19Th Century category: 5646 books
Sentiment and Celebrity
Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1998
How did the stately, republican literary world of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper give way to the sensationalist, personality-saturated mass market society of the late nineteenth century? In answering this question, Sentiment and Celebrity tells the story of a man the New York Times once...
The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill 1812-1848
Volumes XII-XIII
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
These volumes of Mill's letters have been awaited eagerly by all scholars in the field of nineteenth-century studies. They inaugurate most auspiciously the edition of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill planned and directed by an editorial committee appointed from the Faculty of Arts and Science...
The Feminists
Women's Emancipation Movements in Europe, America and Australasia 1840-1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Originally published in 1977, this book brings together what is known about liberal feminist and socialist movements for the emancipation of women all over the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It deals not only with Britain and the United States but also with Australia, New Zealand,...
America Classifies the Immigrants
From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
When more than twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1920, the government attempted to classify them according to prevailing ideas about race and nationality. But this proved hard to do. Ideas about racial or national difference were slippery, contested, and yet consequential—were...
Death in the Sahara
The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
The desert explorer and author of Khartoum recounts the disastrous nineteenth century French expedition to establish a Trans-Saharan Railway.
In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would transport the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu to Paris—and spread French...
The Woman Movement
Feminism in the United States and England
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This unusual book traces the development of the feminist movement in America and, to a lesser extent, in England. The comparison between the movements is enlightening.
Professor O’Neill starts with Mary Wollstonecraft and traces the development of the attack on Victorian institutions right...
by Alan Moss, Keith Skinner
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
At the dawn of the Victorian age there was effectively no police detective force in Britain and detecting methods were rudimentary; by the end of Victoria's reign the Criminal Investigation Department had been established and basic forensic tests were in use. This book explores the development of...
Black Fire
The True Story of the Original Tom Sawyer--and of the Mysterious Fires That Baptized Gold Rush-Era San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The first biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
When...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Today's spectacle of an imperial Congress battling the president of the United States is unsettling to many Americans. But it should not come as a surprise. Since the earliest days of the republic, writes New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming in this essay, Congress has sought to seize power for itself and diminish the presidency.
Orphan Trains
The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times).
A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing...
Kruger, Kommandos & Kak
Debunking the Myths of The Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists...
Archives of Labor
Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies,...
Bayard Taylor
Determined Dreamer of America’s Rise, 1825–1878
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
At once a literary biography of a fascinating and influential American writer and a case study that reinvigorates scholarly engagement with other Genteel writers, this work is the first book-length study of Taylor in forty years. This critical reconsideration of Taylor’s life and works demonstrates...
The Birth of Industrial Britain
1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.
The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britains transition from a late pre-industrial...