19Th Century category: 5646 books
American Jesuits and the World
How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard...
by Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up to the emergence of Thailand as a modern nation state in the twentieth century. It concentrates in particular on the reign of King Chulalongkorn...
The Great Shame
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the point of death, who in the face of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays in this volume demonstrate how recent work on...
Tapping the Pines
The Naval Stores Industry in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The extraction of raw turpentine and tar from the southern longleaf pine -- along with the manufacture of derivative products such as spirits of turpentine and rosin -- constitutes what was once the largest industry in North Carolina and one of the most important in the South: naval stores production....
The Peoples Joan of Arc
Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
The ‘People’s Joan of Arc’: Mary Elizabeth Lease, Gendered Politics and Populist Party Politics in Gilded-Age America is the first comprehensive biography tracing the captivating life of renowned activist Mary Elizabeth Lease. While Lease is most remembered in American history textbooks as the...
Time No Longer
Americans After the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country’s founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice between a mythical idea of themselves, their nation,...
The Cycling City
Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation. In the process, debates about the nature of bicycles—where they belong, how they should be ridden, how cities should or should not accommodate them—have...
Looking Forward
Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree...
by Cleveland Moffett
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
A Brief illustrated description of the Latest Rage in Dining at the turn of the 20th century. An interesting facet of New York life at the turn of the start of the century.
The Edge of the Future
Popular Science Writing at the Rise of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Magazines of the late nineteenth century brought fiction, political commentary, history, and articles on astounding inventions and discoveries into the homes and minds of an increasingly literate population in the United States. This collection brings together science stories and illustrations that...
by Walden Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania was the center of the world of Steel at the beginning of the 20th century. Take a look at Steel and Steel making in the industrial powerhouse of turn of the century Pittsburgh.
Radical Legacies
Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
What use is thinking? This study addresses the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and attempted to mediate relations between social and political institutions and cultural and intellectual production. Chapters on both well-known (Henry Adams, Langston Hughes,...
Essential Documents of American History, Volume II
From Reconstruction to the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which ratified women's right to vote; the Supreme Court's decision on Brown v. Board of Education; and the "Heroism and Horror" portion of the 9/11...