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

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...