19th Century History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 9

Peter Cozzens
Deadwood

The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as "the most diabolical town on earth" and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane t…

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David Mckean, M Todd Bennett
The Flag Was Still There

A clear-eyed yet hopeful history of the United States, revisiting the state of the union every fifty years since America's birthAmerica is the rare country that was founded on an idea, and it was a truly …

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Donna Loftus,
Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and…

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Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn, Lyndall Ryan
Empires of Violence

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions …

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Giuliana Perrone
Nothing More than Freedom

After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An …

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Catherine Osborne Decesare
Risk in the Anglo-Atlantic World

Using the experiences of the American ship, John Jay, and the British warship HMSDriver, this book recounts the various hazards faced by U.S. neutral trade vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.The John Jay'…

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Kathryn Dyt
The Nature of Kingship

"The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the int…

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Melissa Daggett
Eugène and Eulalie

Melissa Daggett's Eugène and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mande…

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Mark Twain Remembered

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more.A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow …

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Andrea Major,
Reimagining Empire in India

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s an…

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Aaron M Treadwell
Tongues of Fire

Tongues of Fire is a collection of sermons and other writings by Black preachers that speak directly to lynching in the Jim Crow era. The collection, expertly edited and annotated by Aaron M. Treadwell, f…

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W Caleb McDaniel, Alexander X Byrd
Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University

During the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, s…

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Ellen Gardner Nakamura,
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this b…

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White, William Ryan Smith, Peter Bolton Mangum
Shreveport Martyr Father Jean Pierre

Father Jean Pierre, a missionary priest from Brittany, France, answered a call to serve in sparsely populated Shreveport, where he chose to remain when a yellow fever epidemic struck in 1873. From a persp…

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Darcy Ingram
The Second Greatest Show on Earth

In 1865 wealthy American expatriate Henry Bergh (1813--1888) chose suddenly to abandon a life of leisure in Europe. Returning to his home city of New York, he set to work on what soon proved a remarkable …

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Michelle Henning
A Dirty History of Photography

An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry.Dependent on the extractive practices of fossil-fueled industrial capitalism, chemical phot…

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Sandra Weber
John Brown in New York

An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favo…

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Sandra Weber
John Brown in New York

An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favo…

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Jeremy D Popkin
The First Emancipation

A new history of slavery and the French RevolutionThe First Emancipation is a dramatic account of how slavery and race profoundly influenced the course of the French Revolution and had a central impact on…

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Bruce Chadwick
The Creole Rebellion

The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of the bloody mutiny on board the slave ship Creole . Bound out of Richmond, Virginia, the Creole was seized in a violent takeover by its captives in the m…

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