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

In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were p...

Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that developed in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial ...

The roots of the Arab world's current Russian entanglements reach deep into the tsarist and Soviet periods. To explore those entanglements, this bo...

A revealing look at how antislavery scientists and Black and white abolitionists used scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders  While recent hist...

On Arid Ground focuses on the relationships between empire and environment in Central Asia, using environmental history to examine the practice of ...

Lewis examines the complex combinations of British and Argentine forces involved in the rapid development of modern Argentina after its former past...

A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of h...

The orphan Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) developed sophisticated measuring instruments and a very precise theory of the movement of the moon around the ...

A sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the c...

Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through...

At only twentyone square miles in area, Bermuda saw slaves and slaveholders working and living closer together than in other societies. The colonys...

In March 1812, while Napoleons brother Joseph sat on the throne of Spain and the armies of France occupied much of the country, legislators elected...

The move to a new publisher has given The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual the opportunity to recommit to what it does best: present to a wide re...

Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the gendarme of Europe secured order beyond the country's b...

'A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account' Scots MagazineToo many historians have ignored the role of women in the '45. This b...

Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of wid...

Readable and concise, this Brief Edition of THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLES: A GLOBAL HISTORY provides the essential narrative of world history in an abb...

2024 IPPY Silver Medal Winner in Biography 2024 IPPY Silver Medal Winner in U.S. History During the Civil War his movements from battlefield to bat...

Napoleon had a profound impact on the development of both France and Europe, and his career had repercussions across the wider world. His career ha...

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