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

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...

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