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 >>

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
$65.00

Discover the realities of Victorian England that informed the famous Dickens characters.  Read More >>

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction...

Author: Eugene Rogan
ISBN: 9780241646908
Format: Hardback
$75.00

The dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order This remarkable...  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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their Influence on the Napoleonic Era

Napoleon's Library: The Emperor, His Books and Their...

Author: Louis N Sarkozy
ISBN: 9781399055239
Format: Hardback
$65.00

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Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the Imagined South in the Civil War

Confederate Visions: Nationalism, Symbolism, and the...

Author: Ian Binnington
ISBN: 9780813951508
Format: Paperback
$92.40

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Something of Men I Have Known

Something of Men I Have Known

Author: Adlai E Stevenson
ISBN: 9789357962117
Format: Paperback
$68.35

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A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors in Tasmania

A Very Secret Trade: The dark story of gentlemen collectors...

Author: Cassandra Pybus
ISBN: 9781761066344
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Author of the bestselling Truganini, Cassandra Pybus has uncovered one of the darkest and best kept secrets in Australian...  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 >>

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 >>

Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt: Artworks and Letters of John Douglas Woodward, 1878-1879

Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt: Artworks and...

Author: Sue Rainey
ISBN: 9781938086533
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade

Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and...

Author: Susan Gaunt Stearns
ISBN: 9780813951232
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United States’ untrammeled westward expansion....  Read More >>

The Challenge of Labour: Shaping British Society, 1850–1930

The Challenge of Labour: Shaping British Society, 1850–1930...

Author: Keith Burgess
ISBN: 9781032597904
Format: Hardback
$189.00

The Challenge of Labour (1980) explains the changing forms of labour’s relationship with British society during...  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

Road Transport in Cumbria in the Nineteenth Century (1975) is a detailed study of transportation by road in one...  Read More >>

We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California

We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival,...

Author: Martin Rizzo-Martinez ,  Valentin Lopez
ISBN: 9781496238757
Format: Paperback
$105.60

We Are Not Animals traces the history of Indigenous people in the Santa Cruz area through the nineteenth century,...  Read More >>

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 >>

Women of the Jacobite Rebellions

Women of the Jacobite Rebellions

Author: Phil Carradice
ISBN: 9781399053297
Format: Hardback
$66.00

The flight of King James II in November 1688 was a seminal moment in British history. The deposed Catholic King...  Read More >>

The Forgotten Past – Volume II: Another Eclectic Collection of Little Known Stories from the Annals of History

The Forgotten Past – Volume II: Another Eclectic Collection...

Author: Andrew Vinken
ISBN: 9781805143413
Format: Paperback
$23.26

In volume two of The Forgotten Past, Andrew Vinken continues to explore the history that did not make it into the...  Read More >>

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