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

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 ...

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

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...

A probe into corruption in late Imperial ChinaAt the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or High Qing era, a time of peace and prosperity ...

Nineteenth and twentieth-century West African writer-intellectuals harnessed their Atlantic networks to explore ideas of race, regeneration, and na...

A probe into corruption in late Imperial ChinaAt the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or High Qing era, a time of peace and prosperity ...

Few people today know that the forty-sixth state could have been Sequoyah, not Oklahoma. The Five Tribes of Indian Territory gathered in 1905 to fo...

The British Left has developed a long way since the early days of electoral reform signalled by the Great Reform Act of 1832. In this book, Kenneth...

Bringing together an impressive cast of well-respected scholars in the field of modern Russian studies, Russian History through the Senses investig...

In The Writings of Warner Mifflin, Gary Nash and Michael McDowell present the correspondence, petitions, and memorials to state and federal legisla...

John Dickinsons entry into public life in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a highlight of the ninety-eight documents written over four years printed in...

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its en...

Today there are up to 25 million Americans who claim to have Scottish heritage. Many of these people are the descendants of Scots who journeyed to ...

The Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of ...

Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cous...

In 1888, there were just four British consulates in the country; by 1921 there were twenty-three. H. Lyman Stebbins investigates the development an...

Hugh Beattie looks at the history of this region, examining British attempts to manage the tribes from 1849 until Pakistan's declaration of indepen...

Enthralling; it is well worth the trip. --New York Journal of Books Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world had ever ...

Often seen as ethnically monolithic, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in fact successfully pursued evangelism among diverse communities...

The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fr...

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. T...

The image of the anarchist assassin haunted the corridors of power and the popular imagination in the late nineteenth century. Fear spawned a gross...

In a beautifully crafted narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-...

Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) became a well-known philosopher in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century, making important contribution...

Mary Shepherd (1777-1847) became a well-known philosopher in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth century, making important contribution...

This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience o...

During his seven-decade career in public life, George Sewall Boutwell sought to redeem Americas promise of racial equality, economic equity, and th...

This book examines the impact of space on the perception of art and visual culture in early nineteenth-century Paris. It turns its attention to the...

This book explores the entangled relationship between marching and political ceremonies for the consolidation of the nation-state. The main questio...

A landmark edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of John Quincy Adams and his times from the Revolution to the coming ...

For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait ...

A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming...

Up until recently, Europes three imperial monarchies the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires were seen as moribund political entities, unable t...

Liberalism and Naval Strategy (1986) examines the role that liberalism played in shaping the naval strategy of the Pax Britannia. Liberalism was li...

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As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, this is the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry Workhous...

'Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child' - Lemn SissayIn 1868, British troops charged into the mo...

This is the second volume of the Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence 1750-1810. Reverend James Wodrow (1730-1810), minister of the Church of Scotland at ...

This is the first history to grapple with the vast project of British imperial investigation in the years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 an...

A new look at Britain's industrial revolution showing how communities of shared skill, knowledge and experience drove industrial innovation. Maki...

Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes troub...