19Th Century category: 5646 books

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of Americas most important men and women in the time it takes to finish...

Albert Paine was a late 19th and early 20th century American author who remains best known today for collaborating with Mark Twain on a number of books.

This book chronicles the final conflict over the now almost forgotten "Schleswig-Holstein Question", once a pivotal issue for the great powers of Europe. The campaign of Schleswig and Jutland was also the first of Otto von Bismarck's Wars of German Unification, which together created a united...

In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain's international prestige and commercial power - the most important colony in an empire which extended to every continent on the globe and protected by the seemingly dependable native armies of the East India Company. When, however, in 1857 discontent...

The Men Who Would Be Kings is a set of rules designed for fighting historical or Hollywood colonial battles in the mid to late 19th Century, from the Indian Mutiny to the Boxer Rebellion. Large scale colonial clashes tended to be one-sided affairs, but there are countless reports of brief, frantic...

True crime that “will appeal to readers interested in gaining an insight into the lives of women accused of murder in the mid 19th century” (Essex Family Historian). For a few years in the 1840s, Essex was notorious in the minds of Victorians as a place where women stalked the winding country...

In the second half of the 19th century, European-led columns began to fan out across the African continent from their coastal footholds, smashing whatever forces could be brought against them, no matter how brave or determined the latter were. The process began at different dates in different parts...

"A Short Survey Of The U. S. And Apache In The Southwest, 1846-1886" by Bertha Blount covers the high points of the bloody relations between U. S. Government policy and the Apache Indians in the 19th-Century. Blount shows the many treacherous moves by the U. S in dealing with the...

An exciting factual romp through sexual desire, practises and deviance in the Victorian era. The Victorian Guide to Sex will reveal advice and ideas on sexuality from the Victorian period. Drawing on both satirical and real life events from the period, it explores every facet of sexuality that the...

Of all the military campaigns fought by the British during the 19th century, no area saw more conflict than the subcontinent of India. Dozens of encounters, both great and small, involved many of its races as either friends or foes of Britain – indeed, it was not unusual for an area to furnish both...

The Prairie Traveler, a Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions was a guide written for Americans traveling west during the 19th century. It included itineraries for making one's way along the frontier. The original illustrations and a table of contents are included.

Follow a barge of Ore from the mines to Boonton New Jersey in the mid 19th century, with glimpses of the tow boat life and the New Jersey wilds, into the hands of the nail makers, with their furnaces and machinery. A good look at New Jersey and at the manufacturing of Nails in New Jersey at the time of the Civil War.

This compelling narrative demonstrates the passionate interest the Jeffersonian presidents had in wresting land from less powerful foes and expanding Jefferson's "empire of liberty." The first two decades of the 19th century found many Americans eager to move away from the crowded...

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...