19Th Century category: 5646 books
by C H Farnham
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
A quick look at the city just before the start of the twentieth century.
by Barry Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
In Victorian and Edwardian times Hampshire, like most counties of England, was a largely rural county, depending on agriculture for much of its income. Across its varied landscape, from the chalk downs to the New Forest and along the valleys of the Itchen, its farms were suffering the fate of most...
Larding the Lean Earth
Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2003
A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation
Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new country's voters faced a crisis. The very soil of American farms seemed to be failing, and agricultural prosperity, upon which the Republic...
by Chris Titley
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The Rowntree name is linked to some of the most iconic and well-loved brands of the 20th century, including the KitKat, Aero and Fruit Pastilles. On the way he transformed a small factory in York into a global business. But there is much more to the Joseph Rowntree story than chocolate. A prominent...
Prairie Defender
The Murder Trials of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
2018 FAPA President’s book award medalist in the non-fiction adult, biography, and political/current events categories
2018 ISHS Annual Award Winner for a Scholarly Publication
According to conventional wisdom, Abraham Lincoln spent most of his law career collecting debt and representing...
The Great Delusion
A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should—even that they must—expand in wealth indefinitely?
In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present...
The Four Horsemen
Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields...
The Second Coming
Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history – a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the ideas, beliefs and ways of thinking of ordinary men and women in the late eighteenth and first half of...
The Tolerant Populists, Second Edition
Kansas Populism and Nativism
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People’s Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the original source of the term “populism,” and...
Mystics and Messiahs
Cults and New Religions in American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
In Mystics and Messiahs--the first full account of cults and anti-cult scares in American history--Philip Jenkins shows that, contrary to popular belief, cults were by no means an invention of the 1960s. In fact, most of the frightening images and stereotypes surrounding fringe religious movements...
The First Vcs
The Stories Behind the First Victoria Crosses in the Crimean War and the Definition of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the officer ranks and promotion owed more to money than merit. Then came the Crimean War.
The incompetence and ineffectiveness of the senior officers contrasted sharply with...
by Cyprian Clamorgan
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 1999
In 1858, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote a brief but immensely readable book entitled The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. The grandson of a white voyageur and a mulatto woman, he was himself a member of the "colored aristocracy." In a setting where the vast majority of African Americans were slaves,...
by Leland Homer Gentry, Todd M. Compton
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Many Mormon dreams flourished in Missouri. So did many Mormon nightmares.
The Missouri period--especially from the summer of 1838 when Joseph took over vigorous, personal direction of this new Zion until the spring of 1839 when he escaped after five months of imprisonment--represents a moment of intense...
Sing Not War
The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences...