History

The Civil War between the Northern and Southern states of America was the first great conflict to take place in the age of photography and many of the pictures - taken in the field and in studios--have survived to this day. In this superb collection you will find startling, emotive and sometimes surprisingly ...

Founding fathers: the shaping of America tells the story of six formidable Americans George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and how they persevered for 50 years of battle and bar-knucle government to forge a nation. COMES with Facsimile ...

Founding fathers: the shaping of America tells the story of six formidable Americans George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and how they persevered for 50 years of battle and bar-knucle government to forge a nation. COMES with Facsimile ...

How ideas moved the world from post-war to pre-war once more.

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a deeply layered and insightful testament to people who are left out of the archives

Love it or hate it, the exclamation mark has been with us from Beowulf to the spam email - an enthusiastic history for language lovers!

The first comprehensive synthesis and analysis of colonialism from its origins to the present. Using a non-Eurocentric approach, Ferro compares all the European colonial powers, as well as Arab, Turk and Japanese colonialism.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not ...

An original exploration of all the ordinary, extraordinary and totally mad things we've thrown out and redeemed through the ages.

A biography of the mercurial and controversial man who made one of the greatest discoveries in archaeological history - the Palace of Minos at Knossos.

This book examines the history of American exceptionalism tht means so much to it's people but has led into calamaties as well as triumphs. With the election of a new president in November 2008, the fate of America, by extension of the world will be hanging in the balance.

Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings

Adriatic recounts the shared history of the countries around the sea, from Italy to Croatia and beyond, from the Romans to the present.

Eugene L. Wolfe looks at how instances of individual strife faced by Members of Parliament - be it arrest or imprisonment, brawls on the floor, attacks by individual members of the public, or other examples of danger - have reflected changes and developments in British political history.

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. This book shows how this is fundamentally wrong by exploring British collaboration with France between 1848 and 1914. Gillen redefines our understanding of Britain's role in the world in the age of empire.

A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Age, JP Morgan and EH Harriman, as they fought for control of the nation's railways and reshaped American industry.

The dramatic Muslim victory over the Crusaders that finally ended the Christian dream of ruling the Middle East.

When did celebrity culture begin? In the Regency period, when people hungered for news of the illegitimate actress who became a duchess and the richest woman in England; and the hard-drinking Regency buck who horse-whipped anyone who criticised his terrible novels.