19Th Century category: 5646 books
by James W. Parins
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced civilization...
Osage Women and Empire
Gender and Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
The Osage empire, as most histories claim, was built by Osage men’s prowess at hunting and war. But, as Tai S. Edwards observes in Osage Women and Empire, Osage cosmology defined men and women as necessary pairs; in their society, hunting and war, like everything else, involved both men and women....
American Enlightenments
Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the...
Imagining Tombstone
The Town Too Tough to Die
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
When prospector “Ed” Schieffelin set out from Fort Huachuca in 1877 in search of silver, skeptics told him all he’d find would be his own tombstone. What he did discover, of course, was one of the richest veins of silver in the West—a strike he wryly called Tombstone. Briefly a boomtown, in...
Lucretia Mott's Heresy
Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual...
by David Brion Davis
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
**Winner of the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the 2014 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature**
From the revered historian, the long-awaited conclusion of the magisterial history of slavery and emancipation in Western culture that has...
Writing Deafness
The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American...
Real Native Genius
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the...
Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword
The British Regiment on Campaign, 1808–1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Although an army’s success is often measured in battle outcomes, its victories depend on strengths that may be less obvious on the field. In Sickness, Suffering, and the Sword, military historian Andrew Bamford assesses the effectiveness of the British Army in sustained campaigning during the Napoleonic...
by Michelle Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK).
Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and...
Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790–1900
Legal Thought before Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This book argues for a change in our understanding of the relationships among law, politics and history. Since the turn of the nineteenth century, a certain anti-foundational conception of history has served to undermine law's foundations, such that we tend to think of law as nothing other than a...
Shooting Lincoln
Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and the Race to Photograph the Story of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
They took the most memorable photographs of the Civil War. Now their long rivalry was about to climax with the spilled blood of an American president--an event that would usher in a new age of modern media.
Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner were the new media moguls of their day. With their...
The Pursuit of Power
Europe 1815-1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
**An Economist Best Book of the Year
“Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal
From the bestselling author of The Third Reich...
The Cana Sanctuary
History, Diplomacy, and Black Catholic Marriage in Antebellum St. Augustine, Florida
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
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The Cana Sanctuary uses the collective testimony from more than two hundred Patriot War claims, previously believed to have been destroyed, to offer insight into the lesser-known Patriot War of 1812 and to constitute an intellectual history of...