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Folds of Past, Present and Future
This volume brings together important theoretical and methodological issues currently being debated in the field of history of education. The contributions shed insightful and …
Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France
The imposition of a loyalty oath on French clergymen in the winter of 1790 was a turning point in the Revolutionary decade after 1789. What is more, there is a remarkable …
Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War
During the American Civil War, the Mennonites and Amish faced moral dilemmas that tested the very core of their faith. How could they oppose both slavery and the war to end it? How …
Robespierre and the Red Terror
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856
The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It is remembered for the unreasoning courage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, for the precise …
Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi
During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled …
Lincoln and Grant
Lincoln and Grant is an intimate dual-portrait of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant: their ordinary "e;Western"e; backgrounds, their early struggles to …
Epicureans and Atheists in France, 1650-1729
Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor …
Body and Tradition in Nineteenth-Century France
The moorlands of Gascony are often considered one of the most dramatic examples of top-down rural modernization in nineteenth-century Europe. From an area of open moors, they were …
Citizen Soldiers and the British Empire, 1837–1902
The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in …
Geographia Magnæ Britanniæ. Or, Correct Maps of all the Counties in England, Scotland, and Wales; ... Together With Tables of the High and Cross Roads, Market Days, &c
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 …
