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

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 ...

Traditionally, narratives of war have been male, Sharon Talley writes. In the pages that follow, she goes on to disrupt this tradition, offering cl...

Produced between 1850 and 1862, London Labour and the London Poor is one of the most significant examples of nineteenth century oral history. The c...

The Civil War posed a dilemma for American Quakers, who abhorred slavery as much as they hated violence. Fighting for the Confederacy was unthinkab...

This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of ga...

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of historys most maligned rulers: Frances Louis XVI  The definitive contribution to our underst...

The last days of fighting in the Civil War's eastern theater have been wrapped in mythology since the moment of Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomat...

First published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation ...

Between 1864 and 1867 Fanny Taylor made many trips to Ireland and Irish Homes and Irish Hearts (1867) is eye-witness account of her visits to the m...

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have th...

Father Patrick Dinneen is justly famous as the compiler of Focloir Gaedhilge agus Bearla / An Irish-English Dictionary. His ideas reached a fairly ...

Across the Revolutionary Divide: Russia and the USSR 1861-1945 offers a broad interpretive account of Russian history from the emancipation of the ...

Dispossession has a long and tortuous history in Ireland, reaching back to the eleventh century. In the Victorian era, evictions became major socia...

Dispossession has a long and tortuous history in Ireland, reaching back to the eleventh century. In the Victorian era, evictions became major socia...

Exhibiting the full range of the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department of the Hispanic Society of America, Treasures from the Hispanic Society Libr...

Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are interested in Tocqueville and hi...