History
300 books
History
547
Thomas Carlyle - French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the...
11 hours 11 minutes
History
506
W. S. B. Mathews - Popular History of the Art of Music
Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and many-sided later...
14 hours 50 minutes
History
471
William Wood - Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain...
3 hours 59 minutes
*Non-fiction
464
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon...
3 hours 31 minutes
*Non-fiction
453
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot - Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 6
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. He played a significant role in French politics before the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King...
20 hours 19 minutes
*Non-fiction
459
Isabel Anderson - Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone with any interest whatsoever in the South Pacific will find this book very...
7 hours 43 minutes
History
511
David Hume - History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1D
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His «The History of...
25 hours 14 minutes
*Non-fiction
471
Patrick Weston Joyce - Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation
This little book has been written and published with the main object of spreading as widely as possible among our people, young and old, a knowledge of the civilisation and general social condition of Ireland from the...
4 hours 6 minutes
*Non-fiction
474
Friedrich Engels - Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers paid a heavy price for the industrial revolution that swept the country....
12 hours
