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

One of Latin Americas most famous historical figures, Simón Bolívar has become a mythic symbol for many nations, empires, and revolutions, used to ...

Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this countrys colonial history is th...

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New En...

In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of sla...

This volume follows Metternich's career up to the restoration of the Bourbons in France. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Libra...

Late in life, writing his memoirs, John Bell Hood wrote, no man is justly entitled to be considered a great General, unless he has won his spurs. H...

How did the British navy maintain authority among its potentially disorderly crews? And what order exactly did it wish to establish? Churchill on...

In The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture, Allison M. Johnson considers the ubiquitous images of bodies- white and black,...

A proverbial cellar find brought to light a remarkable source for Napoleonic uniformology, which due to its artistic design but also high level of ...

Contributors from the US, Britain and Europe explore a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterl...

Provides a thorough examination of the role of women in Ascendancy Ireland. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was a period of grea...

Discusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions...

The story of William Waters, Black street performer in Regency London, and how his huge celebrity took on a life of its own   Every child in Regenc...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, contemporary narratives about the American South pointed to the perceived lack of industrial development in the ...

Who was Lew Wallace's true foe - the Confederacy, General Halleck, General Grant, or himself? Lew Wallace of Indiana was a self-taught extraordinar...

Kentucky and Tennessee share a unique and similar history, having joined the Union as the fifteenth and sixteenth states in 1792 and 1796, respecti...

Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially co...

John Paul Jones is now considered a Revolutionary War hero and the father of the American Navy, his defiant words I have not yet begun to fight! th...

Between 1700 and 1900, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries, who constructed a comprehensive memory of ...

In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his...

Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life. Shortlisted for the Royal His...