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Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold
Shepherd McKinley presents the first-ever book on the role of phosphates in economic, social, and industrial changes in the South Carolina plantation economy. Fueling the rapid …
Revolutionary Europe
The new edition of this classic account of Revolutionary Europe brings to life many of the key issues that have fascinated historians since the fall of the Bastille and now …
Rivalry for Trade in Tea and Textiles
The rivalry for trade in tea and textiles between the English and Dutch East India companies is very much a global history. This trade is strongly connected to emblematic events …
Writers, Readers, and Reputations
Charles Dickens died in 1870, the same year in which universal elementary education was introduced. During the following generation a mass reading public emerged, and the term …
Museums and the Act of Witnessing
Museums and the Act of Witnessing examines how representations of traumatic histories and the legacies of the twentieth century in museums and heritage sites across the world shape …
Landlord Power and Rural Indebtedness in Colonial Sind
Investigates the alliance between the British administration and the Muslim landed magnates who dominated the countryside and provides valuable insights into the emergence of the …
English Peerage, or a View of the Ancient and Present State of the English Nobility
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 …
Finance and Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain
This four-volume primary source collection examines the links between the financial world and British culture in the nineteenth-century. The twenty-first-century financial world …
Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political …
A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. By the Abbé Raynal. To Which is Added, The Revolution of America. By the Same Author. A new Translation. With Notes, ... of 6; Volume 5
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 …
Russia and the British Left
The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within’. In this book, David Burke looks at the activities of Russian political …