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Greek Scholars between East and West in the Fifteenth Century
Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek emigres to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done. …
Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War
This biography deals with the life of Henry Wilson, one of the most important figures of the middle third of the Nineteenth Century, up to the time of the Civil War. Among its …
Battlefield and Beyond
In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The …
Vice and the Victorians
Vice and the Victorians explores the ways the Victorian world gave meanings to the word 'vice', and the role this complex notion played in shaping society. Mike Huggins provides a …
Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled …
Performing Russia
This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why …
The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Ageing
Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the entire nineteenth century. The concept of menopause was invented by French male …
The First Schleswig-Holstein War 1848-50
1848 was a turbulent but momentous time in Europe. Within this context, the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were caught between the rising nationalism and desire for unification …
A Register and Chronicle Ecclesiastical and Civil
Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic
Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic explores various aspects of the religious and cultural diversity of the early Dutch Republic and analyses how the …
Charging Against Napoleon
By means of the personal diaries and letters of three officers in the 18th Hussars, the reader traces the progress of this famous cavalry Regiment through the gruelling years of …
The History and Antiquities of Staffordshire. Compiled From the Manuscripts of Huntbach, Loxdale, Bishop Lyttelton, ... The Whole Brought Down to the Present Time; ... By the Rev. Stebbing Shaw, ... of 2; Volume 1
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 …