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

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 ...