Современные времена до 1918

  How did a penniless nineteenth-century farm woman with an alcoholic husband, seven children, and little education, living in a rural backwater of the tsarist Russian empire far from any center …

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 …

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' …

In October 1866, a powerful Category 4 hurricane struck the Bahamian Islands. With winds well over 140 miles per hour and even higher gusts that toppled trees, sank ships, peeled away rooftops, and d …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as ‘Rebeccaism’ or ‘the Rebecca riots’, stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle and defeat. The …

Tan Tock Seng, one of Singapore’s most illustrious pioneers, was an influential Chinese community leader. In the early 1820s, he responded to Sir Stamford Raffles’ call to open up Singapore for trade …

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 …