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

Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr. Henry Sacheverell features a collection of essays that examine the turbulent partisan cultu...

Alfred L. Brophy's University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Univers...

This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding...

Byron exists in two incompatible dimensions: as fully-documented history, and as romantic myth. Often the myth predominates, describing him as a pa...

Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies...

In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (181315). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle...

In 1806 General Thomas Picton, Britain's first governor of Trinidad, was brought to trial for the torture of a free mulatto named Louisa Calderon a...

Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor challenges existing understandings of child labor by tracing how law altered the meanings ...

In recent years there has been a renewed interest in the War in the Desert, that epic struggle of the Second World War between Axis (Italian and Ge...

This book tells the story of the invasion of France at the twilight of Napoleon's empire. With more than a million men under arms throughout centra...

In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology provides an illu...

When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privi...

From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder ...

Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the j...

The area astride the Spanish/Portuguese border between the respective fortresses of Ciudad Rodrigo and Almeida was the focus of the Peninsular War ...

Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...

Sir William Congreve, political propagandist, lawyer, inventor, and Chief Equerry to King George IV, was one of the foremost military salesmen of t...

For many years I had wanted to write something about Troy and the Classical Age; ever since my earlier archaological 'digs' and flint knapping and ...

Civil War histories typically center on the deeds of generals and sweeping depictions of battle. This unique study of one Southern county's war ...

This previously unexamined history of open-air treatment in English coastal resorts demonstrates how contrasting meanings were assigned to tubercul...

The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In m...

One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captivates the American imagination, and its rever...

Annotated edition of erudite letters from the eighteenth-century sheds light on intellectual life at the time. One of the more remarkable survival...

Monuments honoring leaders and victorious armies have been raised throughout history. Following the American Civil War, however, this tradition ...

A dramatic response to American racism occurred in Los Angeles during 1855 when eighteen-year-old Francisco P. Ramírez published a Spanish-language...

America's second oldest higher education institution experienced the full violence of the Civil War, with a wartime destiny of destruction compound...

This is the history of a legendary battalion. The product of more than a decade's toil, Going Back the Way They Came is a thoroughly researched, co...

In France''s Third Republic, secularism was, for its adherents, a new faith, a civic religion founded on a rabid belief in progress and the Enli...

On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his U.S. troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, att...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri between September 1864 and June 1865. It explores different...

A controversial figure for his views on manumission and his unorthodox marital arrangements, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. (1765-1843) is mostly known tod...

The Georgian era is known for its lavish fashions and sumptuous food, as well as being a time of great social and political change. It saw the birt...

This book posits that the American Revolution - waged to form a more perfect union - still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugit...

This book is a thorough study of all known guerrilla operations in Civil War Missouri from January through August 1864. It explores the various ...

This book deals with Scotland's role in the French Revolutionary Wars. What role did Scotland play in the British state's war against Revolutionary...

This book situates its contemplation of the nineteenth-century Trinidadian landscape in the context of an emerging sub-field of Caribbean postcolon...

The Second North Carolina Cavalry fought its first major battle in its home state at New Bern on March 14, 1862, and narrowly escaped with its men ...

Most Civil War regiments came from rural areas of the country but the 14th Brooklyn was taken from the city of Brooklyn, New York. Having been a...