19Th Century category: 5646 books
Eclipse of Empires
World History in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Eclipse of Empires analyzes the nineteenth-century American fascination with what Patricia Jane Roylance calls “narratives of imperial eclipse,” texts that depict the surpassing of one great civilization by another.
Patricia Jane Roylance’s central claim in Eclipse of Empires is that...
Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American...
by A.E. Carter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The cult of decadence is usually dismissed as an eccentricity of French literature, a final twitter of Romantic neurosis, convulsing the lunatic fringe of letters during the last third of the nineteenth century. However, the nineteenth century's preoccupation with decadence provides us with a key...
Sacred Relics
Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington’s hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past—often called “association items”—may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued because of their connections to prominent people...
Abandoned
Foundlings in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Two interesting items:
The author's article in New York Archives
A letter regarding foundlings in The Riverdale Press
In the nineteenth century, foundlings-children abandoned by their desperately poor, typically unmarried mothers, usually shortly after birth-were commonplace in European society. There...
Europe 1850-1914
Progress, Participation and Apprehension
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
This innovative survey of European history from the middle of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War tells the story of an era of outward tranquillity that was also a period of economic growth, social transformation, political contention and scientific, and artistic innovation....
Working-Class Self-Help in Nineteenth-Century England
Responses to industrialization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
First published in 1995, this book provides a readable survey of the three major forms of working-class self-help in nineteenth century England: the trade unions, the friendly societies and the co-operative movement. It is accessible to an introductory student readership as well as providing a critical...
The River Pollution Dilemma in Victorian England
Nuisance Law versus Economic Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Nineteenth-century Britain witnessed a dramatic increase in its town population, as a hitherto largely rural economy transformed itself into an urban one. Though the political and social issues arising from these events are well-known, little is known about how the British legal process coped with...
Wounded Hearts
Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism...
The Railway Journey
The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. But this was not always the case; as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change—the development...
Owning Ideas
The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790–1909
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Owning Ideas is a comprehensive account of the emergence of the concept of intellectual property in the United States during the long nineteenth century. In the modern information era, intellectual property has become a central economic and cultural phenomenon and an important lever for allocating...
Faces Like Devils
The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In the twenty-first century, the word vigilante usually conjures up images of cinematic heroes like Batman, Zorro, the Lone Ranger, or Clint Eastwood in just about any film he’s ever been in. But in the nineteenth century, vigilantes roamed the country long before they ever made their way onto the...
Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London (Routledge Revivals)
John Gast and his Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
First published in 1979, this book was the first, full-length study of working-class movements in London between 1800 and the beginnings of Chartism in the later 1830s. The leaders and rank and file in these movements were almost invariably artisans, and this book examines the position of the skilled...
by Marie W. Dallam
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Cowboy Christians examines the long history of cowboy Christianity in the American West, with a focus on the present-day cowboy church movement. Based on five years of historical and sociological fieldwork in cowboy Christian communities, this book draws on interviews with leaders of cowboy churches,...