Modern History

56 books

Born Without Rights: Capitalism and Slavery cover
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Born Without Rights: Capitalism and Slavery 埃里克·威廉斯 / 陆志宝 / 彭坤元 / 张晓华 Beijing Science and Technology Press · 2024 Slavery helped drive Britain's Industrial Revolution; plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants linked to the slave trade amassed enormous fortun…
Five Hundred Years of Iran cover
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Five Hundred Years of Iran Abbas Amanat / 冀开运 / 邢文海 / Li Xin People's Daily Press · 2025 In 1501, Shia Iran was born and waged war against the Sunni Ottoman Empire. In the late 18th century, a fractured Iran was reunified, only to become a…
Shanghai Society and Textile Science and Technology cover
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Shanghai Society and Textile Science and Technology 廖大伟 / 杨小明 / 周德红 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2021 This book focuses on the interplay between Shanghai society and textile technology. It is a collection of papers from the Sixth Zhang Jian Internation…
Uncle Sam Abroad cover
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Uncle Sam Abroad Conner, Jacob Elon, 1862-1949 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 …
Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 cover
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Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 O‘Donovan Rossa, Jeremiah, 1831-1915 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 …
Germany's Vanishing Colonies cover
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Germany's Vanishing Colonies Le Sueur, Gordon, 1874- 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 History of Hungary. For the Use of Youth cover
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The History of Hungary. For the Use of Youth Peregriny, Elek 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 …
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Section des Postes cover
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Minutes of the General Assembly of the Section des Postes Braesch, F. (Frédéric), 1877- 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 …
Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt cover
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Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Urabi, Ahmad, 1841?-1911 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 …
History of Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece cover
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History of Ioannis Kapodistrias, Governor of Greece Euangelides, Tryphon E., 1863-1941 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 …
El proletario en España y el Negro en Cuba cover
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El proletario en España y el Negro en Cuba Espinosa, Ramón J. 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 …
A History of the Third French Republic cover
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A History of the Third French Republic Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad), 1869-1957 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 …
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 cover
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A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 Emerson, Edwin, 1869-1959 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 Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation cover
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The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Roger, Charles, 1819- 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 …
History of Russia, 1878-1918 cover
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History of Russia, 1878-1918 Hedenström, Alfred von, 1869- 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 Rise of the Democracy cover
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The Rise of the Democracy Clayton, Joseph, 1868-1943 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 …
France in the Nineteenth Century cover
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France in the Nineteenth Century Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley, 1822-1904 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 French Revolution: A Short History cover
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The French Revolution: A Short History Johnston, R. M. (Robert Matteson), 1867-1920 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 New World of Islam cover
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The New World of Islam Stoddard, Lothrop, 1883-1950 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 …
A School History of the Great War cover
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A School History of the Great War McKinley, Albert E. (Albert Edward), 1870-1936 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 …