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By: John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) | |
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Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he assesses the concepts of history found in the classical period and then traces the historical development of the concept of political and social progress by looking at writers from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is interesting to consider what the history of the past hundred years would add to such an analysis. - Summary by Barry Ganong |
By: John Bates Clark (1847-1938) | |
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Social Justice Without Socialism | |
By: John Beatty (1828-1914) | |
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The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer |
By: John Blakman | |
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Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes |
By: John Brown (1830-1922) | |
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History of the English Bible
The celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of the English Bible of 1611 has called into existence the little book here presented to the reader's notice. It is the brief repetition of a story beginning in 670 A.D. and reaching on for twelve hundred years to 1879. It takes us back to the Monastery of Whitby where Caedmon the monk paraphrased Scripture story in Saxon song, and brings us through the centuries to the Abbey of Westminster where a distinguished body of English scholars met in 1870 and commenced that Revision of the Scriptures which first saw the light in 1881. |
By: John Buchan (1875-1940) | |
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Last Secrets
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and all that remains is but "amplifying our knowledge of the groyning and buttresses and stone-work." In this history of exploration, he tells of nine of those momentous final discoveries that placed the earth's last big secrets firmly on the map, from the mysterious "cloud city" of Lhasa, to the slopes--but not yet the summit--of Mount Everest. - Summary by Steven Seitel |
By: John Buffa (-1812) | |
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Travels through the Empire of Morocco |
By: John Burroughs (1837-1921) | |
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Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, fishing, walking—than has John Burroughs. His books are redolent of the soil, and have such "freshness and primal sweetness," that we need not be told that the pleasure he gets from his walks and excursions is by no means over when he steps inside his doors again. As he tells us on more than one occasion, he finds he can get much more out of his outdoor experiences by thinking them over, and writing them out afterwards... | |
Under the Maples | |
Ways of Nature | |
Winter Sunshine | |
Wake-Robin | |
Camping with President Roosevelt | |
The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers |
By: John C. Hutcheson | |
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Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes |
By: John Cadwalader (1742-1786) | |
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Nuts for Future Historians to Crack |
By: John Caius (1510-1573) | |
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Epidemics of the Middle Ages
Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker was a German physician and medical writer, whose research focused on the history of epidemics, in a broad sense of the term that included pandemics like the Black Death as well as the group of social phenomena known as dancing mania. The Epidemics of the Middle Ages comprises three of his works -- The Black Death, The Dancing Mania, and The Sweating Sickness -- translated by the English epidemiologist Benjamin Guy Babington. Despite what the name of the book may suggest, the events it describes are not limited to the Middle Ages... |
By: John Carr (1772-1832) | |
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The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. |
By: John Charles Dent (1841-1888) | |
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The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1 |
By: John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) | |
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The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains |
By: John Charles Van Dyke | |
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A Text-Book of the History of Painting
A TEXT-BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF PAINTINGBY JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D.PREFACE.The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The limited time given to the study of art in the average educational institution has not only dictated the condensed style of the volumes, but has limited their scope of matter to the general features of art history. Archaeological discussions on special subjects and aesthetic theories have been avoided... |
By: John Clark Ridpath (1840-1900) | |
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James Otis, the pre-revolutionist |
By: John Clay Coleman | |
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Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of the South, has led to this little book. In many parts of America the press has been furnished with “matter” for defending the colored people, through the medium of “Coleman’s Illustrated Lectures.” By request of my many auditors, some of whom being leading elements of the Northern States and Canada, this volume is published. Many persons interested in the welfare of the negro, have sought a more elaborate book on the Southern horrors... |
By: John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) | |
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Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations |
By: John Crombie Brown (-1879?) | |
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The Ethics of George Eliot's Works |
By: John D. (John Denison) Baldwin (1809-1883) | |
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Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology |
By: John D. Shortridge | |
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Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries |
By: John Davenport (1789-1877) | |
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Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction |
By: John David Hills | |
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The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. |
By: John De Morgan (1848-1926) | |
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The Hero of Ticonderoga or Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys |
By: John Dee (1527-1608) | |
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The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts |