19Th Century category: 5646 books
In Pursuit of Privilege
A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's...
A City So Grand
The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Once upon a time, "Boston Town" was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world's great metropolises-one that achieved national and international prominence...
William Randolph Hearst
The Early Years, 1863-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 1998
William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colorful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day. Now, in William Randolph Hearst, Ben Procter gives us the most authoritative account of Hearst's...
by Carla L. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired...
The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The phrase “a strong work ethic” conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America’s Puritan heritage, perceptions of work ethic have actually...
Oneida
From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.
In...
Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century
Uneasy neighbours?
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, contributors examine complex rural-urban relationships of conflict and cooperation. The volume will be of interest to those researching society and politics, criminology, literature and demographics.
Marketplace of the Marvelous
The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point
Despite rampant scientific innovation in nineteenth-century America, traditional medicine still adhered to ancient healing methods such as induced vomiting and bleeding, blistering, and sweating...
by Todd Savitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An examination of the medical experiences of African Americans
During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological...
Capital Intentions
Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, earthquakes, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles as wives, caregivers, and homemakers to start businesses that...
by Mary R. Parkman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
This work provides short biographical sketches of some of the early 20th century’s most important individuals, from John Muir to Herbert Hoover.
O My America!
Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
In O My America!, the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west.
Wheeler's career has propelled her from pole to pole—camping in Arctic igloos, tracking...
Longfellow
A Rediscovered Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Charles C. Calhoun's Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the"one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart" (Dana Gioia).
Calhoun's Longfellow emerges...