19Th Century category: 5646 books
Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation...
Nineteenth-Century Worlds
Global formations past and present
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This volume assembles a wide range of studies that together provide—through their interdisciplinary range, international scope, and historical emphases—an original scholarly exploration of one of the most important topics in recent nineteenth-century studies: the emergence in the nineteenth century...
At Home in Nineteenth-Century America
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie...
This Victorian Life
Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A unique memoir about a modern couple living the lifestyle of another era—and what it teaches them about history and human nature.
We all know that the best way to study a foreign language is to go to a country where it’s spoken, but can the same immersion method be applied to history?...
Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century's Most Photographed American
An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
A landmark and collectible volume—beautifully produced in duotone—that canonizes Frederick Douglass through historic photography.
Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass’s birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this “tour de force”...
Black Chicago's First Century
1833-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements...
Victorious Century
The United Kingdom, 1800-1906
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians.
"An evocative account . . .[Cannadine] tells his own story persuasively and exceedingly well.” —The Wall Street Journal
To live in nineteenth-century Britain was to experience an...
by Mallory James
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
“A scholarly guide to etiquette as entertaining and amusing as a work of fiction” (Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine).
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have gotten a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done...
by Gilbert Seldes
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Gilbert Seldes, the author of The Stammering Century, writes:
This book is not a record of the major events in American history during
the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the
cults and manias of that period. Its personages...
A Century of Sonnets
The Romantic-Era Revival 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2002
A Century of Sonnets is a striking reminder that some of the best known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets. It presents the broad and rich context of such favorites as Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymanidas," John Keats's "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer,"...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how...
The Transformation of the World
A Global History of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2014
A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers, with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity, where facts are found and legal rules are impartially applied to administer justice. Recent historical scholarship has shown that in England lawyers only began to...
The Rural Cemetery Movement
Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
When Mount Auburn opened as the first “rural” cemetery in the United States in 1831, it represented a new way for Americans to think about burial sites. It broke with conventional notions about graveyards as places to bury and commemorate the dead. Rather, the founders of Mount Auburn and the...