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Political Parties before the Constitution
This is the first book dealing with any period in American history which attempts to describe and analyze national politics through studying voting patterns in state legislatures. …
A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels
Thomas Francis Meagher and the Irish Brigade in the Civil War
When President Lincoln issued his 1861 call to arms, the 63rd, 69th and 88th New York Volunteers were among the first to step forward. Comprised primarily of first and second …
Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.A valuable addition to both our understanding of …
Book of Phobias and Manias
A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Victorians and Numbers
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development …
The Life of Mr. Thomas Hearne, of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford; From his own MS. Copy, in the Bodleian Library. Also an Accurate Catalogue of his Writings and Publications,
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 …
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in …
The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions
The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was …
Persistence of Empire
The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britains most humiliating defeat as an imperial power. In this lively, concise book, Eliga Gould …
An Account of the Expedition to Carthagena, With Explanatory Notes and Observations. The Third Edition
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 …
Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland
Ireland was the location of the earliest comprehensive public provision for the care and control of the mentally ill. Between 1817 and 1870 the British government in Ireland …