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

The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898The burst of capitalistic expansion that accompanied German unification came to an abrupt end with the crash ...

Here is the first political biography of Baron Franz Maria Thugut, the principal Austrian opponent of the French Revolution. This work explains Thu...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams...

Oman, a state in southeastern Arabia, is a prime example of a country that has not benefited greatly from modernization, but instead has fallen int...

Woodrow Wilson was swept into the White House on the basis of a program characterized by the words "The New Freedom." The exciting story of his att...

What happened on 1 July 1867? Over 150 years after Canadian Confederation, it seems like a question with an obvious answer. Questions of Order argu...

Race Unequals: Overseer Contracts, White Masculinities, and the Formation of Managerial Identity in the Plantation Economy is a re-imagining of the...

"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private owne...

The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut examines and analyzes the African-American experience in Connecticut as it was th...

The history of the United States has been deeply determined by Germans throughout time, but hardly anyone has noticed that this was the case in the...

There has been little examination of the China policy of the Theodore Roosevelt administration. Works dealing with the topic fall either into brief...

In a period when the monarch was the key figure in the Portuguese government, the struggle for the throne among members of the royal family was of ...

The strong relationship that historians have described between the South and the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth century had its ori...

Ludwig Dehio advances a theory of the historical dynamic of the modern European state system (1494–1945) and its hegemonic wars. After explaining D...

This book examines aspects of the production of statistical knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault’s ideas of “government...

Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated i...

Landscape in American Guides and View Books: Visual History of Touring and Travel is vested in the American relationship to landscape and the role ...

In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one thousand years and def...

In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion that enslavement fostered t...

Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless bee...

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel’s participation in eighteenth-century “inquiries after happiness,” an ancient ethical pr...

Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characteri...

Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding o...

This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the...

This is a history book that studies the thought and actions of José Gervasio Artigas throughout the decade of his prominence (1810 –1820) as leader...

In The Marquis d’Argens: A Philosophical Life Julia Gasper analyzes the life and works of an influential Enlightenment writer and philosopher. The ...

Tracing the political, ideological, and constitutional arguments from the imperial crisis with Britain and the drafting of the Articles of Confeder...

At the end of the nineteenth century, Southeastern Europe became a prime sending region of emigrants to overseas countries, in particular the Unite...

China's Last Imperial Frontier explores imperial China's frontier expansion in the Tibetan borderlands during the last decades of the Qing. The emp...

Updated with a new preface, this study provides a comprehensive biography of Thomas Dunckerley. An eighteenth-century success story, Dunckerley ros...

Federalism—the division of authority between the states and the federal government—ranks among the most important and lasting political and constit...

Federalism—the division of authority between the states and the federal government—ranks among the most important and lasting political and constit...

This book on the impact of Chinese civilization upon Tolstoy's thinking and writing reveals new resources in the study of a great Russian novelist....

Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak wit...

The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut examines and analyzes the African-American experience in Connecticut as it was th...

On August 26, 1861, one hundred volunteers met at Camp Wood and formed Company A. These men, for the most part, were well educated and left to us a...