19Th Century category: 5646 books
Woman Thinking
Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
This book explores the theoretical relationship between feminism and transcendentalism through the ideas and activism of prominent 19th century female thinkers and activists. By analyzing the work of such important figures in post-Civil War American intellectual life_such as Ednah Cheney, Caroline...
The Lost German Slave Girl
The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws and an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom. “Reads like a legal thriller” (The Washington Post).
It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling...
by Sara Pennell, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
In 1872 Chicago was just recovering from the awful tragedy caused by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, i.e. a conflagration that burned from October 8-10, 1871. Steam engines, antiques by modern standards, were sorely tested in controlling fires that often burned uncontrolled for hours and days. The...
Union Made
Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor not simply by saving their souls, but by transforming society. In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity....
Talking to the Dead
Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement – and whose recanting forty years later...
Democratic Beginnings
Founding the Western States
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
State constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, that the founding documents and the conventions that produced them reflect the emerging dynamics of American...
Democracy in America
A New Abridgment for Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
A New Abridgement of a Classic on the American Experiment.
As debates rage over the future of America and the country's relationship to its past, there is no better time to examine the American culture from the perspective of a nineteenth century French thinker and student of democracy....
Eliza Lynch
Queen of Paraguay
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Escaping a desperate marriage at the age of 20, Eliza Lynch fled Ireland to Paris where her extraordinary beauty and intelligence won the attention of the soon-to-be dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano López.
Although the couple never married, Eliza bore him seven children and was seen...
by Charles A. Siringo
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
William Bonney, or Billy the Kid as he was commonly known, was a cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equaled in the annals of criminal history. When a bullet pierced his heart, he was less than twenty-two years of age, and had killed over twenty-one men, including American Indians.
This...
The First Jihad
Khartoum, and the Dawn of Militant Islam
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2007
Before there was Osama bin Laden, Abu al-Zarqawi or Ayatollah Khomeini, there was the Mahdi—the “Expected One”—who raised the Arabs in pan-tribal revolt against infidels and apostates in the late 19th-century Sudan.
Born on the Nile in 1844, Muhammed Ahmed grew into a devout, charismatic...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of...
by Ramakanta Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017
Lumbini is the most sacred place of pilgrimage for Buddhists, because Buddha was born there. Millions of pilgrims must have visited the place during the one and half millennia when it was accessible. But none of them have left any record of their pilgrimage except Fa-hian (Faxian) and Hiuen Tsiang...
by Charles River Editors, Daniel Boone, John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Includes:•Charles River Editors original biography of Daniel Boone•Daniel Boones autobiography•Daniel Boone the Pioneer of Kentucky by John S.C. Abbott•Life and Times of Colonel Daniel Boone by Cecil B. Hartley•The First White Man of the West by Timothy Flint"Many heroic actions and chivalrous...