19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Georgian Menagerie
Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible for a visitor to London to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr Pidcock at the Exeter Change. Pidcock's was just one of a number of commercial menagerists who plied their...
"The Touch of Civilization"
Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the Sioux of the Great Plains and the Kazakhs of the Eurasian Steppe. In the revealing juxtaposition...
The Ranger Ideal Volume 2
Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1874-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the Lone Star State can certainly boast of immense ranches, vast oil fields, enormous cowboy hats, and larger-than-life heroes. Among the greatest of the latter are the iconic Texas Rangers, a service that has existed, in one form or another, since 1823....
Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900
A Study of the Rural Proletariat
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
During the second half of the nineteenth century the enormous increase in agricultural production, unmatched by technical advance in harvesting, drew vast numbers of rural and migrant workers into the harvest that lasted from June to October.
This book, first published in 1982, examines the...
Amiable Scoundrel
Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent political figures. In his...
Women and Children First (Routledge Revivals)
International Maternal and Infant Welfare, 1870-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War. It looks at the problem in five different continents and shows the varying approaches used by the governments,...
Gold Mountain Turned to Dust
Essays on the Legal History of the Chinese in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Some half million Chinese immigrants settled in the American West in the nineteenth century. In spite of their vital contributions to the economy in gold mining, railroad construction, the founding of small businesses, and land reclamation, the Chinese were targets of systematic political discrimination...
Americans in Dissent
Thirteen Influential Social Critics of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Americans in Dissent is designed as a collection of biographical essays written for general readers and undergraduates that focuses on the topic of American dissent during the period from 1830 to 1890. Centered on influential nineteenth-century social critics, this volume shifts the focus of American...
Léon Harmel
Entrepreneur as Catholic Social Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
"Coffey does a masterful job of situating Léon Harmel-his life, his work, his ideology-in the context of French political and social turmoil in the last third of the nineteenth century. More than a Catholic paternalist, Harmel created a model 'earthly paradise' for his workers, drawing on principles...
by Andrew Winrow
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on...
The Concession of Évora Monte
The Failure of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Portugal
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the Portuguese monarchy, the power at the center of the Portuguese government, was a contested position. While rebellion and civil war led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, they failed to establish a liberal society in what continued to be a traditional agricultural and fishing economy.
Opposition and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire
Conspiracies and Political Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
This book looks at opposition to the Ottoman government in the second half of the nineteenth century, examining a number of key political conspiracies and how these relate to an existing political culture. In his detailed analysis of these conspiracies, the author offers a new perspective on an important...
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
American Representations of India, 1721-1893
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Today, there are more than two million Hindus in America. But before the twentieth century, Hinduism was unknown in the United States. But while Americans did not write about "Hinduism," they speculated at length about "heathenism," "the religion of the Hindoos," and "Brahmanism." In Heathen, Hindoo,...
Eastern European Railways in Transition
Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
During the nineteenth century, railway lines spread rapidly across Europe, linking the continent in ways unimaginable to previous generations. By the beginning of the twentieth century the great cities of the continent were linked by a complex and extensive rail network. Yet this high-point of interconnectivity,...