19Th Century category: 5646 books
British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57
Mid-Century Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded into armed rebellion, whilst on the continent French armies were repeatedly victorious. Providing an analytical narrative, supported by thematic chapters, this book examines the relationship...
Building Better Britains?
Settler Societies in the British World, 1783-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century. This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand,...
Following Father Chiniquy
Immigration, Religious Schism, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Winner, ISHS Certificate of Excellence, 2016
In the late 1850s and early 1860s, the attention of the Catholic and Protestant religious communities around the world focused on a few small settlements of French Canadian immigrants in northeastern Illinois. Soon after arriving in their new home,...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through...
The Virgin Vote
How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks--young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at massive midnight rallies. Parents trained their...
Victorian Los Angeles
From Pio Pico to Angels Flight
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Before the oil boom and rise of Hollywood brought today's renowned landmarks to downtown Los Angeles, an entirely different and often forgotten high Victorian city existed. Prior to Union Station, there was the impressive Romanesque Arcade Station of the Southern Pacific line in the 1880s. Before...
Mastering the Marketplace
Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Mastering the Marketplace examines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Anne O’Neil-Henry examines how French...
The California Gold Rush
The Stampede that Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives...
The Mind of the Nation
Völkerpsychologie in Germany, 1851-1955
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Völkerpsychologie played an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of “folk psychology” was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal,...
James Z. George
Mississippi's Great Commoner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
"When the Mississippi school boy is asked who is called the 'Great Commoner' of public life in his State," wrote Mississippi's premier historian Dunbar Rowland in 1901, "he will unhesitatingly answer James Z. George." While George's prominence, along with his white supremacist views, have decreased...
Writing the Legal Record
Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Any student of American history knows of Washington, Jefferson, and the other statesmen who penned the documents that form the legal foundations of our nation, but many other great minds contributed to the development of the young republic's judicial system -- figures such as William Littell, Ben...
The Parrys of Philadelphia and New Hope
A Quaker Family’S Lasting Impact on Two Historic Towns
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
The Parrys left England to practice their Quaker religion without ridicule. They found their home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, where they went on to become one of the regions most illustrious families.
Follow two generations of the Parry family, spanning a period of one hundred years from the...
A Union Forever
The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question—the governance of the island of Ireland—demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning...
Global Exchanges
Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides...