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

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

Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the...

Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has ref...

Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows th...

This two-volume book is a collection of previously unpublished primary sources about Japan in the years around the 1868 Meiji restoration from a ra...

Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the...

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, sett...

Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the long ...

In 1863, while living in Clarksville, Tennessee, Martha Ann Haskins, known to friends and family as Nannie, began a diary. The Diary of Nannie Hask...

The Red River Campaign of 1864 was a bold attempt to send large Union army and navy forces deep into the interior of Louisiana, seize the Rebel cap...

The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway   Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But ...

We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks a...

Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In...

This landmark collection by an international group of scholars and public intellectuals represents a major reassessment of French colonial culture ...

In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to w...