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

Occupying much of imperial Chinas Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinar...

American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by Kentucky's frontier wars. Spanning the period from the 1720s when Ohio River valley Indi...

In 1863, San Franciscos Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in a dress not belonging to his or her sex. Adopted...

Karen Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here...

The early nineteenth century was a time of great change as the United States transitioned from the colonial era to the industrial age. Benjamin Wri...

George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the l...

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been ...

If I know my own heart, I can truly say, that I have not a selfish wish in placing myself under the patronage of the [American Colonization] Societ...

The Civil War is a much plumbed area of scholarship, so much so that at times it seems there is no further work to be done in the field. However, t...

In On the Edge of Freedom, David G. Smith breaks new ground by illuminating the unique development of antislavery sentiment in south central Pennsy...

A broad, panoramic view of Russian imperial society from the era of Peter the Great to the revolution of 1917, Wirtschafter's study sets forth a ch...

Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the...

From Thomas Jeffersons birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, Americas westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascin...

The book analyses present Latin American issues in their historical course since independence (beginning 1810) and its aftermath, up to the contemp...

In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors. Attacks took place in more t...

A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while ...

Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their ...

In The Threshold of Manifest Destiny, Laurel Clark Shire illuminates the vital role women played in national expansion and shows how gender ideolog...

As analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centu...

America's first treasury secretary and one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton stands as one of the nation's importan...

Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek com...