A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Br...Loe edasi...
The Depression of the 1890s caused widespread economic suffering throughout the country and triggered a march of unemployed men from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. Known in the press as Coxeys Army--led, ironically, by successful busin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541415)
Oscar Wildes Paris explores Wildes connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile and death, examining his self-fashioning in the city, its impact on his career, and his eventual absorption into Parisian cultural hist...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031974687)
This book studies geographical societies, which were the institutional basis of geography until the early twentieth century. By contrast, our volume also pays attention to societies in less prominent countries and cities, and identifies connections...Loe edasi...
This volume delves into the colonial past and identifies papers on nature and natural phenomenon that were deemed ‘primitive’ and ‘superstitious’ by those who narrated them and analyzed them in the pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Socie...Loe edasi...
Over the course of the Napoleonic wars, the French emperor mobilised over two million fighting men – most of them conscripts. Napoleon’s Conscripts tells their story. Exploring the system of conscription and soldiers’ experiences of service, it sheds...Loe edasi...
War the Turtles Back examines all the campaigns fought by Woodland Indians of North America during the period of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) and beyond from 1752 to 1766. Using contemporary documents and accounts, and recorded oral e...Loe edasi...
After 10 years of the War of Spanish Succession and repeated defeats in Flanders, Louis XIVs France found itself in a desperate predicament, facing an imminent invasion. The Battle of Denain tells the story of the little-known battle that saved Fran...Loe edasi...
Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783708)
A diplomatic history of race relations between the United States and Haiti from 1765 to 1825 that brings together the voices of Black leaders in Haiti and multiracial founders in the United States to examine an alternative way that some inhabitants...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Three Hills, ISBN-13: 9781501782657)
Four generations of Millers and Sewards dwelled in Auburn, New York, between 1817 and 1860. William Henry Seward was a state senator and governor, and then a U.S. senator and secretary of state. Until recently, Henry (as he was known) Sewards publi...Loe edasi...
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new materialiron. Industrializing Iron...Loe edasi...
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new materialiron. Industrializing Iron...Loe edasi...
This book addresses a neglected aspect of the history of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery. For a half century after the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, individual Britons and British enterprises continued to own ensla...Loe edasi...
What did Australians read? This book answers this question in terms of books rather than newspapers and considers the long nineteenth century, interpreted as running from 1788 to 1901. In the wake of this primary question, several others arise: ho...Loe edasi...
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fire change in the way we create,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282412)
An accessible, fun, yet authoritative guide to male and female Regency fashions An accessible, fun, yet authoritative guide to male and female Regency fashions Celebrated dress historian Hilary Davidson brings together n...Loe edasi...
From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s modern special operations forcesTh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512828788)
Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryIn A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Dee...Loe edasi...
A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a m...Loe edasi...
The age of Enlightenment was also an age of development of sporting and physical activities. This book studies the forms of sociability induced and defined by such activities in the eighteenth century. By bringing together archival work and textual...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250348227)
From Pulitzer finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cobalt Red: A notorious slave ship incident that led to the abolition of slavery in the UK and sparked the US abolitionist movementIn late October 1780, a...Loe edasi...
Grounded in discussions of cultural capital, dramaturgy, and modernity, The Second-Greatest Show on Earth is an in-depth exploration of the motives that guided the work of Henry Bergh (1813–1888), founder and president of the American SPCA....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783111136486)
Welfare Work Without Welfare argues that women activists, wage workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest became de facto social workers in the interwar period through their “austerity welfare work”. Reveali...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Oro Editions, ISBN-13: 9781957183947)
Rustic Architecture in America 1887-1940 is a history of a series of misunderstood masterpieces, the log-based architecture that emerged in the Adirondacks and the National Parks between 1890 and 1935. It is a history of how both form and technology...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: New Island Books, ISBN-13: 9781835940242)
The follow up to 2022’s best-selling Three Castles Burning is here. Historian and Podcaster Donal Fallon returns with this exciting social and cultural history of that most venerable institution, the Dublin pub. For centuries, the public hous...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197690710)
In tandem with its companion volume, The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings by James W.C. Pennington, this collection of new essays seeks to recover and reappraise James W.C. Pennington (1808-1870), a truly remarkable...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780197690703)
This volume offers pioneering new essays on the life, writings, and contexts of nineteenth-century Black thinker and activist James W.C. Pennington. Mostly forgotten after Reconstruction, Pennington was an internationally-acclaimed Black intellectual...Loe edasi...
The four-volume set provides a compendium of rare primary sources focusing on pornography in nineteenth-century Britain for students and scholars alike. These sources can be used individually and in combination to historicise the emergence of pornog...Loe edasi...
This volume details scientific pornography during the long nineteenth century. Though there is little overlap between pornography and sexual science currently, in the past pornographers played up scientific credentials to reassure readers. ...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the growth of high-end literary pornographic productions that took place towards the final quarter of the nineteenth century and were largely published on the continent where control of production was lax. These publications w...Loe edasi...
This volume concerns itself with arrival of mass pornography at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This volume details the rise of cheap, readily available, and much maligned materials such as postcards, pamphlet...Loe edasi...
The four-volume set provides a compendium of rare primary sources focusing on pornography in nineteenth-century Britain for students and scholars alike. The collection contains police records, criminal trial accounts, social purity files and clipping...Loe edasi...
Everything a reader could desire: wit, passion, mystery, brilliant detective work, a love of rare books, a deep dive into literary history and, best of all, the restoration of reputation for a group of great women authors whose names should never h...Loe edasi...
The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversaryof American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it hasnot been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a majorintellectual and educa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, ISBN-13: 9781976600425)
A new volume in the venerable constitutional history series The fifth in a five-volume series examining the intense debate over the drafting and ratification of the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, No. 5...Loe edasi...
This account of Britain’s 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan recounts the siege of Khartoum, colonial conflict, and emerging military careers?—?drawing on firsthand testimonies to portray the brutal realities of imperial warfare in northeastern Africa....Loe edasi...
From a ground-breaking historian with a refreshing new voice, an overlooked history detailing eleven stories of eighteenth-century queer people who lived extraordinary lives of resistance, joy, and sometimes sorrow For many, queer hi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953687)
The long history and lasting impact of the rhetoric of Black exclusion in American politics and culture In 1787, Thomas Jefferson declared that the United States was destined to become a nation free of slavery—and of its entire Bla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953694)
The long history and lasting impact of the rhetoric of Black exclusion in American politics and culture In 1787, Thomas Jefferson declared that the United States was destined to become a nation free of slavery—and of its entire Bla...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845678)
The story of how everyday nineteenth-century clerks helped to articulate modern capitalism. The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845661)
A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka. How did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late-eighteenth and early-ninetee...Loe edasi...
