19Th Century category: 5646 books
Supernatural Entertainments
Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity...
From Slavery to Poverty
The Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The racially charged stereotype of "welfare queen"—an allegedly promiscuous waster who uses her children as meal tickets funded by tax-payers—is a familiar icon in modern America, but as Gunja SenGupta reveals in From Slavery to Poverty, her historical roots run deep. For, SenGupta argues,...
by Jonathan Bean, David T. Beito, Matthew Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Historians working in the classical liberal tradition believe that individual decision-making and individual rights matter in the making of history. History written in the classical liberal tradition emerged largely in the nineteenth century, when the field of history was first professionalized in...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes. The two most crucial developments were the gradual establishment of an organised, regular police, and the emergence of new secondary punishments, following the restriction in the scope of the death penalty....
by David Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the police authorities. Each chapter is linked by common themes and questions, and the topics described in detail range from popular forms of rural...
Constructing American Lives
Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that...
by P. C. Kemeny
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of the Protestant establishment's prominent role in late nineteenth-century public life and its confrontation with modernity, commercial culture, and cultural pluralism in early twentieth-century America. Elite liberal Protestants,...
Race, Science, and the Nation
Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology – interacted,...
Health of the Seventh Cavalry
A Medical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
With its charismatic leader George Custer and its memorable encounters with Plains Indians, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Seventh Cavalry serves as the iconic regiment in the post–Civil War U.S Army. Voluminous written documentation as well as archaeological and osteological research...
The People’s Welfare
Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long...
Without Benefit of Clergy
Women and the Pastoral Relationship in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2003
The common view of the nineteenth-century pastoral relationship--found in both contemporary popular accounts and 20th-century scholarship--was that women and clergymen formed a natural alliance and enjoyed a particular influence over each other. In Without Benefit of Clergy, Karin Gedge tests this...
History and Nature in the Enlightenment
Praise of the Mastery of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization. Modern scholarship has hitherto taken insufficient notice of this important idea. This book discusses the topic in connection with the mainstream religious, political, and philosophical...
by XerXes Xu
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This year we remember the outbreak of the First World War, one hundred years ago. This ended a century of relative peace in Europe, a century of great technological progress in which the modern world was born and a century of huge social change in England. We easily recognise the world of 1914, with...
Global West, American Frontier
Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers’ accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways,...