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

Interweaving a social history of string playing with a collective biography of its participants, this book identifies and maps the rapid nationwide...

The summer of 1863 started off disastrously for the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater. In early May, Confederate General Robert E. Lees Ar...

Provides new perspectives on women's print media in the long eighteenth centuryThis innovative volume presents for the first time collective expert...

Benjamin Franklin was serious when he suggested the colonists arm themselves with the longbow. The American colonies were not logistically prepared...

This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. Vernon structures his compe...

This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. Vernon structures his compe...

In this compelling work, Sascha Auerbach offers a bold new historical interpretation of late-stage slavery, its long-term legacies, and its entangl...

In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Indian arts, sciences, and natural history was established. Run by government em...

Join Garner, Dodge, and the rest of RT Iowa as they venture across the fence to help stem the flow of the North Vietnamese on the Ho Chi Minh Trail...

In the hearts of London and New York stand their two oldest public monuments, Cleopatras Needles, the last of a series of obelisks from Ancient Egy...

Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalis...

The first and only comprehensive illustrated history of dynamite in the United States. While everyone can mentally visualize a stick or bundle...

This book is an innovative exploration of nineteenth-century family life and society. The first study of its kind, it uses the sibling relationship...

There are thousands of books about England, on the one hand, and Greece, on the other, but none which looks specifically and critically at the stor...

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was s...

Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Pro...

Contested Childhoods traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian missions in colonial south India. It draws upon the vast Pro...

This volume presents the ideas of the main actors of the political scene in the Hungarian Kingdom during the long 19th century (1790-1920). Organis...

This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The comparative and trans...

First published in 1933, Nationalism in the Soviet Union aims at presenting the mentality of the Soviet citizen, of the Communist theology, and the...

The history of private lives of the first and second generations of Polish immigrants in the United States is viewed from the perspective of migran...

This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oce...

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cit...

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, an...

This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring ...

Sunk in a British ambush in 1708, the Spanish galleon San Jose was rumored to have one of the richest cargos ever lost at sea. Though treasure hunt...

In Fierce Enigmas, prize-winning historian Srinath Raghavan argues that we cannot understand the US's entanglement in South Asia without first unde...

As Ice Age glaciers left behind erratics, so the external forces of history tumbled the Irish into America. Existing both out of time and out of s...

Long overshadowed by the American Civil War, the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) has received significantly less attention from historians partly ...

An incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America.  Promise to Pay follows Americas f...

A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By th...

This book explores representations of the extensive violence that characterised British exploratory and colonising forays into the Pacific Ocean in...

From Colonial Cuba to Madrid examines the largest and most complex freedom suit litigated in the highest court of the Spanish empire at the end of ...