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

The shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected ...

Blenheim has gone down in history as one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession and some would say in the history of conflict ...

Before the last quarter of the eighteenth century there was a generally clear and remarkably uniform pattern of church-state relationships across E...

The clash of armies in the American Civil War left hundreds of thousands of men dead, wounded, or permanently damaged. Skirmishes and battles could...

[T]here will be no turning back, said Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. It was May, 1864. The Civil War had dragged into its fourth spring. It was time to...

Soldiers called it one of the waste places of nature and a region of gloomthe Wilderness of Virginia, seventy square miles of dense, secondgrowth f...

Spring of 1864 brought a whole new war to the Western Theater, with new commanders and what would become a new style of warfare. Federal armies, pe...

The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. In collaboration with the English com...

Egypt, Carthage and other African civilisations are well documented but the land and people between them are less well known yet also worthy of con...

Lees army is really whipped, Federal commander Ulysses S. Grant believed. May 1864 had witnessed near-constant combat between his Army of the Poto...

It could be classified as a mere skirmish, but no other fight of the entire four years struggle was followed by such important consequences, explai...

John Bell Hood brought a hangdog look and a hardfighting spirit to the Army of Tennessee. Once one of the ablest division commanders in the Army of...

EMPIRE, STATE, AND SOCIETY This book captures the broad-sweep of modern British history. Bronstein and Harriss narrative is distinguished by its co...

'This was much more than a bunch of guys out on an exploring and collecting expedition. This was a military expedition into hostile territory'. In ...

Having grown up in an Irish country house built in 1847, historian Turtle Bunbury has long harboured a fascination with that epic year, pitched at ...

The United States has been described by many of its foreign and domestic critics as an empire. Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the United Stat...

General William T. Shermans 1865 Carolinas Campaign receives scant attention from most Civil War historians, largely because it was overshadowed by...

'A hell of a tale and Jonathan Beckman gives it all the verve and swagger it deserves . . . I read it with fascination, delight and frequent snorts...

The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a s...

John Bell Hood had done his job too well. In the fall of 1864, the commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee had harassed Federal forces in no...

In 1811, a portion of the Creek Indians who inhabited a vast area across the American Southeast interpreted a tremor as an omen that they had to re...

Between the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Boston Tea Party in 1773-a period historians refer to as the lull-a group of prominent Rhode Islanders ...

Hanibal (1697- 1761) was probably the most outstanding African in Europe in the 18th Century, his rags to riches life, and the fact that he was the...

That Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest military commanders in history is never in doubt. His rise was meteoric, and his successes awesome;...

In its early days, Victoria was the commercial powerhouse of British Columbiaits largest city and largest market. Nancy Oke and Robert Griffin pres...

The Battle of Shepherdstown and the End of the Campaign is the third and final volume of Ezra Carmans magisterial The Maryland Campaign of Septembe...

The Industrial Revolution was a period of exceptional change in Britain, not only in terms of technology but also in law and order. The countrys so...

John Davidson came to the North Carolina back country circa 1751 as a young man, with his sister and widowed mother. Typical of Scots-Irish sett...

The text covers pioneering in the North American frontier from the Mississippi River Valley as far west as Alaska and Hawaii. Entries feature worth...

Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figu...

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