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

This is the true life story of the adventurous Scottish gardener’s son, John Paul, who became America’s greatest naval hero, John Paul Jones. Briti...

Now in paperback for the first time, this collection of biographical essays delves into the careers of thirteen colourful naval leaders who guided ...

They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dram...

Why some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions a...

Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This study skillfully por...

Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the c...

The quality of the American character, the structure of American society, and the meaning of America's historical experience all had important impl...

A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history  “A fresh and illuminating framework...

This revolutionary interdisciplinary study argues that Monet’s artistic practices and choices were the direct result of his political stance as a n...

"Mr. Bill has brilliantly rendered the stately progress of life in and out of Morven through its two hundred and fifty years. He has brought histor...

"Mr. Bill has brilliantly rendered the stately progress of life in and out of Morven through its two hundred and fifty years. He has brought histor...

David Pinkney challenges accepted views of the timing of France's Industrial Revolution and the accompanying transformation of French society. Ori...

From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created t...