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Samuel Smiles’s The Huguenots in France explores persecution, exile, and endurance in French Protestant history.

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An account of one of America's great public universities, its founding, growth and character.

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Sabine Baring-Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events gathers local lives, folklore, and unusual incidents from Cornwall.

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A classic culinary history text associated with Apicius, illuminating Roman food, dining, and elite taste.

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John Austin Stevens’s Albert Gallatin offers a concise portrait of a major American statesman and diplomat.

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A firsthand narrative of three years with the Sixth Corps in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 through the closing of the American Civil War: campaigns, battles, and army life see

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A vivid narrative history of decisive naval battles across the ages, from the ancient Greek triumph at Salamis to the modern clash at Tsushima, charting how sea power has shaped th

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A nineteenth-century work of comparative anthropology tracing how marriage and family life were thought to have developed across human societies, written in the confident, sweeping

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Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.

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A gallery of England's oddest characters and strangest doings, gathered from history and legend into an affectionate celebration of misers, hermits, impostors, cranks and curiositi

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A documentary history of Dutch voyages to the great southern land, tracing how the navigators of the Netherlands charted the coasts of Australia long before the British arrived.

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Charles Beresford recalls a life spanning the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy, from sea service and colonial campaigns to a public career in Parliament.

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Andrew Lang trades fairy tales for true ones in this companion to his famous colour-titled series: real episodes from history retold with a storyteller's flair.

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The opening volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan lays the foundations of his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their origins, chivalry and an

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Plutarch's celebrated parallel biographies of the great figures of Greece and Rome.

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Frank Everett Stevens's detailed history of the 1832 Black Hawk War, with an account of the Sauk leader Black Hawk's life.

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The first volume of a nineteenth-century study of the women who inspired the poets: portraits of the muses and beloveds celebrated in verse, from the age of the troubadours onward.

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Sidney and Beatrice Webb's pioneering history of the British trade union movement, tracing its rise from early combinations to organised labour.

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Henry Charles Lea extends his monumental study of the Spanish Inquisition beyond Spain itself, tracing how the tribunal operated across Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canarie

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A wide-ranging nineteenth-century medical and cultural history of circumcision across peoples and eras, setting out the moral and physical arguments made for the practice through t

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A wide-ranging Victorian-era survey of Christmas across many centuries: its origins, customs, historical episodes, and the songs, feasts, and festivities that gathered around the m

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A regimental history of the Second Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, in the South African War of 1899 to 1902: the marches, battles, and service of one Irish battalion through the

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A military surgeon's firsthand account of wound treatment during the South African War, recording the injuries, methods and hard-won lessons of the battlefield.

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The third volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their dynasties, traditions and antiquities in central

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A classic study of Geoffrey de Mandeville and the anarchy of King Stephen's reign, using one turbulent baron's career to illuminate a chaotic chapter of medieval England.

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A Victorian naval memoir of anti-piracy patrols along the Borneo coast, entwined with the extraordinary career of James Brooke, the English adventurer who became Rajah of Sarawak.

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Alice Morse Earle's richly detailed portrait of everyday life in early America — the homes, food, work, and customs of colonial households.

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A scholarly history of the turbulent early years of King Henry III of England, when a boy king inherited a realm in crisis and others governed in his name during his minority.

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A detailed history of Britain's fraught relationship with the American Civil War, examining diplomacy, public opinion and the tensions that nearly drew the two nations into open co

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A collection of short stories about Pennsylvania, originally prepared for publication in the state's leading daily newspapers, offering brief tales drawn from its people, places an

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The vivid, troubling first-hand narrative of a nineteenth-century adventurer's years in the Atlantic slave trade.

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A historical study of William Pitt the Younger and Britain's recovery and resurgence under his leadership.

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Julia Cartwright's graceful biography brings to life Beatrice d'Este, the brilliant young Duchess of Milan whose short career sat at the dazzling, dangerous centre of the Italian R

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A scholarly survey of the institutions of ancient Rome, its magistrates, assemblies, senate, and law, explaining how the Republic and Empire were actually governed.

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A distinguished collection of essays surveying what the modern world owes to ancient Greece, from philosophy and science to art, literature, and religion.

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A vivid gallery of frontier types drawn from the border life of the American West, sketching the settlers, adventurers and originals who peopled a raw and changing land.

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The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a foundational work of history and political realism on war, power, leadership, rhetoric, and civil conflict.

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An insider's sweeping memoir of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his rise from soldier to emperor and his fall, drawn from close personal acquaintance with one of history's most consequ

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A contemporary account of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, gathering the terrible events into a single dramatic record.

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Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate str

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Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911 is a polished DotBooks classic tale collection for readers who want w

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Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.

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George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.

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First-person testimony of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, preserving in their own words the experience of bondage, resistance and the long reach toward freedom in America.

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A popular history of the fighting ship, tracing how vessels of war evolved across the ages.

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A scholarly inquiry into where poetry comes from, tracing verse back to song, ritual and the communal life of early peoples.

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