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

In this book Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, s...

Over the last few years, media archaeology has evolved from a marginal topic to an academic approach en vogue. In large part, media archaeology has...

Ihre Quellen erscheinen der Geschichtswissenschaft als Selbstverständlichkeit. Dieses Buch untersucht an Beispielen aus Österreich und der Schweiz,...

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, ow...

An estimated 200,000 men of German birth enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, far more than any other contemporary foreign-born populat...

An introduction to the raucous yet educational gap year tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth...

Histories of voice are often written as accounts of greatness: great statesmen, notable rebels, grands discours, and famous exceptional speakers an...

Music and sound studies have increasingly turned their attention to questions of empire and postcolonial thought in recent years, raising new quest...

This book examines an extremely topical phenomenon, the massive industrial exploitation of animals, from a previously neglected perspective. It exp...

For some legal philosophers, if a law is procedurally correct, enacted in ways constitutionally recognised and agreed upon, then the content is of ...

The book presents the first English edition of On Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich by Grigorii Kotoshikhin. This is the only native sour...

Die Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen hat in den vergangenen Jahren einen enormen Aufwind erlebt. Sie hat ihre Themenfelder erweitert, ist...