18e eeuw, ca. 1700 tot ca. 1799

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'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlighten

A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while str

An innovative, extensively illustrated study examining how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed to the production of the modern Greek nat

Part of the New Approaches to European History series, this 2001 title provides an inter-disciplinary study of the rise of 'the public' in eighteenth

Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of ninete

What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with these questions.

Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s m

A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.

'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.' In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York pre

It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that

Op zondag 27 februari 1763 kwamen duizenden tot slaaf gemaakten in de Nederlandse kolonie Berbice (het hedendaagse Guyana, naast Suriname) in opstand

In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans’ black skin?

Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade, this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archiv

One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracy In 1831 Alexis de Tocqu

The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It pre

A bold new interpretation of the 'consumer revolution' in the eighteenth century, when European elites, middling classes, and even certain labourers p

By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial people around the world, the author significantly changed the way historians view their sub

Translation of: Die Verwandlung der Welt.