Publications

  From the publishers:  “Queen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name. Victoria embraced photography, railway travel and modern art; she resisted […]

  From the publishers: The vivid and exciting accounts written from the front line, taking the story of the British war with Napoleon from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable battle commander but a remarkably expressive, fluent and powerful writer. His […]

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic and tragic story of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium—including […]

  From the publishers: Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool. Rejecting binary views of the British Empire as 'very good' or 'very bad', Hunt uses an exceptional array of primary accounts and personal reflection to […]

  From the publishers:  This book covers the complete history of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, formerly the 6th Regiment of Foot. The book follows the adventures of this regiment from its inception in Holland in the 1670's up until its dissolution in 1968. Covering 283 years of history the book charts the involvement of the regiment […]

  From the publishers:  Mapping Time: Illustrated by Minard's Map of Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812 considers the cartographic challenge of visualizing time on a map. Inspired by graphic innovator Charles Minard's classic map of France's disastrous invasion of Russia, this book combines historical and geographic analysis with cartographic visualizations of mapping change over time. It […]

  From the publishers:  Un quaderno di ricette originale del 1814, appartenuto a una famiglia che frequentava la corte dell'imperatore esiliato. Alvaro Claudi, chef di lungo corso, in occasione del bicentenario del soggiorno napoleonico all'Isola d'Elba, le ha trascritte e “tradotte” in modo che siano realizzabili anche oggi. Ricette che ci sorprenderanno, permettendoci di assaporare l'ebbrezza […]

  From the publishers:  The long war with Revolutionary France had a fundamental impact on British political culture. The most dramatic example of this is the mass mobilisation of the British people in response to French invasion threats throughout the last years of the century but, most spectacularly, in the period 1803-5, after the collapse of […]

  From the publishers:  A sweeping historical novel about the Creole socialite who transformed herself into an empress. Readers are fascinated with the wives of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris, eager to enjoy an elegant life at the royal court. Once there, […]

  From the publishers:  Adventurer Ethan Gage travels through the darkest and most superstitious realms of eighteenth century Europe, to the castles and caves of Bohemia to rescue his family and uncover a mysterious medieval device rumored to foretell the future. Having survived the battle of Trafalgar, Ethan is rushing to rescue “Egyptian priestess” Astiza and […]