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

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For over 200 years Australia's official history has focused on English colonisation and 'discovery', with tales of British explorers and first gene...

The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial periodas told t...

The British Empire gave rise to various new forms of British identity in the colonial world outside the Dominions. In cities and colonies, and in s...

From Afghanistan to the Falklands, from Northern Ireland to Iraq, British troops are nearly always in action somewhere in the world. But whenever t...

This volume presents a complete collection of correspondence between John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, and his close friend Dr. John Brockenbroug...

Dr. Benjamin Church, Jr. (1734 - 1778) was a respected medical man and civic leader in colonial Boston who was accused of being an agent for the Br...

This book elucidates the Qing history from perspectives of Confucianism as well as modern sciences. It emphasises the Chinese spirits in explicatin...

In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The ...

In Erotic Exchanges, Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistr...

The Pinecone is set in the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, where a masterpiece in Victorian architecture stands - the strangest and most magical c...

Channel 4's The Mill captivated viewers with the tales of the lives of the young girls and boys in a northern mill. Focusing on the lives of the a...

Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South in the colonial era. From 1700 to 1775 its growth rate was exceeded in the N...

The life of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary War general who attempted to surrender West Point to the British in 1780, didn't end aft...

NON-FICTION: A TRUE FAMILY SAGA.  Durham, England, 1886: Your father is dead, your mother and six younger sisters are destitute. You have the cha...

The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces su...

The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon B...

In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan,...

Jan Morris tells the epic story of the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. In ...

This book offers key background reading for anyone interested in Scotland's 2014 referendum on independence. This book traces the background to the...

The U.S. government's Indian Policy evolved during the 19th century, culminating in the expulsion of the American Indians from their ancestral h...

Bethlem Hospital is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as Bedlam: a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. ...

Independence Day, 1861. The schooner S. J. Waring sets sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later, it limps back...