19Th Century category: 5646 books
I Am Perhaps Dying
The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865). He was just 12 when he began and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. His remarkable account, recently published as *The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary...
by Marty Gould
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
In this study, Gould argues that it was in the imperial capital’s theatrical venues that the public was put into contact with the places and peoples of empire. Plays and similar forms of spectacle offered Victorian audiences the illusion of unmediated access to the imperial periphery; separated...
Turning the Tables
Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the best restaurants cooked ethnic and American foods for middle-class urbanites. In Turning the Tables, Andrew P. Haley examines how the transformation...
The World of Stephanie St. Clair
An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in Early Twentieth Century Harlem
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem – earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she remains the only black female gangster...
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction in this country, Tweed shows what happened when the transplanted religious movement came into contact...
A Nation Without Borders
The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston Globe
Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner**
In...
Revolution and Its Past
Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018.
A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of...
English Lessons
The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great...
Incarcerated Women
A History of Struggles, Oppression, and Resistance in American Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The story of the rise of prisons and development of prison systems in the United States has been studied extensively in scholarship, but the experiences of female inmates in these institutions have not received the same attention. Historically, women incarcerated in prison, jails, and reformatories...
National Insecurities
Immigrants and U.S. Deportation Policy since 1882
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
For over a century, deportation and exclusion have defined eligibility for citizenship in the United States and, in turn, have shaped what it means to be American. In this broad analysis of policy from 1882 to present, Deirdre Moloney places current debates about immigration issues in historical context....
Coal Dust on Your Feet
The Rise, Decline, and Restoration of an Anthracite Mining Town
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township. This anthracite coal fueled the industrial revolution and its miners generated the rise of organized labor, both of which make the region of northeast Pennsylvania one of great...
The New Abolition
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual...
The Road to Chinese Exclusion
The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Denver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred—in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880—it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who had crossed the Pacific...
Without Regard to Race
The Other Martin Robison Delany
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Before Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du Bois lifted the banner for black liberation and independence, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was at the forefront. He was the first black appointed as a combat major in the Union army during the Civil War. He was a pan-Africanist and a crusader for black freedom...