19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Origins of Syrian Nationhood
Histories, Pioneers and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The ‘Syria idea’ emerged in the nineteenth century as a concept of national awakening superseding both Arab nationalism and separatist currents. Looking at nationalist movements, ideas and individuals, this book traces the origin and development of the idea of Syrian nationhood from the perspective...
Sugarlandia Revisited
Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-eminent in the Atlantic Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Subsequently, cane sugar industries in the...
Liverpool
City of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Liverpool in its nineteenth- and twentieth-century heyday was a city unlike any other. Its praises sung by Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorn and many others, it was the first place in Europe where the Chinese New Year was celebrated, the birthplace of shipping lines that pioneered...
Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913
Histories and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Historians and biographers of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychology, medicine and culture, even Wikipedia, believe Ernest Jones discovered Freud in 1904 and had become the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis by 1906. Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913 offers radically different...
by Brian Gee, edited by Anita McConnell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in...
Inventing the cave man
From Darwin to the Flintstones
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors...
Tell This in My Memory
Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
In the late nineteenth century, an active slave trade sustained social and economic networks across the Ottoman Empire and throughout Egypt, Sudan, the Caucasus, and Western Europe. Unlike the Atlantic trade, slavery in this region crossed and mixed racial and ethnic lines. Fair-skinned Circassian...
Beyond the Borders of the Law
Critical Legal Histories of the North American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
In the American imagination “the West” denotes a border—between civilization and wilderness, past and future, native and newcomer—and its lawlessness is legendary. In fact, there was an abundance of law in the West, as in all borderland regions of vying and overlapping claims, jurisdictions,...
Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity
Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles’ play, parricide – the killing of a parent or another close relative – has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth...
Of Borders and Margins
Hispanic Disciples in Texas, 1888-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has an uneasy relationship with its Hispanic constituency. Machado probes the history of this tension by examining the Disciples' interaction with Hispanics in Texas around the turn of the 20th century. The Church's inability to develop significant ties with...
The Gospel Working Up
Progress and the Pulpit in Nineteenth-Century Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2000
The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before and after the Civil War, showing...
Some Wild Visions
Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2002
This book is a study of seven autobiographies by women who defied the domestic ideology of nineteenth-century America by serving as itinerant preachers. Literally and culturally homeless, all of them used their autobiographies to construct, from an array of materials, plausible identities as women and Christians in an age that found them hard to understand.
by Tom Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Written for the layman as well as the economic historian this famous and much-used book not only presents a general synthesis of the pattern of European industrialisation; it also provides material for a comparative study by illustrating, in separate case studies, the specific characteristics of development in Britain, France, Germany, Russia and Italy.
Faith in Reading
Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media culture. In the early...