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• Cracking the Movement: Squatting Beyond the Media (1994), by Adilkno, trans. by Laura Martz (HTML in the Netherlands)

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• The protest of the city of Amsterdam in opposition to the states of Holland who pretend to raise 16000 new levies, by plurality of voices, contrary to the immunities and priviledges granted them by Mary Countess of Holland : being a manifest violation of their undoubted liberties. (London : Printed for Thomas Malthus ..., 1684), by Amsterdam (Netherlands). Raad (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Strange and terrible news, from Holland, and Yarmouth.: Being, a perfect relation, concerning the inundation of the south sea; and of its drowning the rich and populous city of Amsterdam; with divers other places in Friesland, Holland, Brabant, and Flanders, and the names of them. Also, the over-flowing of the river of Rhine, and sinking 60 parish churches, and drowning 100000 men, women and children; and how they row in boats near Amsterdam, over the tops of houses. Togethek, [sic] with the breaking in of the sea at Soal (near Yarmouth) drowning a great part of the country and many cattle; also casting many ships upon the land, and forcing others to sea in that storm. (London : Printed Robert Wood, 1651), by Peter Malbone (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A relation of the great and wonderful inundation of waters in North-Holland, Waterland &c. whereby not onely the city of Amsterdam hath received many millions of damage in marchandize, housing, and shipping &c., but also many hundreds of men, women, and children have perished therein : confirmed by the letters and reports of several the most eminent merchants and persons of credit now living in those parts. ([London] : Printed for I. Berriff, 1675), by J. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A letter from Amsterdam conteining the full relation of the proceedings of the Prince of Orange against that city, and the transactions betwixt him, and the citizens, their opening of the sluces to drown the said city, with severall other passages thereupon, and the copy of the Prince of Orange his letter the magistrates of the city. With an exact relation of the five days seige or blocking up, of Amsterdam by the Prince of Orange, and Grave William of Nassaw. Together with a particular discovery of the whole design and opening the sluces to let in the sea, which hath overflown great part of the land. (London : Printed by Bernard Alsop for T.P. and are to be sold at the Royall-Exchange in Cornhil, 1650) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The treaty and articles of agreement between the Estates of Holland, the Prince of Orange, and magistrates of Amsterdam. With an exact narrative of the chief passages and proceedings at the besieging of the said town by the Prince of Orange; the manner of raising their batteries, and 300 piece of ordnance mounted against the Prince's army. Also the discovery of a great plot and designe aagainst [sic] the towns of Delph. Dort, Medembleck, Harlen and Hoarn. With the Prince's seizing on several Lords of Holland, and commiting them prisoners to Lovestein Castle. (London : Printed by J. Clowes, over against the lewer-pump in Grub-street, 1650), by United Provinces of the Netherlands. Staten Generaal (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De Nederlandse kerken en de joden, 1940-1945: De protesten bij Seyss-Inquart, hulp aan joodse onderduikers, de motieven voor hulpverlening (in Dutch), by Johan M. Snoek (Gutenberg ebook)

• Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2016), by Peter Verstraten
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2013), by Todd Landman
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• These Eventful Years: The Twentieth Century in the Making, As Told by Many of its Makers, Being the Dramatic Story of All That Has Happened Throughout The World During the Most Momentous Period in All History (2 volumes; London and New York: Encyclopaedia Britannica, c1924), ed. by Franklin Henry Hooper
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: PDF at archive.org
• The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity, by Harun Yahya (illustrated HTML at harunyahya.com)
• The Shape of Things to Come (1933), by H. G. Wells (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Pictorial history of 1913. ([Rahway, N.J., Printed by Quinn-Boden company, c1914]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The year of our Lord, 1904; a survey of the world, (Philadelphia, General council publication house, 1905), by Theodore E Schmauk (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of our time, 1885-1911, (New York, H. Holt and company; [etc., etc., c1911]), by G. P. Gooch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wars & Treaties, 1815 to 1914, by Arthur Ponsonby Ponsonby (Gutenberg ebook)

• Social Decay and Regeneration (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921), by R. Austin Freeman, contrib. by Havelock Ellis
  • multiple formats ay archive.org
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• Satanism and the World Order (London: G. Allen and Unwin Ltd., c1920), by Gilbert Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites in the Allocutions of Pius XII, by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira (HTML with commentary at tfp.org)
• Solution: The Values of the Qur'an, by Harun Yahya (illustrated HTML and other formats at harunyahya.com)
• Lihan evankeliumi: Moraalin arvostelua (in Finnish), by M. Hahl (Gutenberg ebook)
• Où va le monde?: Considérations philosophiques sur l'organisation sociale de demain (in French), by Walther Rathenau, trans. by S. Jankélévitch (Gutenberg ebook)

• American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Détente, 1945-1970 (Edmonton; AU Press, c2018), by Anthony Carew (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Ambivalent Alliance: The Catholic Church and the Action Française, 1899-1939 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1985), by Oscar L. Arnal (page images at Pitt)

• The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019), by Errol Anthony Henderson (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Kimberly Wallace-Sanders (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers From World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Judson MacLaury (PDF at Tennessee)

• To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers From World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Judson MacLaury (PDF at Tennessee)

• To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers From World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Judson MacLaury (PDF at Tennessee)

• A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America (revised edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Craig Hansen Werner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer (2001), by Clayton K. S. Chun
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Reliability and Alliance Interdependence: The United States and its Allies in Asia, 1949–1969 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2022), by Iain D. Henry (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Cruise of the Snark, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Through the South Seas with Jack London (London: T.W. Laurie, ca. 1913), by Martin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Through the South Seas with Jack London, by Martin Johnson, contrib. by Ralph D. Harrison (Gutenberg ebook)

• Holocaust Denial (New York: American Jewish Committee, c1993), by Kenneth S. Stern (PDF at ajc.org)
• The "Protocols", Bolshevism and the Jews: An Address to Their Fellow-Citizens by American Jewish Organizations (New York : American Jewish Committee, 1921), by American Jewish Committee, Zionist Organization of America, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, United Synagogue of America, Provisional Organization for American Jewish Congress, Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Rabbinical Assembly of America, and Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Manual of the Leading Muhammadan Objections to Christianity, by William St. Clair Tisdall (HTML at answering-islam.org)
• Ourselves and the Universe: Studies in Life and Religion (New York: T. Whittaker, 1903), by J. Brierley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Modern Substitutes for Christianity, by Pearson M'Adam Muir (Gutenberg ebook)

• Seven Pillars of Wisdom (originally published 1926), by T. E. Lawrence
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia

• John C. Parkin, Archives, and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), by Linda M. Fraser, Michael McMordie, and Geoffrey Simmins (PDF at University of Calgary)

• Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2004), by Graham Livesey (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-1967 (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), by Jack D. Ives (PDF with commentary at University of Calgary)

• The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by William A. Schwartz and Charles Derber (HTML at UC Press)
• Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race, by Herbert York (HTML with commentary at learnworld.com)

• Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Elsie Bonita Adams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• Covering Tyranny: The AP and Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 (New York: Associated Press, c2017), by Larry Heinzerling, ed. by John Daniszewski, contrib. by Randy Herschaft (PDF files with commentary at ap.org)

• The Automobile and Urban Transit: The Formation of Public Policy in Chicago, 1900-1930 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1983), by Paul F. Barrett (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)

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