19Th Century category: 5646 books
by José Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, Rafael Marquese
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the “second slavery.” The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing...
The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914
Crucible of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and experiences by which communities and individuals in different parts of the world constructed, contested, and were affected by major trends and events in the global past.
The...
Gaslight
Lantern Slides from the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A one-of-a-kind exploration of the 19th century that ties the time period to our own through essays on a variety of topics in music, film, literature, and art.
In Gaslight, Joachim Kalka delves into the mythos of the nineteenth century, exploring our fascination with its “auratic gaslight,”...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Collection Of Australia
There is a landslide of 19th and early 20th Century books and articles about American and African indigenous traditions, many treating the subject with sensitivity and great depth. Only a few Australian works from this period are available, and most of them are pretty...
Brokering Servitude
Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America
From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 1920s, household domestic service was the single largest employer of women in the United States, and, in California, a pivotal occupation for male...
A Clearing In The Distance
Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Home and City Life, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.
We know Olmsted through the physical legacy...
Paradise of Cities
Venice in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
John Julius Norwich’s A History of Venice has been dubbed “indispensable” by none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich advances the story in this elegant chronicle of a hundred years of Venice’s highs and lows, from its ignominious...
Another World
Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this groundbreaking book explores the invention of print media—including...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Teddy, FDR, Eleanor, and important people, places and events in their lives.*Explains the relationships among the Roosevelts and their family history. *Includes a Table of Contents.They were American legends who revolutionized the roles in the White House and the way the government...
by William Cowpur Prime
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
This narrative of a nineteenth century American visiting Egypt was originally serialized in 1856. We join the narrator as he journeys from Malta to Alexandria on a steamer in search of graves to plunder. Reveries of the ancients abound as 19th century Egypt is described and explored. From Alexander...
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXII
A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middleand Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XXII A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middleand Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement</h2>
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by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
*Includes the full text of the Dred Scott decision and every opinion written by the Supreme Court justices. *Analyzes the Dred Scott decision and its impact on future civil rights cases.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. *Includes a Table of Contents. "The question is simply...
War in the East
A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it, although public opinion in the West had been shocked...
Snake Hill Volume I
The Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Did you know...
- Snake Hill is located in Secaucus, New Jersey, less than 15 minutes from Times Square through the Lincoln Tunnel- As early as 1874, Hudson County had horse-drawn ambulances made specifically to transport smallpox patients to Snake Hill- A 1909 map of the Hudson County facility...