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The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visual markers of class membership and manly behavior un……続きを見る

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian ……続きを見る

"[A]n astonishingly interesting interpretation…Fox is wonderfully shrewd and often dazzling." ーJill Lepore, New York Times Book Review Abraham Lincoln remains America’s most beloved leader. The fac……続きを見る

Edmund Curtis's remarkable survey of Ireland, from its earliest origins to the twentieth century, is a classic introduction to Ireland's fascinating history. Reaching from St Patrick's Mission in 43……続きを見る

Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with eac……続きを見る

Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 explores the rise of Germany as a nation state and a European power centre, through to the humiliation of the state in the First World War. Covering both domestic and for……続きを見る

The 19th century was, to a large extent, the ‘British century’. Great Britain was the great world power and its institutions, beliefs and values had an immense impact on the world far beyond its for……続きを見る

In 1848 the continent of Europe was rocked by revolutions: only Great Britain and Russia remained relatively immune to the upheaval. Most spectacularly, the Revolutions swept across the German-speak……続きを見る

Since unification, Italy has grown from a backward agrarian society into one of the world's leading industrial powers. Yet her history exhibits spectacular disunities, inconsistencies and paradoxes.……続きを見る

This study considers the impact of industrialisation, revolution and world war on women's working lives in Russia. Unlike existing studies this new text looks at women from all social classes. In th……続きを見る

The rise of Prussia and subsequent unification of Germany under Prussia was one of the most important events in modern European history.However, the fact that this unification was brought about as a……続きを見る

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide. Whether coming to t……続きを見る

MONSIEUR LE PREMIER PRÉSIDENT, MESSIEURS, Chargé de prendre aujourd’hui la parole par M. le Procureur Général Herbaux, auquel je suis heureux de pouvoir adresser publiquement de nouvelles et respect……続きを見る

What did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to overse……続きを見る

MON oncle Ro et moi, nous venions de voyager ensemble en Orient, et notre absence avait duré cinq longues années, lorsque nous atteignîmes Paris. Revenant d’Égypte par Alger, Marseille et Lyon, il y……続きを見る

 Les chouans ont été les plus redoutables adversaires de la Révolution  ; ils ont fait trembler le Comité de salut public et le Directoire  ; ils ont tenu ……続きを見る

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream.……続きを見る

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to get from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties a……続きを見る

On a chilly January morning in 1872, a special visitor arrived by train in North Platte, Nebraska. Grand Duke Alexis of Russia had already seen the cities and sights of the EastーNew York, Washingto……続きを見る

In August 1680 the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico arose in fury to slay their Spanish colonial overlords and drive any survivors from the land. Andrew Knaut explores eight decades of New Mexi……続きを見る

The apparent parallels between Mormon ritual and doctrine and those of Freemasonry have long been recognized. That Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other early church leaders were, at least for a ti……続きを見る

James Madison is the thinker most responsible for laying the groundwork of the American commercial republic. But he did not anticipate that the propertied class on which he relied would become extra……続きを見る

First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when ……続きを見る

The nineteenth century was an era of scientific advance like no other in history. And no nation gained more from its forward momentum than Britain and her Empire. Railways were built, bridges constr……続きを見る

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quic……続きを見る

The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The Eco……続きを見る

As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, tooーamong……続きを見る

LE philosophe qui publie une nouvelle théorie est tenu de fournir du moins quelques preuves élémentaires que ses prémisses sont raisonnables ; et l’historien qui se hasarde à rapporter des merveille……続きを見る

Le poète Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle est né à Saint Paul sur l’île Bourbon (actuellement l’île de La Réunion). Il a succédé à Victor Hugo à l’académie française. Ardent républicain prenant u……続きを見る

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundam……続きを見る