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

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The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris

The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris...

Author: Min Kyung Lee
ISBN: 9780300267648
Format: Hardback
$103.95

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American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures

American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies...

Author: D. Berton Emerson
ISBN: 9781469678399
Format: Hardback
$168.30

Examines an eclectic group of literary texts that have rarely, if ever, been considered representative of ‘the nation’...  Read More >>

The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

The Civil War and the Summer of 2020

Author: Hilary N. Green ,  Andrew L. Slap
ISBN: 9781531504991
Format: Hardback
$186.99

"Investigates how Americans have remembered violence and resistance since the Civil War, including Confederate monuments,...  Read More >>

Reading Character after Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Reading Character after Calvin: Secularization, Empire,...

Author: David Mark Diamond
ISBN: 9780813950891
Format: Paperback
$85.80

The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional...  Read More >>

The Military in the Early Modern World: A Comparative Approach

The Military in the Early Modern World: A Comparative...

Author: Ronald G. Asch ,  Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg
ISBN: 9783847110132
Format: Hardback
$119.00

"When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500â c. 1800), we often speak of ""the military"" or ""the army""....  Read More >>

The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps

The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon,...

Author: Andrew W Field
ISBN: 9781399021449
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one...  Read More >>

Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860-2010

Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production,...

Author: Kisho Tsuchiya
ISBN: 9780824894986
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative...  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 >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume II: The Mid-Nineteenth Century

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Peter Garratt ,  Giles Whiteley
ISBN: 9781032548678
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the second volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume I: Literature and Philosophy of the Romantic Period

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Monika Class ,  Cian Duffy
ISBN: 9781032548661
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the first volume in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature...  Read More >>

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume III: Literature and Philosophy in the ‘Long-Late-Victorian’ Period

Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British...

Author: Andrea Selleri
ISBN: 9781032548685
Format: Hardback
$294.00

This is the third in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century...  Read More >>

The Santee Canal: South Carolina's First Commercial Highway

The Santee Canal: South Carolina's First Commercial...

Author: Elizabeth Connor ,  Richard Dwight Porcher Jr.
ISBN: 9781643364711
Format: Hardback
$105.57

A richly illustrated study that examines the engineering as well as the commercial, environmental, and human impacts...  Read More >>

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 >>

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang...

Author: Kenneth M. Swope
ISBN: 9781682472859
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and...  Read More >>

Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition

Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment...

Author: Hannah Spahn
ISBN: 9780813951188
Format: Hardback
$303.60

The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence did not emerge...  Read More >>

The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed Confederate Strategy in the Atlanta Campaign, 19 May 1864

The Cassville Affairs: Johnston, Hood, and the Failed...

Author: Robert D. Jenkins Sr.
ISBN: 9780881469318
Format: Hardback
$66.00

Civil War historians have remained baffled over the Cassville controversies for the past 150 plus years. This book...  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 >>

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German Musical Stage at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Music Theatre and the Holy Roman Empire: The German...

Author: Austin Glatthorn (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781009066068
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Designed for music scholars, historians, and those interested in music of the 'Classical era', Glatthorn's book...  Read More >>

Unfurl Those Colors!: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second Army Corps in the Antietam Campaign

Unfurl Those Colors!: McClellan, Sumner, and the Second...

Author: Marion V. Armstrong
ISBN: 9780817361624
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Provides an operational study of the Army of the Potomac during the pivotal Battle of Antietam on September 17,...  Read More >>

All That Can be Expected: The Battle of Camden and the British High Tide in the South, August 16, 1780

All That Can be Expected: The Battle of Camden and the...

Author: Robert Orrison ,  Mark Wilcox
ISBN: 9781611216868
Format: Paperback
$47.99

"""This book describes the events that led to one of the worst American military defeats in United States history....  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

Reading Character after Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Reading Character after Calvin: Secularization, Empire,...

Author: David Mark Diamond
ISBN: 9780813950884
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Explores how Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins...  Read More >>

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