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Biographical profile of America's first millionaire, John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant who arrived in Manhattan with five English pounds in his pocket and amassed ownership of large swaths o……続きを見る

Paragon of English virtues or racist imperialist? Andrew Lycett (acclaimed biographer of Ian Fleming) has returned to primary sources to tell the intricate story of a misunderstood genius who became……続きを見る

From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of c……続きを見る

Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he……続きを見る

In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America a……続きを見る

Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north to the St. Lawrence River through what is now New ……続きを見る

This original and wide-ranging work reveals how Abraham Lincoln responded to prompts from around the globe to shape his personal appearance, political appeal, and presidential policies. Throughout h……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to l……続きを見る

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the ……続きを見る

Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Cl……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Talleyrand en moins d’une heure ! Rien ne prédestinait Talleyrand à devenir ce diplomate de génie qui connaîtra pas moins de huit régimes différents. C’……続きを見る

During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sa……続きを見る

Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant ins……続きを見る

Extraordinary renditionーthe practice of abducting criminal suspects in locations around the worldーhas been criticized as an unprecedented expansion of U.S. police powers. But America’s aggressive ……続きを見る

In 1871 Paris was a city in crisis. Besieged during the Franco-Prussian War, its buildings and boulevards were damaged, its finances mired in debt, and its new government untested. But if Parisian a……続きを見る

In the decades before the Civil War, the small number of slaves who managed to escape bondage almost always made their way northward along the secret routes and safe havens known as the Underground ……続きを見る

Spirits of an Industrial Age tells the story of the ghosts that roamed the cities of Britain throughout the nineteenth century. These were not phantoms in a traditional supernatural sense, but appar……続きを見る

The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native p……続きを見る

The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the p……続きを見る

The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and trade. Using specific case studies, de……続きを見る

Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitution, and how such women were policed. 続きを見る

Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as an important facet of economic history. Popp examines the Shaw family business to present a study of entrepreneurism that puts the family centre ……続きを見る

La trop brève existence de Balzac s'est déroulée sous le double signe de l'amour et d'une inlassable activité littéraire. Tandis qu'il réalise une oeuvre grandiose, trois femmes vont jouer auprès de……続きを見る

Le 3 mai 1814, Louis XVIII monte sur le trône de France, mettant fin à vingt-cinq ans de turbulences politiques. Pendant seize ans ー exception faite de l'épisode des Cent-Jours qui sonne le glas de……続きを見る

First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of ……続きを見る

America's story is made up of many elements, but through it have coursed two main streams that have nourished and carried a people forward to a destiny that was beyond all imagining when the story b……続きを見る

A comprehensive history of the Battle of Gettysburg by one of today's leading historians. The greatest of all Civil War campaigns, Gettysburg was the turning point of the turning point in our nation……続きを見る

Dorothy Gray Gaona's third published work is a collection of history, genealogy, and family stories about the life, times, and family of Franklin Reed Mitchell (1869-1938). Franklin was born near Fo……続きを見る

William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) , born in Massachusetts, was an abolitionist and founder of The Liberator in 1831, an abolitionist newspaper. He also co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society……続きを見る

This short pieces describes the opening of the Jaffa Jerusalem Railway during August 1892. Laser reprint of original illustrated article. 続きを見る