19Th Century category: 5646 books
Race and British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1770-1870
John Crawfurd and the Politics of Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The idea of "race" played an increasing role in nineteenth-century British colonial thought. For most of the nineteenth century, John Crawfurd towered over British colonial policy in South-East Asia, being not only a colonial administrator, journalist and professional lobbyist, but also...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed....
The Scientific Journal
Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of...
Critical Americans
Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses...
An Incurable Past
Nasser's Egypt Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
"Spanning virtually the entire twentieth century and as timely as the outbreak of the 2011 ‘January Revolution,’ this work has much to say about where Egypt has been, who Egyptians are and, ultimately, where they may take their country." --Joel Gordon, author of Nasser: Hero of the Arab...
The Long Gilded Age
American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing...
Britannia's Embrace
Modern Humanitarianism and the Imperial Origins of Refugee Relief
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
On the eve of the American Revolution, the refugee was, according to British tradition, a Protestant who sought shelter from continental persecution. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, British refuge would be celebrated internationally as being open to all persecuted foreigners. Britain...
Shame, Blame, and Culpability
Crime and violence in the modern state
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This ground-breaking collection of research-based chapters addresses the themes of shame, blame and culpability in their historical perspective in the broad area of crime, violence and the modern state, drawing on less familiar territories such as Russia and Greece, not just on material from familiar...
The Spanish Craze
America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic...
by Allan Kulikoff
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Why put Abraham Lincoln, the sometime corporate lawyer and American President, in dialogue with Karl Marx, the intellectual revolutionary? On the surface, they would appear to share few interests. Yet, though Lincoln and Marx never met one another, both had an abiding interest in the most important...
Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1
Magistrates, Media and the Masses
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Each volume explores diverse, but complementary, themes...
The Greatest Works of Charles Downer Hazen
The Long Nineteenth Century, The French Revolution and Napoleon, The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919, The Government of Germany, Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule, Old Northampton
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
This meticulously edited Charles Downer Hazen collection includes monographs on XIX century European history from this notable American historian. Contents: The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Europe from 1789 to 1918 Alsace-Lorraine Under German Rule The French Revolution and Napoleon The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919 The Government of Germany Old Northampton
by Maria Pia Donato
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden death was perceived as a mala mors because it threatened the victim’s salvation by hindering repentance...
by Richard A. Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Today, Scotland's history is frequently associated with the clarion call of political nationalism. However, in the nineteenth century the influence of history on Scottish national identity was far more ambiguous. How, then, did ideas about the past shape Scottish identity in a period when union with...