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The House of Commons, 1690-1715
A further large-scale contribution to the standard 'History of Parliament' series, covering 1690 1715."
Lee's Last Retreat
Few events in Civil War history have generated such deliberate mythmaking as the retreat that ended at Appomattox. As the popular imagination would have it, Robert E. Lee's tattered, starving, but devoted troops found themselves hopelessly surrounded thro
The Chiefs of Grant
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Scotland, The Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820
This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities, as Burns wrote, "across th' Atlantic roar". It outlines the range of their occupations as planters, merchants, slave owners, doctors, overseers, and politicians, and shows how Caribbean connections affected Scottish society during the period of "improvement".
Sessional Papers
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Citizens of the World
Examines the business and social strategies of the men who developed the British empire in the eighteenth century.
The Diary of Robert Rose
Diary of Robert Rose (1704-1751), an Anglican clergyman, who immigrated from Scotland to Essex County, Virginia in 1724, married twice, and moved to Albemarle County, Virginia. His " ... chronicle of day-by- day events in 1746-1751 is a reliable prime source of many aspects of pioneering life in two of Virginia's early parishes of the Church of England: St. Anne's Parish in Essex County where he served in 1725- 1748, and St. Anne's Parish in Albemarle County where he was the first minister in 1744-1751 ... ", 7394ZWICB.
Working at Play
This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon
