European history

'Fascinating' BBC History 'Remarkable and clever' New York Times 'Original and important' Sir David Cannadine When Queen Victoria died, two gentlemen were commissioned with the monumental task of editing her vast correspondence.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St.

In Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds, Glenn E.

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Although the printing giants of John Murray and Karl Baedeker dominated the nineteenth-century travel guidebook market, women were important producers and consumers of guides.

What constitutes a historian?

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this book explains what made skin newsworthy in Victorian Britain.

This book explores the development of coffee substitutes in nineteenth-century Sweden.

This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources.

The objective of this book is to elucidate the characteristics and significance of the relationships between industry and banks in Germany.

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century.