19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Charles Wainwright March
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
A Brief illustrated tour of the wine regions of the Iberian peninsula. Madeira, Portugal and Andalusia during the mid nineteenth century are explored.
A New Orleans Voudou Priestess
The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2007
Against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New Orleans, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau disentangles the complex threads of the legend surrounding the famous Voudou priestess. According to mysterious, oft-told tales, Laveau was an extraordinary...
by Raymond Bial
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
The Shaker faith is estimated to have had a total of fewer than 20,000 members across its 250-year history, yet more than 100,000 people visit the various Shaker villages and museums scattered across the eastern United States every year. We are still fascinated with the world of the Shakers, and authentic...
Industry and the Creative Mind
The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Industry and the Creative Mind takes a radically new look at the figure of the eccentric, alienated writer in American literature and entertainment from 1790 to 1860. Traditional scholarship takes for granted that the eccentric writer, modeled by such Romantic beings as Lord Byron and brought to life...
With Napoleons Guard in Russia
The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Major Louis Joseph Vionnets memoirs of Napoleons disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdote and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present at all...
by B Hartley
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
A good description of the fashions in vogue along the African Coast during the mid nineteenth century. Written for an American audience in 1868. Illustrated
Death Valley in '49
An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The gripping nineteenth century memoir of death, despair, heroism, and a will to survive during the California Gold Rush.
Hit by Gold Rush fever in 1849, a wagon train headed for the California coast stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert. The men, women, and children were...
Crazy Horse, Third Edition
The Strange Man of the Oglalas, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being “strange,” fought in many famous battles, including the Little Bighorn, and held out tirelessly against the U.S. government’s efforts to confine...
by J. Ross Browne
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
J Ross Browne called himself a Californian. This Irish born American writer and artist was a world traveler who was at one point minister to China. But it was California that he called home. When he removed to California in 1849 it was the start of the Gold Rush. He followed the Silver Boom across...
The World and All the Things upon It
Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Winner of the Modern Language Association’s Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Winner of the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award
Winner of NAISA's Best Subsequent Book Award
Winner of the Western History Association's John C. Ewers...
Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and Others
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
A legendary lawman, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and newspaper columnist, Bat Masterson served as sheriff of Ford County, Kansas, ruled Dodge City, and became an eyewitness to the heyday of the Old West's most notorious outlaws. His thrilling collection of mini-biographies reveals fascinating details...
Barbed Wire
The Fence that Changed the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
How could an ordinary fence shape the development of a nation? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of prairie and cowboys ran cattle on an open range without a fence in sight. Then the Homestead Act of 1862 passed and settlers poured into the west looking for land...
by R. W. Dunning
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Somerset, one of England's most rural counties, has for centuries depended on agriculture for much of its income. At the time these photographs were taken much of the county was suffering a downturn in agricultural output. A series of disastrous harvests in the 1880s and the loss of the corn laws....
Freedom and the Cage
Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This...