Modern History to 20th Century: c 1700 to c 1900

Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became Englands greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles...

Modern China in Flux heralds a transformative epoch in historical research, spotlighting the innovative methodology of network analysis. As the dig...

A biography of Canadas first prime minister, a legendary political strategist who helped found a new nation in 1867. Shocked by Canadas 1837 rebell...

Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artistsTommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, an...

Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including w...

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for Edexcel.Give ...

First published in 1967, The Scottish Carter presents the history of the Scottish horse and motormen's association from 1898- 1964. The road haulag...

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trad...

This handbook offers a guide to research on religious culture during Europes long nineteenth century (18001914). Grounded in the latest theoretical...

Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Green...

In 1724, Sylvester, a native of the island of Cyprus, was elected Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East. For more than...

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Engaging with...

Winner of the PEN OaklandJosephine Miles AwardA stunning portrayal of a tragedy endured and survived by women.David W. Blight, author of Frederick ...

This book explores British reflections of Japanese education between 1858 and 1914, by referring to accounts by British observers, derived from doc...

In 1877, Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from its lands in Nebraska and marched south to Indian Territory. I Am a Man tells...

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth o...

This book examines the experiences of refugees who populated the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany after ...

This book offers a new perspective on the often-overlooked lives of lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. It explores how over a century ...

This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of wo...

Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary...

The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, Americas legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their b...

The Bloody History of British Colonisation For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empires methods of ex...

Global knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on t...

A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history, stretching from nin...

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime ...

The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horse...

This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous governm...

This is the first scholarly work in Modern European History which elucidates consistently how border issues affect the history of nations and state...

This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their fu...

This book traces the history of the Church Crisis, a conflict between the Protestant and Anglo-Catholic (Ritualist) parties within the Church of En...

This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the c...