Współczesne czasy do 1918 roku

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 …

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 …

’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 no …

This book traces the often sharply differing perspectives historians have formed with regard to the key incidents in the careers of the two foremost politicians of the Victorian age – Gladstone and D …

This is a Civil War book about a little known engagement that took place two days before the important Battle of Monocacy which is referred to as the battle that saved Washington, D.C. from capture b …

An Adventure: A True Story About Time Travel" by Eleanor F. Jourdain and C. A. E. Moberly is a remarkable account of an extraordinary experience. This non-fiction work recounts the authors' …

Literary Illumination examines the relationship between literature and artificial illumination, demonstrating that developments of lighting technology during the nineteenth century definitively alter …

The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither’s monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio. His comprehensive study …

Wyatt Earp and his brothers came to Tombstone to invest in recently opened silver mines and real estate, to get a share of newly discovered wealth and prosperity, and not to continue their law enforc …

’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 …