19Th Century category: 5646 books
Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery
As Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A complete record of the lectures on slavery in the United States of America delivered to the classes in Moral Science at the Randolph Macon College during the mid-nineteenth century, when abolitionism was at it’s height and before the American Civil War had begun. The premise of the lectures is that slavery is right, and is a fundamental principle of the social state.
Wyoming Range War
The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West’s most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land and census records, newspapers, and trial transcripts, Davis has produced an all-new interpretation. He looks at the conflict from the perspective of...
Surviving Wounded Knee
The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakota Ghost Dancers- including men, women, and children-at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee, the work of memory commenced. For the US Army and some whites, Wounded Knee was...
Antebellum Slave Narratives
Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist movement—Frederick...
The Literature of Reconstruction
Not in Plain Black and White
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In this powerful book, Brook Thomas revisits the contested era of Reconstruction. He evokes literature’s immediacy to recreate arguments still unresolved today about state versus federal authority, the government’s role in education, the growing power of banks and corporations, the paternalism...
The Way of a Ship
A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious "graveyard of ships,"...
Hen Frigates
Passion and Peril, Nineteenth-Century Women at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
A "hen frigate," traditionally, was any ship with the captain's wife on board. Hen frigates were miniature worlds -- wildly colorful, romantic, and dangerous. Here are the dramatic, true stories of what the remarkable women on board these vessels encountered on their often amazing voyages: romantic...
The Lost Fleet
A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Arctic disasters, rogue whales, ambush by Confederate ships--the true saga of one captain's struggle to survive the demise of the Yankee whaling fleet
It's the mid-ninteenth century and the American whaling fleet is struck by one hammer blow after the other. Yankee whalers are contending with...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs (11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth...
by Leslie Ellen Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
During the Scottish Enlightenment the relationship between aesthetics and ethics became deeply ingrained: beauty was the sensible manifestation of virtue; the fine arts represented the actions of a virtuous mind; to deeply understand artful and natural beauty was to identify with moral beauty; and...
by Nancy Isenberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas--before and after 1848--that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing...
Law’s History
American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
This is a study of the central role of history in late nineteenth-century American legal thought. In the decades following the Civil War, the founding generation of professional legal scholars in the United States drew from the evolutionary social thought that pervaded Western intellectual life on...
Empire of the People
Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English...
The Great Wave
Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When the United States entered the Gilded Age after the Civil War, argues cultural historian Christopher Benfey, the nation lost its philosophical moorings and looked eastward to “Old Japan,” with its seemingly untouched indigenous culture, for balance and perspective. Japan, meanwhile, was trying...