Early Modern

The Court and Character of King James whereunto Is Now Added the Court of King Charles: Continued unto the Beginning of These Unhappy Times: with Some Observations upon Him Instead of a Character

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Anthony Weldon



Gossipy exposés of shenanigans at the heart of government are nothing new. The author, Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648), was a courtier…

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…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

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Giorgio Vasari



The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

The Cossacks: Their History and Country

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William Penn Cresson



One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack s…

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Volume 1

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William Godwin



It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…

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…

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1

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John Tulloch



This work addresses the birth and development of a rationalist stream in the Christianity of England in the seventeenth century. In this vol…

The Historical Evolution of the Ukrainian Problem

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky



A short history of Ukrainian national aspirations, written by one of the most prominent Ukrainian historians. Published in the early months …

The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South

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Mary Johnston



In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

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John M. Douglass



Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation

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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 Outline History of Japan

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Herbert Henry Gowen



A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek

Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical Mysticism

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Max Heindel



In “Gleanings of a Mystic” are found twenty-four lessons which were formerly sent out to students. It is the wish of the writer of this intr…

The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England

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Charles Andrews, Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris



This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …

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…

The South American Republics, Part II

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Thomas Cleland Dawson



This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, a…

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…

La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

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Francis Parkman, Jr.



Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Eighteenth Century (National History of France)

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Casimir Stryienski



This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, The Wars of Religion

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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…

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