19Th Century category: 5646 books
Mark Twain's Audience
A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Mark Twain has been one of the most popular American writers since 1868. This book shifts the focus of Twain studies from the writer to the reader. This study of Twain’s readership and lecture audiences makes use of statistics, literary biography, twentieth-century newspapers, memoirs, diaries,...
by R. S. Neale
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1972, this collection of essays by R. S. Neale focuses on authority, and the responses and challenges to it made by men and women throughout the nineteenth century. Employing a more sociologically-minded approach to history and specifically using a ‘five-class’ model, the book...
by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century is one of the classics of anarchist literature.[1] Written in the aftermath of the 1848 French Revolution, it sets forth a libertarian alternative to the Jacobinism which at that time still dominated the republican and revolutionary movements...
Race and the Cherokee Nation
Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
"We believe by blood only," said a Cherokee resident of Oklahoma, speaking to reporters in 2007 after voting in favor of the Cherokee Nation constitutional amendment limiting its membership. In an election that made headlines around the world, a majority of Cherokee voters chose to eject...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
*Includes pictures of Teddy, FDR, and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents.For a man who grew up to become the Bull Moose, Theodore Roosevelt was a sickly child, suffering from asthma and other maladies. But his...
Between Foreigners and Shi‘is
Nineteenth-Century Iran and its Jewish Minority
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Based on archival and primary sources in Persian, Hebrew, Judeo-Persian, Arabic, and European languages, Between Foreigners and Shi'is examines the Jews' religious, social, and political status in nineteenth-century Iran. This book, which focuses on Nasir al-Din Shah's reign (1848-1896), is the first...
The Humboldt Current
Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture
The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769?1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American...
American Sunshine
Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide...
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The sweeping true story of how the steam engine changed the world, from the acclaimed author of Miracle Cure
If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial...
Heart versus Head
Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head,...
by Audrey Eccles
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In eighteenth-century England, the law surrounding vagrancy was complicated, and practice stood in complex relationship to law. Drawing on extensive archival research and in-depth study of both statute law and local administrative records, this book examines the complexities of vagrancy law and the...
Populism and Imperialism
Politics, Culture, and Foreign Policy in the American West, 1890-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
In the final years of the nineteenth century, as a large-scale movement of farmers and laborers swept much the country, the United States engaged in an ostensibly anti-colonial war against Spain and a colonial war of its own in the Philippines. How one related to the other—the nature of the activists’...
"A Peculiar People"
Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People", J. Spencer Fluhman offers...
by Wensheng Wang
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
The reign of Emperor Jiaqing (1796-1820 CE) has occupied an awkward position in studies of China's last dynasty, the Qing. Conveniently marking a watershed between the prosperous eighteenth century and the tragic post-Opium War era, this quarter century has nevertheless been glossed over as an unremarkable...