History
300 books
*Non-fiction
468
Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation
Greece-born Lafcadio Hearn (1850 — 1904) spent decades of his life in Japan, even marrying a Japanese woman, thus becoming a Japanese citizen by the name of Koizumi Yakumo (小泉 八雲). He wrote many books on Japan,...
13 hours 58 minutes
History
451
Leonard Woolsey Bacon - History of American Christianity
Published in 1897, this book describes the advent of Christianity in the United States from the landing of the first explorers with their mission to convert the natives to the time immediately following the Civil War....
10 hours 46 minutes
History
470
Frederick Jackson Turner - Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner was an extremely influential U.S. historian, who is best known for his «frontier thesis», which proposed that American democracy was profoundly shaped by the existence of an undeveloped...
10 hours 16 minutes
History
556
Anna Harriette Leonowens - English Governess at the Siamese Court
In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82...
10 hours 34 minutes
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
