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

LOrient joue un rôle essentiel dans lhistoire urbaine de Vienne au dix-huitième siècle: cest une route commerciale, une communauté marchande et un ...

Explores early modern interpretations of Roman Scotland Examines an important aspect of the development of Scottish identity, a subject being bro...

What did Europe owe Spain in the eighteenth century? This infamous question, posed by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers in the Encyclopédie méthodique,...

In an era haunted by its past, modern Europe sought to break with the old; the future and the new became the ideal. In Italy however, where the rem...

The development of political economy as a philosophical preoccupation constitutes a defining feature of the Enlightenment, but no consensual agreem...

Examines literatures and histories of the Cape in relation to postcolonial debates about nationalism How the Cape Colony was imagined as a politic...

Le théâtre en langue française, qui fut au centre des occupations quotidiennes de la cour et des élites urbaines russes au XVIIIe siècle, na jamais...

During the early modern period the public postal systems became central pillars of the emerging public sphere. Despite the importance of the post i...

This book explores the ordinary daily routines, behaviours, experiences and beliefs of the Scottish people during a period of immense political, so...

What did it mean to be a Scot in an age marked by the movement of people and the flow of information? This revised and updated volume of the New Hi...

This book is the first major study of what was probably the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It sh...

Celebrated in the novels of Joseph Conrad and vintage films, tramp ships - the precursor of bulk carriers - are not well understood today. Yet, the...

In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onward, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a critic...

Killed in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands as the highest-ranking American military officer...