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The Winter of the Empire: Silver, Queues, and Face
China Pictorial Publishing House · 2017
This is the first volume in Dongxue Xinjing's (real name Li Heng) series on late Qing history. Taking the near-century from the Daoguang Emperor's acc…
At the Dawn of Civilization: Historical Lessons from Early Civilizations
CITIC Press · 2025
This book is by David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London and co-author of The Dawn of Everything. Its original…
The Ancient Régime: A Tale
Forgotten Books
The Ancient Régime: A Tale (often translated as The Old Regime, formerly The Old Corps) is a long historical novel in three volumes by the British his…
Persian Letters
People's Literature Publishing House · 2020
Persian Letters (Lettres persanes) is an epistolary novel published anonymously in 1721 by the French Enlightenment thinker Montesquieu, and his only …
The Great Nation: A History of France from Louis XV to Napoleon
Yilin Press · 2024
The eighteenth century has often been called "the French century." When Louis XIV died, he left his successor a powerful, stable, and well-ordered abs…
Confessions
The Commercial Press · 2022
Confessions is an autobiographical work written in his later years by the French Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The book consists of a s…
Looking Backward: 2000–1887
The Commercial Press · 2017
In 1888, the American writer, journalist, and social reformer Edward Bellamy published Looking Backward: 2000–1887. The novel narrates in the first pe…
A General History of France, Volume 3: The Age of Enlightenment and the French Revolution (1715–1814)
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025
This volume details the course of French history over nearly a century, from the death of Louis XIV to the collapse of the First French Empire. During…
The French Revolution - Volume 1
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Ancient Regime
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …