Early Modern
79 books
War & Military
453
John Relly Beard - Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revolt, he led thousands of slaves on the island of Hispañola to fight against the...
13 hours 38 minutes
*Non-fiction
444
W. Stewart Wallace - Chronicles of Canada Volume 13 - The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration
Volume 13 of The Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume sheds light on the often misunderstood Americans who chose to remain loyal to the Crown of England during and after the American Revolution. While the vast...
3 hours 19 minutes
Early Modern
484
Agnes C. Laut - Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay
The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed...
3 hours 9 minutes
Law
602
Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu - Spirit of Laws (Volume 1)
This audiobook covers Volume 1 (Books I to XIX) of «The Spirit of the Laws» (French: De «l'esprit des lois», also sometimes called «The Spirit of Laws»). Spirit of Laws is a treatise on political theory first...
14 hours 7 minutes
War & Military
515
Joseph Plumb Martin - Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
Joining the Continental Army as a teenager, Joseph Plumb Martin spent the next eight years fighting in the Revolutionary War as an enlisted man. His memoirs tell in detail his experiences during that time...the...
8 hours 1 minute
History
568
William Bradford - Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of early American history. His eyewitness account includes the stories of the...
11 hours 15 minutes
Religion
533
George Berkeley - Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, John Locke. A Hylas is featured in Greek mythology and the name Hylas is derived from an ancient Greek word for «matter» which Hylas argues for...
3 hours 51 minutes
