19Th Century category: 5646 books
by Tom Lonergan
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Widowed at the age of twenty-one, left penniless with four children to raise, Martha Coston overcame nineteenth century bias to carry on her deceased husbands work, patenting and manufacturing historys first night time signal device. Traveling the world, she then successfully marketed the Coston Night...
Nicodemus
Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and “Redeemer” governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains,...
by Nancy Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Tracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Nancy Cohen offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with modern liberalism were formulated...
Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals
From His Times to Ours
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In this groundbreaking new work, Matthew Mancini tells the surprising story of Alexis de Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century. The author uncovers an historical record that is replete with...
Ax Murders of Saxtown
The Unsolved Crime That Terrorized a Town and Shocked the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
An entire household massacred. A family feud. A sheriff found dead. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Reports of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes.
In 1874, the Saxtown massacre rocked a nation reeling from economic depression and shattered a small German immigrant...
by Eduard Fueter
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
WHAT has hitherto been called "universal history" or "world history" (Weltgeschichte) has been nothing but a conglomeration. People believed they were writing world history if they articulated together in a formal fashion the events of various continents. Writers have been satisfied...
by Terence Byrsa
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
On May 4, 1886, in the first days of a nationwide strike for the eight hour workday, a dynamite bomb was thrown into a police phalanx in the final minutes of a labor protest meeting in downtown Chicago. Eight men were brought to trial and found guilty of the murder of Officer Mathias Degan: Albert...
Song of Dewey Beard
Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic, yet their stories...
On the Edge of Flight
A Lifetime in the Development and Engineering of Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
This is the story of Eric William Absolon, a relentlessly enthusiastic Aviation champion, whose lifelong love of aircraft has never wavered throughout his long and varied career. From boyhood fascination to the adult realization of his ambitions, this first-hand account takes in some of the key events...
by Kathleen Kete
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities —Germaine de Staël , Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier—Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionalist view of ambition prevailed—that is, ambition...
Splendidly Victorian
Essays in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
First published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates...
Calvin Meets Voltaire
The Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlightenment, 1685–1798
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In 1754, Voltaire, one of the most famous and provocative writers of the period, moved to the city of Geneva. Little time passed before he instigated conflict with the clergy and city as he publicly maligned the memory of John Calvin, promoted the culture of the French theater, and incited political...
The Greeks and the British in the Levant, 1800-1960s
Between Empires and Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book explores the concept of ‘the Levant’ as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism. At its heart is a focus on the experience of Greek-speaking societies and, above all, the independent state of Greece that came into existence in 1830. A key sub-theme...
White Hat
The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Best known for his role in the arrest and killing of Crazy Horse and for the book he wrote, The Indian Sign Language, Captain William Philo Clark (1845–1884) was one of the Old Army’s renaissance men, by turns administrator, fighter, diplomat, explorer, and ethnologist. As such, Clark found himself...