery sentiment at the South the pious efforts of the good Quakers to ameliorate the condition of the slaves the service of Negroes as soldiers and sailors the anti slavery agitation movement the insurrections of slaves the national legislation on the slavery question the John Brown movement the war for the Union the valorous conduct of Negro soldiers the emancipation proclamations the reconstruction of the late Confederate States the errors of reconstruction the results of emancipation vital prison labor educational financial and social statistics the exodus cause and effect and a sober prophecy of the future |
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History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) - George Washington Williams
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| This book deals with the enlightment of English history. A very detailed and researched historic book that covers the historical events and phases of England written in a unique writing style. |
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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. - David Hume
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| Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley, George Bancroft, and Henry Adams. Parkman has been hailed as one of America's great historians and as a master of narrative history. He is most known for his The Oregon Trail and his seven volume work on the history of the French and English in North America. A Half Century of Conflict is the sixth volume of the series but was the last to be published in 1892. |
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A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - Francis Parkman
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| David Hume brings the history to life with just the details needed to remember leaders & events as well as the general condition of society during each era. . |
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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. - David Hume
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| Jacob Abbott's classic historical text for younger readers gives a thorough account of the life of Genghis Khan, famed for his military exploits, supreme ferocity and bloodthirstiness, but also his loyalty, generosity and religious tolerance. It is also highly informative about the background of his life, the society and culture he lived in and the historical context of his extraordinary career. |
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Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series - Jacob Abbott
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| He would find himself richly repaid for a sojourn in some insignificant place the very name of which is unknown beyond sea, --just as Mr. Mackenzie Wallace--whose book on Russia is a model of what such books should be--got so much invaluable experience from his months of voluntary exile at Ivánofka in the province of Novgorod. |
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American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History - John Fiske
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| On the one hand the judiciary was pronounced to be stripped of its capacity to enforce the laws; crimes which reached the very existence of social order were perpetrated without control; the friends of Government were insulted, abused, and overawed into silence or an apparent acquiescence; and to yield to the treasonable fury of so small a portion of the United States would be to violate the fundamental principle of our Constitution, which enjoins that the will of the majority shall prevail. |
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State of the Union Address - George Washington
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| I have tried to follow as closely as possible the original, and to give the flavour of the text that Hobbes himself proof read, but the following differences were unavoidable. Hobbes used capitals and italics very extensively, for emphasis, for proper names, for quotations, and sometimes, it seems, just because. The original has very extensive margin notes, which are used to show where he introduces the definitions of words and concepts, to give in short the subject that a paragraph or section is dealing with, and to give references to his quotations, largely but not exclusively biblical. |
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Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
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| It is a Historical book. There is an especial charm in following, century after century, the history of the English nation, in considering the antagonism of the elements out of which it is composed, and its share in the fortunes and enterprises of that great community of western nations to which it belongs; but it will be readily granted that no other period can be compared in general importance with the epoch of those religious and political wars which fill the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
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A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) - Leopold von Ranke
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| In December 1812, I found a schooner fitting out of Salem as a privateer. She had only four carriage guns and ninety men. By the fifth of January, 1813, she was ready to sail and only wanted some young man to go as assistant surgeon of her. The offer was made to me, when without much reflection or consultation of friends, I stepped on board her in that capacity, with no other ideas than that of a pleasant cruise and making a fortune. With this in view we steered for the coast of Brazil, which we reached about the first of February. Our first land-fall was not the most judicious, for we made the coast in the night, and in the morning found ourselves surrounded with breakers. Fortunately for us a Portuguese schooner was outside of us, and we hoisted out our boat and went on board her and received from her commander and officers directions for clearing ourselves from these dangerous breakers. We were then about sixty miles below Cape St. Roque. The captain of the Portuguese vessel kindly informed us where to get water, in a bay then before us. We had English colours flying, and all this time passed for a British vessel. |
