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

Drawing upon more than 200 eyewitness accounts, this work chronicles the largest troop surrender of the Civil War, at Greensboro--one of the most c...

From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, no...

During its two year history, the cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland fought the Confederates in some of the most important actions of the Civil W...

A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was ba...

To a large degree, the story of Texas secession from Mexico has been undertaken by scholars. Early twentieth century historians of the revolutionar...

'The hunt for early Bible manuscripts was among the most romantic of all the 19th century's grand quests...At the heart of this lively, inspiring d...

The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light.Against the monumental canvas of seve...

In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth. The Penguin History of Modern China shows how...

Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between rad...

Nancy Roberts's Southern Ghost Lore Revival--Exhumed and Improved for Fearless Readers.Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the First Lady ...

In the 19th century, the Stevenson engineers pioneered marvelous lighthouses around the coasts of Scotland - lighthouses which inspire with their a...

Cecilia Lawton's life was changed forever when the bloodiest war in American history began in 1861. The daughter of a wealthy Georgia plantation ow...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

The correspondence between the old Congress and the American agents, commissioners, and ministers in foreign countries was secret and confidential ...

With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes.Produced exclusively for wealthy Chinese communities along the Stra...

In 1854 Britain and France were at war to save poor little Turkey, the crumbling Ottoman Empire, from the menace of Russian expansionism. On 25 Oct...

In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitcheners latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, ...

Victorian Brackley was sometimes called Sleepy Hollow. Compared to many other places, growth in numbers was modest, but beneath the surface, there ...

''The truth was stranger than any of the fictions that have since been offered to explain her away''Drawing upon Queen Victoria''s previously unpub...

Jacobite influences are often found in Scottish culture. Indeed, many of their stories and legends are still told today in some form or another. Ta...

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West. Early efforts to create military forces were quickly suppressed. Many re...

Preferring anonymity, Murdoch John McSween wrote over 80 letters under the pseudonym Long Grabs to the Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina), s...

Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. V...

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...

In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hope...

Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexa...

A fascinating study that uncovers an important aspect of the history of the American Revolution, this account reveals how the British Army that fou...

Volume 1 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush'...

Volume 1 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush'...

On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,600 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New Londo...

In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorde...

Piracy along American coastlines and in the Caribbean in the late 1600s and early 1700s is often seen today through a colourful set of modern media...

In June 1864, General Ulysses Grant ordered his cavalry commander, Philip Sheridan, to conduct a raid to destroy the Virginia Central Railroad betw...

Even in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places ...

In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious cultur...

This title includes essays on the Northern home front by a preeminent Civil War historian. Northerners at War brings together noted historian J. Ma...

New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a p...

Julia Margaret Cameron's 'fancy subjects' is the first study of Cameron's allegorical photographs and the first to examine the intellectual connect...

Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary c...

Engines for empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unpreceden...

The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowe...