19Th Century category: 5646 books
Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses
Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Crosses, candles, choir vestments, sanctuary flowers, and stained glass are common church features found in nearly all mainline denominations of American Christianity today. Most Protestant churchgoers would be surprised to learn, however, that at one time these elements were viewed with suspicion...
by Jacob Riis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Jacob Riis (May 3, 1849 May 26, 1914) is best known as a social reformer who used photography to document different social classes. In particular, his journalism and photography displayed the plight of the poor in New York City, and his attempt to help them resulted in How the Other Half Lives, a turn...
Writers in Retrospect
The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills--from burgeoning immigration to American anti-intellectualism...
Race over Empire
Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Generations of historians have maintained that in the last decade of the nineteenth century white-supremacist racial ideologies such as Anglo-Saxonism, social Darwinism, benevolent assimilation, and the concept of the "white man's burden" drove American imperialist ventures in the nonwhite...
Acts of Modernity
The Historical Novel and Effective Communication, 1814–1901
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In Acts of Modernity, David Buchanan reads nineteenth-century historical novels from Scotland, America, France, and Canada as instances of modern discourse reflective of community concerns and methods that were transatlantic in scope. Following on revolutionary events at home and abroad, the unique...
Male voices on women's rights
An anthology of nineteenth-century British texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Male voices on women’s rights is a timely complement to the studies undertaken in recent years on men’s roles in the history of feminism.This unique collection of seminal, little-known or forgotten writings, spanning from 1809 to 1913, will help the revision of many common assumptions and misconceptions...
City People
The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1982
This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.
Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Essays on Gender, Family and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In the space of barely fifteen years, the history of masculinity has become an important dimension of social and cultural history. John Tosh has been in the forefront of the field since the beginning, having written A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (1999),...
The Trouble with Empire
Challenges to Modern British Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The Trouble with Empire contends that dissent and disruption were constant features of imperial experience and that they should, therefore, drive narratives of the modern British imperial past. Moving across the one hundred years between the first Anglo-Afghan war and Gandhi's salt marches, the book...
The Great Divorce
A Nineteenth-Century Mother's Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
**“Ilyon Woo presents the earliest child custody laws of this country with vivid relevance . . . both legal and feminist details are fascinating.” —**St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Great Divorce is the dramatic, richly textured story of one of nineteenth-century America’s most infamous...
Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods
Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young ’native’ children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand,...
The Lawyer of the Church
Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Mexico’s Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.
The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican...
Empires of Coal
Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing...
The Chosen Wars
How Judaism Became an American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
“Weisman’s meticulously researched and fluently argued book is a compelling story of a glorious past. It is also a guide to the foreseeable future. The chosen wars rage on, but now, at least, we have a manual to help us fight them more mindfully.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Chosen...