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Italy and the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean has always loomed large in the history and culture of Italy, and since the 1980s this relationship has been represented in ever more varied forms as both national …
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 …
Women and Scottish Society, 1700-2000
This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman's life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day …
Queer Trades, Sex and Society
This book is the first scholarly work to explore male homosexual prostitution in interwar Scotland. The male prostitute occupies a contested position within interwar society – …
Passion, Politics, and Philosophie
Jacques-Pierre Brissot was among the major architects of the French Revolution, yet history has vilified and then dismissed him. His early intellectual development was strongly …
Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War
The Confederacy had a great opportunity to turn the Civil War in its favor in 1864, but squandered this chance when it failed to finish off a Union army cornered in Louisiana …
Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914
Through the prism of gender, this text explores the contrasting cultures and practice of mathematics and science and asks how they impacted on women. Claire Jones assesses …
A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas, and Round the Globe, in His Majesty's Ship the Centurion, Under the Command of Commodore George Anson. ... By Pascoe Thomas,
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 …
Memoirs of the Ancient Earls of Warren and Surrey, and Their Descendants to the Present Time. By the Rev. John Watson, ... of 2; Volume 2
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 …
An Historical, Geographical, and Philosophical View of the Chinese Empire; ... by W. Winterbotham. to Which Is Added, a Copious Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy, ... Second 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 …
Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Tradition and Modernization
Russia's 18th-century drive toward modernity and empire under the two "e;greats"e; - Peter I and Catherine II - is captured in this work by one of Russia's outstanding …
Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City
Fiscal relations between states and cities in early modern Europe is a major concern for economic and financial historians. This collection of eleven essays is based on new …