19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, John Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Born Heinrich Hilgard in Bavaria, Henry Villard (1835-1900) emigrated to the United States at age 18 after a disagreement with his father, penniless, not speaking a word of English and without his parents’ knowledge.
Within five years, he had mastered the English language and was covering...
Novel Judgements
Legal Theory as Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel judgements departs from ‘socio-legal’ studies of law and literature, often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes. This texts ‘theoretical turn’...
Iron Valley
The Transformation of the Iron Industry in Ohio's Mahoning Valley, 1802–1913
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Youngstown, Ohio, and the surrounding Mahoning Valley supplied the iron that helped transform the United States into an industrial powerhouse in the nineteenth century. The story of the Mahoning Valley’s unorthodox rise from mid-scale iron producer to twentieth-century “Steel Valley” is a tale...
Consuming Identities
Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovations as photography, lithography, and steam printing created a pictorial revolution in nineteenth-century society. The proliferation of visual prints, ephemera, spectacles, and technologies transformed...
by Jonathan Daniel Wells
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern intellectual life, the fight for women's rights and gender ideology. Based on new research into Southern magazines and newspapers, this book seeks...
The Religion of Democracy
Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A history of religion’s role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkers
Today we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation’s founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side...
Balfour's World
Aristocracy and Political Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Arthur James Balfour (1848-1930) was born toward the beginning of Queen Victoria's long reign. At her death in 1901, he was a year away from becoming the first prime minister of the Edwardian era. In the quarter century after his entry into political life in the 1870s, Britain experienced material...
by Rosemary Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the...
The Cult of the Modern
Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining...
From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail
The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A short, elegant overview of politics at the close of the nineteenth century
In the wake of civil war, American politics were racially charged and intensely sectionalist, with politicians waving the proverbial bloody shirt and encouraging their constituents, as Republicans did in 1868, to "vote...
The Monroe Doctrine
Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American Empire
President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed...
Object Lessons
How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United...
Mapping the Nation
History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among...
Blackface Nation
Race, Reform, and Identity in American Popular Music, 1812-1925
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
As the United States transitioned from a rural nation to an urbanized, industrial giant between the War of 1812 and the early twentieth century, ordinary people struggled over the question of what it meant to be American. As Brian Roberts shows in Blackface Nation, this struggle is especially evident...