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

An overview of the East India Company's policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India. This wide-ranging book charts how the East...

Shows how the development of the militia in eighteenth century Ireland was closely bound with politics and the changing nature of the Protestant As...

This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience...

Gustave Hervé (18711944) seemed to have traditional Breton roots and a typical republican education. As a young socialist journalist and professor,...

Explores why minor slights to certain kinds of gentlemen led to duels in order for honour to be satisfied, and how such ideas about honour changed ...

An examination of the Royal Navy's Victualling Board, the body responsible for supplying the fleet. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...

Examines Naval co-operation between Britain and Russia and the often underappreciated prowess of the Russian navy. Naval co-operation between Brit...

When Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union, Moscow officials expected the British Navy to appear on the shore of Leningrad, fulfilling the Bolshev...

This book is a history of the initiative, its projects and actors, notably the architect and planner Ernst May, and its achievements, set within th...

This book aims to reveal communal relations in zmir/Smyrna through the lens of Greek-Turkish relations during the age of Ottoman reforms. The prima...

This book aims to reveal communal relations in zmir/Smyrna through the lens of Greek-Turkish relations during the age of Ottoman reforms. The prima...

An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis. The engineers who b...

Migrations are a phenomenon that can be traced back to the beginning of the history of mankind. In modern times, especially in the eighteenth and n...

French Revolution: The Basics is an accessible and concise introduction to the history of the revolution in France. Combining a traditional narrati...

The Soviet Colossus revisits the turning points in Russias modern history, from the fall of the tsarist regime to the establishment of the Bolshevi...