19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Gretchen Soderlund
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, Gretchen Soderlund offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements. By tracing the history of high-profile print exposés on sex trafficking by journalists like William T. Stead and George Kibbe...
The Making of Salafism
Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Some Islamic scholars hold that Salafism is an innovative and rationalist effort at Islamic reform that emerged in the late nineteenth century but gradually disappeared in the mid twentieth. Others argue Salafism is an anti-innovative and antirationalist movement of Islamic purism that dates back...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Covering the period from the end of the Anglo-French alliance in 1731 to the declaration of war between the two powers in 1744, this book charts a turbulent period in British politics that witnessed the last decade of the Walpole ministry, the attempt to replace it by a Patriot government, and the...
Fire & Roses
The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of a Roman Catholic convent near Boston, Massachusetts and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, rumors began swirling...
Frontiers of Faith
Bringing Catholicism to the West in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
American religious histories have often focused on the poisoned relations between Catholics and Protestants during the colonial period or on the virulent anti-Catholicism and nativism of the mid- to late nineteenth century. Between these periods, however, lies an important era of close, peaceable,...
The Totalitarian Experiment in Twentieth Century Europe
Understanding the Poverty of Great Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
By developing a long-term supranational perspective, this ambitious, multi-faceted work provides a new understanding of ‘totalitarianism’, the troubling common element linking Soviet communism, Italian fascism and German Nazism. The book’s original analysis of antecedent ideas on the subject...
Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island
The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. This multifaceted account traces the island’s history from its aboriginal Chumash population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy...
Career Stories
Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Époque (1880–1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction...
by Nelson Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Among the many captive narratives of the nineteenth century, Nelson Lee's stands out as one of the most thrilling and authentic. A longtime Texas Ranger, Lee was captured by Comanches and held for three long, grueling years before making his escape. Once free, he nearly lost his mind and his life...
Staging Migrations toward an American West
From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Staging Migrations toward an American West examines how black women's theatrical and everyday performances of migration toward the American West expose the complexities of their struggles for sociopolitical emancipation. While migration is often viewed as merely a physical process, Effinger-Crichlow...
Terrible Justice
Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of bloodier conflicts between Sioux warriors...
America at War
Military Conflicts, Home and Abroad, and Daily Life in the 1800
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
From an isolated and inward-looking new nation clinging to the East Coast, America in the 1800s grew in size, strength, and military might. From the War of 1812 to the century-long campaigns of conquest against Native American peoples, territorial expansion through war with Mexico to the great national...
The Art of Memory
Historic Cemeteries of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the look and feel of cemeteries in the United States changed dramatically, from utilitarian burial grounds to the serene parklike spaces that we know today. The so-called park cemetery was innovative not only for its distinctive landscape architecture...
by Gerald McFarland
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The movement of millions of ordinary people westward across the American continent was one of the great folk migrations of all time, stretching over two centuries and thousands of hard-traveled miles. Using a canvas as broad as the country itself, Gerald McFarland turns this journey into a resonant...