19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Margaret Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a long essay written by American journalist Margaret Fuller in 1843. Fuller was also a woman’s rights advocate and this work shows her thoughts on the inequality of women during her time. A table of contents is included.
Bound By a Mighty Vow
Sisterhood and Women's Fraternities, 1870-1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2004
Sororities are often thought of as exclusive clubs for socially inclined college students, but Bound by a Mighty Vow, a history of the women's Greek system, demonstrates that these organizations have always served more serious purposes. Diana Turk explores the founding and development of the earliest...
Children's Games in the New Media Age
Childlore, Media and the Playground
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media...
Life in the Victorian Kitchen
Culinary Secrets and Servants' Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
A fascinating and deeply researched behind-the-scenes journey into Victorian-era kitchens, with authentic nineteenth-century techniques, tips, and recipes.
Have you ever wondered what life was like for domestic servants, the etiquette involved during upper class banquets, or simply wished for...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
This engaging and humanizing text traces the development of Europe since the mid-eighteenth century through the lives of people of the time. Capturing key moments, themes, and events in the continent's turbulent modern past, the book explores how ordinary Europeans both shaped their societies and...
Garden Variety
The American Tomato from Corporate to Heirloom
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Chopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American food, fast and slow, high and low, be without the tomato? The tomato represents the best and worst...
Capitalism by Gaslight
Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets by...
The Hammered Dulcimer
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2001
The last quarter of the twentieth-century saw a renewed interest in the hammered dulcimer in the United States at the grassroots level as well as from elements of the Folk Revival. This book offers the reader a discussion of the medieval origins of the dulcimer and its subsequent spread under many...
Cities, Railways, Modernities
London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Cities, Railways, Modernities chronicles the transformation that London and Paris experienced during the nineteenth century through the lens of the London Underground and the Paris Métro. By highlighting the multiple ways in which the future of the two cities was imagined and the role that railways...
The Boy's Book About Indians (Illustrated Edition)
Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Edmund Tuttle was Post-Chaplain at Fort Russell, in the Wyoming Territory for three years during the early 1870s. As well, he spent many years among the Native American trives of Western New York. As a result, Tuttle had the opportunity to observe and interact personally with a variety of Native Americans.
Tuttle...
Chickamauga 1863
The river of death
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
By the Autumn of 1863 the Confederacy was in dire straits. In a colossal gamble, Confederate President Jefferson Davis stripped forces from all the major Confederate armies to reinforce the Army of Tennessee in a last ditch attempt to crush the Union. On 19th September the Confederates attacked the...
by Thomas J. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Alan Nolan's 1961 Iron Brigade, the classic study of Brigadier General John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan, drew public attention to the superior unit during the Civil War Centennial. Since then, much has been written...
Traces of the Bloody Struggle
The Civil War at Stevenson Ridge, Spotsylvania Court House
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
As the 1864 Overland Campaign shifted from the Wilderness toward Spotsylvania Court House, Confederate commander Robert E. Lee successfully bottlenecked the Federal army just outside the village. Undeterred, Union commander Ulysses S. Grant sent part of his forces on a wide flanking maneuver to attack...
Through the Keyhole
Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country House
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
A deft analysis of sex, power, and the media in the Regency era describes how the scandalous private lives of the Georgian aristocracy were used to undermine hereditary powerThe potent allure of sex, money, and power has always created a public appetite for juicy tales of scandal in the hidden private...