This book connects the story of a group of migrant workers to the question of why Paris became the nineteenth century's "capital of revolution" and why this stage of the city ended. The stonemasons we
This book is the first to examine the meaning encoded in the very form of caricature, a form of popular and polemical visual art that burst suddenly on the scene in late eighteenth-century England, an
A myth has grown that there were no traitors during the period leading up to the American Civil War. Edward S. Cooper debunks that myth in this book. He provides documentation that officers on active
Provides information such as military commander profiles, the war's armaments and battlefronts, timelines, oral histories, and the political, social, and economic factors that influenced the conflict.
Family members know that today, military separation is common and that long deployments are the norm. Coping with everyday problems and hardships by themselves is very difficult, and often leads to lo
This book is the first comprehensive chronological study of the works of a significant but little-known figure in early American history. A confidant of Thomas Jefferson, John Taylor of Caroline Count
Benjamin Peirce gained international prominence in nineteenth-century American science from his work on the perturbationsof Neptune. He played an important role in the education of many American scien
This book examines the first generation of artists in Britain to define themselves as history painters, attempting what then was considered to be art's most exalted category. These ambitious artists,
Romantic Empiricism is a timely collection of essays by established and emerging scholars that represents a paradigm shift for the study of British Romanticism. The volume challenges the received view
This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, whose unique location (close enough to New York and Philadelphia to market grain, iron, coa
During Napoleon's rule, Freemasonic circles in France invented rituals that allegedly first took place in the temple structures of ancient Egypt. This book looks at the cultural environment and intell
Clio's Daughters exposes the reality behind the notion that nineteenth-century history was an exclusively male preserve. A fortuitous convergence of factors—including the popularization of history and
In Corpore collects essays devoted to the critical exploration of the presence and impact of bodies in recent and contemporary Italian cultural producation, in light of current developments in thinkin
People & Places is a special collection from the World of Wonder series. World of Wonder is a weekly illustrated full-page feature syndicated in over 100 newspapers nationwide. Devoted to exploring e
“Greg Jenner spent decades connecting the dots for this book. Now you can do the same, in a single evening!”—Marshall MastersGreg Jenner is one of the top Planet X historians alive today — if not the
This study establishes the deep loyalty of a segment of the Russian gentry to life in the provinces during the period 1820?1860, centering on the family but extending to estates, peasants, and neighbo
This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current cr
Walmsley (Islamic archaeology and art, Carsten Niebuhr Institute, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark) summarizes the current issues and knowledge of the early Islamic era of Syria-Palestine (defined as the cur
Introduced by a brief examination of the anonymous seventeenth-century miniature painting used on the book's jacket and frontispiece, essays in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England