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A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. - Benjamin Waterhouse
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| This is a short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great. |
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The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended - Isaac Newton
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| This volume contains a reverie on the boyhood of Hippolytus, 'Hippolytus Veiled' (first published in Macmillan's Magazine in 1889), which has been called "the finest prose ever inspired by Euripides". |
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Greek Studies: a Series of Essays - Walter Pater
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| Luther's writings were now circulated most widely, reaching France, England, and Italy as early as 1519, and students thronged to Wittenberg to hear Luther, who had been joined by Melanchthon in 1518, and now published his shorter commentary on Galatians and his Operationes in Psalmos, while at the same time he received deputations from Italy and from the Utraquists of Bohemia. |
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Works of Martin Luther - Martin Luther
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| The revenue of France was near twenty millions when Lewis XVI. , finding it inadequate, called upon the nation for supply. In a single lifetime it rose to far more than one hundred millions, while the national income grew still more rapidly; and this increase was wrought by a class to whom the ancient monarchy denied its best rewards, and whom it deprived of power in the country they enriched. As their industry effected change in the distribution of property, and wealth ceased to be the prerogative of a few, the excluded majority perceived that their disabilities rested on no foundation of right and justice, and were unsupported by reasons of State. They proposed that the prizes in the Government, the Army, and the Church should be given to merit among the active and necessary portion of the people, and that no privilege injurious to them should be reserved for the unprofitable minority. Being nearly an hundred to one, they deemed that they were virtually the substance of the nation, and they claimed to govern themselves with a power proportioned to their numbers. They demanded that the State should be reformed, that the ruler should be their agent, not their master. |
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Lectures on the French Revolution - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
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| If I had been guided by my judgment alone it is not probable that these notes of the debates in the Conference, held upon the invitation of Virginia, at Washington, in the month of February, 1861, would have been made public. From the commencement of its sessions, a portion of the members were in favor of the daily publication of the proceedings. I was disposed to go farther and have the sessions open to the public; but this proposition was opposed by a large majority. |
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A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention - Lucius Eugene Chittenden
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| This book is an illustrated version of the original An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal by Francis Hamilton. “The account of Sikim is chiefly taken from a Lama, or priest of Buddha, who, with part of his flock, had fled into the district of Puraniya, to escape from the violence of the Gorkhalese, and who constructed a map of the country, which I have deposited in the Company’s library. Besides the Lama, I consulted many of the natives of the Company’s territory, who had visited the lower parts of Sikim, and several of the Gorkhalese, and other people of Nepal; and Mr Smith, of Nathpur, favoured me with several particulars, collected by a Mr Pagan for the information of government. ” |
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An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal - Francis Hamilton
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| A Walk from London to Fulham is a Historical book. There have been many important changes between London to Fulham. On the road: time has continued to efface interesting associations; more old houses have been pulled down, new ones built up, and great alterations and improvements have taken place not contemplated a few years ago. It would be impossible, for example, that any one who has not visited the locality during the last few years could recognize the narrow lanes of yesterday in the fine roads now diverging beyond the South Kensington Museum, which building has so recently been erected at the commencement of Old Brompton; but modern improvements are seemingly endless, and have of late become frequent. It is in the belief that the following pages will be an interesting and acceptable record of many places no longer in existence, that they are submitted to the public in their present shape. |
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A Walk from London to Fulham - Thomas Crofton Croker
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| A decent account of the life of Xerxes. Most of the book tells the story of Xerxes attack on Greece. Key players in history, including Leonidas of Sparta, make appearances. So does Artemisia, the female Persian general who was highly praised by the king and forgotten by history. |
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Xerxes - Jacob Abbott
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| It is a social history book. These and many other causes conspired to unite the nations of Europe in a more intimate connexion and a more constant intercourse, and of consequence made the regulation of their intercourse more necessary, and the law that was to govern it more important. In proportion as they approached to the condition of provinces of the same empire, it became almost as essential that Europe should have a precise and comprehensive code of the law of nations, as that each country should have a system of municipal law. |
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A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations - James Mackintosh
