19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Invisible Irish
Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In spite of the many historical studies of Irish Protestant migration to America in the eighteenth century, there is a noted lack of study in the transatlantic migration of Irish Protestants in the nineteenth century. The main hindrance in rectifying this gap has been finding a method with which to approach...
History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
The World, the Nation and the Search for a Modern Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize the nation state. In History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan Margaret Mehl examines how the new imperial government, which replaced the rule of...
Acid Rain and the Rise of the Environmental Chemist in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Life and Work of Robert Angus Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Robert Angus Smith (1817-1884) was a Scottish chemist and a leading investigator into what came to be known as 'acid rain'. This study of his working life, contextualized through discussion of his childhood, education, beliefs, family, interests and influences sheds light on the evolving understanding...
Geology in the Nineteenth Century
Changing Views of a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this clear and comprehensive introduction to developments in geological theory during the nineteenth century, Mott T. Greene asserts that the standard accounts of nineteenth-century geology, which dwell on the work of Anglo-American scientists, have obscured the important contributions of Continental...
A Government Out of Sight
The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
While it is obvious that America's state and local governments were consistently active during the nineteenth century, a period dominated by laissez-faire, political historians of twentieth-century America have assumed that the national government did very little during this period. A Government Out...
City of the Century
The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history” and the inspiration behind PBS’s American Experience (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Depicting its turbulent beginnings to its current status as one of the world’s most dynamic cities, City of the Century tells the...
Freemasonry and the Press in the Twentieth Century
A National Newspaper Study of England and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
By the end of the twentieth century, Freemasonry had acquired an unsavoury reputation as a secretive network of wealthy men looking out for each others’ interests. The popular view is of an organisation that, if not actually corrupt, is certainly viewed with deep mistrust by the press and wider...
by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2002
"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David Cannadine
An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five...
Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Fringe Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological superiority between these two discourses (science...
A Political Nation
New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political History
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
This impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century. For several generations, much of the scholarship on the political history of the period from 1840 to 1877 has carried a theme of failure; after all,...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
Whether you are talking on your cell phone, watching your favorite television program, surfing the web, or using your GPS to guide you on a trip, these are all modern conveniences that were made possible by the foundational work of the nineteenth-century Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Though...
by Jaime Osterman Alves
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009
Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues that...
Lost Worlds
The Emergence of French Social History, 1815–1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Today’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald...
An Indispensable Liberty
The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Most Americans today view freedom of speech as a bedrock of all other liberties, a defining feature of American citizenship. During the nineteenth century, the popular concept of American freedom of speech was still being formed. In An Indispensable Liberty: The Fight for Free Speech in Nineteenth-Century...