19Th Century category: 5646 books
Plague Ports
The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first...
Jewish Materialism
The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A paradigm-shifting account of the modern Jewish experience, from one of the most creative young historians of his generation
To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the...
The Soul's Economy
Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism.
For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfhood and society came from the tradition...
Leadville
The Struggle To Revive An American Town
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Leadville explores the clash between a small mining town high up in Colorado's Rocky Mountains and the federal government, determined to clean up the toxic mess left from a hundred years of mining.
Set amidst the historic streets and buildings reflecting the town's past glory as one of the...
by Lew Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Silver mining was a hot topic in the mid nineteenth century, with one discovery following another in the western United States. Across the border in Mexico the mines were much older, and not being worked with the modern methods of US mining. This is a mid nineteenth century tour of some of those mines.
by Vincenzo Cuoco
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political revolution.
In...
Women's Work
An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American communities,...
Erie Railway Tourist, 1854–1886
Transporting Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This book explores how the Erie Railway, in developing a series of sophisticated travel guides, made significant contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture and shaped the social life of Americans. The Erie Railway emerged during a time in which a societal response to the production of landscape...
Shaped by the West, Volume 2
A History of North America from 1850
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look...
by Gordon Home, J W Clark
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Before Lonely Planet, this book was the essential accompaniment to any Victorian gentleman or lady’s trip to one of the foremost cities of the United Kingdom. The city of Cambridge has a long and prosperous history, and is renowned the world over as a centre of academic learning. At the end of the...
The Price of Liberty
African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society...
Taming China's Wilderness
Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900-1931
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Chinese province of Heilongjiang, historically known as Northern Manchuria, remained a sparsely populated territory on the northeastern frontier. For about two centuries, the rulers of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) - whose historical homeland was in...
Troublesome Women
Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
This book traces the lived experiences of women lawbreakers in the state of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860 through the records of more than six thousand criminal court cases. By following these women from the perpetration of their crimes through the state’s efforts to punish and reform them, Erica...
Engineering Victory
The Union Siege of Vicksburg
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
On May 25, 1863, after driving the Confederate army into defensive lines surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, Union major general Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee laid siege to the fortress city. With no reinforcements and dwindling supplies, the Army of Vicksburg finally surrendered...