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

This definitive book on the Sultans of Oman is a thrilling historical account of their action-packed battles, daring expeditions, epic triumphs and...

The paperback edition of the bestselling, acclaimed book. While working at the Royal Horticultural Society, Fiona Davison came across a cache of le...

In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth...

Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of state activism when the state sought to strengthen its control on various soci...

While much attention has focused on society, culture, and the military during the Algerian War of Independence, Law, Order, and Empire addresses a ...

British Burma in the New Century draws upon neglected but talented colonial authors to portray Burma between 1895 and 1918, which was the apogee of...

Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created interna...

On July 3, 1863, a large-scale cavalry fight was waged on Crest Ridge four miles east of Gettysburg. There, on what is commonly referred to as East...