History
Discover the best books on history, the history novel including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
-
Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of FootHistorical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot - Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.The character and credit of the British Army must chiefly depend upon the zeal...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Road to Bunker HillThe Road to Bunker HillNothing ever happens in this town, said Eben Poore, dangling his long legs over the edge of the wharf, and looking down river to the open sea. The sky was pale, almost white above the long sand bar of Plum...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The romances of Alexandre Dumas. The Sidney library edition, v. 11Ascanio "Never perhaps," says Miss Pardoe (in the Preface to the "Court and Reign of Francis I."), "did the reign of any European sovereign present so many and such varying phases. A contest for empire, a captive monarch, a female regency, and a religious...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Historical records of the British ArmyHistorical Record of the Thirty-ninth, or the Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702, and of its subsequent services to 1853.The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for innate courage and unshaken firmness,...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman EmpireAugustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman EmpireAugustus has been much less attractive to biographers than Iulius; perhaps because the soldier is more interesting than the statesman; perhaps because the note of genius conspicuous in the Uncle was wanting in...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917Story of the automobile: Its history and development from 1760 to 1917 - With an analysis of the standing and prospects of the automobile industryWhat did Benjamin Franklin have to do with the automobile? a great many readers of this book will ask. Benjamin...
- $15.39 AUD
$376.54 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Early Carriages & RoadsEarly Carriages and RoadsOnly some three hundred and fifty years have elapsed since wheeled conveyances for passengers came into use in England; but, once introduced, they rapidly found favour with all classes of society, more especially in cities. The progress of road-making and that...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Historical records of the British ArmyHistorical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852The natives of Britain have, at all periods, been celebrated for innate courage and unshaken firmness,...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian StoriesThe Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian StoriesThe stories in this book deal with peoples of widely different surroundings and habitsome with dwellers on the sea-shore, whose skies are often obscured by rain and fog, who draw their living from the sea, and...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Translations and reprints from the original sources of European history v. 5, no. 1Monumentum Ancyranum: The Deeds of AugustusSuetonius in his Life of Augustus tells us that that Emperor had placed in charge of the Vestal virgins his will and three other sealed documents; and the four papers were produced and read in the senate immediately after...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Last Duchess of BelgardeThe Last Duchess of BelgardeIN the great, green old garden of Madame, the Countess of Floramour, sat her granddaughter, little Mademoiselle Trimousette, wondering when she was to be married and to whom. Such an enterprise was afoot, and even then being arranged, but nobody,...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Vándorlásaim és élményeim PersiábanVándorlásaim és élményeim PersiábanKzpzsiai utazsom leirsa kzzttelekor azt igrm a hazai olvasnak, hogy ksbben, ha vndorbotomat valami nyugalmas hajlk szgletbe tmaszthatom, majd akkor tbb vi kborlsom trtnett egsz terjedelmben akarom elmondani, a mivel klnsen Kzpzsia hatrorszgai s az irodalmunkban hinyz keleti szomszdorszgok ismertetsre czloztam....
- $15.39 AUD
$376.54 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The History of Philosophy in IslamThe History of Philosophy in Islam1. In olden time the Arabian desert was, as it is at this day, the roaming-ground of independent Bedouin tribes. With free and healthy minds they contemplated their monotonous world, whose highest charm was the raid, and whose intellectual...
- $15.39 AUD
$7,598.23 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Mission Work among the Negroes and the Indians:Mission Work among the Negroes and the Indians: - What Is Being Accomplished by Means of the Annual Collection Taken Up for Our MissionsThe communications we publish from Bishops who receive aid from the annual collections for our Negro and Indian missions, show very...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Red Man's RebukeThe Red Man's RebukeTo the memory of William Penn, Roger Williams, the late lamented Helen Hunt Jackson, and many others now in Heaven, Who conceived that Noble spirit of Justice Which recognizes the Brotherhood of the Red Man, and to all others now living...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Colección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 10, De Los Documentos Legislativos, IIIColección de Documentos Inéditos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Organización de las Antiguas Posesiones Españolas de Ultramar. Tomo 10, De Los Documentos Legislativos, IIIEn las cifras en nmeros romanos impresas en versalita en el original, el tamao de la letra U (1000) es, en...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
My Home in the AlpsMy Home in the AlpsIn this little volume, much of the matter in which first appeared in the St. Moritz Post, or, as it is now called, the Alpine Post, I have jotted down a few things of interest to the ordinary traveller in...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
The Passing of MoroccoThe Passing of MoroccoFor several years I had been watching Morocco as a man who follows the profession of Special Correspondent always watches a place that promises exciting copy. For many years trouble had been brewing there. On the Algerian frontier tribes were almost...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Siberia TodaySiberia To-DayThe attitude of mind with which a writer approaches his subject is the core of his book. My purpose in recording my observations and impressions while serving in Siberia is to tell such citizens of the United States as may be interested some...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
-
Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami OjibwaMyths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami OjibwaA few fairly typical Algonquin myths relating the exploits of Wiskedjak were taken down in the summer of 1913 from Benjamin Mackenzie of the Timiskaming band. He had learned them when a young man from...
- $15.39 AUD
$228.20 AUD- $15.39 AUD
- Unit price
- per
