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Classic E-texts The Ancient
Regime
Read about France before the French Revolution from this series of lectures by Charles Kingsley. Astoria by Washington Irving
Read this classic work by Washington Irving, that is set in the Rocky Mountains during the Rocky Mountain fur Trade days of the early 19th Century. Although this work is fiction, it nonetheless is one of America's first fictional works that uses history to tell a great story. The Eve Of The Revolution, A Chronicle Of The Breach
With England
In his book, The Eve of the Revolution, A Chronicle of the Breach with England Carl Becker endeavors to convey to the reader, not a record of what men did, but a sense of how they thought and felt about what they did. This narrative explains the feelings and state of mind of the people and classes involved in the events leading up to the American Revolution. This book published in 1918 was volume 11 of The Chronicles of America Series. The Fundamental Orders Of 1639
The Fundamental
Orders Of 1639 maybe the first Constitution ever written in the world. An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations
Adam Smith's classic work, Wealth of Nations is considered by many to be the blueprints of modern economics. Read it and decide for yourself whether or not this is true. The Use and Abuse of Arbitrary Power
It is the honor of England that she had deposited in the virgin soil of her Colonies the germ of freedom. Life of Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was born at Dublin on the first of January, 1730. His father was an attorney, who
had fifteen children, of whom all but four died in their youth. Edmund, the second son, being of delicate health in his childhood, was taught at home and at his grandfather's house in the country before he was sent with his two brothers Garrett and Richard to a school at Ballitore, under Abraham Shackleton, a member of the Society of Friends. For nearly forty years afterwards Burke paid an annual visit to Ballitore. Men of Invention and Industry
Read this classic 19th century work about the men who helped to bring about the modern world through their inventions by Samuel Smiles. Scientific And Political Revolutions
This is chapter one of Le Bon's classic study of the
psychology of Revolutions, which focuses on the French Revolution. Treaty of Greenville [concluded August 3, 1795]
A treaty of peace between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanees, Ottawas, Chippewas, Pattawatimas, Miamis, Eel Rivers, Weas, Kickapoos, Piankeshaws, and Kaskaskias.
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