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  • A History of Macclesfield Chess Club

    by A.R. Soames ...
    Northern England's manufacturing towns had taken to Chess and Manchester (Macclesfield's giant neighbouring City) hosted the world's second international tournament in 1857. The founders of the Macclesfield Chess Club in 1886 were businessmen and civic leaders, deeply entangled in local politics – education, religion and finances. Social changes from the end of the 19th century make this more than ... Read more

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  • Kingdom of Dahomey: A History from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    Imagine a fervently militaristic state with a feared professional army that included some of the only all-female military units ever seen. Imagine that same state with its own unique and sophisticated culture, religion, language, art, and society. Such a state did exist—not in the ancient past but as recently as the beginning of the twentieth century.The Kingdom of Dahomey was established in the ... Read more

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  • Dictators and Autocrats

    Securing Power across Global Politics

    Edited by Klaus Larres ...
    In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions.The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern ... Read more

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  • Letters from Russia

    by Marquis de Custine ...
    The Marquis de Custine's unique perspective on a vast, fascinating country in the grip of oppressive tyrannyIn 1839, encouraged by his friend Balzac, Custine set out to explore Russia. His impressions turned into what is perhaps the greatest and most influential of all books about Russia under the Tsars.Rich in anecdotes as much about the court of Tsar Nicholas as the streets of St Petersburg, ... Read more

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  • Brunel, Barry and 'modern' Victorian architecture

    Building Passions

    by Nick von Behr ...
    Why does the history of our built environment matter?The great 19th-century engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second greatest Briton after Churchill. This fascinating book looks at his family's connection with the equally renowned Barry family of Victorian architects and civil engineers. It shows how their shared legacy can be linked through to the construction of London's iconic ... Read more

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  • Captain Coignet

    A Soldier of Napoleon's Imperial Guard from the Italian Campaign to Waterloo

    by Jean-Roch Coignet ...
    Jean-Roch Coignet (1776-1865) was a French soldier who served in the military campaigns of the Consulate and First French Empire, up through the Battle of Waterloo.He later wrote his memoirs detailing his military service, The Notebooks of Captain Coignet, which are still being reprinted. ... Read more

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  • Basic Writings of Existentialism

    Edited by Gordon Marino ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon MarinoBasic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and commonly ... Read more

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  • Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

    Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

    by Jung Chang ...
    They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father of China', Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao's vice-chair.Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame ... Read more

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  • Klondike

    The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899

    by Pierre Berton ...
    With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a ... Read more

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  • Shinsengumi

    The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps

    by Romulus Hillsborough ...
    Shinsengumi: The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps is the true story of the notorious samurai corps formed in 1863 to arrest or kill the enemies of the Tokugawa Shogun.The only book in English about the Shinsengumi, it focuses on the corps' two charismatic leaders, Kondo Isami and Hijikata Toshizo, both impeccable swordsmen. It is a history-in-brief of the final years of the Bakufu, which collapsed in ... Read more

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  • War of 1812: A History from Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    The War of 1812 is often forgotten when we think about the history of the United States. Yet the effects of what seems a minor and insignificant conflict are far-reaching, even to today. The world settled into the roles it would play out for decades, and the boundaries of the United States and Canada would be set for the next two hundred years.Inside you will read about...✓ The Beginning of the ... Read more

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  • The Year Without Summer

    1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History

    by William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman ...
    Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by historyIn the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in ... Read more

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  • Decisive Battles Since Waterloo

    Enriched edition.

    by Thomas Wallace Knox, Tyler Ashford ...
    In "Decisive Battles Since Waterloo," Thomas Wallace Knox offers a comprehensive analysis of key military engagements that have shaped the course of modern history, following the landmark Battle of Waterloo in 1815. The book adopts a narrative style that blends thorough historical research with vivid descriptions, making each battle come alive through engaging storytelling. Knox meticulously ... Read more

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  • Apple of Discord

    The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881

    by Ian D. Armour ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society

    Mission and Reform

    Edited by Angharad Eyre ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Resources
    This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet ... Read more

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  • A Taste for Purity

    An Entangled History of Vegetarianism

    by Julia Hauser ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization, this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India, where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized, new ... Read more

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  • Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy

    by Brian Gee, edited by Anita McConnell ...
    Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his ... Read more

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  • Le chéri magnifique

    Henri Pranzini

    by Viviane Janouin-Benanti ...
    Series Book 4 - Romans criminels
    Voici l’histoire vraie de la vie incroyable d’Henri Pranzini et de Marie Regnault, dite Régine de Montille… Régine de Montille a traversé les moments forts de l’Histoire de France du XIXe siècle. Sous Napoléon III, elle s’enflammera aux côtés des républicains à l’enterrement de Victor Noir. Elle luttera contre les Versaillais, en participant à la Commune de Paris s... ... Read more

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  • War, Peace and International Order?

    The Legacies of the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907

    Edited by Maartje Abbenhuis, Christopher Ernest Barber, Annalise R. Higgins ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    The exact legacies of the two Hague Peace Conferences remain unclear. On the one hand, diplomatic and military historians, who cast their gaze to 1914, traditionally dismiss the events of 1899 and 1907 as insignificant footnotes on the path to the First World War. On the other, experts in international law posit that The Hague’s foremost legacy lies in the manner in which the conferences ... Read more

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  • Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870

    John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality

    by Gareth Knapman ...
    Series series Empires in Perspective
    The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also one of the key racial theorists in the British Empire. He approached colonialism as a radical liberal, proposing ... Read more

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  • Macaulay and Son

    by Catherine Hall ...
    Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller which shaped much more than the literary culture of the times: it defined a nation's sense of self, charting the rise of the British Isles to its triumph as a homogenous nation, a safeguard of the freedom of belief and expression, and a central world power. In this book Catherine Hall explores the emotional, ... Read more

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  • Transported to Botany Bay

    Class, National Identity, and the Literary Figure of the Australian Convict

    by Dorice Williams Elliott ...
    Series series Series in Victorian Studies
    Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts—used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race ... Read more

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  • Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithology

    Birds, books and business

    by Henry A. McGhie ...
    This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838–1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is largely based on previously unpublished archival material. Dresser travelled widely and spent time in Texas during the American Civil War. He built enormous collections of skins and eggs of birds from Europe, North America and ... Read more

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  • The Great Battle Never Fought

    The Mine Run Campaign, November 26 – December 2, 1863

    by Chris Mackowski ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    The stakes for George Gordon Meade could not have been higher.After his stunning victory at Gettysburg in July of 1863, the Union commander spent the following months trying to bring the Army of Northern Virginia to battle once more and finish the job. The Confederate army, robbed of much of its offensive strength, nevertheless parried Meade’s moves time after time. Although the armies remained in ... Read more

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