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

The Colour of Ireland: County by County 1860-1960 is a photographic celebration of the history, culture, people and places that make up a century o...

Enlightenment critics from Dryden through Johnson and Wordsworth conceived the modern view that art and especially literature entails a double refl...

The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capi...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

It has ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor, declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. Thei...

Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. Th...

Examining the history of Lucknow, Veena Talwar Oldenburg shows how the results of its transformation after the Mutiny of 1857 continue to pervade t...

An Open Access edition of this book will be made available on publication on our website and on the OAPEN Library, funded by the LUP Open Access Au...

The environmental humanities are one of the most exciting and rapidly expanding areas of interdisciplinary study, and this collection of essays is ...

This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the citys greatest growth, between the 1830s and t...

The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary imm...

In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating ...

Focusing on the years 1842 to 1867, Newspapers and Newsmakers evaluates the impact of the Dublin nationalist press on the Irish nationalist cause i...

This innovative monograph is of major significance for not only students and academics undertaking research on the history of Mexico during the lon...

Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or at...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, ...

Long neglected in mainstream history books, the Haitian Revolution (17911804) is now being claimed across a range of academic disciplines as ...

Property rights and Russia do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownershi...

The gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their home...

In the course of fifteen momentous years, the Spanish- and the Portuguese-American empires that had endured for three centuries came to an end in t...

Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the United States stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of ...