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The book is divided into three main parts: I. The Founding of the Colonies; II. Expansion and International Conflict; III. The Revolt of the English Colonies. The keynote is expansion. The spread of……続きを見る

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevensondescribing the contemporary Samoan Civil War. Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in……続きを見る

“THIS book deals especially with a period of German history of twenty-three years’ duration. Beginning with the French Revolution of 1848 it records the rousing in Germany of passions long pent-up, ……続きを見る

America First: One Hundred Stories from Our History by Lawton B. Evans (1862-1934). Collection of one hundred action-packed stories, covering the range of American history, from the first visit of L……続きを見る

IT is now necessary to take up the history of the two great republics of the Western Mediterranean, Rome and Carthage, and to tell how Rome succeeded in maintaining for some centuries an empire even……続きを見る

"Bedeutet der Wohlstand und die zuversichtlichen Hoffnungen, mit denen das 20. Jahrhundert begann, nichts mehr, als den Gipfel zufälliger Glückserscheinungen? Hat sich der Kreis von Wohlstand und Fo……続きを見る

The proverbs says that Rome was not built in a day. It was no easy task for the twins to agree just where they should even begin the city. Romulus thought that the Palatine Hill, on which he and his……続きを見る

THE feudal organization of state and society is the dominant fact of medieval history on its institutional side quite as much as the city-state is the dominant fact of ancient history from the insti……続きを見る

Africa has been partitioned among the nations. The little kingdom of Abyssinia, in the north, and the Republic of Liberia, upon the west coast, are all of the continent that remain in the hands of A……続きを見る

The following pages contain sketches of two kinds, namely, sketches written and sketches drawn. They were taken on the spot during the recent campaign in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and give a rep……続きを見る

Who was Ludovico di Varthema? Unfortunately, scarcely any record of him is forthcoming except what he tells us himself. I have searched every available repository of such information, to learn somet……続きを見る

More than six hundred years ago, a great traveller returned to Europe and told the world of the wonders he had seen when journeying in the Far East. This was the famous Marco Polo, the Venetian, who……続きを見る

Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham is a stirring collection of stories that bring to life the courage, determination, and brilliance of some of history’s most remarkable figures. Published by ……続きを見る

In an endeavour to trace the Inquisition to its source it is not necessary to go as far back into antiquity as went Paramo; nor yet is it possible to agree with him that God Himself was the first in……続きを見る

Presentazione di Umberto Longo Introduzione di Francesco Sportelli Ben pochi santi possono vantare in Occidente una fama come quella raggiunta da san Rocco sul finire del Medioevo. Di Rocco da Montp……続きを見る

Książka zawiera treści o tematyce judeochrześcijańskiej, mogące obrażać uczucia religijne i estetyczne niektórych osób. Jeśli jesteś jedną z nich nie czytaj jej. Czy zastanawialiście się Państwo nad……続きを見る

While Rurik was busy quelling insurrections among the people of Novgorod, and teaching them to obey, Askold and Dir, with two hundred long-boats filled with Norman Vikings and soldiers, made a desce……続きを見る

"Popol Vuh" es un relato épico basado en las leyendas de la extraordinaria civilización maya-quiché que habla sobre la creación del mundo. Se sabe que está influenciada por algunos sacerdotes quiene……続きを見る

Democracy In America: Complete by Alexander de Toqueville, also known as Alexis de Tocqueville. This edition was translated by Henry Reeve in 1835-1840. Alexander de Toqueville (1805–1859) was a Fre……続きを見る

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense. From the earliest times, the sentiment o……続きを見る

Dalla virgiliana leggenda epica di Enea in fuga da Troia a Romolo e Remo, dalla fine della Repubblica con Cesare all’ascesa dell’Impero con Ottaviano, da Nerone a Traiano, da Caracalla alla caduta d……続きを見る

The letter printed below is a translation of Tolstoy's letter written in Russian in reply to one from the Editor of Free Hindustan. After having passed from hand to hand, this letter at last came in……続きを見る

The Origin and Growth of Village Communities In India by Baden Henry Baden-Powell. The object of this little book is to explain, the nature and origin of Indian village communities, with special ref……続きを見る

I propose to describe the Greatness and the Misery of the old Roman world; nor is there any thing in history more suggestive and instructive. A little city, founded by robbers on the banks of the Ti……続きを見る

THE four invading nations whose history has been already related left no enduring memorial of their presence in Italy. The Visigoth, the Hun, the Vandal, the Ostrogoth failed to connect their names ……続きを見る

Le parole possono essere, talvolta, come un riverbero di girasole. Ricevono e riversano luce. Come le immagini. Un chiaroscuro per ogni viaggiatore, portato alla ribalta dell’animo come da un lungo ……続きを見る

THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under th……続きを見る

L'opera dell'operaio Pippo si presenta come una raccolta di racconti non più semplici sfogo, pura protesta, ma tentativo di fare letteratura, di raccogliere in un libro, la storia della sua vita in ……続きを見る

Constantinople, the Turkish capital, the mysterious, ancient, ever-flourishing city, sacred alike to Christian and Mahometan, stands in its wondrous beauty upon European shores; yet Turkey is an Asi……続きを見る

THE level plains and steppes of South Russia were known to the ancients as the broad channel followed by the ebb and flow of every fresh wave of conquest or migration passing between Europe and Asia……続きを見る