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

Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers em...

Muskoka. Now a magnet for nature tourists and wealthy cottagers, the region underwent a profound transition at the turn of the twentieth century. M...

In April 1865, as the Civil War came to a close, Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed ensla...

It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re...

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken...

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Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the 18th-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and a...

Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first ca...

Rethinking U.S. Labor History provides a reassessment of the recent growth and new directions in U.S. labor history. Labor History has recently und...

This book of essays on British social and cultural history since the eighteenth century draws attention to relatively neglected topics including pe...

From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution. Indeed, for ma...

From whitened doorsteps to polished boots, starched pinafores to scrubbed floors, this is the compelling story of how Victorians and Edwardians eng...

History is never static. The interpretation of past events is fluid, informed by particular intellectual, political and cultural contexts. This is ...

In 1823, the fourth-century basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome was destroyed by a catastrophic fire, prompting debate as to whether, ...

In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the 'polder model' often used to...

The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ra...

The Tupac Amaru rebellion of 1780-1783 began as a local revolt against colonial authorities and grew into the largest rebellion in the history of S...