19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Cultural Clash
Chinese Traditional Native-Place Sentiment and the Anti-Chinese Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This book is a fresh approach to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Drawing on stunning evidence from newspapers and exciting currents in scholarship, Qin presents a new interpretation of the anti-Chinese movement. By examining Chinese native-place tradition in Chinese history, he shows that Chinese...
by John Bach McMaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2015
It has long been the custom to begin the history of our country with the discovery of the New World by Columbus. To some extent this is both wise and necessary; but in following it in this instance the attempt has been made to treat the colonial period as the childhood of the United States; to have...
Kit Carson
The Life of an American Border Man
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
History has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding...
Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois)
An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological...
The Souls of Black Folk
The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally through the Pan-African movement. Du Bois's sociological...
by W H Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
This look by a former patient gives an idealized view of the conditions at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's island, which was also home to a poor farm and a prison during the mid 19 century. Short, entertaining reading.
by A Guernsey
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
A brief look at the gold industry in Central America in the mid nineteenth century, featuring the works in Nicaragua and Honduras. Digitally restored Illustrations.
Adventures with Indians and Game
Twenty Years in the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
An adventure tale, historical memoir, and hunting journal in a single, enthralling narrative.
At the tender age of seven, little William shot his first chipmunk and was “imbued with the spirit of sportsmanship.” In the following years of his colorful life, Allen wore many hats, living as...
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the United States most well known authors, and one whose work is still read by every student in the country. Emerson was a lecturer, essayist and poet who became the champion of individualism and ended up becoming the Father of the Transcendentalist movement by the mid-1830s....
by W E Sewell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
This is an unflattering account of a visit to the island during the mid nineteenth century by an American who was not a voluntary tourist.
The Complicity of Friends
How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
One of Victorian England’s most famous philosophers harbored a secret: Herbert Spencer suffered from an illness so laden with stigma that he feared its revelation would ruin him. He therefore went to extraordinary lengths to hide his malady from the public. Exceptionally, he drew two of his closest...
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men
A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and tools is also a lively history. The era of...
Driven Out
The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The brutal and systematic “ethnic cleansing” of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking–and virtually unexplored–chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten...