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In these seven volumes, published in 1908, Justin McCarthy takes on the contemporary history of England with an unbiased yet unflinching eye. This politically moderate, even-tempered work is an ambitious yet brilliant piece of history. The first volume begins with the death of King William IV in 1837 and ends ten years later with the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1846.

The career of William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) encompassed the American and French Revolutions, the rise of Napoleon, and the reign of George III. One of the leading political journalists of the Victorian-Edwardian era tells the story of the tumultuous life and times of the man whose tenure in office...

An insightful portrait of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), who the author says, “stands first, half warrior, half saint, in the calendar of the English-speaking democracy.” This compelling biography examines Cromwell’s early life up through his adulthood to his death. The volume focuses on his personality...

In the wake of the First World War, the author set out to explore the roots of liberty and democracy. This 1920 work finds inspiration in the radical, secular freethinkers. It includes biographical essays on Frederick Denison Maurice, Matthew Arnold, Charles Bradlaugh, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leslie Stephen, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Kingsley.

In this 1922 study of the Catholic revival in literature Shuster, a distinguished author and editor on Catholic, social, and political themes, considers the works of Cardinal Newman, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, G. K. Chesteron, Hillaire Belloc, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christina Rossetti, Francis Thompson,...

Historian Henry Hallam’s sweeping study of the constitutional history of England tells the story of the development of England’s constitution from its early days until the death of George II in 1760. The author examines developments that occurred under each reign as well as other events that affected...

In a contemporary review of McCarthy's two-volume history of Queen Anne, The New York Times praises the "marked ability" with which the historian acquits himself of the "difficult task" of tracing one of the most notable reigns in English history (1702-1714)—a period that saw the rise of the modern Parliamentary system.

This unfinished history was being written into the author’s dying days. Starting with the England of Ecgberht in the early 9th century and ending with the Norman conquest in 1066, this engrossing volume paints a vivid picture of this seminal period in English history. Noted historian John Richard Green...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. On March 10, 1762, Jean Calas, a Protestant merchant, was publicly executed in Toulouse, France. This punishment had been prescribed by the regional parliament, with hopes that Calas would confess to murdering his adult...

We have reached the end of art, states Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in The Philosophy of Art. Hegel charts the progression of art in order to show how it reached its full and final development. But that does not mean that art is dead to us-far from it. Hegel argues for the significance of the philosophy...

First published in 1906, Real Soldiers of Fortune is a collection of early biographies of famous (and infamous) soldiers. Here are portraits of Major-General Henry Ronald Douglas MacIver; Major Frederick Russell Burnham; General William Walker; Captain Philo Norton McGiffin; Winston Spencer Churchill;...

Thomas Jefferson’s only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, is a rich and revealing compendium of information and opinion on the largest and most important state in the union at the end of the American Revolution.  Presented in the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment as an encyclopedia of useful...

Published in 1904 as part of the Harvard Historical Studies series, Hatch’s book takes a close look at the events from 1775—when the “imperfectly organized and ill-trained troops” of the American colonies were being transformed into a victorious army in the war against the British—to the final days when that army disbanded in 1784.      

Novelist Winston Churchill’s best-regarded—and perhaps most prescient—work portrays the failure of the Church to deal with the contemporary realities and social problems of early 20th century American life: in particular, the effects of prosperity on society’s moral code.