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A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

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Justin Mccarthy


Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…

Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars

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Reginald Bosworth Smith


The Punic Wars (264-146 B.C.) were a series of conflicts between the rapidly expanding Roman Republic and the Phoenician Sea empire, Carthag…

The Athenian Empire

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George William Cox


The British historian, George W. Cox writes that the "whole duration of the Athenian empire extends over little more than two generatio…

Hildebrand and his Times

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William Richard Ward Stephens


W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…

The Counter-Reformation

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Adolphus Ward


The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resur…

Life and Writings of Addison

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, wi…

The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla

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A. H. Beesly


During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augus…

Milton

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


John Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet, classicist, and fearless advocate for civil liberty, who served the Commonwealth of England und…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume I

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Mandell Creighton


Volume I of the "History of the Papacy" by the Anglican Lord Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, deals with the popes, princes, a…

Charles II

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Osmund Airy


This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am a…

Early Greek Philosophy

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Alfred William Benn


"Man is the measure of all things," said the early Greek philosopher, Protagoras of Abdera. It was in this spirit of humanistic se…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

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Justin Mccarthy


The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…

The Later Middle Ages: A History of Western Europe 1254-1494

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Robert Balmain Mowat


The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and…

William the Third

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Henry Duff Traill


William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …

Selected Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne and Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


Michel de Montaigne was a contemporary of Shakespeare who, after having played his part in France's terrible wars of religion, retired to hi…

On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus

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Rudolf Virchow


Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…

Edward III

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William Parsons Warburton


Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …

Modern England 1820-1885

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Oscar Browning


This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…

The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution 1603-1660

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…

The Houses of Lancaster and York with the Conquest and Loss of France

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James Gairdner


The Wars of the Roses took place during the last phase of the Hundred Years' War. In 1377 the great warrior king, Edward III, died leaving h…

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