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Fire Over the Rock
The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783 a small British force defended the Rock against the Spanish and the …
Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
Winner of the Jerry H. Bentley Book Prize, World History AssociationThe success of the English colony of Barbados in the seventeenth century, with its lucrative sugar plantations …
British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876-1906
A major 2007 study of the impact of Home Rule on liberalism and popular radicalism in Britain and Ireland. Eugenio Biagini argues that between 1876 and 1906 the crisis of public …
Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949
Modern Asian economic history has often been written in terms of Western impact and Asia's response to it. This volume argues that the growth of intra-regional trade, migration, …
Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial
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 …
African American Southerners in Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction
This work documents the many roles filled by Southern blacks in the last decades of slavery, the Civil War years, and the following period of Reconstruction. African Americans …
The History of the Reformation and Other Ecclesiastical Transactions in and About the Low-Countries, From the Beginning of the Eighth Century, Down to the Famous Synod of Dort of 4; Volume 4
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 …
"e;Digging All Night and Fighting All Day"e;
The bloody two-week siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama (March 26–April 8, 1865) was one of the final battles of the Civil War. Despite its importance and fascinating history, …
The March on Rome
The aim of this book is to reconstruct the violent nature of the March on Rome and to emphasise its significance in demarcating a real break in the country's history and the …
State and Society in Transition
Using a variety of documentary sources, including hundreds of petitions, letters, and reports to the government, Little traces the complex relationship between community life and …
Some new and Accurate Observations Geographical, Natural and Historical. Containing a True and Impartial Account of the Situation, Product, and Natural History of the Coast of Guinea,
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 …
Genuine Memoirs of the Countess Dubarre, Mistress to Louis XV. Containing her Singular Amours and Curious Adventures With the Princes of the Blood, Including the Secret and Political History of the French Court 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 …