Modern History

The Modern History Collection chronicles the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — the age of industrial capitalism, mass democracy, and global empire that produced the world we still inhabit. Journalistic dispatches, political memoirs, and sweeping narrative histories record revolutions, colonial campaigns, and the social transformations unleashed by the railway and the telegraph, and all are offered here as free EPUB downloads.

The shelf draws on the enormous output of Victorian-era historians and commentators: John Richard Green’s popular history of the English people, the political writings of John Stuart Mill, and the travel literature of explorers who mapped the globe for European audiences. Works extending into the First World War era give the collection a natural terminus in the catastrophe that ended the long nineteenth century.