19Th Century category: 5646 books
Wondrous Times on the Frontier
America During the 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author: “Glorious . . . Do not miss a page.” —Rocky Mountain News
Frontier life, Dee Brown writes, “was hard, unpleasant most of the time,” and “ lacking in almost all amenities or...
Cattle Kingdom
The Hidden History of the Cowboy West
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
“The best all-around study of the American cowboy ever written. Every page crackles with keen analysis and vivid prose about the Old West. A must-read!” — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
The open-range cattle era lasted...
A Remarkable Curiosity
Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Collected in this volume for the first time are Cummings's portraits of a land and its assortment of characters unlike anything back East. Characters like Pedro Armijo, the New Mexican sheep tycoon who took Denver by storm, and more prominently the Mormon prophet Brigham Young and one of his wives,...
With Golden Visions Bright Before Them: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852
Trails to the Mining West, 1849–1852
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement,...
La Charrette
A History of the Village Gateway to the American Frontier Visited by Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, Zebulon Pike
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
La Charrette provides a first-ever historical look at America's westernmost frontier settlement, which-over a mere thirty-year existence-managed to leave behind a rich, vibrant legacy that is firmly rooted in local, state, and national history.
Located sixty miles beyond St. Louis on the banks...
Pioneers of Promotion
How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the World's Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. The sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that companies use may seem a recent phenomenon, but Pioneers of Promotion tells a different story. In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow traces...
Pathfinder
John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
“The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Frémont that has appeared to date”—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University
The career of John Charles Frémont (1813–90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through...
by Dr. Caroline Dakers
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This is the spectacular rags-to-riches story of James Morrison (1789–1857), who began life humbly but through hard work and entrepreneurial brilliance acquired a fortune unequalled in nineteenth-century England. Using the extensive Morrison archive, Caroline Dakers presents the first substantial biography...
by Peter Gay
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
“Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review
Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that...
South Pass
Gateway to a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and...
Talleyrand
Todo por la gloria de Francia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Talleyrand, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Conocer a Talleyrand, un polémico personaje que aterriza en política con la Revolución francesa y que no dudará...
H. H. Holmes
The True History of the White City Devil
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Shares with readers America’s first and most infamous serial killer and his diabolical killing spree during the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago
The first comprehensive book following the life and career of H. H. Holmes
A fascinating true story about a dark moment in Chicago’s history
H. H. Holmes:...
Disraeli
The Novel Politician
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Lauded as a “great Jew,” excoriated by antisemites, and one of Britain’s most renowned prime ministers, Benjamin Disraeli has been widely celebrated for his role in Jewish history. But is the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this groundbreaking,...
In the Kingdom of Ice
The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age
In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress...