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

What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in Augu...

Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath,...

Drawing on fresh archival evidence, this book tells the story of how experts, cartels and international organizations have written the rules for Eu...

The second volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism traces the fortunes of Catholic communities in England, Wales, Scotland,...

The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind t...

Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal...

Sam Smith fought heroically in the American Revolution and was personally close with George Washington. He was one of the most successful businessm...

Nineteenth-century women in British society may have seemed governed by a patriarchal model that reserved power and privilege for men, but women gr...