In new book 'The Jew Who Would Be King,' historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived a shipwreck and went on to a life of wealth, adventure and corruption The post How a ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...

Even so, there is a notable neglect of her fantastic memoir. Published in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many ...

Domingues da Silva, who currently serves as host of the SlaveVoyages project, unpacked his findings on Brazil's 19th-century slave trade ... and the University of British Columbia, bestowing ...

- 19th century Opium Wars - In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839 ...

In the last decade of the 19th century, the French and British fought with the Benin and Dahomey kingdoms, conquered them and freed all ...