Early Modern
79 books
Early Modern
426
Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 3
In Volume III of this series on the Hanoverian Kings, Justin McCarthy is joined by his son, Justin Hartly McCarthy, a liberal Irish MP like his father. Together they bring to life, poor stubborn George III, the...
13 hours 58 minutes
War & Military
471
Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4
Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death of Wallenstein (February, 1634) focusing on the reaction of the Protestant forces following the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, and...
2 hours
Early Modern
466
Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and Swift, Bolingbroke and Mary Wortley Montagu, the Old Pretender and Bonnie...
12 hours 17 minutes
*Non-fiction
512
Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches
Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...
9 hours 1 minute
Early Modern
652
Francis Parkman, Jr. - Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
«The Conspiracy of Pontiac» was Parkman's first history book and first published in 1851. It covers the Indian wars of 1763 to 1769. Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, put together a coalition of Indian tribes from around the...
16 hours 33 minutes
