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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
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This compilation of primary documents chronicles the final, turbulent decades of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, documenting the collision between an aging imperial administration and the rising tide of local reform.
A Handbook of Modern Japan
Ernest W. (Ernest Wilson) Clement
A panoramic survey of a nation in rapid transition, this work captures the spirit of early twentieth-century Japan as it pivots from feudal isolation toward a modern, globalized future.
Anarchism
Paul Eltzbacher
This systematic study offers a rigorous, neutral map of anarchist thought by analyzing the core principles of its most influential thinkers. It serves as a definitive primer for those seeking to understand the movement beyond common misconceptions.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3.: The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
Jules Verne
The nineteenth century represents a breathless era of global mapping, where the final blank spots on the world’s atlas vanish under the persistent scrutiny of explorers. This exhaustive chronicle captures the sheer scale of that ambition, documenting the mapping of continents, the navigation of treacherous polar…
The West Riding Territorials in the Great War
Laurie Magnus
A detailed record of civilian preparation, front-line sacrifice, and tactical movement transforms local territorial units into the backbone of Great Britain’s continental war effort.
The history of the psychoanalytic movement
Sigmund Freud
When a revolutionary intellectual movement faces fierce public hostility and internal rebellion, its creator takes up the pen to defend its true origins, core principles, and boundary lines.
The Flying Saucers are Real
Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe
Military aviation officers and commercial pilots keep sighting massive, high-speed metallic disks, forcing a former Marine Corps pilot to investigate whether the United States government is covering up visits from extraterrestrial space craft.
The New World of Islam
Lothrop Stoddard
Across the Near and Middle East, a massive religious and political awakening is quietly dismantling centuries of decay and redrawing the global balance of power.
A Voyage to Terra Australis
Matthew Flinders
A relentless sea commander charts thousands of miles of unknown coastline, surviving shipwrecks, treacherous reefs, and years of foreign imprisonment to assemble the first complete map of an entire continent.