19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan...
by Bonnie Carr O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Through extended readings of the works of P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, and Fanny Fern, Bonnie Carr O’Neill shows how celebrity culture authorizes audiences to evaluate public figures on personal terms and in so doing reallocates moral, intellectual, and affective...
A Communion of Shadows
Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a "mania." This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical...
by Oliver Hochadel, Agustí Nieto-Galan
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. Written in the tradition of James Fenimore Cooper, but offering a much darker and more violent image of the American frontier, this was...
Tradition and Innovation in English Retailing, 1700 to 1850
Narratives of Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Three decades of research into retailing in England from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries has established a seemingly clear narrative: fixed shops were widespread from an early date; 'modern' methods of retailing were common from at least the early eighteenth century; shopping was a skilled...
Nature's Noblemen
Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by “roughing it” in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. Rico uncovers the networks of elite men—British...
Home on the Rails
Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.
For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic...
Inventing New England
Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker
A Reader in Documents and Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
More than one hundred years after her death, Elizabeth Cady Stanton still stands—along with her close friend Susan B. Anthony—as the major icon of the struggle for women’s suffrage. In spite of this celebrity, Stanton’s intellectual contributions have been largely overshadowed by the focus...
Constructing a German Diaspora
The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic...
From Popular Liberalism to National Socialism
Religion, Culture and Politics in South-Western Germany, 1860s-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
’Long live liberty, equality, fraternity and dynamite’ So went the traditional slogan of the radical liberals in Greater Swabia, the south-western part of modern Germany. This book investigates the development of what the author terms ’popular liberalism’ in this region, in order to present...
A Faithful Account of the Race
African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this...
by Russell E. Richey
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Winner of the 2015 Saddleback Selection Award from the Historical Society of The United Methodist Church During the nineteenth century, camp meetings became a signature program of American Methodists and an extraordinary engine for their remarkable evangelistic outreach. Methodism in the American...