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History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4 - Friedrich Schiller
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4 - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death of Wallenstein (February, 1634) focusing on the reaction of the Protestant forces following the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, and Wallenstein's actions leading to his...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay - Agnes C. LAUT
Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 - The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay - Agnes C. LAUT
- Author: Agnes C. LAUT
- Genre: Early Modern
The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the size of Europe. But it was fur these explorers were seeking when they pushed their canoes up the Saskatchewan,...
The Private Soldier Under Washington - Charles Knowles BOLTON
The Private Soldier Under Washington - Charles Knowles BOLTON
- Author: Charles Knowles BOLTON
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
Much was been written about the American Revolution, but our knowledge of the private solders of the patriot army is confined chiefly to Washington’s description of their sufferings at Valley Forge. This 1902 book by a Harvard University librarian...
Spiritual Maxims - Brother Lawrence
Spiritual Maxims - Brother Lawrence
- Author: Brother Lawrence
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
Those who have an experiential predisposition in their faith would do well to read The Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence… if they have not done so already. This is a lesser-known work, often overlooked. These Spiritual Maxims were...
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: Early Modern
Kant's Prolegomena, although a small book, is indubitably the most important of his writings. It furnishes us with a key to his main work, The Critique of Pure Reason; in fact, it is an extract containing all the salient ideas of Kant's system. It...
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund BURKE
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund BURKE
- Author: Edmund BURKE
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative and classical liberal...
A History of California: The Spanish Period - Charles Edward CHAPMAN
A History of California: The Spanish Period - Charles Edward CHAPMAN
- Author: Charles Edward CHAPMAN
- Genre: Early Modern
If you have ever wondered why Spain (and not Japan, which was so so much better positioned to do it) was first to “settle” the Golden State, this book is for you. Professor Chapman has produced a comprehensive and highly entertaining popular history...
The Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent - Ellsworth HUNTINGTON
The Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent - Ellsworth HUNTINGTON
- Author: Ellsworth HUNTINGTON
- Genre: Early Modern
Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. - Summary by Jim Locke Group: Chronicles of America Series...
Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia - Thomas BROWNE
Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia - Thomas BROWNE
- Author: Thomas BROWNE
- Genre: Religion / Early Modern
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-portrait. In its day, the book was a European best-seller. It was published in 1643 by the newly-qualified...
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 2 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Genre: Philosophy / Early Modern
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The...
This Country of Ours, Part 1 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours, Part 1 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Reference / Early Modern
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is Part 1: Stories...
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage - Rodris ROTH
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage - Rodris ROTH
- Author: Rodris ROTH
- Genre: Family & Relationships / History / Early Modern
The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home was an established social custom with a recognized code of manners and distinctive furnishings. Pride was...
The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France - George WRONG
The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France - George WRONG
- Author: George WRONG
- Genre: War & Military / Religion / Early Modern
The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The steady hostility of the rivals never wavered. There was, indeed, little open warfare as long as the two Crowns...
Summa Theologica - 02 Pars Prima, Trinity and Creation - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 02 Pars Prima, Trinity and Creation - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological...
The Journey of Coronado - Pedro de CASTAÑEDA
The Journey of Coronado - Pedro de CASTAÑEDA
- Author: Pedro de CASTAÑEDA
- Genre: Early Modern / Exploration
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards found no riches—instead, the Grand Canyon, the vast buffalo plains, and the pueblos of Zuni and Pecos. The narratives in...
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I - Various
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their...
Summa Theologica - 10 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 10 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South - Mary JOHNSTON
The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South - Mary JOHNSTON
- Author: Mary JOHNSTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern
In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into the first colonies, specifically Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and finally Georgia. Group:...
A Short History of the United States - Edward CHANNING
A Short History of the United States - Edward CHANNING
- Author: Edward CHANNING
- Genre: General / Early Modern
Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Pioneers of France in the New World - Francis Parkman, Jr.
Pioneers of France in the New World - Francis Parkman, Jr.
- Author: Francis Parkman Jr.
- Genre: Early Modern
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) in his book O...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime / Early Modern
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regional warfare (like the 1345 War in the Piedmont), and ultimately unraveled her father’s legacy (King Robert...
