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

To understand the long march of events in North Carolina from secession to surrender is to understand the entire Civil War-a personal war waged by ...

Originally published in 1933, and written by Americas historian, James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American natio...

An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nations demise as a world power, this stud...

During the first fifteen months of the Civil War, the policies and attitudes of Union officers toward emancipation in the western theater were, at ...

This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic'...

Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and u...

This title was first published in 2002. The Imperial Republic addresses the enduring relationship that the American constitution has with the conce...

The largest and most destructive military conflict between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, the American Civil War has inspired some of...

George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed e...

The story of Fort McHenry's defense during the War of 1812 is well known, but Lion in the Bay is an intimate look at the events leading up to the b...

Originally published in 1974, The Ballantyne-Lockhart Controversy is reprint of three tracts concerning the Ballantyne - Lockhard controversy. Lock...

Long before Calcutta was discovered by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta...

The abolition of judicial torturealongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishmentwas one of the most consequential issues debated i...

The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

A testament to the resilience and determination of Black North Carolinians to achieve educational equality This book examines the educational exper...

This book offers a renewed look at Emma Hamilton, the eighteenth-century celebrity who was depicted by many major artists, including Angelica Kauff...

This title was first published 2000: This text is intended to draw together two important developments in contemporary geography: firstly, the reco...

Originally published in 1933, and written by Americas historian, James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American natio...

Published in 1974, this book provides a personal, firsthand account of Carl Alwin Schenck's work and the founding of the Biltmore Forest School in ...

An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subj...

The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening...

Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideal...

This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands further...

Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta Campaign. Confederate forces under John...

Questions surrounding the concept of legitimacythe force that keeps a polity together, and whose absence causes it to shatterare possibly the most ...

Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that r...

The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Co...

Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and shaped. Histor...

This book looks at the policing of social and political protest and of the role played by the French and Prussian armies in maintaining public orde...

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trios co...

This book aims to add to existing knowledge of how eighteenth-century ideas of human nature and rights, of universal progress, peace, and wealth we...

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phaseof American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000ensla...

This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the lega...

World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins...