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

Charles Dickens Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouses, factorie...

This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in t...

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allens Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is...

Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...

Joséphine Bonaparte, future consort of Napoléon; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals,...

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by...

A history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War.In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in th...

Dan Butterfield played a pivotal role during the Civil War. He led troops in the field at the brigade, division, and corps level, wrote the 1862 Ar...

A captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport.In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that...

After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continental Army in pursuit of the British Army moving from Philadelph...

In May 1857, with the Indian Mutiny reaching boiling point, Sir Henry Lawrence summoned from their homes two sets of pensioners, one of sepoys and ...

The aim of this book is to reconstruct the violent nature of the March on Rome and to emphasise its significance in demarcating a real break in the...

This book examines interactions between Britain and India through the analytical framework of the production and circulation of knowledge throughou...

By the close of the eighteenth century, learning to read and write became closely associated with learning about the material world, and a vast arr...

A History of Modern France offers a framework to understand modern French history through a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated its ...

During the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out their own authorized and unauthorized editions of American literary works...

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annot...