Young Folks' History of the American Revolution - Everett T. TOMLINSON
Young Folks' History of the American Revolution - Everett T. TOMLINSON
- Author: Everett T. TOMLINSON
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
This work has grown out of the desire frequently expressed to the writer when he has been lecturing on the American Revolution, that in some way the experiences of the people as well as the deeds of the armies in that trying period might be...
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Bartolomé de las CASAS
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Bartolomé de las CASAS
- Author: Bartolomé de las CASAS
- Genre: Early Modern
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the...
The Silence Dogood Letters - Benjamin FRANKLIN
The Silence Dogood Letters - Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Author: Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Genre: Early Modern / Essays / Letters
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would not publish any of Benjamin's works, fifteen-year-old Benjamin sent letters to The New England Courant under...
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation - Martin Luther
To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation - Martin Luther
- Author: Martin Luther
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern
Early in the course of the Reformation (1520) Martin Luther penned a trilogy of foundational documents addressing the German Nobility, the Church and the Christian. "To the Christian Nobility" appeared first. In it, Luther identifies and attacks the...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 - Thomas CHAPAIS
Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada 1665-1672 - Thomas CHAPAIS
- Author: Thomas CHAPAIS
- Genre: Early Modern
Talon worked closely with lieutenant-general Prouville de Tracy to achieve the surrender of the Iroquois in 1627, thereby ending the threat that had hung over the colony for 20 years. Although Talon did not join the troops in the field, at Tracy's...
The Storm - Daniel Defoe
The Storm - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: Early Modern
The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered a founding document of modern journalism, The Storm narrates the calamitous events of November 1703 that are framed by the author in the first four chapters....
Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain - Charles W. Colby
Chronicles of Canada Volume 03 - Founder of New France: A Chronicle of Champlain - Charles W. Colby
- Author: Charles W. Colby
- Genre: Early Modern
For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage that he founded New France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty, and of faith....
Essays book 1 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays book 1 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless...
History of Farming in Ontario - C. C. JAMES
History of Farming in Ontario - C. C. JAMES
- Author: C. C. JAMES
- Genre: Early Modern
This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888-1912. We see how farming and farm industries developed and how the population was distributed during these...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 05 - Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism - William Bennett Munro
Chronicles of Canada Volume 05 - Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism - William Bennett Munro
- Author: William Bennett Munro
- Genre: Early Modern
It was during one of her proud and prosperous eras that France began her task of creating an empire beyond the Atlantic. At no time, indeed, was she better equipped for the work. No power of Western Europe since the days of Roman glory had possessed...
History of the United States, Vol. IV: The West and Jacksonian Democracy - Charles Austin Beard
History of the United States, Vol. IV: The West and Jacksonian Democracy - Charles Austin Beard
- Author: Charles Austin Beard
- Genre: Early Modern
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he...
The Pianoforte Sonata - John South SHEDLOCK
The Pianoforte Sonata - John South SHEDLOCK
- Author: John South SHEDLOCK
- Genre: Music / Early Modern
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at the time to be the earliest keyboard sonata, up the present day. Along the way, works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn,...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 - William Wood
Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 - William Wood
- Author: William Wood
- Genre: Early Modern
Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrary, it was a necessary link in the chain of waterside posts which connected France with America by way of the...
Home Life in Colonial Days - Alice Morse EARLE
Home Life in Colonial Days - Alice Morse EARLE
- Author: Alice Morse EARLE
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a land magnificent with forest trees of every...
Summa Theologica - 01 Pars Prima, Initial Questions - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 01 Pars Prima, Initial Questions - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological...
Summa Theologica - 11 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 11 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 1 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 1 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
- Author: Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, by Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, is a classic work on the great events that re-opened the Christian gospel to a needy world. It tells of how the twenty-year-old Martin Luther, browsing through...
The Ethics - Benedict de SPINOZA
The Ethics - Benedict de SPINOZA
- Author: Benedict de SPINOZA
- Genre: Early Modern
The Ethics is a philosophical book written by Baruch Spinoza. It was written in Latin. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work, and is considered his magnum opus. In The Ethics, Spinoza attempts to demonstrate a...
Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Volume VII: Spanish - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: General / Middle Ages/Middle History / Early Modern
Volume VII of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This seventh volume covers the history of Spain from before the Moorish conquest to the loss of overseas territories at the end of the...