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**'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

Obituaries of the most influential Victorians as profiled by The Times, including Dickens, Darwin, Ruskin, Peel, WG Grace and Florence Nightingale. For over 150 years, The Times obituaries have been……続きを見る

On a du mal aujourd'hui à se représenter l'importance, pour plusieurs générations, en France et dans le monde, de l'œuvre d'Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893). Ce normalien frondeur, mal vu des autorités a……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

Kaum einer kennt Russland besser als Michael Thumann, der seit über 25 Jahren aus Osteuropa für die ZEIT berichtet. Er legt nun ein atemberaubend geschriebenes Buch vor, das Russlands Absturz in ein……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

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Astronaut Jim Lovell and coauthor Jeffrey Kluger’s harrowing account of the Apollo 13 disaster. Serving as the basis for Ron Howard’s blockbuster Apollo 13, the book reveals tru……続きを見る

This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police News between 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo Myst……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

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

In this landmark volume, Samuel Hollander presents a fresh and compelling history of moral philosophy from Locke to John Stuart Mill, showing that a ‘moral sense’ can actually be considered compatib……続きを見る

The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848) brings together twenty-one scholars and a host of original ideas, revisionist arguments, and new information to mark the bicentennial of th……続きを見る

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinker……続きを見る

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. She pos……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

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the develo……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

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. - 2 volumes in one “General Philip Henry S……続きを見る

The Publix Press edition of The Slang Dictionary of 1859 by John Camden Hotten: -Is fully searchable. -Includes the full, unaltered text. -Is newly formatted, typeset, and designed to ensure readabi……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

**One of NPR's "Books We Love" New York Times Book Review's "The Best True Crime of 2022" "Rich in historical perspective and graced by novelistic touches, grips the reader from first to last.”ーWal……続きを見る

Westleham Village 1947. It’s the Westleham village show and with the war finally over, everyone is looking forward to a pleasant day. But newcomer, Martha Miller doesn’t share the excitement. Becaus……続きを見る

In 1841, Solomon Northup was a free man living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. He earned his living as a carpenter and violin player. One day, he is approached by two m……続きを見る

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of……続きを見る

The Iberian World: 1450–1820 brings together, for the first time in English, the latest research in Iberian studies, providing in-depth analysis of fifteenth- to early nineteenth-century Portugal an……続きを見る

Settlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enfor……続きを見る

Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps, and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. The high-tide of Confederate success had ……続きを見る

This thesis is an analysis of General Van Cleve and his division to determine the proximate causes for their failure to withstand the brutal test of combat throughout the two-day battle. The thesis ……続きを見る

Reconstruction-era literature helped shape an ongoing national debate about proper remedies to racial wrongs. In this powerful book, Brook Thomas revisits the contested era of Reconstruction. He evo……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