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

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the pu...

Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattl...

This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full understanding of Thomas Jeffersons importance to the intellectual development of the Unit...

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

Historical Studies in Industrial Relations was established in 1996 by the Centre for Industrial Relations, Keele University, to provide an outlet f...

In the fascinating Catholics Lost Cause, Adam Tate argues that the primary goal of clerical leaders in antebellum South Carolina was to build a rap...

Civil rights legislation figured prominently in the agenda of Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction. But as Reconstruction came to an en...

This collection provides a comprehensive treatment of the German colonial empire and its significance. Leading scholars show not only how the colon...

Bridging the multiple histories and present-day iterations of U.S. settler colonialism in North America and its overseas imperialism in the Caribbe...

Following Sitting Bull's surrender to the United States Army in 1881, the Indian Division of the United States Census Office conducted a full and d...

Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in mod...

The Bastille, symbol of injustice and monarchial tyranny, surrendering to the Parisian throng; the hungry women of Paris, demanding bread from thei...

An Irish officer in the British Army, Major General Robert Ross (1766-1814) was a charismatic leader widely admired for his bravery in battle. Desp...

The Serpentine Wall is chronologically structured, befitting a history of church-state separation in the United States. It begins with a history of...

The book delineates the role and place of the Western scientific discourse which occupied an important place in the colonization of India. During t...

During the 19th century the home, as both a cultural construct and a set of lived practices, became more powerful in the Western world than ever be...

Since the days of Adam Smith, Mercantilism has been a hotly debated issue. Condemned at the end of the 18th century as a false system of economic t...

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100...

Arthur Kenneth (A.K.) Chesterton was a soldier, journalist and activist whose involvement with fascist and extreme right-wing politics in Britain s...

'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the ...

Through its focus on the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, this book provides a new perspective on the often fractious and tangle...

This is a political, cultural and intellectual biography of the neglected but important figure, Henry Redhead Yorke. A West Indian of African/Briti...