Modern Times tot 1918

In ‘De drie steden: Rome’ neemt Émile Zola de lezer mee op een literaire reis door de prachtige stad Rome. Het boek is geschreven in Zola’s kenmerkende naturalistische stijl, waarbij hij de stad en h …

Traveling to Unknown Places presents a compelling, incisive analysis of how French and American writers reshaped their personal and collective identities as they traveled in foreign countries after t …

A social and transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil Freedom’s Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western …

Till 1917, the Russian tsar enjoyed unlimited power over an immense area. More than 5 million Jews lived isolated and segregated lives within the Russian Empire. The Tsar wanted to eliminate the Jews …

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Such edifices, be they churches, castles, chapels or various ot …

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 …

This social history of Europe during 1848 selects the most crucial centers of revolt and shows by a vivid reconstruction of events what revolution meant to the average citizen and how fateful a part …

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 …

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 …

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 …