19Th Century category: 5646 books
Smell Detectives
An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie...
Women in Magazines
Research, Representation, Production and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. By the mid-twentieth century, millions of women read the weeklies and monthlies that focused on supposedly "feminine concerns" of the home, family and...
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
European Women Pilgrims
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political...
The Magdalenes
Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in lakes,...
The American Century
A History of the United States Since the 1890s
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
The new edition of this classic text on modern U.S. history brings the story of contemporary America into the second decade of the twenty-first century with new coverage of the Obama presidency and the 2012 elections. Written by three highly respected scholars, the book seamlessly blends political,...
Sweden in the Eighteenth-Century World
Provincial Cosmopolitans
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Eighteenth-century Sweden was deeply involved in the process of globalisation: ships leaving Sweden’s central ports exported bar iron that would drive the Industrial Revolution, whilst arriving ships would bring not only exotic goods and commodities to Swedish consumers, but also new ideas and cultural...
Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century
A History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández...
by Sharon Harrow
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
First published in 1984. Shopkeepers and master artisans had a striking presence in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, not only in the development of industrial and urban economies, but also the fabric of social life and the politics of protest. The experience of 1848, the differing pace of...
by Deborah Toner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels, newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810...
A Field of Their Own
Women and American Indian History, 1830–1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
One hundred and forty years before Gerda Lerner established women’s history as a specialized field in 1972, a small group of women began to claim American Indian history as their own domain. A Field of Their Own examines nine key figures in American Indian scholarship to reveal how women came to...
by Woodruff D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Despite the fact that respectability is universally recognized as a feature of nineteenth-century society, it has seldom been studied as a subject in itself. In this path-breaking book, Woodruff D. Smith interprets respectability as a highly significant cultural phenomenon, incorporating both a moral...
by Kevin J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America’s roadways on two wheels and under their own pedal power.
But the concept is not new. More than a century ago, George B. Thayer took his own first “century,”...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography’s vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development of a cheaper and more reliable postal...