19th Century History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 10

Jesse Olsavsky
The Most Absolute Abolition

Finalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeJesse Olsavsky's The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionis…

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Chloe Chapin
Suitable

The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has men's business clothing been so plain for the la…

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John Houghton
The Spanish Navy in the War of 1898

An examination of the Spanish-American War from the perspective of the Spanish Navy.The Spanish American War of 1898 is a significant conflict. It marked a milestone in the development of the United State…

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Nathaniel Boyd
Hegel and German Public Law

Nathaniel Boyd's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel's political thought was shaped by German public law. This tradition of legal discourse, especially through its imperial tradition, was crucial to Europ…

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Dennis Drabelle
The Power of Scenery

Featured in the Wall Street Journal' s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide 2021 Marfield Prize FinalistWallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had." But where did the idea origina…

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Megan Kate Nelson
The Westerners

From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American cultu…

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Kevin M Burton
Apocalyptic Abolitionism

Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left h…

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Alison Rattle, Allison Vale
American History Bite-Sized

Celebrating 250 years of America, this is the definitive and entertaining tour through the moments that have shaped the USA. American History Bite-Sized offers an engaging and accessible overview of the e…

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Kassia St Clair
The Race to the Future

The racers-an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalists-battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gobi Dese…

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David J Anderson,
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy and American Civil War Memory

It is surprising that scholars of Civil War memory have paid relatively little attention to the function of nostalgia within the Lost Cause movement created by white southern political, military, and civi…

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Joseph Sassoon
The Sassoons

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade--…

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Tom D Crouch
Smithson's Gamble

"Discover the incredible history of how the Smithsonian and the United States grew alongside each other"--

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Robert E C Davis
Lieutenants and Light

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Ari…

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Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne

In Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Patricia Dunlavy Valenti presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's spouse on her own terms, situating her remarkable life within its own historical, philosophical, and cultural c…

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Patricia Dunlavy Valenti
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne

In Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Patricia Dunlavy Valenti presents Nathaniel Hawthorne's spouse on her own terms, situating her remarkable life within its own historical, philosophical, and cultural c…

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Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century

"This collection reveals how the fields of dance and science informed each other's development and engaged with dominant European worldviews during a time of unprecedented colonial expansion"--

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Tambora

A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed …

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Jeffrey A Marx
Jewish Firebugs

Explores the history of Jews and arson in AmericaFollowing the Civil War, prominent fire insurance companies in the United States issued instructions to their agents to deny Jews fire insurance policies b…

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Stephen R Platt
Imperial Twilight

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.As one…

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Melvin Patrick Ely
A Terrible Intimacy

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of &q…

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