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

This Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished schola...

The ownership of Scotland’s foreshore has been a matter of a prolonged controversy. In the past, the debate centered on whether the shore was owned...

In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland from the introduction of state education in 1872 up to the present day ...

This book focuses on early modern attitudes towards Scotland's ancient past and looks in particular at the ways in which this past was not only mis...

An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwa...

This book studies the political role of the Chilean military during the years 1808-1826. Beginning with the fall of the Spanish monarchy to Napoleo...

Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multivolume work Settecento Riformatore, a gra...

Recent events around the globe have cast doubt on the assumption that, as a result of increasing cross-border migrations and global interdependenci...

A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history, stretching from nin...

Texas was the South's frontier in the antebellum period. The vast new state represented the hope and future of many Southern cotton planters. As...

One year into the Civil War, beset by military and political pressures, General George B. McClellan committed his Army of the Potomac to the Pen...

In the eyes of many historians, Union general George B. McClellan single-handedly did more damage to the Union war effort than any other individ...

This book explores the concept of ‘the Levant’ as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism. At its heart ...