19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Andrew Wender Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world.
In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of...
Von Boltenhagen nach Ahlbeck - Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Ostseeküste
Geschichte und Geschichten für Zugezogene, Touristen und andere Neulinge
Language: German
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Die Texte für dieses Buch entstanden auf der Basis umfangreicher Recherchen im Auftrag des damaligen Gewerkschaftsverlages 'Tribüne' in der Zeit vor 1989 und sollten den Urlaubern das Land an der damals schon sehr beliebten Ostseeküste ein wenig näherbringen. Die Ereignisse der Wendezeit und der...
Damm und Deich - fruchtbar und reich
Märkische Miniaturen
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Am Beginn unserer Betrachtungen zum Jubiläumsjahr 1997, in dem vor 250 Jahren der Plan gefasst und sogleich umgesetzt wurde, das Oderbruch zu regulieren, mag eine Zwischenbilanz Friedrichs II. stehen, der in seinem Politischen Testament von 1752 detaillierte Angaben zur Situation an der Oder macht:...
Meine Amsel singt in Tamsel
Märkische Miniaturen
Language: German
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Das Buch ist bekannten und weniger bekannten Persönlichkeiten gewidmet, deren Leben die Geschichte Brandenburgs und seine Bewohner mitgeprägt haben. Der Leser lernt Carl August von Hardenberg, Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz, Sophie Charlotte, Königin von Preußen und andere geschichtsträchtige...
Jenseits der Oder
Streusandbüchse und eine vorteilhafte Erwerbung
Language: German
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Hans Bentzien hat sich mit seinen historischen Skizzen absichtlich den Gebieten jenseits der Oder zugewendet, die seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu Polen gehören, die durch die Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten und den angezettelten Zweiten Weltkrieg verspielt worden sind. Jenseits der Oder...
The Great Pierpont Morgan
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A revealing biography of J. P. Morgan, one of the most powerful and enigmatic financiers in history, from bestselling author Frederick Lewis Allen.
Celebrated as a titan of industry by some and decried as a monopolizing robber baron by others, John Pierpont Morgan was without a doubt a dominant...
Prince of Darkness
The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his one-time opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4, 1877, an almost full-page obituary on the front...
Great American Lives
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable memoirs from four of the greatest minds in American history.
Penned between 1771 and 1790 and published after his death, The**Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most acclaimed and widely read personal histories ever written. From his youth...
Norman B. Ream
Forgotten Master of Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Norman Bruce Ream was born in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1844, the son of a farmer. He exhibited a commercial sense, but the Civil War interrupted his ambitions. Wounded twice, he returned home a hero.
After some unsuccessful business ventures out west, he went to Chicago in 1871 and became...
by Erik Varon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Winter of 1925 brings nothing but trouble and confusion for Belgian immigrant and American entrepreneur Jakob Schleicher. Seventy-four years old and in ill health, he reflects on his fifty years of living in America. Based on true events, Jakob’s Story and the American Dream weaves myriad moving...
by Lawrence M. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the...
Franz Liszt
Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary...
Buffalo Bill's Life Story
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill lives deep in American legend. A Kansas-bred farm boy, he went on to become a renowned trapper and hunter, army scout, Indian fighter, and finally a world showman and celebrity. As a man of the Wild West, he became known as a larger-than-life buffalo hunter. As an army scout, he earned...
Empires of Light
Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays...