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The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written du... Read more...
Keywords: The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, Frederick Engels
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the northern coastline of North America was of particular interest to the Hudson's Bay Company as it was believed to hold the key to the elusive North-West Passage, a trade route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Recruited to lead a team to su... Read more...
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A Glimpse of Indias' Glorious Ancient Past
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Ancient India is a comprehensive work that captures the historical strides from neolithic and chalcolithic times to Harappan civilization, Vedic times. This book is the comparative study of Ancient India from 2500 BC - 500 AD. This book is very informative and is must rea... Read more...
Keywords: Ancient, India, History, Manish, Indus, Civilisation, Past, Glorious, Vedas, Buddhism, Brahamnism, Revolt, Rise, Jainism, Puranas, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Aranyakas, Brahamanas, Manu Smriti, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra, Book [more]
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Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English ethnographic and scientific writer and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism.
After a preliminary visit to the Canary Islands, K... Read more...
Keywords: travels in west africa, mary kingsley, african history, colonial history, west african culture, exploration, historic travel book
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The book takes the form of ten letters addressed to Lockhart, the epistolary mode permitting Scott to be both conversational in tone and discursive in method. In these, Scott surveys opinions respecting demonology and witchcraft from the Old Testament period to his own day.... Read more...
Keywords: letters on demonology and witchcraft, sir walter scott, history, demonology, witchcraft, demons, witches
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In 1893 Fridtjof Nansen set sail for the North Pole in the Fram, a ship specially designed to be frozen into the polar ice cap, withstand its crushing pressures, and travel north with the sea's drift. Experts said that such a ship couldn't be built and that the mission was ... Read more...
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The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forer... Read more...
Keywords: The Castle of Otranto, Horace Walpole
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The Mediaeval and Modern History of England are divided from one another by the Wars of the Roses. Out of the troubles of that time a New England arose. The period has been described by the historian Stubbs in a memorable passage: “Weak as is the fourteenth century, the fif... Read more...
Keywords: History, Illustrated, War of Roses, Robert Balmain Mowat, England, Wales, House of York, House of Plantagenet, House of Lancaster, Medieval
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Herodotus's Account of Egypt is the second book of the Histories, which contains descriptions of the marvels of the south: the size of the land, the wonders of the Nile, the religious ceremonies which will be as fascinating to the modern reader as it was to the ancient. Fro... Read more...
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Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanack to s... Read more...
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