19Th Century category: 5646 books
by B Franklin, John Schooley
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
A brief overview of the Pennsylvania Oil Rush in the 1860's. After Petroleum describes a trip through the oil producing region in the 1860's. The Oil regions of the United States describes the geological and technical aspects of the era. Good contemporaneous reporting. Illustrated.
Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century
German Mission at Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Addressing an important social and political issue which is still much debated today, this volume explores the connections between religious conversions and gendered identity against the backdrop of a world undergoing significant social transformations. Adopting a collaborative approach to their research,...
by Carlton Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
CERTAIN basic principles in society and in politics were proclaimed by the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Era served to communicate them to Europe. The ensuing period was marked by a bitter struggle within nearly every European state for their general acceptance or for their wholesale rejection....
by Alice K Fallows
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
At the start of the 20th century working your way through college in the United States was a different experience for men and women. Contrasting articles show the attitudinal discrepancies of the time.
Liberalizing Contracts
Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
In Liberalizing Contracts Anat Rosenberg examines nineteenth-century liberal thought in England, as developed through, and as it developed, the concept of contract, understood as the formal legal category of binding agreement, and the relations and human practices at which it gestured, most basically...
Riotous Flesh
Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Nineteenth-century America saw numerous campaigns against masturbation, which was said to cause illness, insanity, and even death. Riotous Flesh explores women’s leadership of those movements, with a specific focus on their rhetorical, social, and political effects, showing how a desire to transform...
by Stefan Arvidsson
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideals played a crucial part not only in the political sphere, but also influenced the way people worked and played, thought and felt, designed and decorated,...
by Heinrich von Treitschke
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in English in 1914, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Adolf Hausrath's edited collection: Treitschke: His Life and Works.
Treitschke remains one of the most important German historians of the nineteenth century. He is also famous for his nationalist sentiments and political...
Battle of Spicheren
August 1870
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2009
This account, penned by a noted British military historian of the late nineteenth century, remains one of the best narratives of a nineteenth century battle yet published. Henderson based this detailed and considered account of one of the opening battles of the Franco-Prussian War upon not only General...
The Hoggs of Texas
Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas’s most extraordinarily families and tells their story. In their own words, which are published here for the first time. Rich in details, the more...
Family, Law, and Inheritance in America
A Social and Legal History of Nineteenth-Century Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Yvonne Pitts explores inheritance practices by focusing on nineteenth-century testamentary capacity trials in Kentucky in which disinherited family members challenged relatives' wills. These disappointed heirs claimed that their departed relative lacked the capacity required to write a valid will....
Sympathy, Madness, and Crime
How Four Nineteenth-Century Journalists Made the Newspaper Women's Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In one of her escapades as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, the renowned Nellie Bly feigned insanity in 1889 and slipped, undercover, behind the grim walls of Blackwell's Island mental asylum. She emerged ten days later with a vivid tale about life in a madhouse. Her asylum articles...
by Tim Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
This book provides the first account of the invention of the tramp as a social type in the United States between the 1870s and the 1930s. Tim Cresswell considers the ways in which the tramp was imagined and described and how, by World War II, it was being reclassified and rendered invisible. He describes...
Notorious Woman
The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?--1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama -- a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to justify...