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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Social History of the American Negro

Benjamin Griffith Brawley

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• Immediately after the war legislation enacted in the South made severe provision with reference to vagrancy. Negroes were arrested on the slightest pr... Lees meer

Black Rebellion

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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• Three times, at intervals of thirty years, did a wave of unutterable terror sweep across the Old Dominion, bringing thoughts of agony to every Virgini... Lees meer

The Elements of Politics

Henry Sidgwick

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• THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICS is part of an impressive catalog of books by the English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick. First published in 1898, th... Lees meer