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In the second half of the nineteenth century, Victorian middle and upper classes felt increasingly threatened by the masses of "outcast London." Gareth Stedman Jones, working from a mass of statisti……続きを見る

Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transfo……続きを見る

**A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology “A panoramic v……続きを見る

"A striking success…the account of the White House years is absorbing, the account of Mary Lincoln's life as a widow utterly compelling." ーNew York Times This definitive biography of Mary Todd Linc……続きを見る

Now in its second edition, Britain since 1688 is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British History from 1688 to the present day that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. Chronolo……続きを見る

Through its focus on the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, this book provides a new perspective on the often fractious and tangled events of George I’s reign (1714-27). This was a ……続きを見る

“Gripping and essential.”ーJesse Wegman, New York Times An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstr……続きを見る

The slave narrative is a literary sub-genre that emerged from the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean na……続きを見る

Why does so much of the world speak English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led ……続きを見る

Honorable Mention, 2026 Joseph Levenson Prize (China, post-1900), Association for Asian Studies In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was somethin……続きを見る

A panoramic global history of the nineteenth century A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transi……続きを見る

Um 1500 übertraf die Wirtschaftsleistung Chinas und Indiens die Europas um ein Vielfaches. Bis zur Industrialisierung Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts entwickelte sich Europa dann zur dominanten Wirtschaf……続きを見る

In ihrem dreibändigen Werk 'Deutsche Geschichte' entfaltet Ricarda Huch ein umfangreiches Panorama der deutschen Geschichte von den frühesten Zeiten bis in die Gegenwart. Ihr literarischer Stil ist ……続きを見る

'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869. In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The……続きを見る

In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginnin……続きを見る

Who was Tse Tsan Tai? Insurrectionist? Socialite? Patriot? Revolutionary? Born and raised in Australia and trained in Anglo-Hong Kong’s civil service, Tse Tsan Tai (1872–1938) was all of these and m……続きを見る

The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." ー Christian Science Monitor “As Hochschild’s brilliant bo……続きを見る

Charles C. Calhoun's Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the"one poet average, ……続きを見る

Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however,……続きを見る

**'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today 'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The Times** There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European ……続きを見る

La presente obra se inserta en la creciente ola de estudios sobre historia eclesiástica. Las contribuciones aquí contenidas abarcan temáticas concernientes a partir del siglo XVI, pues en este perio……続きを見る

In "A Short History of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," Edward James Nolan presents a meticulously researched chronicle that captures the institution's evolution from its founding i……続きを見る

**An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”ーSte……続きを見る

A small library could be stocked with books written about Napoleon Bonaparte the general, whose battles and campaigns have been studied extensively. Warriors, however, are not generally known for th……続きを見る

There is no more marvellous story in human history than that of Napoleon I., Emperor of the French. His career is one long demonstration of the reality of the proverb, “Truth is stranger than fictio……続きを見る

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to……続きを見る

'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker 'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of n……続きを見る

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) ist zu Lebzeiten kaum einmal über Wien hinausgekommen, doch seine Musik hat die Welt erobert – freilich erst nach seinem viel zu frühen Tod. Dieser mutet umso tragischer……続きを見る

Il rapporto tra cultura politica e cultura esoterica non è stato spezzato dalla rivoluzione scientifica del XIX secolo. Esso, in realtà, riappare a sprazzi, in singoli paesi e in situazioni specific……続きを見る

American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crève……続きを見る