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

Exposes the 'blind spot' in popular and academic histories about the role of African soldiers in the creation of Britain's empire, through a re-tel...

An edition, with introduction and notes, of the unique census for religious worship, in north-east England. In 1851, for the only time in British ...

A highly original treatment of significant topics in African Studies and beyond: violence, colonialism, landscape, memory and religion. Suffering,...

Legal documents from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Lincolnshire provide fascinating insights into life at the time. The legal system in eighte...

Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable polite society of this period emphasised mix...

Relates charity movements to religious impulse, Enlightenment 'improvement' and the fears of the Protestant ruling elite that growing social proble...

Edition of wills and inventories throws new light on early modern economic history. This collection of 153 wills and inventories provides a vivid ...

A new assessment of the life and political career of Lord Shelburne, prime minister 1782-83, and of the context in which he lived. Lord Shelburne,...

Essays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s. Over the long n...

From the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led t...

The third volume in BHRS's series of poll books and covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of William Pitt the younger. This is the...

Using new archival sources, this book shows that Prussia sought not the unity of Germany but its partition into five masses loosely enough joined t...

The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study show...

Eyewitness Civil War testimony from a major American writer This facsimile edition of Albion W. Tourgée's regimental history of the 105th Ohio Volu...

For more than fifty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. In...

The apparent parallels between Mormon ritual and doctrine and those of Freemasonry have long been recognised. That Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and...

The relationship between constitutional arrangements and democratic developments has long been a topic of debate among political scientists and jur...

The life and political career of William Conolly, a key figure in the establishment of the eighteenth century protestant ascendancy in Ireland. Wi...

Gettysburgs Forgotten Cavalry Actions examines in great detail three of the campaigns central cavalry episodes. The first is the heroic but doomed ...

Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single...

Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum ef...

The Blue, the Gray, and the Green is one of only a handful of books to apply an environmental history approach to the Civil War. This book explores...

In 1862, in the only instance of a Jewish expulsion in America, General Ulysses S. Grant banished Jewish citizens from the region under his militar...

In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 18871906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Te...