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Reparations for Slavery and Disenfranchisement to African Americans
Remarks Upon the Right Honourable the Lord Lansdowne's Letter to the Author of the Reflections Historical and Political,&c. as far as Relates to Bishop Burnet
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Hotel Lambert and the Austrian Empire, 1831-1846
This book analyses the political discourse and activities of the constitutionalist-monarchist wing of the Polish Great Emigration, which saw the emigration of several thousand …
Napoleon’s Dragoons and Lancers
Having their origins in the Army of Louis XIV, the dragoons were originally mounted infantry. During the wars of the 1e Empire, they became ‘jacks of all trade’ equally capable as …
British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-century Palestine
Yaron Perry's account reveals, without bias or partiality, the story of the "e;London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews"e; and its unique contribution to …
The Lords of War
In this compelling study of leadership, Correlli Barnett examines the strengths and weaknesses of twenty leaders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He examines how …
Manors Held of the Bishop of Durham in Capite, by Knight's Service, and Other Tenures, &C.
Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History
Professional historians, schools, colleges and universities are not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The central thesis of this book is the belief historical …
Sex, Botany and Empire (Icon Science)
When the imperial explorer James Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist Joseph Banks, whose …
Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America
Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in …
Revolution and (Post) War, 1917-1922
This book focuses on the Russian Revolution of 1917, the legacy of the First World War, and Mussolini and Italian fascism - offering an important overview of the major themes of …
