Les temps modernes jusqu’en 1918

From Fun to Fortune is a riveting historical drama that explores the chaotic rise of professional sports and mass entertainment in late 19th and early 20th century America. Set in the now-vanished Al …

The rise of the automobile as told through its Rubicon moment—a sensational, high-risk race across two continents on the verge of revolution. The racers—an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French …

Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a companion to the …

Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. ‘Modern’ Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Th …

Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt’s approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he pursued. Though remembered primarily as a …

In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for the …

Kropotkin’s Memoirs is an autobiographical account of his life as a social revolutionary. His formal work as a zoologist and geographer takes a backseat to his call for radical social reform in the g …

The Illfracombe bells book is about the original discovery of iron ore in Australia and the story of two iron ore bells made from that ore deposit at Beaconsfield, Tasmania in the 19th century as a m …

What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading f …

‘This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best.’—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the n …