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

This groundbreaking work explores the important role of the 18th century masonic movement in transAtlantic trade, politics, and social development....

British Decadent literature was a radical attack on conventional morality and middle-class taste, its insistence on the autonomy of art and its exp...

What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about progress and perfection? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familia...

In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides read the sa...

In the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the 'woman writer' emerged as a category of authorship in England. Publishing the Woman Writer in...

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic...

Thirty-five classic stories fill this book about San Antonios seamier side, from the days of the Old West when Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson came by...

Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870 examines the ways in which the ancient concept of democracy was re-imagined as...

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today   The...

In August 1844 a heavily-laden party led by Captain Charles Sturt set out from Adelaide to head into the unexplored vastness of central Australia. ...

A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America  A classic for the twenty-first century, The American West stands...

To limit executive power, the Founding Fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their ...

One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of Bleeding Kansas and the vi...

The period leading up to the unification of the Romanian principalities is one of the most dynamic periods in modern Romanian history. It was a tim...

Three people in a marriage: a woman and two men. This was the eighteenth-century Italian aristocratic model of marriage, characterized by the prese...

In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Grégoire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon ...

Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Shamokin was a significant historical settlement in the region t...

The American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most famously at ...

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.S. diplomatic, cultu...