Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…