19Th Century category: 5646 books
Sowing the Wind
The Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1890
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise...
Two Generals
Buller and Botha in the Boer War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
The Boer Wars that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century involved nearly 450,000 British troops and over 60,000 Boers. They were the largest wars Britain had ever waged before the two World Wars. They have been extensively covered by writers in Britain and South Africa. Almost all of the writers...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory workers and sections of the lower middle classes in the nineteenth century. It explores a range of factors which contributed to changes in custom, including...
Expelling the Poor
Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Historians have long assumed that immigration to the United States was free from regulation until anti-Asian racism on the West Coast triggered the introduction of federal laws to restrict Chinese immigration in the 1880s. Studies of European immigration and government control on the East Coast have,...
The Birth of The Chocolate City
Life in Georgian York
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
One of the great names in chocolate history, Rowntree’s, evolved from the humble retail beginnings of Mary Tuke, eighteenth-century mother of York’s chocolate industry. This book explores how she was formative in shaping modern York as a city of confectionery manufacture, a city with a broader...
Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History
Enshrining a Fateful Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new, concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished professor Mary Kelly’s book is the first synthesized volume to track Ireland’s Great Famine within America’s immigrant...
From Abolition to Rights for All
The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The Civil War was not the end, as is often thought, of reformist activism among abolitionists. After emancipation was achieved, they broadened their struggle to pursue equal rights for women, state medicine, workers' rights, fair wages, immigrants' rights, care of the poor, and a right to decent housing...
Doctoring the South
Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the nineteenth century, Steven M. Stowe provides an in-depth study of the midcentury culture of everyday medicine in the South. Reading deeply in the personal letters, daybooks, diaries, bedside notes, and published writings of doctors, Stowe illuminates...
Knowledge in the Time of Cholera
The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered...
by Miguel A. Lopez-Morell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Amongst the serried ranks of capitalists who drove European industrialisation in the nineteenth century, the Rothschilds were amongst the most dynamic and the most successful. Establishing businesses in Germany, Britain, France, Austria, and Italy the family soon became leading financiers, bankrolling...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S. Milward and to acknowledge the full magnitude of his scientific contribution to contemporary British and European history. The book is a collection of essays which provide a better understanding of Alan Milward’s extensive intellectual...
by David W. Howell
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
First published in 1977. Essentially an economic history with strong emphasis on human factors, this title examines the reasons for the backwardness of much of the farming of Wales and discusses in detail how agricultural resources and organisation directly affected the nature of social relationships...
Fear, Exclusion and Revolution
Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Between the years 1677 and 1691 the Puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of public affairs in Britain. Running to almost a million words his 'Entring Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious history. It charts the rise of...
The Real Thing
Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation. Reacting...