19Th Century category: 5646 books
Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century
Essays in Honour of Keith Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The British state between the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century was essentially a Christian state. Christianity permeated society, defining the rites of passage - baptism, first communion, marriage and burial - that shaped individual lives, providing a sense of continuity between...
A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970
An Exploration of the Changing Role and Status of Women in Irish Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
A Social History of Women in Ireland is an important and overdue book that explores the role and status of women in Ireland from 1870 until 1970, looking at politics, sociology, marriage patterns, religion, education and work among other topics. It provides a vital missing piece in the jigsaw of modern...
Working At Play
A History of Vacations in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
In Working at Play, Cindy Aron offers the first full length history of how Americans have vacationed--from eighteenth-century planters who summered in Newport to twentieth-century urban workers who headed for camps in the hills. In the early nineteenth century, vacations were taken for health more...
by Clare V. McKanna
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2007
Nineteenth-century California was a society in turmoil, with a rapidly growing population, booming mining camps, insufficient or nonexistent law-enforcement personnel, and a large number of ethnic groups with differing attitudes toward law and personal honor. Violence, including murder, was common,...
Egypt Land
Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004
Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the American mania for Egypt was directly related to anxieties over race and race-based slavery. He shows how...
The Age of Questions
Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century
In the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives...
Sexual Myths of Modernity
Sadism, Masochism, and Historical Teleology
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized...
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
Victorian Secrets
What a Corset Taught Me about the Past, the Present, and Myself
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
How a nineteenth-century garment changed the life of a twenty-first century woman.
On Sarah Chrisman’s twenty-ninth birthday, her husband, Gabriel, presented her with a corset. The material and the design were breathtakingly beautiful, but she was not happy. Although she had been in love...
by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages of Indigenous people had little influence upon the classification of scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolises and museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers. However colonized locals did more than merely collect material...
The Victorian Reinvention of Race
New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The intention of this collection of essays, first published in 1971, is to explore the political aspects of some nineteenth century English writers. Under the influence of the great revolutionary upheavals of the period almost all its most important writers were involved, explicitly or otherwise,...
by Bruce Hensler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created...
by Diane Miller Sommerville
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.
Sommerville demonstrates...