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

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...

Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A...

Globalization is not an external force but a result of concrete business decisions made by millions of entrepreneurs and managers across the world....

This is the first critical work on the history of the French Riviera from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day in the English ...

On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion...

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet otherwise known as the 'New Navy' was a result of the naval wars and arms race...

The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet otherwise known as the 'New Navy' was a result of the naval wars and arms race...