19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Simon Rae
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Dorset in Victorian and Edwardian times was (as now) a predominantly rural county, but one suffering from the agricultural depression. Rider Haggard reports (1901) on a long expedition across country meeting just four other vehicles. 'Three of them were brewers' drays, and the fourth was a timberdrag.'...
by David Gerrard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
The North Riding of Yorkshire is a fortunate land - favoured by some of the most magnificent scenery in England and with a number of the country's most attractive towns. A century ago this remote and sparsely populated area stubbornly maintained a distinctive way of life. For most, that life was a...
Liberty and Liberticide
The Role of America in Nineteenth-Century British Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
America was important to many British radicals. It was a model, an exemplar, a source of inspiration, and American events were believed to have a bearing on reform debates in Britain. Many scholars focus on the positive impressions of the United States that prominent British radicals entertained,...
Lone Star Justice
The First Century of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2002
From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with...
Reconstituting the American Renaissance
Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2003
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving...
by Rebecca Harding Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her...
by Mariana Griswold Van Renssalaer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
A look at the vibrant summer in the always lively city of New York as the twentieth century gets underway.
Memoirs of a Grandmother
Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff,...
Redcoat Officer
1740–1815
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The commissioned officer ranks in the British Army from 1740-1815 were almost entirely composed of the affluent and educated the sons of the landed gentry, the wealthy, and other professional people. This title looks at the enlistment, training, daily life and combat experiences of the typical British...
by Heather L. Braun
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale: From Gothic Ghosts to Victorian Vamps explores the femme fatale’s careerin nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution—and devolution—formally, historically, and ideologically through a selection of plays, poems, novels, and personal...
Lillian Wald
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Founder of Henry Street Settlement on New York's Lower East Side as well as the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Lillian Wald (1867-1940) was a remarkable social welfare activist. She was also a second-generation German Jewish immigrant who developed close associations with Jewish New York even...
Fugitive Science
Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book
Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association
Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism.
Traversing the archives...
by Simon Gikandi
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that...
Nicholas Karamzin and Russian Society in the Nineteenth Century
A Study in Russian Political and Historical Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
Nicholas Karamzin (1766–1826) was a remarkably active thinker and writer during a time that was trying to all Europeans. A first-hand witness to the French Revolution, Napoleonic suzerainty over Europe, the burning of Moscow, and the Decembrist revolt in St. Petersburg, he presented in his voluminous...