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| It may seem surprising that an American House of Representatives should have been so ignorant of the meaning of a common word as to apply the term "commerce" to the carrying trade, when in the session of 1869 it commissioned Hon. John Lynch, of Maine, and his associated committee "to investigate the cause of the decadence of American commerce", and to suggest a remedy by which it might be restored. |
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Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade - John Codman
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| Contains short articles about French history, starting with the earlier Kings up to the French Revolution and its outcomes. |
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History of France - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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| It is a history book. In the administration of a government pledged to do equal and exact justice to all men there should be no pretext for anxiety touching the protection of the freedmen in their rights or their security in the enjoyment of their privileges under the Constitution and its amendments. All discussion as to their fitness for the place accorded to them as American citizens is idle and unprofitable except as it suggests the necessity for their improvement. The fact that they are citizens entitles them to all the rights due to that relation and charges them with all its duties, obligations, and responsibilities. These topics and the constant and ever-varying wants of an active and enterprising population may well receive the attention and the patriotic endeavor of all who make and execute the Federal law. |
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Grover Cleveland
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| Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley, George Bancroft, and Henry Adams. Parkman has been hailed as one of America's great historians and as a master of narrative history. He is most known for his The Oregon Trail and his seven volume work on the history of the French and English in North America. A Half Century of Conflict is the sixth volume of the series but was the last to be published in 1892. |
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A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II - Francis Parkman
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| Although I can not yet congratulate you on the reestablishment of peace in Europe and the restoration of security to the persons and properties of our citizens from injustice and violence at sea, we have, nevertheless, abundant cause of gratitude to the source of benevolence and influence for interior tranquillity and personal security, for propitious seasons, prosperous agriculture, productive fisheries, and general improvements, and, above all, for a rational spirit of civil and religious liberty and a calm but steady determination to support our sovereignty, as well as our moral and our religious principles, against all open and secret attacks. |
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State of the Union Address - John Adams
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| This is is history book. The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the question of human freedom and his rationalist optimism. Volume 1 covers the background of the war, through the Battle of Prague in late 1620. |
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The History of the Thirty Years' War - Friedrich Schiller
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| This is a history adventure book. As soon as the horses belonging to the cavalry, and the military stores had been landed, it was decided that we should advance upon Scinde in two divisions; the infantry under the command of Brigadier Sir Thomas Wiltshire, and the Cavalry under Brigadier Scott. Previous to our departure the troops were reviewed by Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, who had followed us from Bombay in the Victoria steamer. Sir John expressed himself in terms of warm satisfaction at the high state of discipline and ardour of the men, who were eager to be led against the enemy. The usual precautions on entering hostile territories were now taken, the Cavalry being ordered to sharpen their sabres, and the Infantry served with sixty rounds of ball cartridge. |
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Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan - William Taylor
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| They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. |
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
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| The frontispiece portrait of Gibbon is after Sir Joshua Reynolds, the three engraved folding maps are of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire, and a folding map of Constantinople. This book is a study of Rome which is based on what Gibbon wrote over two hundred years ago. |
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
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| A Historical book which tells the History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. The revolution through which Scotland and England were passing was visibly modified by it ; it perplexed the counsels and complicated the policy of the great Catholic Powers of the Continent ; while the ultimate verdict of history on the character of the greatest English statesmen of the age must depend upon the opinion which the eventual consent of mankind shall accept on the share of the Queen of Scots herself in that transaction. If the Queen of Scots was the victim of a conspiracy, which at the present day and with an imperfect case before us can nevertheless be seen through and exposed, it is impossible to believe that men like Sir William Cecil, Sir Nicholas Bacon, or Lord Bedford were deceived by so poor a contrivance ; and as the vindication of the conduct of the English Government proceeds on the assumption of her guilt, so the determination of her innocence will equally be the absolute condemnation of Elizabeth and Elizabeth's advisers. Yet the difficulty of the investigation has been occasioned only by the causes which make it necessary. Had the question been no more than personal, it would long ago have been decided; but we have to do with a case on which men have formed their opinions, not on the merits of the evidence, but through the . passions or traditions of the party to which they have belonged. The interests of the Catholics required at the time that a plea of innocence on behalf of the Queen of Scots should formally be preferred before the world. |
