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Stupor Mundi: The Life and Times of Frederick II Emperor of the Romans King of …
Read by Pamela Nagami
Lionel Allshorn
Frederick II (1194-1250), under whose reign the Holy Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent, was called by his contemporaries …
The Normans in Europe
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Arthur Henry Johnson
This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks …
Europe in Renaissance and Reformation 1453-1660
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Mary A. Hollings
In a small space the Oxford-educated historian, Mary Hollings, provides a panoramic view of a tumultuous age. We meet Cesare Borgia and Savo…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
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Justin McCarthy
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Justin Mccarthy
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
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…
The Dawn of Mediaeval Europe: 476-918
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John Howard Bertram Masterman
This volume by the British historian J.H.B. Masterman (1867-1933) is a short survey of the first four centuries after the fall of Rome. The …
The Life of Charlemagne
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Thomas Hodgkin
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope…
The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453
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Eleanor Constance Lodge
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short sur…
Captain Cook
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Walter Besant
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …
The Story of Aristotle's Philosophy
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Will Durant
This little Blue Book No. 39, by Will Durant, deals with Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), a Macedonian pupil of Plato, who became the teacher of …
Bismarck
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Georges Lacour-Gayet
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…
Queen Elizabeth
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Mandell Creighton
"The Princess Elizabeth of England was born at Greenwich, between three and four of the afternoon of September 7, 1533. Her birth was a…
Wellington
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George Hooper
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with…
Emily Brontë
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Emily Brontë (1818-1848) is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights." She was born in Yorkshire, northern England, …
Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
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Will Durant
In this Little Blue Book Number 512, Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Vol…
Louis Pasteur
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Albert Keim
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to t…
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I
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Justin Mccarthy
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the d…
Sir Francis Drake
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Julian Corbett
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)…
Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic
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Charles Oman
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Charles William Chadwick Oman
While there are many general histories of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the Oxford historian, Charles Oman, writes that his li…
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
Margaret of Angoulême, Queen of Navarre (Marguerite de Navarre), (1492-1549), was the sister of Francis I, King of France. She was hig…
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