19Th Century category: 5646 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was the idea of the emerging emancipated middle-class woman: economic independence from men, choice of occupation, participation...
Slavery's Capitalism
A New History of American Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
From 1890-1915, the most influential black man in America was Booker T. Washington, who less than 35 years earlier had been born into slavery. The young boy worked laboriously until emancipation before going on to seek an education. By the time he was 40, he was consolidating a network of supporters...
Grover Cleveland
The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college...
Waterloo
The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
#1 Bestseller in the U.K.
From the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought—a riveting nonfiction chronicle published to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s last stand.
On...
by O. David Gold
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This is the only modern, published account of the Soldier’s Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania. A bureaucrat of the system wrote a so-called history in 1873 but it is very self-serving and devoid of any critical analysis. Also included, a bonus feature on the Ill-Fated Gettsyburg Orphanage.
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City Water, City Life
Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City...
by Clayton Colman Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. II was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall. The book is relevant today because of its unique views of the development...
Slaughterhouse
Chicago's Union Stock Yard and the World It Made
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
From the minute it opened—on Christmas Day in 1865—it was Chicago’s must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look...
The Gentle Tamers
Women of the Old Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
A fascinating history of women on America’s western frontier by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it’s the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble...
The Elephant in the Temple
Tales of Beast and Man in India
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
From military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, John Lockwood Kipling writes about animals in daily Indian life, bringing alive the sights, sounds and...
Washington on the Brazos
Cradle of the Texas Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B. McCaslin recovers the history of an iconic Texas town. The story of the Texas Republic begins and ends at Washington, but the town’s history extends much further. Texas leaders gathered in the new town on the...
by Paul N. Spellman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944) was one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Over the years historians have referred to the captain as John Brooks, because he tended to sign with his initials, but also because W. W. Sterlings...
Talleyrand
L'art diplomatique du diable boiteux
Language: French
Release Date: September 25, 2015
**Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Talleyrand en moins d’une heure ! **
Rien ne prédestinait Talleyrand à devenir ce diplomate de génie qui connaîtra pas moins de huit régimes différents. C’est que, né avec un handicap au pied, ses parents ont préféré l’orienter vers...