19Th Century category: 5646 books
Engines of Empire
Steamships and the Victorian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could...
The Pledge
A History of the Pledge of Allegiance
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
The cultural and political history of the Pledge of Allegiance, how it came to be, what it means to Americans, and why we have battled over it for generations
For more than a century, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance has been a central part of the American Experience. And perhaps because of...
Twenty-Five Years among the Indians and Buffalo
A Frontier Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Nearing 60, William D. Street (1851-1911) sat down to write his memoir of frontier life. Street's early years on the plains of western Kansas were both ordinary and extraordinary; ordinary in what they reveal about the everyday life of so many who went out to the western frontier, extraordinary in...
The Lost Hero of Cape Cod
Captain Asa Eldridge and the Maritime Trade That Shaped America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
**The Lost Hero of Cape Cod tells the story of an extraordinary nineteenth-century mariner… and of a morale-boosting victory for the young United States over Britain in the commercial battle that broke out on the Atlantic after the War of 1812.
Born in a small village on Cape Cod in 1809,...
Black Diamonds
The Downfall of an Aristocratic Dynasty and the Fifty Years That Changed England
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Secret Rooms, the extraordinary true story of the downfall of one of England’s wealthiest families
Fans of Downton Abbey now have a go-to resource for fascinating, real-life stories of the spectacular lives led by England’s aristocrats....
Inglorious Revolution
Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Nineteenth-century Brazil’s constitutional monarchy credibly committed to repay sovereign debt, borrowing repeatedly in international and domestic capital markets without default. Yet it failed to lay the institutional foundations that private financial markets needed to thrive. This study shows why...
Born to a Changing World
Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this charming narrative tell of new life arriving amidst a turbulent world.Women in the nineteenth century gave birth in widely varying circumstances: Māori women of noble families might be lovingly cared for within the whare kōhanga; wealthy...
by Richard T. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
In 1898, the United States became an empire by accident due to our splendid little war against Spain. At the beginning of the 20th Century, the most famous men in America were not athletes or politicians; they were inventors and businessmen like Bell, Edison, Morgan, and Rockefeller. Teddy Roosevelt...
Oh What a Slaughter
Massacres in the American West: 1846--1890
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A brilliant and riveting history of the famous and infamous massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century.
In Oh What a Slaughter, Larry McMurtry has written a unique, brilliant, and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked—and marred—the settling...
The Comanches
Lords of the South Plains
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the...
by Robert M. Utley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2003
First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that has become available in recent years.What they said about the first edition:"[The...
by Carter G. Woodson
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Carter G. Woodson was a major influence on African-American thought in much of the twentieth century through his editorship of The Journal of Negro History, which was renamed the Journal of African American History in 2001, and the three complete works presented here:
A Century of Negro...
The American West
A New Interpretive History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America’s West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An...
John Quincy Adams
A Public Life, A Private Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives, Washington D.C.: Congressman John Quincy Adams, rising to speak, suddenly collapses at his desk; two days later, he dies in the Speaker’s chamber. The public mourning that followed, writes Paul C. Nagel, “exceeded anything previously seen in America....