19Th Century category: 5646 books
A Republic in Time
Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth westward. In this innovative study, Thomas Allen posits time, not space, as the most significant territory of the young nation. He argues that beginning in the nineteenth...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Exploring the relationship between gender and law in Europe from the nineteenth century to present, this collection examines the recent feminisation of justice, its historical beginnings and the impact of gendered constructions on jurisprudence. It looks at what influenced the breakthrough of women...
Fortune, Fame, and Desire
Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loosely structured stratum of “the middle class.” Much of the attention to the marketplace between 1820 and 1910 has described entrepreneurship and...
Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 2
Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores the role of police courts in moulding cultural ideas, social behaviours and urban environments in the nineteenth century. Whereas Volume 1, subtitled Magistrates,...
Nursing and Women's Labour in the Nineteenth Century
The Quest for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation. Nineteenth century nursing history has, until now, concentrated almost exclusively on nurse leaders, on the development of nursing as a profession and the politics...
Domestic Intimacies
Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented...
Fight Like a Tiger
Conway Barbour and the Challenges of the Black Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Focusing on the life of ambitious former slave Conway Barbour, Victoria L. Harrison argues that the idea of a black middle class traced its origins to the free black population of the mid-nineteenth century and developed alongside the idea of a white middle class. Although slavery and racism meant...
1898
The Birth of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In 1898: The Birth of the American Century, David Traxel tells the story of a watershed year, a year of foreign conflict, extravagant adventure, and breakneck social change that forged a new America—a sudden empire with many far-flung possessions, a dynamic new player upon the global stage.
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by E. P. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: “A true masterpiece” and one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century (Tribune)****.
During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in...
A History of Modern Europe
From 1815 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an authoritative and compelling narrative.
Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the early nineteenth century through the early twenty-first...
by Dee Brown
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Dee Brown’s sparkling account of a momentous year in American history
In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary, but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original population, and was in the midst of enormous changes. Industrialization...
The American Experiment
The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.
In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative...
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads
The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A fascinating and atmospheric history of the transcontinental railroad—the nineteenth century’s greatest and most relentless feat of national expansion
Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the beginnings of the American railroad system. By the mid-nineteenth century,...
Peoples of the River Valleys
The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical dispossession, survivors from these peoples came together in new locations, especially...