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

The march of the surviving 1798 insurgents from Wexford through Wicklow, Kildare, County Meath and then back towards the capital city, Dublin, has ...

Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the mo...

Transnational Currents in a Shrinking World examines the wide variety of social and cultural networks that emerged from the global exchanges of the...

Naval Actions of the War of 1812 was previously published in 1896 to study the condition of affairs that led up to the declaration of the second wa...

In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science. This new and original study of ...

A History of Wales: 1815-1906 is the third volume in a series beginning with 1485. This invaluable textbook offers a major new study of the princip...

How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American cultureIn nineteenth-century America, apocalypse refer...

Alexander M. McCook, one of the youngest major generals in the Union army, was a member of a patriotic family from Ohio that became known as the...

'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went in...

Edward Pugh (1763-1813) was a Ruthin-born, Welsh-speaking artist and writer who produced compelling landscapes images of Denbighshire in particular...

Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town. They were diverse in character and took place regularly throughout the ye...

This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in wo...

Following the Battle of Nashville, Confederate General John Bell Hoods Army of Tennessee was in full retreat, from the battle lines south of Nashvi...

For almost two centuries, the last stand at the Alamo has been recognized as a defining moment in America's history. On February 23, 1836, a Mexica...

This book explores the ways in which the distinctive Welsh county of Cardigan and its inhabitants (known as Cardis) have been represented during th...

The serial literature current in Wales between 1789 and 1802 is the most important public repository of radical, loyalist and patriotic Welsh respo...

Hailed as an arresting (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Natures Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth century that ...

Liberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris's writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to schola...

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America's transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, ...

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded stre...

What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant S...

Patrice Gueniffey is the leading French historian of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic age. This book, hailed as a masterwork on its publication in ...

Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected t...

Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution provides for the first time an edition, with parallel English translations, of Welsh-language ballads compos...

What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant S...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

In 1834 Harvard dropout Richard Henry Dana Jr. sailed to California as a common seaman. His account of the voyage, Two Years Before the Mast, quick...

This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States. Award-winni...

An engaging account of the life of a nineteenth-century priest. The Revd Benjamin Armstrong, for many years vicar of the market town of East Dereh...

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

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

When anti-colonial revolts broke out in Spain's American colonies in the early 1800's, the United States were divided as to what position to take. ...

It could be said that Davie County, North Carolina, entered the Civil War only reluctantly. As late as February of 1861, a statewide ballot call...

From the commanding call of the bugle at reveille to the reassuring songs from around the campfire at night, music was an integral part of the Civi...

This book offers a rare insight into the history of the Civil War in the western theatre through the eyes of a regimental surgeon. The newly gra...

Heaven's Soldiers chronicles the history of a community of free people of African descent who lived and thrived, while resisting the constraints of...

From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and ...

From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees mid-trunk, and...

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by...

Anthony Comstock was Americas first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comst...

Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the mo...

On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublins streets to proclaim an independent republic. Irelands long struggle for self-government ha...

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal basis it pro...