The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C. F. Martin and His Contemporaries
Describes the early history of American guitar design in detail. This title tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar.
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Admiral of the Fleet, was the second son of Queen Victoria. At 18 he was elected King of Greece, but not allowed to accept the crown. While touring Australia in 1868 he narrowly escaped assassination. His last years were clouded by alcoholism, ill-health, and the suicide of his only son and heir.
Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina
Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines how various cultural forms promoted competing political projects in Argentina during the decades following independence from Spain. This turbulent period has long been characterized as a struggle between two irreconcilable forces: the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1829-1852) versus a dissident ......
From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun
Between 1850 and 1920 women's travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure. Although British women were at the forefront of this movement, a number of intrepid Spanish women ......
The "Great Game, 1856-1907" presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of documents, parliamentary papers, political pamphlets, memoirs, contemporary journalism, and ......
The Diplomatic Mission of Anthony Morris, 1813-1816
In the summer of 1813, as war with Britain intensified, President James Madison secretly dispatched an envoy to the Regency government of Spain with the urgent goal of thwarting a feared British bid to use Spanish Florida as a base from which to attack the United States, and with the further hope of acquiring that territory for America. The man ......
African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipat
Rewrites the history of slave resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United States.