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

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...

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the w...

die Faust wird gereckt, die Pickelhaube getreten. Feindbilder spielen auch im Gefallenengedenken vieler Nationen eine nicht geringe Rolle und sind ...

Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East:Modernities in the Making is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of va...

This book explores how workers moved and were moved, why they moved, and how they were kept from moving. Combining global labour history with mobil...

Between working men and women (which may include free wage earners, chattel slaves, indentured labourers, sharecroppers, domestic servants, and man...

The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists...

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moons shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana...

During the period of the Tokugawa shogunates seclusion policy from about 1630 onwards there was very little European interaction with the Japanese ...

The Wars of the French Revolution, 17921801 offers a comprehensive and jargon-free coverage of this turbulent period and unites political, social, ...

The French Revolution brought the promise of equality to many oppressed groups living in France. French Jews, long persecuted and considered to be ...

Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as freedoms swift-winged angels. In 1813 those a...

This book thematizes the tension between education, politics, and religion in Norway after the Second World War, with an emphasis on the years betw...

The recently-discovered letters of the wealthy counter-revolutionary aristocrat, Innocente-Catherine de Rougé, dowager duchess dElbeuf (1707-94), o...

This book discusses the history of music warning labels, specifically the Parental Advisory Label (PAL), and the Parents Music Resource Center (PMR...

How can people belong simultaneously to two cultures, originating in two different places and expressed in two different languages, without alienat...

Children and youth belong to one of the most vulnerable groups in societies. This was the case even before the current humanitarian crises around t...

Over the last two decades, the study of graffiti has emerged as a bustling field, invigorated by increased appreciation for their historical, lingu...

In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining import...

Why do we use the terms left and right to characterize political matters? Left and right in themselves have no political significance. Apparently t...

This book explores the transformation of political culture in northwest Spanish America during the age of the Atlantic revolutions and the subseque...