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History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. - James Anthony Froude
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| A Short History of the English People, which appeared in 1874, and at once gave him an assured place in the first rank of historical writers. |
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History of the English People, Volume VII - John Richard Green
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| Dos grandes continentes que compõe o denominado velho Mundo, é certamente a Africa aquelle cuja exploração hoje em dia se tornou de preferencia o objecto da attenção geral dos governos das nações civilisadas, e isto por tão variados titulos, como os que podem dizer respeito ás investigações geographicas, ao conhecimento da importancia de seus productos, ás condições da sua população, e á influencia que lhe póde caber no futuro movimento commercial do Mundo. |
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A Influencia Europea na Africa perante a Civilisação e as Relações Internacionaes - Carlos Testa
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| Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as abolition. For many abolitionists, slavery was the preeminent moral issue of the day, and their opposition to slavery was rooted in deeply held religious beliefs. Quakers formed a significant part of the abolitionist movement in colonial times, as did certain Founding Fathers like Benjamin Franklin. Many other prominent opponents of slavery based their opposition in Enlightenment ideals and natural law. American abolitionists during the Constitutional Convention worked against the three-fifths compromise, and also attempted to get the Constitution to ban the Atlantic slave trade. Although the three-fifths compromise became a part of the Constitution, abolitionists managed to persuade the convention to allow Congress to ban the Atlantic slave trade after 1808. Other abolitionists tried to help slaves directly, by helping them escape to the North. After the Fugitive Slave Act mandated the return of escaped slaves, abolitionists helped escaped slaves travel to Canada. In addition, many northern politicians opposed restricting slavery as either practically impossible or dangerous. In the years after the Atlantic slave trade was banned in 1808, abolitionists focused their political efforts on preventing the spread of slavery to the new territory of the Louisiana Purchase. Pro-slavery politicians likewise attempted to spread slavery to new states. Every time a new state formed from Louisiana territory was to enter the Union, intense political wrangling took place over whether the new state would be slave or free. The political wrangling often broke into violence. By the middle of the 19th century, slavery had created a fevered pitch in the politics of the country, as abolitionists and slavery proponents fought a war of words and actual wars in Kansas and Nebraska. While the South postured for secession, abolitionists, both white and black, created a stronger movement in the Northeast in places like Boston. Ultimately the issue would have to be settled via civil war. |
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History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - George Washington Williams
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| François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revolution of 1830, then in government service to the "citizen king" Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His "Popular History of France" is an attractive and engrossing narravative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black, first published in 1898. |
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A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 - François Guizot
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| François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revolution of 1830, then in government service to the "citizen king" Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His "Popular History of France" is an attractive and engrossing narravative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black, first published in 1898. |
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A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 - François Guizot
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| François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revolution of 1830, then in government service to the "citizen king" Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His "Popular History of France" is an attractive and engrossing narrative, here presented in an easily readable English translation. |
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A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 - François Guizot
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| Of the great incidents of History, none has attracted more attention or proved more difficult of interpretation than the French Revolution. The ultimate significance of other striking events and their place in the development of mankind can be readily estimated. It is clear enough that the barbarian invasions marked the death of the classical world, already mortally wounded by the rise of Christianity. It is clear enough that the Renaissance emancipated the human intellect from the trammels of a bastard mediaevalism, that the Reformation consolidated the victory of the "new learning" by including theology among the subjects of human debate. But the French Revolution seems to defy complete analysis. Its complexity was great, its contradictions numerous and astounding. A movement ostensibly directed against despotism culminated in the establishment of a despotism far more complete than that which had been overthrown. The apostles of liberty proscribed whole classes of their fellow-citizens, drenching in innocent blood the land which they claimed to deliver from