History
300 books
*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
*Non-fiction
433
Charles C. Nott - Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, may have been regarded by some as perhaps the true author of the...
7 hours 23 minutes
*Non-fiction
431
T. D. Bonner - Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth
Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradually moving farther and farther from civilization, have in time become...
17 hours 16 minutes
