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Mazarin

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Arthur Hassall


Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Thou…

The Roman Triumvirates

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Charles Merivale


In this short volume, the British historian, Charles Merivale, describes the long conflict by which the rule of one man replaced the Roman R…

Life of Sir Walter Ralegh

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Louise Creighton


Sir Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618), English soldier, explorer, courtier, writer, and poet was one of the most notable figures of the Elizabeth…

A Short History of France: From Caesar's Invasion to the Battle of Waterloo

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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson


After the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls adopted Roman culture and speech. The Germanic invasions ultimately transformed France into a Cat…

Locke

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Thomas Fowler


John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…

Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough

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Louise Creighton


John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), was the oldest surviving son of Sir Winston Churchill, an impoverished country gentlema…

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 …

Henry II

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Louis Francis Salzman


Born in 1133, King Henry II of England reigned from 1154 until his death in 1189. Before he was forty, he controlled England, large parts of…

Half a Century

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Jane Grey Swisshelm


In the spring of 1850, while the United States was polarized over the slavery debate and Daniel Webster was negotiating the compromise of th…

Life of Viscount Palmerston

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Lloyd Charles Sanders


This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreig…

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…

The Early Tudors: Henry VII and Henry VIII

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Charles Edward Moberly


Following the chaos of the Wars of the Roses, the reigns of Henry VII and VIII were autocratic and centralized to an unprecedented degree. T…

The Political History of France, 1789-1910

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Muriel O. Davis


This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…

History of Henry the Fourth King of France and Navarre

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott


Henry IV, King of France and Navarre (1553-1610) was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon. He was raised in the Protestant …

Rome and Carthage: The Punic Wars

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Reginald Bosworth Smith


The Punic Wars (264-146 B.C.) were a series of conflicts between the rapidly expanding Roman Republic and the Phoenician Sea empire, Carthag…

The Early Hanoverians

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Edward Ellis Morris


In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

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Justin McCarthy and 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…

The Eighteenth Century (National History of France)

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Casimir Stryienski


This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…

The Athenian Empire

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George William Cox


The British historian, George W. Cox writes that the "whole duration of the Athenian empire extends over little more than two generatio…

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…

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