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Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey [...]
A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when...
Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of Colonel William C. Oates
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William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union's flank and win the battle -...
The Shadow Emperor: A Biography of Napoleon III
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'Louis Napoleon's story is certainly remarkable. Alan Strauss-Schom tells it with brio in The Shadow Emperor... This is a boldly revisionist biography... For all the corruption and repression that marked...
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine
The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest...
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was...
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
The award-winning, new definitive history of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders"Thrilling. ... A CLASSIC." -True WestWINNER: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award; New Mexico-Arizona Book Award; and Colorado Book...
The High Road to China
_______________ 'Splendid and fascinating ... Teltscher has made remarkable use of her source material, aided by the constantly perceptive and witty tone of Bogle's own writings' - Patrick French, Sunday...
Reflections on the Revolution in France
As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor fanned by the flames of the newly won freedom of the British colonies in America, one of the few lone voices of conservative...
Wellington and the Siege of San Sebastian, 1813
Bruce Collins's in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstruction of one of the most challenging siege operations Wellington's...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the heart of the British Empire, from the Regency dandy's...
The Scandal of George III's Court
From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal...
The Hunt for Moore's Gold: Investigating the Loss of the British Amy's Military Chest During the Retreat to Corunna
History abounds with unresolved puzzles and unanswered questions, none more so than that of the loss of the British Army's military chest during the retreat to Corunna in 1809. Sir...
Waterloo Archive, Volume 1: British Sources
In the first ground breaking volume of a new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover, brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen material...
With Moore to Corunna: The Diary of Ensign Charles Paget, Fifty-Second Foot
Ensign Charles Paget's previously unpublished diary of the Peninsular War is an important discovery for two reasons. The regiment in which he served - the 52nd Foot - was one...
Lincoln and New York
Abraham Lincoln is, by tradition, one of American history's quintessential westerners. But Lincoln owed much of his national political success, not to mention his enshrinement in public memory, to his...
Performing Herself: Autobiography and Fanny Kelly's Dramatic Recollections
This unique book contains the never before published script of the first ever one-woman show, written by Fanny Kelly. The script was performed in Britain in the 1830s and 40s,...
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
As the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world s most famous man who never was , Arthur Conan Doyle remains one of our favourite writers; his work is read with...
Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War and Emancipation
While slavery and secession divided the Union during the American Civil War, they also severed the Northern and Southern dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In Challenges on the Emmaus...
The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a...
A PALMETTO BOY: Civil War-era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
This title offers an insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families. The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is...
Inside the Regiment: The Officers and Men of the 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
In this companion volume to her pioneering study Redcoats Against Napoleon, Carole Divall tells the fascinating inside story of a typical infantry regiment during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Rather...
Japanned Papier Mache and Tinware c.1740-1940
As one of the few decorative arts about which little has been written, japanning is today fraught with misunderstandings. And yet, in its heyday, the japanning industry attracted important commissions...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of...
Stephen Douglas: The Last Years, 1857-1861
Stephen Douglas and the old Union lived out their last years together. It was the most critical time in the life of both the Illinois senator and his country. During...
Queen Victoria's Skull: George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind
Queen Victoria's Skull explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition...
A PALMETTO BOY: Civil War-era Diaries and Letters of James Adams Tillman
This title offers an insightful view of major Civil War battles from a representation of one of South Carolina's most influential families. The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is...
Civil War Dynasty: The Ewing Family of Ohio
For years the Ewing family of Ohio has been lost in the historical shadow cast by their in-law, General William T. Sherman. In the era of the Civil War, it...
Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration
Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to...
Emily Hobhouse: Feminist, Pacifist, Traitor?
Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction. 'Here was...
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard...
Dreams of a More Perfect Union
In a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
Railway - British Track Since 1804
Never before has a comprehensive history been written of the track used by railways of all gauges, tramways, and cliff railways, in Great Britain. And yet it was the development...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire
In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery School at Chalons. A year later, with Napoleon...
The Austrian Revolution
The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856: Despatches from the Front
Author: John GrehanFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 208 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Death on the Victorian Beat: The Shocking Story of Police Deaths
Author: Martin BaggoleyFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 190 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Death on the Victorian Beat is the first book dedicated solely to the murders...
John James Audubon's Journal of 1826: The Voyage to The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 536 pagesPublished: University of Nebraska Press, United States, 2011John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
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Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
The Sultan's Yemen: 19th Century Challenges to Ottoman Rule
Author: Caesar E. FarahFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2002In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting...
Clive: Founder of British India
Author: C. Brad FaughtFormat: Hardback, 263g, 140 pagesPublished: Potomac Books Inc, United States, 2013Robert Clive (1725-1774), later 1st Baron Clive, is widely considered the founder of British India. He arrived...
'I Was Transformed' Frederick Douglass: An American Slave in Victorian Britain
Author: Laurence FentonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 560g, 288 pagesPublished: Amberley Publishing, United Kingdom, 2018In the summer of 1845, Frederick Douglass, the young runaway slave catapulted to fame by his...