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

Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, a...

Overlooked by historians for over half a century following her death, Ernestine L. Rose (18101892) was one of the foremost orators and social refor...

Packed with stunning photography, Eyewitness American Civil War explores the war that turned the nation against itself.Become an eyewitness to one ...

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and it...

The George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dying soldiers and prayed and spoke last words with them a...

In the nineteenth century, Latin America was home to the majority of the world's democratic republics. Many historians have dismissed these politic...

A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art In eighteenth-century Bri...

As OPEC approaches its 50th anniversary, the paperback edition of Nathan J. Citino's well-received study advances a challenging, revisionist interp...

A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world   As the British E...

Following Frances defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 187071, French patriots feared that their country was in danger of becoming a second-rate po...

This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates an...

This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Including chapters on wars fought in the hills, on the veldt, in th...

This engaging biography tells the dramatic story of a Russian noblewoman turned revolutionary terrorist. Born in 1852 in the last years of serfdom,...

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden. In doing so, it considers the the threshold between the prei...

Although overshadowed in historical memory by the Holocaust, the anti-Jewish pogroms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were at the time unr...

The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delanythe artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire wi...

Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, sho...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the ...

A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both   Three interco...

Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and earl...