oppression. The apostles of equality established a tyranny of horror, labouring to extirpate all who had committed the sin of being fortunate. The apostles of fraternity carried fire and sword to the farthest confines of Europe, demanding that a continent should submit to the arbitrary dictation of a single people. And of the Revolution were born the most rigid of modern codes of law, that spirit of militarism which to-day has caused a world to mourn, that intolerance of intolerance which has armed anti-clerical persecutions in all lands. Nor were the actors in the drama less varied than the scenes enacted. The Revolution produced Mirabeau and Talleyrand, Robespierre and Napoleon, Sieyès and Hébert. The marshals of the First Empire, the doctrinaires of the Restoration, the journalists of the Orleanist monarchy, all were alike the children of this generation of storm and stress, of high idealism and gross brutality, of changing fortunes and glory mingled with disaster. |
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History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 - François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis Mignet
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| We are accustomed to regard the Reign of Charles II. as one of the most inglorious periods of English History; but this was far from being the case. It is true that the extravagance and profligacy of the Court were carried to a point unknown before or since, forming, —by the indignation they excited among the people at large, —the main cause of the overthrow of the House of Stuart. |
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When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire - George Alfred Henty
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| Thomas Hariot made only one expedition, around 1585-86, and spent some time in the New World visiting Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina, expanding his knowledge by improving his understanding of the Carolina Algonquian language. As the only Englishman who had learned Algonkin prior to the voyage, Harriot was vital to the success of the expedition. His account of the voyage, named A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, was published in 1588 (probably written a year before). The Report contains an early account of the Native American population encountered by the expedition; it proved very influential upon later English explorers and colonists. |
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A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia - Thomas Hariot
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| This book is the third of seven volumes of the works of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, edited by Arthur Brooks Lapsley and published in 1905. This volume contains part I of the debates between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas that occurred during the 1958 Illinois Senate campaign, including the first three debates. |
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln & Arthur Brooks Lapsley
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| It is, therefore, in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man. As this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations, both political and metaphysical, we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. |
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Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 - Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
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| The following relation is so curious and entertaining, and the dissertations that accompany it so judicious and instructive, that the translator is confident his attempt stands in need of no apology, whatever censures may fall on the performance. The Portuguese traveller, contrary to the general vein of his countrymen, has amused his reader with no romantic absurdities or incredible fictions; whatever he relates, whether true or not, is at least probable; and he who tells nothing exceeding the bounds of probability has a right to demand that they should believe him who cannot contradict him. |
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A Voyage to Abyssinia - Jeronimo Lobo
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| In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte was Watkin Tench (c. 1758–1833), who wrote about the voyage of what was later known as the First Fleet. He remained in New South Wales, living in Port Jackson (part of present-day Sydney) from 1788 to 1791, and in this work, published in 1793; he gives a vivid, first-hand account of the early years of British settlement. The chapters are chronologically organized and discuss the many challenges settlers in the fledgling colony faced in staying alive, such as illness and lack of food and other provisions. He also recounts the often violent encounters and 'unabated animosity' between the settlers and the aboriginal people, making this work an important source on the colonization of Australia. |
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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson - Watkin Tench
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| Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia is a historical book. A life terminating before it had reached its meridian, can scarcely be expected to furnish materials for an extended biography. But the important position held by my late son, as second in command in what is now so well known as the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition across the Island Continent of Australia; the complicated duties he undertook as Astronomer, Topographer, Journalist, and Surveyor; the persevering skill with which he discharged them, suggesting and regulating the march of the party through a waste of eighteen hundred miles, previously untrodden by European feet; his courage, patience, and heroic death; his self denial in desiring to be left alone in the desert with scarcely a hope of rescue, that his companions might find a chance for themselves; these claims on public attention demand that his name should be handed down to posterity in something more than a mere obituary record, or an official acknowledgment of services. A truthful, though brief, memoir of my son's short career, may furnish a stimulating example, by showing how much can be accomplished in a few years, when habits of prudence and industry have been acquired in early youth. He fell a victim to errors not originating with himself; but he resigned his life without a murmur, having devoted it to science and his country. His death, with the circumstances attending it, furnishes an application of the lines of a favourite poet, which he often quoted with admiration. |
