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

Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century FranceFrom the 1750s to the 1770s, the Paris salon of Baron d'Holbach was...

Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Anton...

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before ridin...

During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinen...

'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlbor...

John Gay was a dramatist and poet, best-known for writing The Beggar''s Opera. Through his membership of the Scriblerus Club, Gay developed lasting...

Culture and Society in Ireland since 1750: Essays in honour of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh collects specially commissioned texts and essays to commemorate ...

Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospe...

Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkab...

Keir Hardie is a significant figure in British history. He is known as the founder of the Labour Party but his influence went much wider. 100 years...

This collection makes available rare sources on the aims, functions and effects of British administration in Africa. Topics examined include: land ...

Now world famous for football and music, in the nineteenth century Liverpool had a very different reputation. One of the greatest ports in the worl...

Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers: bestselling author Thomas Keneally has woven ...

Everyone loves a heel, especially one to whom nothing was sacred and who charmed his or her way into the hearts, minds, and wallets of bumpkins and...

The Times' Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShort...

Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family, he became ...

This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues its narrative power, its fine ...

This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha''s influential work on Assam and the Northeast, 30 years after its original publication, with a new introductio...

''Saints and sinners, whores and housewives, swindlers and laborers alike attempted a hasty adjustment to novel conditions in a land that seemed st...

Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary collection of U.S. and Mexican sources, this volume explores the conflict that redrew the boundaries of the No...

The definitive biography of Ranjit Singh, contemporary of Napoleon and one of the most powerful and charismatic Indian rulers of his age Ranjit ...

Winner of the 2017 IFPDA Book Award, honouring excellence in research, scholarship, and the discussion of new ideas in the field of fine prints. Co...

From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotlands finest general and a favourite of Queen Victoria. In his fifty-year career ...

This incredibly popular biographysold over 6K in it's first edition, in just over 6 months, and is now available in paperback. Australians know Art...

The untold story of the founding fathers likely Jewish birth and upbringingand its revolutionary consequences for understanding him and the nation ...

The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth cen...

A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 Sparkling historywith a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, ...