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

1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga covers the history of the thirty-three days of the Saratoga campaign. Utilizing historical archaeology and the word...

The publication of this volume has been supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Few leaders of the n...

In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues against t...

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth centur...

The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticis...

The Ottoman East what is also called Western Armenia, Northern Kurdistan or Eastern Anatolia compared to other peripheries of the Ottoman Empire, h...

Dr. Thomas Morland Hocken (1836--1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862 at the age of 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed b...

The most unique and important of all early American law reports are those of Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). These are the first reports of continen...

The second volume of The Papers of Francis Bernard records the reaction of the royal governor of colonial Massachusetts to the tumultuous events su...

Africanizing Democracies examines the ways in which Africans have constructed and reshaped democracy in order to fit their own political ideals and...

In 1842 John C. Frémont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his...

John Muir agreed in 1881 to sail aboard the Corwin, whose fruitless mission it was to search for the missing scientific research vessel Jeannette, ...

A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the last days and last rulers of the Russian Empire. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter t...

Casey was one of a group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia with other Fenians captured in the abortive 1867 ...

John Randel Jr. (17871865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Ra...

Henry Clay Frick, reviled in his own time, infamous in ours, was blamed for the Johnstown Flood (which killed 2,200 people) as well as the viole...

En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or rich...

In the Old Northwest from 1830 to 1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to...

Here is the Great Dan big voiced, energetic, self-confident, persuasive, courageous, humorous, warm-hearted and humane in the eyes of his numerous...

This book explores the conflicts that took place in the First International. Social and economic conditions varied greatly in Europe in the 1860s a...

Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, ...