19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Timothy J. Gilfoyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"A true story more incredible than fiction." —Kevin Baker, author of Striver's Row
In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucrative green-goods game. On a good night Appo made...
The Botanizers
Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines, fiction, and autobiographies of the day, she explores the popular culture of this avocation, which attracted both men and women by the thousands.
The Invention of Party Politics
Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
This ambitious work uncovers the constitutional foundations of that most essential institution of modern democracy, the political party. Taking on Richard Hofstadter's classic The Idea of a Party System, it rejects the standard view that Martin Van Buren and other Jacksonian politicians had the idea...
by H. W. Brands, Christina Duffy Burnett, David P. Currie
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The inaugural volume in a new historiography series
Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier...
Reconstructing the Household
Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that...
Funding the Nation
Money and Nationalist Politics in Nineteenth-century Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Daniel O’Connell created the Catholic nation in 1820s Ireland and in the process he gave birth to popular politics.
Ahead of America where Andrew Jackson was creating his own brand of popular politics, O’Connell brought together rich and poor in support of a new phenomenon that became the...
The Age of Acquiescence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished.
From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies...
by Vanessa Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Most observers and historians rarely acknowledge the history of civil rights predating the twentieth-century. The book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era pays significant scholarly attention to the intellectual ferment—legal and political—of the nineteenth-century by tracing the history of...
by Louis S. Gerteis
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
From the late colonial period through the Civil War, slavery developed as the most powerful obstacle to the triumph of liberal values in America. In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, the ambiguities of the revolutionary generation's accomodation of slavery gave way to a direct and violent...
by Cyrus Schayegh
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Cyrus Schayegh’s socio-spatial history traces how a Eurocentric world economy and European imperialism molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Building on this case, he shows that the making of the modern world is best seen as the reciprocal transformation of cities, regions, states, and global networks.
The Poison Squad
One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
**A New York Times Notable Book
From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true story of how food was made safe in the United States and the heroes, led by the inimitable Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for change**
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by Harry Hearder
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The period between 1830 and 1880 was one of immense activity, radical political change, and striking economic and social growth in Europe. The major themes of the struggles between individuals, parties and classes within the state, and between the states themselves are explored within the context...
On Becoming Cuban
Identity, Nationality, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways that this encounter helped shape Cubans' identity,...