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Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia - William John Wills
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| It is collection of essays concerning the subjects of history and politics. The power of vividly realising and portraying men, or societies or modes of thought that have long since passed away; the power of arranging and combining great multitudes of various facts; the power of judging with discrimination, accuracy, and impartiality conflicting arguments or evidence; the power of tracing through the long course of events the true chain of cause and effect, selecting the facts that are most valuable and significant and explaining the relation between general causes and particular effects, are all very different and belong to different types of mind. |
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Historical and Political Essays - William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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| This book is set in the sixteenth century, at the beginning of the Reformation. The action is in the Weald of Kent, a hugely forested area that extended as far as Hampshire. The family at the centre of the story had been converted to Protestantism, but still outwardly clung to Catholicism. This meant that the local priest, through hearing confessions, knew something of what was going on, and carried the information to the Bishop. One of the younger women of the family had been particularly advanced in her Protestant action and beliefs. She is taken before the Bishop, and is condemned to jail, where she is very badly treated, sleeping on straw, without change of clothing, and fed only on bread and water. The place where she was kept was changed for the better, after she had been brought for further interview before the Bishop. But this was only because she was to be burnt alive, in the manner of Holy Church of those days. |
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All's Well - Emily Sarah Holt
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| Account of a Voyage of Discovery is a Historical book. The book contains a Narrative of the Voyage to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo choo Island. H. M. S. Alceste and Lyra leave the Yellow Sea on a Voyage of Discovery--Sir James Hall's Group on the Coast of Corea--Unsociable Character of the Natives--Hutton's Island--Interesting geological Structure--Anchor near the Main Land--Corean Chief's Visit--Objections made to Strangers landing--Distress of the Chief--His Character--Departure from Basil's Bay--Clusters of Islands--Murray's Sound--Deserted Corean Village--View from the Summit of a high Peak--Interview with the Coreans--Peculiarities of their Character--Language--Erroneous geographical Position of this Coast--Leave Corea. |
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Account of a Voyage of Discovery - Basil Hall
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| As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known to have visited Egypt. Shortly after arriving in Egypt he resigned his commission, converted to Islam and joined Isma'il Pasha in an expedition up the Nile River against Sennar in 1820, winning distinction as an officer of artillery. |
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A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar - George Bethune English
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| A book which describes the Lectures on Modern History delivered by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton in his ordinary course as Professor in the academical years 1899- 1900 and 1900-01. The Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History. |
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Lectures on Modern history - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton
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| François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in the July Revolution of 1830, then in government service to the "citizen king" Louis Philippe, as the Minister of Education, 1832-1837, ambassador to London, Foreign Minister 1840-1847, and finally Prime Minister of France from September 19, 1847 to February 23, 1848. His "Popular History of France" is an attractive and engrossing narrative, here presented in an easily readable English translation by Robert Black. |
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A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 - François Guizot
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| Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), was an English novelist, known for her huge output. She was devoted to the Church of England, and much influenced by John Keble, a near neighbour and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Her novels reflected the values and concerns of Anglo-Catholicism. She began writing in 1848, and published during her long life about 100 works, chiefly novels. Her first commercial success, The Heir of Redclyffe (1854), provided the funding to enable the schooner Southern Cross to be put into service on behalf of George Selwyn. Similar charitable works were done with the profits from later novels. She was also editor, for nearly forty years, of a magazine for young ladies, the Monthly Packet. Among the best known of her works are Heartsease; or, The Brother's Wife (1854), The Daisy Chain; or, Aspirations (1856), A History of Christian Names (1863, revised 1884), A Book of Golden Deeds (1864), The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (1866), Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands (1873) and Hannah More (1888). |
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Young Folks' History of England - Charlotte Mary Yonge
