19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Joseph Meisel
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2001
By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This book argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrumentality of public speech....
by A H Guernsey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
An early exploration briefly describes life with the Inuit peoples during the mid nineteenth century. Illustrated.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino
Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning humans can discover, we must determine...
A Concise History of Modern Europe
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Highlighting the key events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this fresh and lively book provides a concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on the enduring theme of revolution, David S. Mason explores the political, economic, and scientific...
Education for Empire
American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Education for Empire brings together topics in American history often treated separately: schools, race, immigration, and empire building. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American imperial ambitions abroad expanded as the country's public school system grew. How did this imperialism affect...
by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
Coming for to Carry Me Home
Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans...
No Right to Be Idle
The Invention of Disability, 1840s–1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor market, reflecting the fact that Americans...
Beyond the Miracle Worker
The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of...
The Revolution of 1861
The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It was no coincidence that the Civil War occurred during an age of violent political upheaval in Europe and the Americas. Grounding the causes and philosophies of the Civil War in an international context, Andre M. Fleche examines how questions of national self-determination, race, class, and labor...
Native American Whalemen and the World
Indigenous Encounters and the Contingency of Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital...
American Passage
The History of Ellis Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
"By bringing us the inspiring and sometimes unsettling tales of Ellis Island, Vincent Cannato’s American Passage helps us understand who we are as a nation.”
— Walter Isaacson
“Never before has Ellis Island been written about with such scholarly care and historical wisdom. Highly...
by Edward Steers Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“In this encyclopedia of Lincoln’s assassination, Edward Steers, Jr., the foremost scholar of the assassination, has assembled knowledge of the subject scattered in documents and writings over a period of nearly a century and a half, organized it authoritatively and comprehensively, and written...
In Her Own Right
The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 1985
The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships...