19Th Century category: 5646 books
Moral Commerce
Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
How can the simple choice of a men’s suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through...
A Word for Nature
Four Pioneering Environmental Advocates, 1845-1913
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in A Word for Nature. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates,...
by Jacob Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Spirits of an Industrial Age tells the story of the ghosts that roamed the cities of Britain throughout the nineteenth century. These were not phantoms in a traditional supernatural sense, but apparently flesh-and-blood ghosts, which periodically took to the streets, harassing those out alone after...
Empire of Neglect
The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling...
The Accidental Diarist
A History of the Daily Planner in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon. But Americans have been navel-gazing since nearly the beginning of the republic. The daily planner—variously called the daily diary, commercial diary, and portable account...
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good
From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
How should we weigh the costs and benefits of scientific research on humans? Is it right that a small group of people should suffer in order that a larger number can live better, healthier lives? Or is an individual truly sovereign, unable to be plotted as part of such a calculation?
These are...
Sweet Chariot
Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed...
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar
A Contest of Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany's navigation through a period of global capitalism, imperial expansion, and technological transformation?
German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar brings together leading historians of the Imperial and Weimar...
On the Make
Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the bustling cities of the mid-nineteenth-century Northeast, young male clerks working in commercial offices and stores were on the make, persistently seeking wealth, respect, and self-gratification. Yet these strivers and "counter jumpers" discovered that claiming the identities of independent...
The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork
The Rural Economy and the Land Question
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
First published in 1975. Using estate records, local newspapers and parliamentary papers, this book focuses upon two central and interrelated subjects – the rural economy and the land question – from the perspective of Cork, Ireland’s southernmost country. The author examines the chief responses...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture happen. They brought together the capital and the technical and management skills which allowed food...
In Joy and in Sorrow
Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 1992
In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society,...
The Secret Poisoner
A Century of Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Murder by poison alarmed, enthralled, and in many ways encapsulated the Victorian age. Linda Stratmann’s dark and splendid social history reveals the nineteenth century as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect poisons, control their availability,...
Emotional Cities
Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that...