American Tempest
On December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly 10,000 worth of tea in Boston...
EAN: 9780306820793
Choose Your Weapons
'A page-turning book about the history of British foreign policy' INDEPENDENT
EAN: 9780753828526
John Lowell Jr. and His Institute
This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (1799–1836) through the establishment of...
EAN: 9781793644596
Running from Bondage
Running from Bondage examines the ways in which enslaved women fought for their freedom during...
EAN: 9781108831543
United States Army and the Making of America
The definitive book on the US army's relationship with the nation from its founding to the dawn...
EAN: 9780700630646
Glorious First of June
The story of the first major naval battle of Britain's 'Great Wars' with France during the...
EAN: 9781849160391
Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680-1830
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge,...
EAN: 9781487508906
Time of Enlightenment
The Time of Enlightenment investigates how a new idea of the future emerged with the development...
EAN: 9781487507701
General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Rogues
Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new collection of Captain...
EAN: 9780712353397
Route to European Hegemony
The advent of the Europeans was crucial in transforming the contours of Maritime Asia. This book...
EAN: 9780367756420
Ideas and Practices in the History of Medicine, 1650–1820
Most of these essays touch upon, and some of them are exclusively concerned with, small scale...
EAN: 9780367739744
World of Colonial America
The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of...
EAN: 9780367736248
Medicine and Religion in the Life of an Ottoman Sheikh
This book investigates the intersection of medical and religious knowledge in eighteenth-century...
EAN: 9780367731649
Sufism in Ottoman Egypt
This book analyses the development of Sufism in Ottoman Egypt, during the seventeenth and...
EAN: 9780367730451
David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Uncovers new material concerning David Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media that...
EAN: 9781108469197
Theatres of Feeling
This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a...
EAN: 9781108466998
Partisan Politics
Linked to new research on 18th-century middle orders, this book looks deep into small-town...
EAN: 9781905816675
Poverty of Disaster
Eighteenth-century Britain saw significant numbers of the middle classes imprisoned for debt,...
EAN: 9781108739252
