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

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The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble...

Author: A.J. Jacobs
ISBN: 9780593136744
Format: Hardback
$54.99

"""The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically chronicles his hilarious adventures in...  Read More >>

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849...

Author: Christopher Clark
ISBN: 9780141988313
Format: Paperback
$42.99

An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history There can be few more exciting...  Read More >>

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles: Of War and Peace

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles:...

Author: B. J. C. McKercher (University of Victoria, Canada) ,  Erik Goldstein
ISBN: 9781032839080
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles looks at some key issues involving British policy and the...  Read More >>

Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography

Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian...

Author: Jeff Rosen
ISBN: 9781913107420
Format: Hardback
$93.95

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The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook

The French Revolution and Napoleon: A Sourcebook

Author: Philip Dwyer ,  Peter McPhee
ISBN: 9781032618784
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts that explain the processes behind the enormous changes...  Read More >>

Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns

Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of...

Author: William Lawrence
ISBN: 9781474540155
Format: Paperback
$55.44

The military memoirs of one who enlisted in the 40th Foot (later 1st Bn South Lancs) in 1804 and was eventually...  Read More >>

British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842-1927: Consuls, Courts and Colonial Subjects

British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842-1927:...

Author: Alexander Thompson
ISBN: 9789463720397
Format: Hardback
$319.44

In putting extraterritoriality into practice in the treaty ports, the British state did not simply withdraw rights...  Read More >>

Louisiana's No Man's Land: A History of Outlaws and Opportunity

Louisiana's No Man's Land: A History of Outlaws and...

Author: Scott Debose
ISBN: 9781467155366
Format: Paperback
$65.97

"Most Americans know the basics of the Louisiana Purchase, but few know that West Louisiana was left out of the...  Read More >>

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism

The German Enlightenment and the Rise of Historicism...

Author: Peter H. Reill
ISBN: 9780520414532
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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The Lion at Dawn Volume 75: Forging British Strategy in the Age of the French Revolution, 1783-1797

The Lion at Dawn Volume 75: Forging British Strategy...

Author: Nathaniel Jarrett
ISBN: 9780806193922
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examining William Pitt the Younger’s foreign policy from 1783 to 1797, Nathaniel Jarrett considers a question that...  Read More >>

A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons

A Soldier's Experience in Southern Prisons

Author: Christian Miller Prutsman
ISBN: 9789357964845
Format: Paperback
$41.18

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Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns

Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence: A Hero of...

Author: William Lawrence
ISBN: 9781474540162
Format: Hardback
$76.56

The military memoirs of one who enlisted in the 40th Foot (later 1st Bn South Lancs) in 1804 and was eventually...  Read More >>

Worcester County, Maryland Wills, 1813-1822

Worcester County, Maryland Wills, 1813-1822

Author: Dryden
ISBN: 9781639142460
Format: Paperback
$39.60

By: Ruth T. Dryden, Pub. 1980, reprinted 2024, 46 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-246-0. Worcester County...  Read More >>

Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet Gulag, 1880s-1930s

Coerced Labour, Forced Displacement, and the Soviet...

Author: Zhanna Popova
ISBN: 9789048560356
Format: Hardback
$345.84

The Gulag remains one of the key symbols of twentieth-century mass political violence. Thanks to recent archive-based...  Read More >>

A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap

A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of...

Author: Frank L. Holt (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Houston)
ISBN: 9780197694046
Format: Hardback
$47.95

This book recounts the eventful life of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from infamous...  Read More >>

The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln

The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against...

Author: Julian Sher
ISBN: 9781039000315
Format: Paperback
$55.44

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The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2: A Reader of Primary Sources

The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2: A Reader of...

Author: Christina Lee ,  Ricardo Padrón
ISBN: 9789048560196
Format: Hardback
$390.72

This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in...  Read More >>

Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865

Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and...

Author: Armstead L. Robinson ,  Barbara J. Fields
ISBN: 9780813952284
Format: Paperback
$77.88

In this controversial history the author tells the story of how the Civil Warand slavery were intertwined, and how...  Read More >>

Shield and Protect: An Illustrated History of the Essex Yeomanry

Shield and Protect: An Illustrated History of the Essex...

Author: Stephen Keoghane
ISBN: 9781804200506
Format: Hardback
$103.00

A meticulously researched new history of the Essex Yeomanry, a volunteer cavalry and artillery regiment, from its...  Read More >>

Print Markets and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870

Print Markets and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central...

Author: James M. Brophy (Francis H. Squire Professor of History, University of Delaware)
ISBN: 9780198845720
Format: Hardback
$219.95

The history of Central Europe's print markets between Napoleon and the era of unification doubles as a political...  Read More >>

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess

Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish...

Author: Adam Zamoyski
ISBN: 9780008521684
Format: Hardback
$45.00

Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed...  Read More >>

The Papers of Robert Treat Paine, 1787-1814

The Papers of Robert Treat Paine, 1787-1814

Author: Robert Treat Paine ,  Edward W. Hanson
ISBN: 9781936520121
Format: Hardback
$165.60

The fifth and final volume of this series encompasses Robert Treat Paine's time as a justice on the Supreme Judicial...  Read More >>

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