19Th Century category: 5646 books
Mark Twain and the Colonel
Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
In Mark Twain and the Colonel, Philip McFarland tells the story of the rich years of American history between 1890 and 1910 through the fully engaged involvement of two of its most vital participants.
The narrative unfolds in six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the United States...
Black Cowboys in the American West
On the Range, on the Stage, behind the Badge
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Who were the black cowboys? They were drovers, foremen, fiddlers, cowpunchers, cattle rustlers, cooks, and singers. They worked as wranglers, riders, ropers, bulldoggers, and bronc busters. They came from varied backgrounds—some grew up in slavery, while free blacks often got their start in Texas...
José Antonio Navarro
In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The first biography to appear in more than a generation on the most influential Tejano leader of the nineteenth century, José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas fills one of the most glaring gaps in the current historical literature on Texas. The product...
Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England
The Shadow of our Refinement
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical research and a broad survey of cutting-edge historical...
by David Golby
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 2004, this book demonstrates that while Britain produced many fewer instrumental virtuosi than its foreign neighbours, there developed a more serious and widespread interest in the cultivation of music throughout the nineteenth century.
Taking a predominantly historical approach,...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 3: the Oratorio in the Classical Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Oratorio in the classical Era is the third volume of Howard Smither's monumental History of the Oratorio, continuing his synthesis and critical appraisal of the oratorio. His comprehensive study surpasses in scope and treatment all previous works on the subject. A fourth and final volume, on the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
“This is a remarkable collection of essays. Citizenship clearly forms the backbone for these investigations but the range of the contributors’ backgrounds (in terms of disciplinary training) and the approaches they take to the question makes this collection both broad and deep. As it turns out,...
by David Hussey, Margaret Ponsonby
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to analyse the lives and cultural expression of single men and women from 1650 to 1850 within the main focus of domestic activity, the home....
British Mail Steamers to South America, 1851-1965
A History of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and Royal Mail Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
During the nineteenth century Britain’s maritime, commercial and colonial interests all depended upon a regular and reliable flow of seaborne information from around the globe. Whilst the telegraph increasingly came to dominate long-distance communication, postal services by sea played a vital role...
The Horse in the City
Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops.
Clay McShane and Joel...
The Nineteenth-century Woman
Her Cultural and Physical World
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century.
Throughout the book evidence...
Of Times and Race
Essays Inspired by John F. Marszalek
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Of Times and Race contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through the early twentieth century. Taken together, these essays, inspired by noted scholar John F. Marszalek, demonstrate the many nuances of African Americans' struggle to grasp freedom, respect, assimilation,...
American Unitarianism and the Protestant Dilemma
The Conundrum of Biblical Authority
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
American Unitarians were not onlookers to the drama of Protestantism in the nineteenth century, but active participants in its central conundrum: biblical authority. Unitarians sought what other Protestants sought, which was to establish the Bible as the primary authority, only to find that the task...
by Jon Gjerde
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Offers a series of fresh perspectives on America's encounter with Catholicism in the nineteenth-century. While religious and immigration historians have construed this history in univocal terms, Jon Gjerde bridges sectarian divides by presenting Protestants and Catholics in conversation with each...