A masterful survey that puts the history back in economic history. It will make an outstanding textbook for undergraduate courses in nineteenth-century European economic history.' George Grantham, ...

Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist renowned for co-developing the theory of evolution alongside Charles ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

The mid-19th century was a turbulent period in Welsh history. Popular risings and riots broke out across the country. Questions were raised in Westminster as to why the Welsh people were prone to ...

This deceptively simple thesis dramatically challenges and revamps both scholarly and popular notions of Jewish life and learning in 19th-century Eastern Europe. While scholars of European women’s ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were ... freed slaves became a powerful motive for setting up European Christian missions. Human compassion in Europe for the ...

Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History belonged to Baird himself ... Rougeux has transformed the static pages of a 19th-century book into an interactive resource. Users can browse across ...

Of course, in the late 19th century, your ability to celebrate depended on your social class. New Year’s was one of the four traditional holidays off, the others being July 4th, Thanksgiving, and ...