19Th Century category: 5646 books
Notre Dame High School, Norwich
A celebration of the first 150 years 1864–2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
For a century and a half Notre Dame High School has occupied a central position in Norwich, and within the Roman Catholic community of East Anglia. This book traces the school's founding, the development of the school site, its transition from a Catholic convent with a day and boarding school to a...
Christian Imperialism
Converting the World in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire...
The Social Gospel in Black and White
American Racial Reform, 1885-1912
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement.
As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery...
Death Is a Festival
Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the popular riot that ensued when, in 1836, the government...
The Council of Fifty
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2014
Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith had both millennial and temporal aspirations for the organization he called the Council of Fifty, named after the number of men who were intended to comprise it. Organized a few months before Smith’s death in June 1844, it continued under Brigham Young as...
Sundays at Sinai
A Jewish Congregation in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
First established 150 years ago, Chicago Sinai is one of America’s oldest Reform Jewish congregations. Its founders were upwardly mobile and civically committed men and women, founders and partners of banks and landmark businesses like Hart Schaffner & Marx, Sears & Roebuck, and the giant...
by Carlton Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2016
CERTAIN basic principles in society and in politics were proclaimed by the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Era served to communicate them to Europe. The ensuing period was marked by a bitter struggle within nearly every European state for their general acceptance or for their wholesale rejection.
To...
Ministers and Mines
Religious Conflict in an Irish Mining Community, 1847–1858
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Religious conflict in Ireland has had a long history. Ministers and Mines: Religious Conflict in an Irish Mining Community, 18471858 is a case study of religious conflict in the copper-mining community of Bunmahon, Co. Waterford, Ireland, in the mid-nineteenth century. By the time an English evangelical...
Fort Bascom
Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Motorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New Mexico Territory from Texas, built...
At Sword's Point, Part 1
A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history...
At Sword's Point, Part 2
A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The Utah War—an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-controlled Utah Territory and the U.S. government—was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnon’s half-century of research and a wealth of...
Protestant Missionaries in the Levant
Ungodly Puritans, 1820-1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys’ attempts to convert the ‘native,’ population. Early failure in conversion led to later...
THE SPANISH LABYRINTH
An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Written during the Spanish Civil War, published in 1943, revised in 1950 and republished in paperback in1960, The Spanish Labyrinth assesses the social and political background of the war, not the war itself. Brenan—a middle class, liberal, Anglo-Irish expatriate who lived in Spain from 1919 until...
Sisters of Fortune
America's Caton Sisters at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Perfect for fans of the Emmy Award–winning series Downton Abbey, whose creator, Julian Fellowes, raved that Sisters of Fortune is “absolutely fascinating”—a real-life Jane Austen story, that follows the fabulous Caton sisters, the first American heiresses to take Europe by storm.
Based...