Skip to main content
Search Button
Greece Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...

19th Century eBooks

If you like 19th Century eBooks, then you'll love these top picks.
Showing 1 - 24 of 5577 Results
Skip side bar filters

  • The Greek Revolution

    1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

    by Mark Mazower ...
    WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come' Roderick Beaton, Times Literary SupplementIn the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause that came t... ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

    Free

  • Jane Austen at Home

    A Biography

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity.' Amanda ForemanLucy Worsley 'is a great scene-setter for this ta... ... Read more

    6,49 €

  • A Lady Awakened: Blackshear Family Book 1

    by Cecilia Grant ...
    Series Book 1 - Blackshear Family
    Fans of Eloisa James, Sherry Thomas, Courtney Milan and Grace Burrowes will adore Cecilia Grant's emotionally rich and deeply passionate Regency romance.Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. If she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • Bismarck's War

    The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

    by Rachel Chrastil ...
    'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe's pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • A Heart Too Proud

    by Laura London ...
    For fans of Julie Garwood, Jude Deveraux, Loretta Chase, Johanna Lindsey and Kathleen E. Woodiwiss comes a classic novel of seductive games, simple pleasures, and a scandalous love that breaks all the rules, from acclaimed author Laura London.Country bred and city green, Elizabeth Cordell lives a quiet life with her sisters in a humble cottage in Kent. But upon the death of their kindly guardian, ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • Queen Victoria

    Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    AN INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF ONE OF BRITAIN'S LONGEST-REIGNING - AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY - MONARCHS FROM BESTSELLING HISTORIAN LUCY WORSLEYReaders LOVE Queen Victoria:'This book changed my whole perception of Queen Victoria' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Fascinating. Lucy has really brought her to life' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An insightful, interesting and readable account' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐*******************************Who was Queen Victoria?A little old ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Age Of Capital: 1848-1875

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    A magisterial account of the rise of capitalismEric Hobsbawm's magnificent treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 is a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after 1848. ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Hunting Eichmann

    Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi

    by Neal Bascomb ...
    Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to Argentina, where he lived, undisturbed, for the next decade. On 11 May 1960 he was captured in an operation of breathtaking skill and daring by a team ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917

    by Roger R. Reese ...
    In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty’s prime pillars, finally fell—a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856–1917 contests this assumption. By expanding our view of the Imperial Russian ... Read more

    42,50 €

  • The Pirate Coast

    Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805

    by Richard Zacks ...
    A real-life thriller -- the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees.In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • Age Of Empire: 1875-1914

    by Prof Eric Hobsbawm ...
    THE AGE OF EMPIRE is a book about the strange death of the nineteenth century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilisation. It is about hopes realised which turned into fears: an era of unparalleled peace engendering an era of unparalleled war; revolt and revolution emerging on the outskirts of society; a time of profound identity crisis for ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Records de la darrera carlinada

    by Marian Vayreda ...
    Quan va esclatar la tercera guerra carlina (1872-1876), el jove olotí Marian Vayreda, fill d'una família de la petita noblesa rural, es va incorporar a l'exèrcit carlí. Integrat en el cos de cavalleria, va arribar a formar part de l'estat major del general Savalls. Durant prop de tres anys, va participar en accions destacades fins que va ser ferit en una mà. Al final de la guerra es va exiliar a ... Read more

    5,99 €

  • Seizing Freedom

    Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

    by David R Roediger ...
    How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger's radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts of Emancipation and Reconstruction.Reinstating ex-slaves' own "freedom dreams" in constructing these ... Read more

    9,85 €

  • How To Tame Your Duke: Princess In Hiding Book 1

    by Juliana Gray ...
    Series Book 1 - Princess In Hiding
    How To Tame Your Duke is the dazzling first novel in a new trilogy by historical romance writer Juliana Gray whose debut Affairs By Moonlight series was richly praised. Lose your heart to this witty and romantic story of three intrepid princesses caught in a deadly plot. Perfect for fans of Julia Quinn and Suzanne Enoch.England, 1888. Quiet and scholarly Princess Emilie has always avoided ... Read more

    0,99 €

  • My Beautiful Enemy

    by Sherry Thomas ...
    Fans of Grace Burrowes, Liz Carlyle, Meredith Duran, Sarah Maclean and Courtney Milan will be enthralled by the dazzling talent of Sherry Thomas in this emotionally rich, compelling and exquisitely romantic new novel.Hidden beneath Catherine Blade's uncommon beauty is a daring that matches any man's. Although this has taken her far in the world, she still doesn't have the one thing she craves: the ... Read more

    3,49 €

  • Fanny and Stella

    The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

    by Neil McKenna ...
    'Uproarious.' The Times'Terrifically entertaining.' Evening Standard'Irresistible.' Daily Mail'Gripping.' Sunday Telegraph'A scintillating gem: a cracking page-turner, historically illuminating, culturally fascinating, and a book which effortlessly passes comment on today.' HeraldLondon, April 1870: Fanny and... ... Read more

    13,98 €

  • The Man in the Red Coat

    by Julian Barnes ...
    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020*'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening StandardThe Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi.In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • The Best of American Heritage: The Civil War

    by Edwin S. Grosvenor ...
    Some of America's foremost historians - including Bruce Catton, David McCullough, James McPherson and Stephen Sears tell extraordinary stories of courage, disaster, and triumph in this collection of the best articles from sixty years of American Heritage. The Civil War posed a critical test of the young nation's character, endurance, and will to survive. Coming only two generations after the ... Read more

    9,81 €

  • Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War

    by Robert Penn Warren ...
    In the summer of 1863, Adam Rosenzweig has left a Bavarian ghetto and sailed for America to join the Union Army. Fired by the revolutionary idealism of mid-nineteenth-century Europe, he hopes to aid a cause which he believes to be as simple as he knows it to be just. But thwarted by the discovery of a physical deformity which he had hoped to conceal, he must try other means to find his "truth." ... Read more

    2,94 €

  • Flinders

    The Man Who Mapped Australia

    by Rob Mundle ...
    The fascinating story of the exceptional maritime explorer, Matthew Flinders - the man who put Australia on the map.Shipwrecks, storms, death and danger - Matthew Flinders encountered it all on his courageous quest to circumnavigate and chart the treacherous Terra Australis coastline.From the drama of epic voyages and devastating shipwrecks; his part in the naming of Australia; his cruel ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Greece

    Biography of a Modern Nation

    by Roderick Beaton ...
    We think we know ancient Greece, the civilisation that shares the same name and gave us just about everything that defines 'western' culture today, in the arts, sciences, social sciences and politics. Yet, as Greece has been brought under repeated scrutiny during the financial crises that have convulsed the country since 2010, worldwide coverage has revealed just how poorly we grasp the modern ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • The Gold Rush

    by Ralph K. Andrist ...
    The discovery of a nugget in California in 1848 set off the first gold rush in history. In 1849 alone, the population increased 500 percent as 80,000 men rushed to claim its riches; three years later, nearly 250,000 people lived there. By 1865, miners had dug and panned 750 million in gold from the hills and streambeds of California. In other countries, mines that produced precious metals were the ... Read more

    9,81 €

  • The Cold War

    A World History

    by Odd Arne Westad ...
    The definitive history of the Cold War and its impact around the worldWe tend to think of the Cold War as a bounded conflict: a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, born out of the ashes of World War II and coming to a dramatic end with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Bancroft Prize-winning scholar Odd Arne Westad argues that the Cold War ... Read more

    14,99 €