Publications

From the Publishers:   An examination of an institution and its young charges, set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned babies, it illustrates the intersection of health, ill-health and death with local epidemiology, institutional life and experiences of abandonment, feeding and child-care. The […]

Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this biography, Marie-Pierre Rey illuminates the complex forces that shaped Alexander's tumultuous reign and sheds new light […]

In her new book, Nancy Becker examines the fall of the Second Empire; most specifically the burning of paris and the destruction of the Tuileries. She discusses the architectural and artistic losses incurred by the revolts, foregrounding the perosnal histories of Napoleon III, the Empress Eugenie and the Duke of Sesto.

Abd el-Kader: Hero and Saint of Islam is a biography of the great Algerian hero and mystic Emir Abd el-Kader (c. 1807/8-1883). Such was the Emir's popularity that, in 1846, the town of Elkader, Iowa was named in his honor.Beginning with the childhood and youth of the Emir, the reader is carried along the course […]

Britain's defeat of Napoleon is one the great accomplishments in its history. And yet it was by no means certain that Britain itself would survive the revolutionary fervour of the age, let alone emerge victorious from such a vast conflict. From the late 1790s, the country was stricken by naval mutinies, rebellion in Ireland, and riots […]

 From the publishersAlexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pierre Rey illuminates the complex forces that shaped Alexander's tumultuous reign and […]

Supported by the Academia Portuguesa da Historia (The Portuguese Academy of History), this monographic treatment of Wellington's famous Lines of Torres Vedras was published by the Plataforma Intermunicipal paras as Linhas de Torres (PILT) and the Rota Historica das Linhas de Torres was published as part of the project preserve, restore, use and raise the […]

  From the publishersLieutenant Charles Crowe's journal of the 27th Foot (Inniskillings) of the final campaign of Wellington's army is a rare work for many reasons. It is, perhaps surprisingly, the first memoir about this campaign from this famous regiment to be published. Crowe wrote a daily journal at the time, which practically guarantees the […]

Countess de Beauharnais, Madame Bonaparte, Queen Hortense, Première Dame de France (First Lady of France) and finally Duchess of St. Leu are just some of the titles by which Queen Hortense was known in the course of her fateful life. They exemplify a biography that could not have been more poignant. To mark the 175th […]

Originally published in 1900, this book features excerpts from Alexander Cavalié Mercer's account of the battle of Waterloo. As an artillery officer at the sharp end, this is his eye-witness account of the events that lead to Napoleon's final defeat in June 1815. This is the contemporary view of how the events were conveyed to […]