Volumesofvalue: 611 books
by Benjamin Waterhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
A
JOURNAL,
OF
A YOUNG MAN OF MASSACHUSETTS,
LATE
A SURGEON ON BOARD AN AMERICAN PRIVATEER,
WHO WAS CAPTURED AT SEA BY THE BRITISH, IN MAY, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED
AND THIRTEEN, AND WAS CONFINED FIRST,
AT MELVILLE ISLAND, HALIFAX, THEN AT CHATHAM,
IN ENGLAND ... AND LAST,
AT DARTMOOR PRISON.
INTERSPERSED...
by Maude Ward Lafferty
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Excerpt
... As early as 1828 charters were obtained in several Eastern States and railroad companies organized.
The first locomotive engine used in this country was operated on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's railroad between the mines at Carbondale and the town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania....
by William Playfair
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
CONTENTS
BOOK I.
CHAP. I.
INTRODUCTION and plan of the work. — Explanation of what the author understands by wealthy and powerful nations, and of the general cause of wealth and power
CHAP. II.
Of the general causes that operate, both externally and internally, in bringing down nations that have...
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
I. SLAVE LIFE ON THE PLANTATION
II. AT THE GREAT HOUSE
III. HORSE-RACING AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
IV. JOURNEY TO OUR NEW HOME IN NEW YORK
V. INCIDENTS AT SODUS
VI. REMOVAL FROM SODUS TO BATH
VII. DUELING
VIII. HORSE-RACING AND GENERAL TRAINING
IX. DEATH-BED AND BRIDAL SCENES
X. HIRED OUT TO A NEW MASTER
...
XXX....
by Joseph Sturge
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
Preface to the American Edition
Preface to the English Edition
A Visit, &c.
General Observations
Appendix A: ANTI-SLAVERY EPISTLE OF "FRIENDS" IN GREAT BRITAIN.
Appendix B: EARLY EFFORTS OF "FRIENDS" IN BEHALF...
by Theodore A. Dodge
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS (abridged list)
I. INTRODUCTION
II. CONDITION OF THE COMBATANTS
III. HOOKER AND THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
...
XXXV. OPERATIONS OF THE CAVALRY CORPS
XXXVI. HOOKER'S RESUME OF THE CAMPAIGN
XXXVII. SOME RESULTING CORRESPONDENCE
APPENDIX.
by James Mott Hallowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
About the Author
James Mott Hallowell was the Assistant Attorney-General of Massachusetts.
A Source Book for Mediaeval History
Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
Section I. The Germans and the Empire to 1073
Section II. The Papacy to the Accession of Gregory VII, 1073
Section III. The Struggle between the Empire and the Papacy, 1073–1250
Section IV. The Empire, 1250–1500
Section...
A Social History of the American Negro
Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States Including a History and Study of the Republic of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes.
CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE COMING OF NEGROES TO AMERICA CHAPTER II THE NEGRO IN THE COLONIES CHAPTER III THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA CHAPTER IV THE NEW WEST, THE SOUTH, AND THE WEST INDIES CHAPTER V INDIAN AND NEGRO CHAPTER VI EARLY...
Eighty Years and More
Reminiscences 1815-1897
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Index
CONTENTS
I. CHILDHOOD
II. SCHOOL DAYS
III. GIRLHOOD
IV. LIFE AT PETERBORO
V. OUR WEDDING JOURNEY
VI. HOMEWARD BOUND
VII. MOTHERHOOD
VIII. BOSTON AND CHELSEA
IX. THE FIRST WOMAN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION
X. SUSAN B. ANTHONY
XI....
A Vanished Arcadia
Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607 to 1767
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
Chapter I Early history — State of the country — Indian races — Characteristics of the different tribes — Dobrizhoffer's book — Various expeditions — Sebastian Cabot — Don Pedro de Mendoza...
Ypres 1914
An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Ypres 1914
An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff
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CONTENTS
Introduction
German Preface
Preliminary Remarks
The Theatre of Operations
The Advance of the Fourth Army
The...
by Mathew B. Brady, Alexander Gardner, Francis Trevelyan Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields During the Civil War of the United States by Mathew B. Brady and Alexander Gardner
Who operated under the Authority of the War Department and the Protection of the Secret Service Rare Reproductions from Photographs Selected from Seven Thousand Original...
Rescuing the Czar
Two Authentic Daries
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Rescuing the Czar
Two Authentic Daries
FOREWORD
ByW.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D., LL.B., LL.M.
Is the former Czar and his Imperial family still alive? There are millions of people in Europe and America who are asking this question.
European governments have considered the question of...