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1848: A European Revolution?
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 41.00This book is among the rare contributions to the 150th anniversary of 1848 which takes a completely new, theoretically informed approach. Instead of a traditional social or political history, the authors analyse the dichotomy between the international dimension in the ideas of the revolution and the nationalisation of memories in its commemorations... more...
Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 184.00Published in 1981, "Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia 1810-1895" is an important contribution to the field of Middle Eastern Studies. more...
Assegais, Drums & Dragoons
Jonathan Ball Publishers 2012; US$ 10.21What motivated a small multiracial force of Cape-born soldiers ? whites, coloureds and Malays ? to put up such stiff resistance at the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806, in spite of odds so overwhelming that even some long-serving professional soldiers broke rank and ran? This was the intriguing question that launched author Willem Steenkamp?s research.... more...
Bolos and Barishynas (Archangel 1919)
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 17.49The unusual title masks a barely remembered episode in British naval and military history. The Sadleir-Jackson Brigade and the Altham Flotilla were part of Britains 'Forlorn Hope' forces - sent to Russia in a bid to reverse the 1917 Bolshevik revolution under the command of General Ironside, later Chief of the Imperial General Staff.... more...
The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds
Wiley 2009; US$ 1,150.00Partial table of contents:. Acetal or Aldehyde and Amine or Carboxamide. Acylamine and Carboxamide. Acylamine or Amine and Ether. Acyl Halide and Ring-Carbon or Ring-Nitrogen. Aldehyde or Ketone and Ether. Aldehyde or Ketone and Halogen. Amine and Azide, Azo or Diazo. Amine and Carboxylic Acid. Amine and Enamine or Oxime. Azide and Azo or Nitro. Azide... more...
The Clarissa von Ranke Letters and the Ranke-Graves Correspondence 1843-1886
The Edwin Mellen Press 2012; US$ 209.95The edition of the letters will fit into the growing interest in the Irish in Europe and it will provide new information on the role and influence of educated Irish women; it will also fill an important gap in the area of womens history by presenting one of the most amazing women in international relationships and an extraordinary ambassador... more...
Competing Visions of World Order
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 30.00Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series raises the question of how we can get away from the contemporary language of globalization, so as to identify meaningful, global ways of defining historical events and processes in the late Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. more...
The Crimean Campaign with "The Connaught Rangers"
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 22.49The events described in this book come from the pages of the author's own letters and diary, written during the campaign in which he was present throughout. It is a record of his impressions and observations, written at the time without any thought of publication; it was at the request of several friends that the book got published - and a remarkably... more...
Crisis Diplomacy
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 52.00In this book James Richardson examines nine major international crises from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in order to explain the differing outcomes of each. more...









