The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914: Crucible of Modernity (Getz Trevor R.)(Paperback)

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present: State of Modernity (Corbally John C.)(Paperback)

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to five distinct historical themes in 20th century history - politics, economics, religion, technology and the environment. Each of these themes is set in a social and cultural history framework that emphasizes the commonalities

Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (Emsley Clive)(Paperback)

Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the

The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Osterhammel Jrgen)(Paperback)

A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. J rgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth

European Architecture 1750-1890 (Bergdoll Barry)(Paperback)

This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity within the context of tremendous social, economic and political upheaval. Never before had the functional requirements and expressive capacities of architecture been tested sothoroughly

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought (Claeys Gregory)(Paperback)

The nineteenth century was seemingly a period of great progress. Huge advancements and achievements were made in science, technology and industry that transformed life and work alike. But a growing pride in modernity and innovation was tainted by a sense of the loss of the past and the multiple

History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century (Blackbourn David)(Paperback)

This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One. Written by a leading German historian who has transformed the historiography of modern Germany over the past two decades. Covers the whole of the long nineteenth

Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian (Worden Blair)(Paperback)

Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the 20th century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, as

Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Walker Gore Clare)(Paperback)

Examines the significance of disability in nineteenth-century fiction Offers new insights into how disability shapes plot in nineteenth-century fiction Investigates the impact of a developing social category on the form of the novel, opening up ways of thinking about the intersection between

Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (Schivelbusch Wolfgang)(Paperback)

Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology, Disenchanted Night revelas the ways that the technology of artificial illumination helped forge modern consciousness. In his strikingly illustrated and

The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Native American Legends (Schoolcraft Henry R.)(Paperback)

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry R. Schoolcraft immersed himself in the legends and lore of Native American Indians. For thirty years he lived among Indian tribes in the West and around the Great Lakes, where night after night he listened to master storytellers weave spellbinding

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (White Hayden)(Paperback)

This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works.Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Harvie Christopher)(Paperback)

The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half-Celtic. A century later it was largely urban and English. The effects of the Industrial Revolution caused cities to swell enormously. London, for example,

Lina Bo Bardi (Lima Zeuler R. M. De a.)(Paperback)

One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 1946, where her practice evolved within the social

Chosen Peoples: The Bible, Race and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (Atkins Gareth)(Paperback)

This innovative interdisciplinary volume explores the politics of biblical translation and interpretation in a global context, demonstrating how biblical ideas and metaphors shaped narratives of racial, national and identity in the long nineteenth

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution (Morris Charles R.)(Paperback)

In the first few decades of the nineteenth century, America went from being a largely rural economy, with little internal transportation infrastructure, to a fledgling industrial powerhouse--setting the stage for the vast fortunes that would be made in the golden age of American capitalism. In The

Murderer of Warren Street - The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary (Mulholland Marc)(Paperback / softback)

Women Against Cruelty: Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Revised Edition (Donald Diana)(Paperback)

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century

Scramble For Africa (Pakenham Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

*the full-scale story of the nineteenth-century imperial invasion of

Late Gothic: Threshold to Modernity (Chapuis Julien)(Paperback)

A magnificent panorama of the creative revolutions of mid-15th-century EuropeFrom roughly the 1430s onward, inspired by developments in the Netherlands, artistic expression began to transform, as the depiction of light and shade, body and space came to be depicted with increasing realism. With

The Ring of the Nibelung (Wagner Richard)(Paperback)

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring Cycle, in a Penguin Classics hardcover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for

Middlemarch (Eliot George)(Paperback)

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization vividly brings to

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain Mark)(Paperback)

The classic tale of a young boy's adventures on the Mississippi in the nineteenth century. Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century,

Motley Stones (Stifter Adalbert)(Paperback)

The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas. For Kafka he was 'my fat brother'; Thomas Mann called him 'one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature.'

On the Side of Good (Zaluski Iwo)(Paperback / softback)

The first volume of an epic nineteenth-century pan-European saga, 'The Carpathian