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

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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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Frank R.

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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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Randolph B.

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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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A collection of the great love stories of history, retelling the famous romances and attachments of kings, queens, and celebrated figures.

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A pioneering argument that folklore, the tales, customs, and beliefs of a people, can be read as genuine historical evidence.

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Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.

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James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.

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A landmark anthology of speeches and orations by Black Americans, gathering the great voices of abolition, uplift, and civil rights in a testament to African American eloquence and

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A retelling of the crusading English king, his wars in the Holy Land and his legend of chivalry, aimed at readers who love medieval history and heroic biography.

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A vivid archaeological journey through the Eternal City as it passed from pagan antiquity to Christianity, tracing the temples, tombs, and monuments where two worlds met and merged

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The trial record of the notorious 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, in which Lord Cochrane and others stood accused of spreading false news to manipulate the markets: a landmark case of f

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William Hone's beloved Every-Day Book, an almanac of British customs, festivals, folklore and popular amusements arranged through the calendar year, this first volume brimming with

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The firsthand record of one of history's great expeditions, as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross the North American continent, charting rivers, peoples, wildlife and landsca

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A Victorian teaching text by G.

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

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A vivid contemporary account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, when a failed dam sent a wall of water through a Pennsylvania valley and killed thousands.

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A scholarly and affectionate history of angling in the ancient world, tracing how the peoples of antiquity fished the rivers and seas.

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.

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Sir Walter Scott's private journal, printed from the manuscript at Abbotsford, is one of the great diaries in English, candid, courageous and moving as the celebrated novelist face

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Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner

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A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.

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A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.

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Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.

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A biography of Edward VII, the long-waiting heir who became king and gave his name to an age.

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William H.

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A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.

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Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.

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A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.

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Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a

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A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.

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A grand nineteenth-century history of food and its preparation in the ancient world, roaming across the tables of Greece, Rome, and beyond.

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The candid memoirs of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire, in English translation.

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A narrative history of medieval England spanning the reigns from Henry III to Edward III, a formative age of parliaments, wars and the making of the nation's institutions.

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The opening volume of the official British history of the South African War of 1899 to 1902, compiled by government direction: the origins, opening moves, and early campaigns of th

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Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.

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Henry Charles Lea's landmark history of clerical celibacy, tracing the long and contested development of the Church's discipline of the unmarried priesthood.

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John Foxe's famous Book of Martyrs recounts the lives, sufferings and deaths of Christian martyrs, above all the Protestants of the Reformation, a work that shaped English religiou

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A meticulous study of how the Roman Republic actually voted.

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Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.

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The second volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan continues his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their ruling houses, chivalry and antiquities

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A classic survey of economic thought, tracing the development of theory from the Physiocrats through the great schools of political economy to the modern era.

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A Boer general's firsthand account of the South African War, written by a commander who fought the British in the field and lived to set the campaign down in his own plain, unflinc

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A historical study of the long contest over control of the seas, tracing the claims, disputes, and legal battles by which nations asserted dominion over the waters around their coa

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Douglas Hyde's landmark survey of Irish literature from ancient bardic tradition to modern times.

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An illustrated tour of the great royal palaces and gardens of France, from Versailles and Fontainebleau to the châteaux of the Loire.

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A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.

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Josephus's monumental history of the Jewish people, from the creation of the world through the biblical narrative to the eve of revolt against Rome.

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A clear, systematic guide to the language and design of English coats of arms.

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A pioneering history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres, reconstructing the playhouses where Shakespeare's dramas first came alive, from the Globe to the Fortune and beyond.

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A short literary work whose title carries the old Greek weight of penalty and requital.

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A biographical reference gathering the lives of notable Canadians.

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William Bradford's own history of the Plymouth Colony, printed from his original manuscript, is the foundational eyewitness chronicle of the Pilgrims, their voyage, their first har

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A detailed history of the pivotal 1776 campaign around New York and Brooklyn in the American Revolution, including a full account of the Battle of Long Island: strategy, terrain, a

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A historical study of Robert Curthose, eldest son of William the Conqueror and Duke of Normandy, whose turbulent life and rivalry over the English succession shaped the Anglo-Norma

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An account of Lord Milner's controversial career in South Africa, from his arrival in 1897 through the Boer War to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902: administration, empire, and a d

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A survey of the great civilisations of the ancient world, written for students.

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Ulysses S.

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A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.

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Mary Rowlandson's gripping first-person account of her capture during King Philip's War and her weeks among her Native captors.

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The complete diary of Samuel Pepys, an incomparably vivid, gossipy and honest record of London in the 1660s, from plague and Great Fire to the small daily pleasures of an ambitious

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A historian's studies of the Crusader and Latin states of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, examining the Frankish rulers, islands and principalities of a fascinating borderland.

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A scholarly study tracing the threads between the customs, songs and superstitions of modern rural Greece and the beliefs of the ancient world.

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William Whewell's landmark survey of how the natural sciences developed, tracing the growth of physics, astronomy, chemistry and more from antiquity to the nineteenth century as a

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Two masterworks of the Roman historian Tacitus: the Germania, an ethnography of the tribes beyond the Rhine, and the Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law and the conquest of

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A scholarly inquiry into the relations, ancestry and descendants of William Shakespeare, patiently sifting parish records, wills and documents to reconstruct the ordinary family th

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John Fiske's classic study of the turbulent years between American independence and the Constitution, when the young republic nearly came apart.

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Edward Westermarck's landmark study tracing the origins and development of marriage across human societies.

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A king's own hand, unguarded and impatient: the surviving letters Henry VIII wrote to Anne Boleyn as desire, dynasty, and the fate of a church all began to gather around a single c

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Henry Charles Lea's landmark study of medieval legal procedure, tracing how Europe sought truth through oaths, trial by combat, the ordeal, and torture.

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A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an old soldier of Cortés, recounts the conquest of Mexico as he lived it, this first volume opening one of history's great firsthand adventure narratives.

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A curated collection of primary documents tracing the early Christian church from the apostolic age through the great councils.

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A narrative portrait of the court, favourites and intrigues of Elizabeth I.

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Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.

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A wide-ranging anthology of writing from the American South across more than three centuries, gathering poetry, prose and historical documents to trace the literary voice of a regi

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The private letters of Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine trace one of history's most famous relationships from passionate ardor to estrangement, offering an intimate view of the empe

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A study of Stoic philosophy as it flowered in the Roman world, tracing how a demanding Greek school became the ethical backbone of an empire.

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Charles Dalton's meticulous roster of the British officers present at Waterloo, with biographical notes on their lives and services.

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Suetonius's gossipy, unforgettable portraits of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors, packed with scandal, omen and telling detail from the heart of imperial Rome.

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Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander, the most trusted ancient account of Alexander the Great's campaigns, follows the Macedonian conqueror from Greece to the edge of India in discipline

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A study of how the ancient Greeks commemorated their victorious athletes in sculpture and monument, tracing the meeting point of sport, religion and art in the classical world.

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A foundational survey of Britain's prehistoric stone tools, weapons, and ornaments, richly illustrated and carefully classified by type and period.

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Frederick Douglass's electrifying account of his life in bondage and his fight to be free.

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A rigorous scholarly reconstruction of pre-Roman Britain and Caesar's two expeditions across the Channel.

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The official Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F.

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The life of one of the most fearless reformers of his age, a champion of free thought and free speech who fought his way into public life.

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