19Th Century category: 5646 books
Death of an Assassin
The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German...
The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London
Politics from a Distance
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In a period of turmoil when European and international politics were in constant reshaping, immigrants and political exiles living in London set up periodicals which contributed actively to national and international political debates. Reflecting an interdisciplinary and international discussion,...
by C.A. Fyffe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
On the morning of the 19th of April, 1792, after weeks of stormy agitation in Paris, the Ministers of Louis XVI. brought down a letter from the King to the Legislative Assembly of France. The letter was brief but significant. It announced that the King intended to appear in the Hall of Assembly at...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
*Includes pictures of some of the important people, places, and events involved in the feud. *Explains the origins and legacy of the famous feud.*Includes a timeline of the feud.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "They were men, who matched the mountains, they...
Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America
Origins and Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1992
Highly readable . . . . interdisciplinary history of a high order.
-- The Historian
Well-written and superbly documented . . . . Both physicians and lawyers will find this book useful and fascinating.
-- Journal of the American Medical Association
This is the first book-length historical study of...
Seven Czech Women
Portraits of Courage, Humanism, and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Czech women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Bohemia (19th century), the Czech lands in Czechoslovakia...
Salmon P. Chase
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 1995
Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of...
by Louis Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Slave narratives by African slaves from North America were first published in England in the 18th century. They soon became the main form of African-American literature in the 19th century. Slave narratives were publicized by abolitionists, who sometimes participated as editors, or writers if slaves...
What Remains
Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.
Drawing upon...
by J. Ross Browne
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
A contemporaneous account of the silver mining boom in the ghost town of Austin Nevada during the mid nineteenth century.
Head Masters
Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Contributes to a better understanding of Horace Mann and the educational reform movement he advanced.
Head Masters challenges the assumption that phrenology—the study of the conformation of the skull as it relates to mental faculties and character—played only a minor and somewhat anecdotal...
Laboring to Play
Home Entertainment and the Spectacle of Middle-Class Cultural Life, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time.
The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.Discusses the legendary deaths of Wild Bill, Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and Butch Cassidy.Discusses the myths and legends surrounding their lives and legacies.Includes a Table of Contents.Space may be the final frontier, but no frontier has ever...
Frederick Douglass
Reformer and Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland, in February, 1818. From these humble beginnings, Douglass went on to become a world-famous orator, newspaper editor, and champion of the rights of women and African Americans. He was the most prominent African American activist of the...