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...
