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William Scaife

Hood's Tennessee Campaign

In the fall of 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood threatened Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's lines of communications and central Tennessee by driving north from Atlanta, …

Christopher D Cantwell

The Gospel According to Frank Wood

An eye-opening history of how white evangelicals came to see America's past as sacred and themselves as its rightful stewardsThough unknown to scholars of religion today, Frank Wood (1864-1945) was a prom…

Jenny Holiday

Brown-Eyed Earl

**Ted Lasso meets Bridgerton in USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday's laugh-out-loud bromantic comedy featuring three Regency-era Earls on their annual trip. These ride-or-die buddies offer one ano…

Phillip M Richards

The Ideological Origins of African American Literature

Inquiry into African American literature in recent decades has neglected to probe the intellectual structure of the tradition's aesthetics and its underlying ideology. In The Ideological Origins of Africa…

Paola A. Revilla Orías

Entangled Coercion

This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bo…

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums…

Alison Rattle, Allison Vale

American History Bite-Sized

Celebrating 250 years of America, this is the definitive and entertaining tour through the moments that have shaped the USA. American History Bite-Sized offers an engaging and accessible overview of the e…

Shana Abe

An American Beauty

"Abé is an exquisite storyteller." ---Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace The New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor returns with a spellbin…

Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt

Jefferson's Wolf

A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United State…

David S Brown

A Hell of a Storm

"Insightful." ---The Wall Street Journal * "Noteworthy...readers will come away better informed about antebellum history and how it mirrors current events." ---BooklistThe fascinating …

Paul Lewis McBain

A Drunken Bee

Sunthorn Phu (1786-1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a "drunken writer" by the court astrologer after his de…

Louis H Sullivan

A System of Architectural Ornament

The first full-scale facsimile of Louis H. Sullivan's landmark publication, featuring his stunning illustrations, accompanied by a reader's guide.Widely credited as the father of the skyscraper, Louis H. …

Peter S Soppelsa

Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…

Omar Youssef Cheta

How Commerce Became Legal

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting co…

Securing Empire

This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats.

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

"Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massiv…

Anthology of 17th Century French Pieces for Baroque Lute - Vol. 1

Lux Musicae London - Vestiva (Embellishing 16th & 17th Century Music)

Lux Musicae London

Tom Goyens

Johann Most

Known best for articulating the propaganda of the deed, Johann Most was and still is caricatured as a radical fanatic. Tom Goyens' in-depth biography rediscovers the complexities that animated the German …