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

Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

Part of the prestigious academic book series Documenting the Image, this is a fascinating survey illustrated by extremely rare photographs of the b...

This volume brings together a leading group of scholars to offer a new perspective on the history of conflicts and trade, focusing on the role of s...

Studies on the reception of the classical tradition are an indispensable part of classical studies. Understanding the importance of ancient civiliz...

The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation...

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary the...

Originally published in 1988, The Burden of German History 1919-45 examines the vast literature surrounding Weimar years and the National Socialist...

This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asias imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume ...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to ...

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and ...

Crucible of a Generation tells the story of the fifteen days surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the pages of eight leading Ame...

Following the suggestion of the historian Peter Parish, these essays probe the edges of slavery and the sectional conflict. The authors seek to rec...

Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the sam...

Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the...

This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and o...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

Bengals traditional industries, once celebrated worldwide, largely decayed under the backwash effects of the British Industrial Revolution in the f...

The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era generates a new history of the Ottoman Empires Tanzimat reforms in the provinces of Edirne and Ankara. It st...

In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowd...

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outb...

The Second Ku Klux Klans success in the 1920s remains one of the orders most enduring mysteries. Emerging first as a brotherhood dedicated to payin...

Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan examines the local, national and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaid...

Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing...

Originally published in 1997 Working for Women? examines the ways in which women's patterns of paid and unpaid work have been mediated by the polic...

This volume examines the visual culture of Japans transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century.Through this imp...

First published in 1998, The European Yearbook of Business History publishes research and review articles in English on the history of private ente...

As Cyprus experienced British imperial rule between 1878 and 1960, Greek and Turkish nationalism on the island developed at different times and at ...

This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the long eighteenth centur...

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and...

First Published in 2002, Visual Words provides a unique and interdisciplinary evaluation of the relationship between images and words in this perio...

This unique reference work covers the military history of the United States from the Revolution to the Gulf War. The Handbook of American Military ...

This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized read...

This title was first published in 2000: The Way We Lived Then is a detailed study of a nineteenth-century community. It is based on the life histor...

Global issues such as climate change and the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis have spurred interest in thinking about the history of the mode...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound togeth...

This title was first published in 2000. The nineteenth century saw the emergence of numerous artistic brotherhoods - groups of artists bound togeth...

First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory w...

The name and fame of Muhammad Ali, the Founder of Modern Egypt, are well known. His vivid personality has appealed to many writers, who have concen...

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication format...

The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holoc...

Published in 1994: This book is to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertzs death at the terribly young age of thirty-six. The ...

This title was first published in 2001. The emergence and development of automobile production in Australia was a long, drawn out and costly busine...

This title was first published in 2003. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and soc...

The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening...

This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patt...

Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn t...