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

Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the Union or Confederacy would dominate lan...

How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of Londo...

President Lincoln is the most frequently portrayed American historical figure in the history of the film and television arts, having been featured ...

During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities--Albany, Boston, Charleston, Philadelphia, M...

A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinian socie...

In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as empty. Both land and people were incorpora...

This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European theatre performance practice fro...

In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For these men, the Prairie...

Captain James Cook first made contact with the area now known as British Columbia in 1778. The colonists who followed soon realized they needed a w...

A powerful analysis of how regulation of the movement of enslaved and free black people produced a national immigration policy in the period betwee...

A new whole-life biography of Custer that deals with his personal history as well as his military career. The reader is introduced to a little-kno...

The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary pr...

This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the ar...

Between 1815 and the Duke of Wellington's death in 1852, the Battle of Waterloo became much more than simply a military victory. While other countr...

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 16501850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full rang...

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the region of Liangshan in southwest China was plagued by violence. Indigenous Nuosu communities c...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program ...

The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' t...

1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a histo...

The practice of petitioning the Ottoman Sultan was a well-known institution which existed in one form or another throughout Ottoman history and ena...

A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire grew increasingl...

Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled extensively in the Middle E...

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dom...

Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near ...