Historia / 1799-1945

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

de David McCullough

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, architects, and others of high aspiration who set off for...

For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History

de Sarah Rose

"If ever there was a book to read in the company of a nice cuppa, this is it." -The Washington Post

In the dramatic story of one of the greatest acts of corporate espionage ever committed, Sarah Rose recounts...

The Wars of the Roses

de Alison Weir

Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names...

Mrs. Mattingly's Miracle: The Prince, the Widow, and the Cure That Shocked Washington City

de Nancy Lusignan Schultz

In 1824 in Washington, D.C., Ann Mattingly, widowed sister of the city's mayor, was miraculously cured of a ravaging cancer. Just days, or perhaps even hours, from her predicted demise, she arose from her sickbed...

For the Soul of France

de Frederick Brown

Frederick Brown, cultural historian, author of acclaimed biographies of Émile Zola (“Magnificent”—The New Yorker) and Flaubert (“Splendid . . . Intellectually nuanced, exquisitely written”—The New...

Forge of Empires: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, 1861-1871

de Michael Knox Beran

In the space of a single decade, three leaders liberated tens of millions of souls, remade their own vast countries, and altered forever the forms of national power:

• Abraham Lincoln freed a subjugated race...

The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

de Jane S. Smith

The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America

At no other time in history has there been more curiosity...

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

de Mary Seacole & Sara Salih

Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving...

The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837

de Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson's The Making of Victorian Values is the history of an era rather like our own-a time when dissenters and rebels were hemmed in by conformists and hardheaded authoritarians, a time when a nation on...

The King and the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners

de David Fromkin

An intimate look at two extraordinary figures and their secret collaboration?one that turned the alliance structure of the political world upside down

In this character-driven study, acclaimed historian and bestselling...

Waterloo

de Andrew Roberts

June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon...

The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis

de Julie Kavanagh

From the author of Nureyev, the definitive biography of the celebrated Russian dancer, now comes the astonishing and unknown story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel...

Race, Science, and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany

de Chris Manias

Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered...

The Boy Travellers in Australasia

de Thomas W. Knox

Here is humor, especially in many of the illustrations; nostalgia and escapism. The author was one of the most colorful and popular figures on the New York scene at the height of his career in the 1880's. This...

The Flames of War: The Fight for Upper Canada, July-December 1813

de Richard Feltoe

This third volume in the six-part series Upper Canada Preserved - War of 1812 recounts the dramatic and destructive campaigns in the last six months of 1813 as the Americans continued their remounted attack...

Nelson's Officers and Midshipmen

de Gregory Fremont-Barnes & Steve Noon

Immortalized in literature through such characters as C. S. Forester's 'Horatio Hornblower' and Patrick O'Brian's 'Jack Aubrey', the officers and midshipmen of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary (1792-1802)...

American Civil War Armies (4): State Troops

de Philip Katcher & Ronald Volstad

"The War between the States" is the term used for the American Civil War (1861-1865)throughout much of the South even today. Many on both sides – not just the South – felt that they were serving their states...

Gravelotte-St-Privat 1870: End of the Second Empire

de Philipp Elliot-Wright

Gravelotte-St-Privat was probably the hardest fought of all the battles of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Attacked by superior Prussian forces from both the First and Second armies, Marshal Bazaine's French...

First Bull Run 1861: The South's first victory

de Alan Hankinson

At Bull Run, two inexperienced, ill-trained and poorly led armies clashed in the opening engagement of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Culminating in a stalwart defensive fight by Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson's...

Tombstone - Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride 1881-82

de Sean Mclachlan & Mark Stacey

The Gunfight at the OK Corral on 26 October 1881 is one of the most enduring stories of the Old West. It led to a series of violent incidents that culminated in the Vendetta Ride, in which Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday,...