19Th Century category: 5646 books
A Tenants Tale
A Chronicle of Life In Rural Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
The Tenant's Tale is a fascinating chronicle of life in rural Ireland during the 19th Century. This narrative spans virtually the whole of the nineteenth century, a century that has been the most traumatic in Ireland's long and troubled history.
THE COMMON PEOPLE
1746-1946
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
First published in 1938 and updated and rewritten in 1946, G D H Cole and Raymond Postgate’s ‘The Common People. 1746-1946’ is a classic study of British working class history from the defeat of the Jacobite cause at Culloden in 1746 through to the end of WWII in 1946. Its 714 pages provide...
by Dennis R. Mills
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18th and 19th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of landlord and peasant in the rural village and examines the open-closed model of English rural social structure in great depth. In doing so,...
Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Africa
East Africa: Tribal and Imperial Armies in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1800 to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2004
Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native peoples of East Africa and the Arabs and Europeans who variously fought, explored, and raided there in the course of the 19th century. The detailed text provides the dress, arms, organisation, and tactics...
United States–Latin American Relations, 1850–1903
Establishing a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
During the second half of the 19th century several forces in the United States, Latin America, and Europe converged to set the stage for the establishment of a more permanent relationship between the United States and Latin America. The key factors--security, economics, and modernization--created...
Constructing Charisma
Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Railroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass periodicals—the major technological advances of the 19th century seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another, creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon...
Popular Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cultural Meanings, Social Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Popular presentations of history have recently been discovered as a new field of research, and even though interest in it has been growing noticeably very little has been published on this topic. This volume is one of the first to open up this new area of historical research, introducing some of the...
by Charles Downer Hazen
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
To all thoughtful people World War I has brought to intention the importance of a knowledge of 19th Century European history. For without such knowledge no one can understand, or begin to understand, the significance of the forces that have made it, the vastness of the issues involved, the nature...
by Adam DeSimone
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Using the 1986 animated film "An American Tail" as a framing device, this work explores the immigrant experience of émigrés who lived in the United States during the Gilded Age. While the film itself celebrates the arrival of the furry, lovable, Mousekewitz family to the U.S., this essay...
The Long Nineteenth Century
History of Europe: 1789-1918
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019
To all thoughtful people World War I has brought to intention the importance of a knowledge of 19th Century European history. For without such knowledge no one can understand, or begin to understand, the significance of the forces that have made it, the vastness of the issues involved, the nature...
by Thomas Pirnie, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Tucked away in an obscure attic of a stranger’s home, Michael Hileman’s biography was nearly lost to the ages. Through a miraculous discovery, his story reemerges to reach a new generation of readers. Michael’s story is a rich, vivid description of 19th century America, revealing the unwavering...
The Philosophical Breakfast Club
Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
“[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—Newsweek
The* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell,...
Stolen Childhood, Second Edition
Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition....
by Sophia Hillan
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Marianne, Louise and Cassandra Knight were nieces of the great 19th century novelist who gave us Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up, and they were often the subject of her witty letters. The...