Ask A Historian 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know by Greg Jenner | 546.68 KB
English | 332 Pages

Title: Ask A Historian
Author: Greg Jenner
Year: 2021

H B Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China
pdf | 29.26 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-0813160023 | Author: Fairbank, John King; Coolidge, Martha Henderson; Smith, Richard J. | Year: 2014

John King Fairbank, "H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China"
English | ISBN: 0813160022 | 2014 | 328 pages | PDF | 29 MB
Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (1910-18).

Frederic Clark, "The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment"
English | ISBN: 0190492309 | 2020 | 366 pages | PDF | 30 MB
In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War, while challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil. For over a millennium, Dares' work was circulated as the first pagan history.