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

The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. ...

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balan...

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. In its second edition this biographical dicti...

At a time before the camera lens could capture the frenzy and terror of battle action, illustrators known as Special Artistsamong them such famous ...

Lieutenant Colonel Edward J. Steptoe's escape from encirclement by 1,000 Northern Plateau Indians in 1858 is a familiar story from the Indian Wa...

At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of ...

The two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed.Internationally bestselling historian Antonia Fraser's new book brilliantly ev...

During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivere...

Popular culture transformed his memory into Davy Crockett, and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Ti...

'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that mome...

In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hul...

The conclusion of America's Civil War set off an ongoing struggle as a fractured society suffered the psychological consequences of four years o...

This second, updated edition of the acclaimed A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and als...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.Londo...

A major new collection of modern commentary? from scholars, historians, and Civil War buffs?on the significant events of the Civil War, culled from...

From the roots of the conflict, through a profile of the two armies, to descriptions of the great battles and events of the war this work captures ...

Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolutions religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to suc...

Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood....

Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and McLemore PrizeIn the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy-perhaps in...

As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home sta...

Louis XVI was a gentle and unassuming man who did not want to be king but attempted to work for the welfare of his people--until his government ...

Most surviving correspondence of the Civil War period was written by members of a literate, elite class; few collections exist in which the woman's...

This book explores some of the main channels and bye-ways in the history of Chartism; it considers: The place of Chartism within the wider framewor...

This book presents the little-studied story of the history and documents of the pardons, passes, paroles and promises of loyalty used by both No...

ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021'The tale of the Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it with a great sense of...

On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemens Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 Dec...

New printing includes a new introduction by Texas History Legend Stephen L. Hardin.When Phil Collins was a kid growing up in a London suburb, he wo...

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, Union artillery lieutenant Bayard Wilkeson fell while bravely spurring his men to action...