A History of China

Wolfram Eberhard

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• The lives of emperors, the great battles, this or the other famous deed, matter less to us than the discovery of the great forces that underlie these ... Lees meer

The History of Freedom and Other Essays

John E E Dalberg Acton

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• Known as Lord Acton, John E.E. Dalberg Acton was one of the great historians of the Victorian period and one of the greatest classical historians of a... Lees meer

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

Ignatius Sancho

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• To Mr. M-. February 8, 1777. Zounds! if alive-what ails you? if dead-why did you not fend me word? -from "Letter XLII" Ignatius Sancho was born aboard... Lees meer

A History of Elizabethan Literature

George Saintsbury

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• As Shakespere is by far the greatest of all writers, ancient or modern, so he has been the subject of commentorial folly to an extent, which dwarfs th... Lees meer

Notable Women of Modern China

Margaret E Burton

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• Now an ardent advocate of natural feet, she often tells of her trials as a pioneer of the movement in Fuhkien province. "That I have the distinction o... Lees meer

The Expansion of England

John Robert Seeley

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• [T]he history of England ought to end with something that might be called a moral. Some large conclusion ought to arise out of it; it ought to exhibit... Lees meer

The Story of the Irish Race

Seumas MacManus

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• To understand modern Ireland one must understand the history of Ireland. Its legends, religious and political life, culture, and wider contributions t... Lees meer

The Anti-Slavery Crusade

Jesse Macy

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• There is no evidence that there was any direct connection between the publication of the Liberator and the servile insurrection which occurred during ... Lees meer

The Spirit of American Government

J Allen Smith

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• Democracy-government by the people, or directly responsible to them-was not the object which the framers of the American Constitution had in view, but... Lees meer

Imperialism

J A Hobson

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• In his Preface to the 1902 first edition of Imperialism: A Study, imperial critic J.A. Hobson demonstrates his prophetic talents by noting, just as th... Lees meer

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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• History is the mighty Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. It is no easy task to reach the top of this ... Lees meer

The Age of Reason

Thomas Paine

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• In The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine declares that all religious traditions are ultimately established for the dependence of mankind. He openly criticiz... Lees meer

An Economic History of Rome

Tenney Frank

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• Passenger fares seem to us to have been very low. Passengers however appear to have been responsible for their own sustenance, the quarters were proba... Lees meer

A History of Accounting and Accountants

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• This collection of essays was commissioned for the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of accountants in Scotland, the country in which accounta... Lees meer

History of the Thrift Movement in America

S W Straus, Simon William Straus

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• Sheer lack of thrift has caused more financial failures than anything else. How many men there are to-day who might have become wealthy had they only ... Lees meer

A Short History of Women's Rights

Eugene A Hecker

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• Perhaps a word on the status of women in slavery among the Germanic nations will not be out of place. The new nations looked upon a slave as chattel, ... Lees meer

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

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• The Federalist papers -- 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison in support of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution -- b... Lees meer

Walker's Appeal in Four Articles

David Walker, Henry Garnet Garnet

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• The whites want slaves, and want us for their slaves, but some of them will curse the day they ever saw us. As true as the sun ever shone in its merid... Lees meer

History of the City of New York

Martha Joanna Lamb, Burton Harrison

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• George III and his Lords denounced New York as "rebellious."... The freedom of the New York press, the action of the New York Assembly... provoked uni... Lees meer

The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase

Everett Somerville Brown

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• The United States Constitution has no specific grant to acquire territory, yet the U.S. has expanded from the East Coast to the West, from thirteen co... Lees meer

Fear God and Take Your Own Part

Theodore Roosevelt

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• Unless we are thorough going Americans and unless our patriotism is part of the very fiber of our being, we can neither serve God nor take our own par... Lees meer

Nurse and Spy in the Union Army

Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds

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• While in the "Secret Service" as a "Spy," which is one of the most hazardous positions in the army-she penetrated the enemy's lines, in various disgui... Lees meer

Imperial Germany and the Industrial Revolution

Thorstein Veblen

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• OF INTEREST TO: students of economics, readers of European history The traditions of the German people, including the personnel of the civil service, ... Lees meer

Recipe for a Happy Life

Margaret of Navarre

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• In the year 1500, Queen Margaret of Navarre wrote her "recipe for a happy life," which includes ingredients such as patience, pastimes, repose and pea... Lees meer