19Th Century category: 5646 books
Tribes and Trappers: A History of Montana, Volume I
Montana History Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Montana’s history is rich, colorful, and full of excitement in this fully-illustrated volume. See how Jedediah Smith and Jim Bridger blazed trails and made their names under the Big Sky. Read about the day John Colter ran naked for his life, Blackfeet Indians fast on his heels. Watch as Hugh Glass...
Astoria
Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
Astoria Or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is a novel published in 1836 by Washington Irving, at the behest of John Jacob Astor, about the American West.
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian,...
We Is Got Him
The Kidnapping that Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
This “relentlessly suspenseful” story of America’s first known kidnapping in nineteenth century Philadelphia is “elegantly told, superbly accomplished” (The Philadelphia Enquirer).
In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family’s front yard in Philadelphia....
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire
Or a Primer of Conquest, Dissent and Disruption
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames' book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria's reign.
This book...
by Joseph Edkins
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Chinese Buddhism by Joseph Edkins
Edkins' book is a comprehensive survey of Chinese Buddhism. He gives the historical background of the introduction of Buddhism into China, and its subsequent evolution, including biographies of the Buddhist Patriarchs. There are extensive descriptions of Chinese...
Bitter Waters
America's Forgotten Naval Mission to the Dead Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
“An intriguing, thorough study of a little-known scientific expedition to the Dead Sea by a mid-19th-century U.S. Navy lieutenant” (Kirkus Reviews).
With customary depth and insight, David Haward Bain illumines the United States’s nineteenth-century exploration of the Holy Land. To lead...
by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls." – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is...
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
Vintage Tomorrows
A Historian And A Futurist Journey Through Steampunk Into The Future of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott...
Shanghaiing Days
The Thrilling account of 19th Century Hell-Ships, Bucko Mates and Masters, and Dangerous Ports-of-Call from San Francisco to Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the American Merchant Marine went into a terrible and tragic decline, and sailors were forced to serve under conditions that were little better than serfdom.
Seamen were exploited in wholesale...
A Respectable Woman
The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active,...
by Hiram Martin Chittenden
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
No less authority than Hiram Chittenden wrote this marvelous history of the early days of one of America's most important waterways. A West Point engineer, namesake of the Hiram Chittenden locks in Seattle, Chittenden was a respected historian of early western America. There was no railroad system...
John Hay, Friend of Giants
The Man and Life Connecting Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Now, perhaps, only those enmeshed in 19th-century American history know his name; but when John Hay died in 1905, he was one of the most famous men in the world. And one of the most highly regarded. Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary during the Civil War, thereafter as a popular poet, novelist,...
Tracking the Texas Rangers
The Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Tracking the Texas Rangers is an anthology of sixteen previously published articles, arranged in chronological history, covering key topics of the intrepid and sometimes controversial law officers named the Texas Rangers. Determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually...