19Th Century category: 5646 books
Difficult Death
The Life and Work of Jens Peter Jacobsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Beautifully written and incisive, this is the first English biography of a major Scandinavian author who is ripe for rediscovery While largely unknown today, Danish writer and Darwin translator Jens Peter Jacobsen was the leading prose writer in Scandinavia in the late nineteenth century and part of...
by Charles Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This short illustrated piece describes a trip from Teheran in Persia to Samarcand in today's Uzbekistan by an Eastern European disguised as an Osmanli Dervish.
From Wealth to Power
The Unusual Origins of America's World Role
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1999
What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new power. In From Wealth to Power, Fareed Zakaria seeks...
Toward the Setting Sun
John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the...
Crusader for Democracy
The Political Life of William Allen White
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
“Roosevelt bit me and I went mad,” William Allen White said of his first encounter with Teddy in 1897. He grudgingly praised Franklin D. Roosevelt’s performance at the 1943 Casablanca Conference with, “We who hate your gaudy guts salute you.” Editor of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, the Sage...
The Birth of the Grand Old Party
The Republicans' First Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
The period from 1850 to 1876 was the most transformative era in American history. During the course of this tumultuous quarter century Americans fought a bloody civil war, tried to settle the issue of state versus central government power, recognized the dominance of the new industrial economy over...
Hirelings
African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing...
by Fritz Stern
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award
Nominated for the National Book Award
“A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The...
The Year of the Lash
Free People of Color in Cuba and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Michele Reid-Vazquez reveals the untold story of the strategies of negotiation used by free blacks in the aftermath of the “Year of the Lash”—a wave of repression in Cuba that had great implications for the Atlantic World in the next two decades.
At dawn on June 29, 1844, a firing squad...
The Culinarians
Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
He presided over Virginia’s great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia’s mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey.
This fascinating culinarian...
The Promise of the New South
Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
At a public picnic in the South in the 1890s, a young man paid five cents for his first chance to hear the revolutionary Edison talking machine. He eagerly listened as the soundman placed the needle down, only to find that through the tubes he held to his ears came the chilling sounds of a lynching....
The Gilded Age
1876–1912: Overture to the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The Gilded Age is in the air! This beautifully designed, fully illustrated, insightful book by noted historian Alan Axelrod provides a vivid view of American life and thought during that era. The Gilded Age—the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the period of rapid economic growth in America...
by Charles Postel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
In the late nineteenth century, monumental technological innovations like the telegraph and steam power made America and the world a much smaller place. New technologies also made possible large-scale organization and centralization. Corporations grew exponentially and the rich amassed great fortunes....
by Charles W. Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
As controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was an embattled president, enormously popular with the American people, yet the target of unrelenting censure by political enemies. For the first time in almost a century, this book by the distinguished historian...