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

Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandest...

Originally published in 1971. In The House of Saulx-Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy, 17001830, Professor Robert Forster examines the noble family ...

'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial TimesIt has always been an important part ...

Before colonial Americans could declare independence, they had to undergo a change of heart. Beyond a desire to rebel against British mercantile an...

King of the Lobby tells the story of how one man harnessed delicious food, fine wine, and good conversation to the task of becoming the most influe...

Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religiou...

An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy On May 18, 1862, Henry Willis Wells wrote a letter to his mother te...

In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run on U.S. gold reserves, and a late-June stock-market crash, America was in the throes of a seriou...

Whether or not the United States won the war of 1812, two engagements that occurred toward the end of the conflict had an enormous influence on the...

In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run on U.S. gold reserves, and a late-June stock-market crash, America was in the throes of a seriou...

During the turbulent years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a squall of violence and lawlessness swept through the Nueces Strip and the Rio Gra...

During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central govern...

America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis...

Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and so...

In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people-men, women, a...

After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up within a fortnight, t...

Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hote...

In May 1798, after Congress released the XYZ Affair dispatches to the public, a raucous crowd took to the streets of Philadelphia. Some gathered to...

Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hote...

Between Crown and Commerce examines the relationship between French royal statecraft, mercantilism, and civic republicanism in the context of the g...