Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 books

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Children’s Emotions in Europe, 1500 – 1900: A Visual History

Children’s Emotions in Europe, 1500 – 1900: A Visual...

Author: Professor Jeroen J. H. Dekker (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350150706
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book gives you the historical sensation of coming face to face with the bodily expression and regulation of...  Read More >>

Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel

Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel

Author: Sheila Gooddie
ISBN: 9780470854266
Format: Paperback
$25.85

An intriguing account of a woman at the heart of world politics, half a century before women had the vote The...  Read More >>

Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed

Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed...

Author: Richard Charles Cobb
ISBN: 9781399019439
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Using 21st century profiling techniques, it’s time to reveal the truth behind the men most likely to have been Jack...  Read More >>

Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine and Literature

Murky Waters: British Spas in Eighteenth-Century Medicine...

Author: Sophie Vasset
ISBN: 9781526178824
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Murky waters explores the ambivalent representations of spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature. It gives...  Read More >>

Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810–67

Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians...

Author: Simon James Morgan
ISBN: 9781526178817
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic...  Read More >>

Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age

Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded...

Author: Sarah E. Lirley
ISBN: 9780809339327
Format: Paperback
$42.90

The scene of myriad grisly deaths, late nineteenth-century St. Louis was a hotbed for homicide, suicide, alcoholism,...  Read More >>

The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law

The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism,...

Author: Peter Charles Hoffer
ISBN: 9781606354780
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this brisk, engaging exploration of 19th-century radical reformer and abolitionist Wendell Phillips, Peter Charles...  Read More >>

The Confederate Navy Medical Corps: Organization, Personnel and Actions

The Confederate Navy Medical Corps: Organization, Personnel...

Author: Guy R. Hasegawa
ISBN: 9781476694511
Format: Paperback
$68.20

The first book devoted entirely to the medical corps of the Confederate navy, this volume provides a carefully researched...  Read More >>

Sensational News: The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America, 1830-1930

Sensational News: The Rise of Lurid Journalism in America,...

Author: Jeremy Agnew
ISBN: 9781476692319
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Sensationalistic stories have attracted readers for as long as reading has been a popular form of entertainment....  Read More >>

Great French Revolution, 1789-93

Great French Revolution, 1789-93

Author: Peter Kropotkin
ISBN: 9780921689393
Format: Hardback
$142.53

With an Introduction by George Woodcock. Kropotkin saw the French Revolution as a climax in a long past and future...  Read More >>

Sheet Music of the Confederacy: A History

Sheet Music of the Confederacy: A History

Author: Robert I. Curtis
ISBN: 9781476692616
Format: Paperback
$160.60

Provides the first comprehensive history of the sheet music of the Confederacy. The book covers Confederate-themed...  Read More >>

Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French...

Author: Anne Higonnet (Barnard College)
ISBN: 9780393867954
Format: Hardback
$57.95

The forgotten story of how three women dazzled the world with their radical style and transformed the fashion of...  Read More >>

The Nile Campaign, 1884-1885: The Letters and Sketches of Rudolph de Lisle

The Nile Campaign, 1884-1885: The Letters and Sketches...

Author: Gerard de Lisle
ISBN: 9781399058360
Format: Hardback
$105.00

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Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas

Women in Exile in Early Modern Europe and the Americas...

Author: Linda Levy Peck (Professor of History Emerita) ,  Adrianna E. Bakos (Associate Professor of History)
ISBN: 9781526175359
Format: Hardback
$206.99

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse...  Read More >>

Great Scandals of the Victorians: Disreputable Stories from the Royal Court to the Stage

Great Scandals of the Victorians: Disreputable Stories...

Author: Debbie Blake
ISBN: 9781399091602
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Great Scandals of the Victorians features a collection of true stories that shocked, outraged, angered or simply...  Read More >>

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century...

Author: L.A. Williams
ISBN: 9781032600543
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London

Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty...

Author: Lynn Hamilton
ISBN: 9781399054546
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil War to the Great War

Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil...

Author: John Morton
ISBN: 9781682479117
Format: Hardback
$68.20

Explains how the US came to put a value on commercial opportunities overseas in support of America’s steel industry....  Read More >>

The Long Conquest: Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

The Long Conquest: Territorialisation, Rebellion and...

Author: Sanghamitra Misra
ISBN: 9781032514611
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book is an inquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton producing Garo in the colonial archive...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Interwar Foreign Investment: Economic Nationalism and French Capital in Poland, 1918–1939

The Political Economy of Interwar Foreign Investment:...

Author: Jerzy Łazor
ISBN: 9781032451411
Format: Hardback
$273.00

France was interwar Poland’s main ally, and the biggest source of the country’s foreign investment. In the 1930s...  Read More >>

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