19Th Century category: 5646 books
Pure and Modern Milk
An Environmental History since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy organic foods each year, spending billions of dollars "Dairy farm families, health officials, and food manufacturers have simultaneously stoked human...
From Hometown to Battlefield in the Civil War Era
Middle Class Life in Midwest America
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Mahoney examines how members of the middle class from small cities across the great West were transformed by boom and bust, years of recession, and civil war. He argues that in their encounters with national economic forces, the national crisis in politics, and the Civil War, middle class people were...
by Jerry L. Mashaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Contrary to conventional understandings, Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning Congress delegated vast discretion to administrative officials and armed them...
Morals and Markets
The Development of Life Insurance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Life insurance—the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium—is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published...
Accounting for Capitalism
The World the Clerk Made
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The clerk attended his desk and counter at the intersection of two great themes of modern historical experience: the development of a market economy and of a society governed from below. Who better illustrates the daily practice and production of this modernity than someone of no particular account...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.
Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back...
Jersey Gold
The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy—prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad—assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty...
Cities Beyond Borders
Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, this book explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another. Moving fluidly between comparative...
Serving the Nation
Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called social welfare—based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated...
Federal Fathers and Mothers
A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers,...
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South
Virginia, 1860-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional...
Penn Center
A History Preserved
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Gullah people of St. Helena Island still relate that their people wanted to “catch the learning” after northern abolitionists founded Penn School in 1862, less than six months after the Union army captured the South Carolina sea islands. In this broad history Orville Vernon Burton and Wilbur...
The Vegetarian Crusade
The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. Through the Civil War, the vegetarian movement focused on social and political reform, but by the late nineteenth century, the...
by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Europe's great powers formed two powerful coalitions against France, yet force of numbers, superior leadership and the patriotic fervour of France's citizen-soldiers not only defeated each in turn, but closed the era of small, professional armies fighting for limited political objectives. This period...