This dictionary serves as a first point of reference for all aspects of political, diplomatic, military, social and economic history, and provides overviews of

This authoritative and wide-ranging dictionary covers historical events, themes and personalities. Containing over 800 entries written by experts in their field

A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.

Written and edited by many of the world's foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a

Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially