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  • Blood River 1838

    The Zulu–Boer War and the Great Trek

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 402 - Campaign
    A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike.By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-east, but was under growing pressure from British traders and hunters on the coast, and descendants of the early Dutch settlers at the Cape – the Boers. In ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Family Romance

    John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

    by Jean Strouse ...
    Jean Strouse captures the dramas, mysteries, intrigues, and tragedies surrounding John Singer Sargent's portraits of the Wertheimer family.Jean Strouse’s Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers looks at twelve portraits of one English family painted by the expatriate American artist at the height of his career—and at the intersections of all these lives with the sparkle and strife ... Read more

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  • Ruling Devotion

    The Hindu Temple in the Imperial Imagination

    Series series SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
    From 1800 onwards, the Hindu temple occupied a fragile and uneasy proximity to Imperial governance in India. The colonial state sought to regulate and extract the wealth of large temples. Imperial scholars classified the extraordinary diversity of architectural forms from across India, and selected temples were defined as monuments and brought into the custody of Imperial archaeology. Over time, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Nile Campaign, 1884-1885

    The Letters and Sketches of Rudolph de Lisle

    Rudolph de Lisle RN entered Naval College in 1868 aged 13, and was only 31 when he died, ironically for a naval officer, in the Sudanese desert at the Battle of Abu Klea, 17 January 1885.An inveterate letter writer and talented artist, he consistently documented his eventful naval career as he traveled the world. His letters home were embellished with stunning sketches and watercolors.In August ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • Chinese Colonial Entanglements

    Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880–1950

    Series series Asia Pacific Flows
    Chinese Colonial Entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engagement in labor, trade, and industry in the British colonies of the southern Asia Pacific. Starting from the 1880s, a decade when British colonization was rapidly expanding and establishing new industries and townships, this volume covers the period up to 1950, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Confronting Christianity

    The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand

    Confronting Christianity explores the history of religious encounters between Christian missionaries and Thai Buddhists during the nineteenth century, a period of Western imperialism in Southeast Asia that fundamentally transformed Siamese society and religious institutions. From about 1830 onwards, discussions on religion became a central arena of conflict between rival regimes of knowledge in ... Read more

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  • Late Capitalism

    by Ernest Mandel ...
    Late Capitalism is the first major synthesis to have been produced by the contemporary revival of Marxist economics. It represents, in fact, the only systematic attempt so far ever made to combine the general theory of the "laws of motion" of the capitalist mode of production developed by Marx, with the concrete history of capitalism in the twentieth century.Mandel's book starts with a challenging ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Cultures of Identification in Napoleonic Italy, c.1800–1814

    by Stefano Poggi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy
    Through the lens of identification procedures, this book examines how the processes of state-building affected European societies during the Napoleonic period. By focusing on the Kingdom of Italy, the author shows how the top-down change usually associated with Napoleonic state-building had to compete and share spaces with the agencies of other often-neglected actors such as local bureaucrats, the ... Read more

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  • Emplacing East Timor

    Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010

    Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative framework to periodize the history from 1850s to 2010s. Kisho Tsuchiya shows that the prevailing perceptions of East Timor have been shaped by large-scale wars, postwar consolidation, and the dominance of foreign observers. The transitions that construct what ... Read more

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  • Black Redcoats

    The Corps of Colonial Marines, 1814-1816

    Tells the story of the thousands of enslaved African Americans who fled to British forces during the war in what became the largest emancipation of enslaved Americans until the abolition of slavery in the United States.During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States. The richest parts of the United States were slave-states, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Wellington’s Men Remembered: A Register of Memorials to Soldiers who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo

    Volume III - Additional Records

    Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 24 countries worldwide. ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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  • The Holy Alliance

    Liberalism and the Politics of Federation

    A major new account of the post-Napoleonic Holy Alliance and the promise it held for liberalsThe Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In this book, Isaac Nakhimovsky reveals the Enlightenment origins of this post-Napoleonic initiative, explaining why it was embraced at first by many contemporary liberals as the birth of a federal Europe and the dawning of a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Warships in the War of the Pacific 1879–83

    South America's ironclad naval campaign

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 328 - New Vanguard
    Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of South America's War of the Pacific.In the late 19th century, a war erupted between Chile and Peru, the catalyst for which was control of guano-rich Chincha islands. Given the geography of the two countries, with a narrow, arid land border and long exposed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873

    by Alan Taylor ...
    A masterful history of the Civil War and its reverberations across the continent by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.In a fast-paced narrative of soaring ideals and sordid politics, of civil war and foreign invasion, the award-winning historian Alan Taylor presents a pivotal twenty-year period in which North America’s three largest countries—the United States, Mexico, and Canada—all transformed ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris - The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century

    The rise of the automobile as told through its Rubicon moment—a sensational, high-risk race across two continents on the verge of revolution.The racers—an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalists—battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gobi Desert. Competitors endure torrential rain and choking dust ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Mystique of Running the Public House in England

    Quest for El Dorado, 1840-1939

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century.Based on overlooked historical evidence, this volume examines over 400 interviews with candidates for public houses, unpublished evidence of royal commissions heard in secrecy, representations of publicans in fiction and film and systematic reading of 15 ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • City of Light, City of Shadows

    Paris in the Belle Époque

    by Mike Rapport ...
    A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be FrenchFrom the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement, the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age for Parisian culture. Beneath the veneer of elegance, however ... Read more

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  • The British Army, 1783–1815

    by Kevin Linch ...
    The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this carefully considered new study by Kevin Linch is of such value. He ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • Spirituality, Feminism, and Pre-Raphaelitism in Modern British Art and Culture

    by Alice Eden ...
    This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three ‘forgotten’ artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism.Thomas Cooper Gotch, Robert Anning Bell and Frederick Cayley Robinson are resituated squarely within the tumultuous social and cultural changes of the period. Becoming visible again, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

    Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain."Modern" Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The rather standard Whig account of the long nineteenth century is one of growing stability, progress and improvement. And yet nothing was preordained or inevitable about the period's stability. Ruling ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Habsburgs on the Rio Grande

    The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire

    by Raymond Jonas ...
    The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep.The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected opportunity for political conservatives across continents. On one side were European monarchs. Mere decades after its founding, the United States had ... Read more

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  • British Malta, 1798–1835

    The Trifling Jewel

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    British Malta, 1798–1835 explores the incorporation and early administration of Malta as a British protectorate, and later as a Crown colony.Few connections existed between Great Britain and Malta before 1798, but Napoleon’s Mediterranean ambitions forged a link that remained even after the expulsion of the French. Malta’s incorporation into the British Empire encountered numerous and varied ... Read more

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  • European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

    by V.G. Kiernan ...
    New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfareEuropean Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England

    Pathways In and Out of Juvenile Institutions, 1854-1920

    Series series History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
    Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the first-hand experiences of incarcerated girls to shed new light on youth criminalisation in the past and the present.Focusing on three industrial schools in Bristol and Manchester, Wayward Girls in Victorian Era pays particular attention to gender, age and class to understand how ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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