19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Daniel Brook
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white.
In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes...
From Eve to Evolution
Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
From Eve to Evolution provides the first full-length study of American women’s responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women’s rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of nineteenth-century women, raised on the idea that...
Party over Section
The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Choice Outstanding Title
The presidential campaign of 1848 saw the first strong electoral challenge to the expansion of slavery in the United States; most historians consider the appearance of the Free Soil Party in that election a major turning point of the nineteenth century. The three-way...
Luminous Traitor
The Just and Daring Life of Roger Casement, a Biographical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent...
Delinquent Daughters
Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Mary Odem looks at these moral reform movements from a national perspective, but she also undertakes a detailed analysis of...
The House I Live In
Race in the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
In The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years. This scrupulously fair and insightful narrative--the most ambitious and wide-ranging history of its kind--sheds new light on the...
by Francis L. Hawks
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
The international impact of Commodore Matthew C. Perry's mission to Japan cannot be overestimated. Though the initial trip was a forced entry into Japanese ports, the resulting voyages resulted in diplomatic and trade treaties between Japan and the United States, thereby opening Japan to relations...
by Mark M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark M. Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free--to understand sectionalism and the attitudes toward modernity that led to the Civil War--we must consider how antebellum Americans comprehended...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Although the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, the world entered a new era of conflict as the newly-industrialised European powers sought to contain the expansion of their neighbours on battlefields that spanned the globe, while the United States laid the groundwork for its future superpower status. The...
Slave Wales
The Welsh and Atlantic Slavery, 1660-1850
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and...
by Philip Jowett
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
An in-depth analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of the Chinese forces that combated the British and French during the two Opium Wars, this history goes on to trace the forces who were drawn into internal...
Urban Reform and Sexual Vice in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
The Faithful and the Fallen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution in early-twentieth-century Philadelphia. Arguing that any study of commercial sexual vice in a historical context is difficult given the paucity of evidence,...
by Stephen L. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2006
This second volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839. By early 1838, the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether. Stephen L. Moore shows how the major general of the new Texas Militia worked around...
Transcribing Class and Gender
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
"Drawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gender and work played in the formation of middle-class identity. Clearly written and thoroughly researched,...