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The American Civil War - A Military History

Alexander Hamilton

Reports of the Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople I - II, 1568-1574

This edition of the documents of the Habsburg embassy at Constantinople is a wide selection from the surviving documents from the period ...

Twelve Years a Slave

The Pursuit of Power - Europe, 1815-1914

'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New ...

John Adams

The Battle That Shook Europe - Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire

'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, mar...

The Enlightenment - The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

The Habsburg Empire - A New History

Revolutionary Spring - Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today<BR><BR>'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' ...

Bismarck - A Political History

Bismarck was arguably the most important figure in nineteenth-century European history after 1815. In this biography, Edgar Feuchtwanger ...

This Earthly Globe - A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

Hidden Patrons - Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain

Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe - A Candid History of Modern Europe

"Conservational and erudite."--Wall Street JournalA renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the dramatic tale of modern Europe...

Maria Theresa: Empress - The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment

Union Command Failure in the Shenandoah - Major General Franz Sigel and the War in the Valley of Virginia, May 1864

Bismarck's War - The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

Europäische Aufklärung zwischen Wien und Triest - Die Tagebücher des Gouverneurs Karl Graf von Zinzendorf 1776 - 1782 ; [4 Bände] . Herausgegeben von: Grete Klingenstein, Eva Faber und Antonio Trampus

Die Edition erschließt zum ersten Mal durch eine integrale Textwiedergabe eine kontinuierliche Serie der durch regelmäßige Eintragungen, ...

The Russian Army 1801-1806: Cuirassiers and Dragoons - Organization, Actions, Uniforms and Equipment of the Heavy Cavalry

In this volume, the author provides a detailed picture of the Russian cuirassiers and dragoons at the beginning of the 19th century. He h...

Beyond the Andes - The Ultramontane Origins of a Latin American Church (1851-1910)

This book analyses the rise of a Latin American Catholic identity during the mid- to late nineteenth century. It starts with the founding...

Privacy in Early Modern Saxony - Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and Religion

Waterloo

On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a quiet valley south of Brussels. The little village north...

Victoria's Secret - The Private Passion of a Queen

German Immigrants in Edinburgh and Leith, 1862-1914

The study provides an introductory overview of the German community in Edinburgh and Leith. It examines how the German immigrants were et...

The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer - The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary

How did the son of a coin-maker from central Germany, Thomas Müntzer, rise in just a few short years to become one of the most feare...

Mediating Geographic Knowledge - U.S. Geographical Societies, 1888-1914

Between 1888 and 1914, U.S. geographical societies became central institutions mediating the production and circulation of geographic kno...

Distributive Struggle and the Self in the Early Modern Iberian World

People tell different stories about themselves and the world to express what they believe are or ought to be their rightful privileges. W...

Queer Georgians - A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers

History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the fascinating lives of those long written out of the nation's story, now lovin...

The Wide Wide Sea

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, pre-order the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, ...

Ottoman Ni¿ - Territorialisation and Urban Space in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Balkans

The city of Ni¿, now in Serbia, was part of the Ottoman Empire for about half a millennium. This study offers the first in-depth examinat...

The Wide Wide Sea

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP-TEN BOOK OF 2024A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEARFrom New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic accoun...

Shakespeare's Sisters - Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into th...

Christianity in Germany 1550-1850 - Confessionalization - Enlightenment - Pluralization

Calvin's and Neo-Calvinist Legal Theory in Indonesian Context

The heightened role of religion in the public sphere can become either a source of violence or a source of reconciliation. Considering In...

Pan-African Aesthetics - Colonial to Postcolonial Struggles for Definitions (1956-2016)

Pan-Africanism has been a global project aiming to unite people of African descent since the late nineteenth century. Notions of Black an...

The Silenced Crime - Forcible Child Transfer During the Armenian Genocide

This book examines the forcible transfer and assimilation of Armenian children during the Armenian Genocide, a systematic effort by the Y...

The Legacy Sites - A History of Racial Injustice

A powerful visual and narrative journey through the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Sites - the Legacy Museum, National Memorial for Pe...

Thomas More - A Life and Death in Tudor England

Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth c...

Devil-Land - England Under Siege, 1588-1688

*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*<BR><BR>A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH A...

Daring to be Free - Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World

*A Jacobin Best Book of 2025**A Spectator Best Book of 2025, as picked by Sam Leith*<BR><BR>From the Wolfson History Prize-wi...

Devout and Defiant - How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions

How Catholic pilgrims in an era of revolution challenged state authority and redefined the practice of their faith In the days of the Fre...

The Joy of the Modern Home - New Media and the Entertainment Market in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (1890s-1920s)

Alexander Hamilton

You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. <BR>'I was sw...

Migration and Mobility in Prague's Jewish Community during the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period

The first comprehensive treatment of the topic of migration in the Jewish community in Prague. The book provides a trans-regional context...

Catholic Theology in a Time of Upheaval and Transition - The German-Speaking Regions, 1750-1850

This book deals with a politically and intellectually exciting period in the history of Catholicism. In the late 18th and early 19th cent...

Insurgent Empire - Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Force and Statecraft - Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time

Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time, Sixth Edition, is a stimulating, highly readable, and insightful analysis of hum...

Spycraft - Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration

Armada - The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588

Religious Transformations in Europe - Individual Life Paths between Secularism and (New) Religiosity in the 19th Century

This book focuses on individuals who, in the course of their lives, turned away from their religious communities of origin. In some case,...

The DUBLIN PUB - A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY

The Mobilization at the Periphery - Universal Conscription as A Modernizing Factor of the Habsburg Empire from 1868-1914

This volume is devoted to the modernization of the army manning system and its impact on the society of Austria-Hungary. The primary meth...

Ludwig XIV. - König im großen Welttheater

Colonial Extraction and Industrial Steam Power, 1790-1880 - Decarbonising Imperial History

This book untangles the connections between British industrialization and colonial expansion in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

Wives, Heiresses, Businesswomen - Historical case studies of women's changing roles in family businesses

In the public imagination, small and medium-sized family businesses have always been male-dominated organisations, with those headed by w...

Belle - The Slave Daughter and the Lord Chief Justice

Under a Double Headed Eagle: Józef Mianowski - Biography of a Conservative

What was life like in the territories annexed by Russia in the 19th century? What were the views and attitudes of the Poles living in lan...

Men in the Middle - Shaping Great Power-China Relationships, 1842-1949

There is no time period or theme that promotes more engagement, by both Chinese historians and historians of China, than what the Peoples...

The First Europeans - Habsburg and Other Jews - a World before 1914

Die Idee Europa wurde seit der frühen Neuzeit von Juden in diesem Teil der Erde vorweggenommen. Jüdische Existenz war geprägt von überreg...

Powdered Fakes - The Legitimacy of Elizabeth Petrovna in Russian Court Culture 1741-1761

This study examines the 18th century Russian court culture as a political frame for legitimacy of the new empress Elizabeth, daughter of ...