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

How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for mi...

Ancestral Leaves follows one family through six hundred years of Chinese history and brings to life the epic narrative of the nation, from the four...

This work presents in detail the uniforms of the foot artillery between 1786 and 1815. Formal in style, and indeed austere, the uniforms illustrate...

The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances f...

This collection of essays by leading scholars and Parnell experts reconsiders Charles Stewart Parnell and the Parnell family legacy in the context ...

Since its first publication over fifty years ago, the haunting image of Private Edwin F. Jemison has attracted widespread attention from those inte...

In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone, West Africa, ...

Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well a...

Thomas Nipperdey offers readers insights into the history and the culture of German nationalism, bringing to light much-needed information on the i...

Napoleon promoted and honored great men throughout his reign. In addition to comparing himself to various great men, he famously established a Legi...

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing e...

Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the north...

Published for the first time in one volume, Sven Lindqvist's uncategorizable, beautiful and angry books about the African continent and the legacy ...

In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed thei...