Illuminates the various ways in which the American Revolution and its aftermath directly and indirectly influenced France before and after the French Revolution. This title includes essays that cluster several basic themes such as: the condition of Native Americans and African-Americans, and more.
The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis
Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and children and the importance of charity and welfare in their lives. Historians have tended to ......
Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, the author explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favours in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians. The book is based pricipally on both the offical and private correspondence of politicians, judges ......
Part of a two-volume set examining the machinations of 18th-century Irish parliamentary politics, this first volume deals with the generation of Irish Protestant politicians who participated in and facilitated the Williamite revolution in Ireland.
Part of a two-volume set examining the machinations of 18th-century Irish parliamentary politics, this second volume reconstructs the events that led to the extraordinary degree of autonomy the Parliament achieved from the Lord Lieutenant and the English ministry.
The Other Europe is a general history of Eastern Europe, from the earliest times to the end of World War II. Walters provides an informed and interpretively refreshing focus on this key region. Walters' objective is to acquaint the student and nonspecialist reader with the complex past of this politically and culturally important area. The general ......
Thomas tells the story of the village where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. His three-part examination of the village often referred to as Lincoln's "Alma Mater" features the founding and early history of New Salem, Lincoln's impact on the village and its effect on him, and the story of the Lincoln legend and the reconstruction of the ......
As eighteenth-century Europe sizzled with revolutionary fervor, one of the few lone voices of conservative government was that of Edmund Burke. He focused on the social and political ramifications of egalitarianism and what its dissemination in France might mean for the future of the liberty, order, and political tradition.
In 1877 former president Ulysses S. Grant, along with his family and friends, embarked on a two-year world tour that took him from Liverpool to Yokohama with stops throughout Europe and Asia. Biographies of Grant deal very briefly, if at all, with this tour and generally treat it as a pleasure trip filled with sightseeing, shopping, wining, and ......