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| This textbook for schools based upon the constitution of 1902 and conforming to the laws enacted in accordance therewith written by William Fayette Fox, Superintendent of schools, Richmond, Virginia. The constitution of 1901-2 made many Important changes in every part of the fundamental law of the State. The text covers general principles bill of rights, legislative, department, executive department, judiciary department, officers of courts, county organization, district organization, government of cities and towns, and education. The section for teachers includes outlines or colonial and state history and the Constitution of Virginia. |
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Civil Government of Virginia - William Fayette Fox
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| It is not my purpose to review our discussions with foreign states, because, whatever might be their wishes or dispositions, the integrity of our country and the stability of our Government mainly depend not upon them, but on the loyalty, virtue, patriotism, and intelligence of the American people. The correspondence itself, with the usual reservations, is herewith submitted. |
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State of the Union Address - Abraham Lincoln
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| The increase of the towns of Manhattan, as, for the sake of convenience, we shall term New York and her adjuncts, in all that contributes to the importance of a great commercial mart, renders them one of the most remarkable places of the present age. Within the distinct recollections of living men, they have grown from a city of the fifth or sixth class to be near the head of all the purely trading places of the known world. That there are sufficient causes for this unparalleled prosperity, will appear in the analysis of the natural advantages of the port, in its position, security, accessories, and scale. |
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New York - James Fenimore Cooper
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| Captain Tench has here given a very satisfactory general account of the voyage of the fleet appointed for the conveyance of the convicts to Botany Bay. --On their arrival there, finding no eligible spot for the intended settlement, they proceeded to Port Jackson, only a few hours sail northward from the bay, and where they found an excellent harbour. Here they fixed, and here perhaps, has been laid the foundation of a great and flourishing state. |
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A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay - Watkin Tench
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| These volumes provides a truly comprehensive account of sea and land voyages, from the time of Alfred the Great in the ninth century to the great voyages of Captain Cook at the end of the eighteenth century. The discovery of Iceland by the Norwegians, the early discovery of America by the Icelandic peoples in the year 1001, the journey of Contarini into Persia, the voyages and travels into Egypt, Syria, Arabia, Persia and India by Ludovico Verthema, the voyages of the East India Company, the discovery of Florida, the voyages to Newfoundland and Canada by Jacques Cartier, and an historical account of the early circumnavigations of the globe are among the many accounts included. The eighteen volumes cover Europe, Africa, Asia, America, Polynesia and Australia and include a particularly fine account of Captain Cook's voyages. Kerr includes accounts of travel and exploration not easily obtained elsewhere as well as rendering into English for the first time others previously unavailable in the English tongue. |
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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 - Robert Kerr
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| The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. It has obtained undisputed possession, as rightful occupant, of the vast period which it comprehends. However some subjects, which it embraces, may have undergone more complete investigation, on the general view of the whole period, this history is the sole undisputed authority to which all defer, and from which few appeal to the original writers, or to more modern compilers. |
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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon
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| The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green's monumental work, the aim of which is so aptly defined by its full title, A Short History of the English People. This story of our island race from the year 449 to 1960 concentrates, more on the generations that have made up the realm than on a chronicle of its kings and battles" |
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History of the English People, Volume V - John Richard Green
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| The story from the landing of Hengest, 449 To the Death of Elizabeth I, 1610. "Milton's couplet from the Sonnet to Cromwell might well describe Green's monumental work, the aim of which is so aptly defined by its full title, A Short History of the English People. This story of our island race from the year 449 to 1960 concentrates, more on the generations that have made up the realm than on a chronicle of its kings and battles" |
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History of the English People, Volume III - John Richard Green
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| Ein Quellenbuch mit Urkunden, Briefen und sonstigen Aktenstücken zur Geschichte des Deutschen Zollvereins dürfte auf allgemeines Interesse kaum rechnen und müßte bei der Länge der Zeit, über die sich die Verhandlungen hinschleppten, nur ein kümmerlicher Torso sein, der niemand gefiele. Dagegen darf die klassische Darstellung, die Heinrich v. Treitschke in seiner Deutschen Geschichte im 19.  Jahrhundert dieser größten Schöpfung der Friedensregierung Friedrich Wilhelms III. gewidmet hat, selbst den Wert einer Quelle beanspruchen, da sie auf einem umfassenden Studium aller in Betracht kommenden Akten und Briefwechsel beruht, von denen die wenigsten der wissenschaftlichen Forschung bisher durch den Druck zugänglich gemacht sind. |
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Die Gründung des Deutschen Zollvereins - Heinrich von Treitschke
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