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A List of the Voluntary Subscribers, With the Sums Each Subscribed and Paid, for the Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and for the Defence of the County of York, Begun at Bishop Thorp, the 23d of September, 1745
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 …
Women and Welfare
The aim of this study is to explain why some middle-class Victorian women took up various kinds of public social service, as social workers, researchers or reformers. The …
Lincoln and the Decision for War
When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised …
Henry VIII and History
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many …
Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920
Examining the ways in which politics and ideology stimulate and shape changes in human science, this book focuses on the cultural sciences in nineteenth and early twentieth-century …
Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, Volume 1
After James Cook's voyage in HMS Endeavour, Banks developed a network of scientists and explorers. Banks's correspondence is one of the great primary sources for studying the …
Observations on a Particular Kind of Scarlet Fever, That Lately Prevailed in and About St. Alban's. In a Letter to Dr. Mead. By Nathanael Cotton, M.D
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 …
Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in six Volumes, Quarto, Abridged in two Volumes, Octavo 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 …
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British …
Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745
Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the …
Empire and Popular Culture
From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. From consumables, to the excitement of colonial wars, celebrations …
Women and Political Activism in France, 1848-1852
This book is organized around the personal struggles of ten extraordinary French women activists: Eugenie Niboyet, Eugenie Foa, Suzanne Voilquin, Josephine Bachellery, Pauline …