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

In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went t...

Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary represent...

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race...

Celebrities, heroes and champions explores the role of the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second R...

'ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING, ORIGINAL INTELLECTUALS OF HIS GENERATION', Stuart Hall, author of The Hard Road to RenewalThe work of the pioneering ...

Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of a...

Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options. By the early nineteent...

Being aware of emotions whether your own or other peoples and how you act on them is the key to understanding yourself and others. High emotional...

As Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman swept through Georgia in 1864, he fought several small battles against an ever-retreating Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ...

The period between the mid-1880s and the First World War was the high point of the navalist movement - but the idea of 'navalism' took many forms, ...

This work traces the history of a remarkable troop of Hoosier horsemen--the East Wing of the Third Indiana Cavalry--during the Civil War. From t...

In Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the...

Michael Barone is the perfect person to write this important and thought-provoking book.'Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny ...

The Battle of Brandy Station occurred on June 9, 1863. It was the largest cavalry engagement ever to take place in the United States, with just ove...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Algerian piracy in the Mediterranean loomed large in the American imagination. An estimated ...

Napoleons invasion of the Middle East marks the beginning of the modern era in the region. This book traces the developments that led to the makin...