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The hispanic nations of the new world: a chronicle of our southern neighbors
At the time of the American Revolution most of the New World still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and conquerors had been the first to come to its shores. Spain had the lion's share, but Portugal held Brazil, in itself a vast land of unsuspected resources. No empire mankind had ever yet known rivaled in size the illimitable domains of Spain and Portugal in the New World; and non…
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History of the Philippine Islands
It proved a serviceable recollection of the major features of Phillipines' history, much of which involves the archipelago being at the crossroads of the Pacific, and, thus, subject to almost constant domination by all sorts of cultures: Chinese, Muslim, Spanish, Japanese, American.
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Freedom's battle
Mahatma Gandhi discusses his ongoing campaign for the independence of India from the British Empire, and details how principles of non-violence and non-cooperation can be used to achieve this goal.
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History of Holland
Comprehensive history. Considerable attention is paid to political geography; and each volume is furnished with such maps and plans as may be requisite for the illustration of the text. The author was an honorary member of the Dutch Historical Society, Utrecht and a foreign member of the Netherland Society of Literature, Leyden.
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A school history of the great war
t is a great first book to be introduced to the conflict and to have difficult and complex issues like the Balkans distilled to the most base historical facts. There are maps that accompany each section and every chapter is broken down very intuitively, pre war break downs for each country, then each year of the war and a few of the major events that defined that year. The book was written befo…
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The children of France
The story of the heroism of the Children of France never will be fully told. Many of these little patriots have suffered the supreme penalty for their devotion to their country, leaving neither track nor trace of themselves. That they have disappeared is all that is known of them, and thus the stories of their deeds of valor have died with them.
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A child's history of England
If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, --bro…
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Early european history
This book aims to furnish a concise and connected account of human progress during ancient, medieval, and early modern times. It should meet the requirements of those high schools and preparatory schools where ancient history, as a separate discipline, is being supplanted by a more extended course introductory to the study of recent times and contemporary problems. Such a course was first outli…
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Camps and trails in China
The object of this book is to present a popular narrative of the Asiatic Zoological Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History to China in 1916-17. Details of a purely scientific nature have been condensed, or eliminated, and emphasis has been placed upon our experiences with the strange natives and animals of a remote and little known region in the hope that the book will be interest…
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A history of China
Eberhard's history is a decent starting point for a student of Chinese history, and one could even argue that this is more of a "social history" of China than otherwise, which will delight those interested in cultural studies.
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