Trefferliste "19th Century" - alle Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr

Jaap Jacobs

A Firm Peace and Sincere Friendship?

For four centuries, people from the Netherlands have gone to America by boat or plane, to explore the country, to trade, to colonise, to settle, to do business, to find a new future or simply to visit the…

Fintan Lane

William Thompson

This book is the first comprehensively researched study of the life and thought of Irish-born William Thompson (1778-1833), who is regarded by historians of socialist thought as the most influential theor…

Paul Lewis McBain

A Drunken Bee

Sunthorn Phu (1786-1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a "drunken writer" by the court astrologer after his de…

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…

Omar Youssef Cheta

How Commerce Became Legal

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting co…

Anthology of 17th Century French Pieces for Baroque Lute - Vol. 1

Steven K Green

American Infidelity

American Infidelity is a timely, provocative exploration of a forgotten chapter in American history--one that still echoes in our most urgent cultural debates.In the final decades of the 19th century, Ame…

Sally Grant

The Works: Vincent Van Gogh

Explore the life and art of Vincent van Gogh through 50 of his most important works.Part of a brand new series celebrating the works of great artists, The Works: Vincent Van Gogh is an exquisite explorati…

Rafael Walker

Realism After the Individual

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age.Reali…

Karsten Ruppert

Für Freiheit und Einheit

Die deutsche Revolution von 1848/49, ein Markstein der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte, wird von einem ausgewiesenen Kenner der Epoche einem interessierten Publikum verständlich gemacht. Es werden nicht di…

Jarvis R Givens

American Grammar

A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as "the great equal…

Joseph Imorde

Reproduktionsindustrie

Die im Buch versammelten Texte untersuchen den Einfluss "Billiger Bilder" auf die Formierung kunsthistorischen Wissens um 1900. Zwei Themen werden dabei vorrangig verfolgt: Erstens die Geschicht…

Sarah Shurts

Napoleon

Discover the man behind the myths of Napoleon Bonaparte as this book debunks popular fictions, such as Napoleon being very short or shooting the nose off the sphinx, and gives readers the true history beh…

Richard Aspin

The Lure of the South

The Lure of the South looks at the experience of British health seekers in the explosion of continental touring that occurred after the opening of the Post-Napoleonic European continent to relatively easy…

Spies in European Culture, 1815-1914

This volume brings together academics from the USA and across Europe to examine the nature, representations and perceptions of the figure of the spy in Europe between 1815 and 1914. As such, it is the fir…

Clarence Lusane

The Black History of the White House: Expanded Edition

As the federal government attempts to erase all evidence of Black Americans' civic participation and achievements from official websites, museums and even from the National Park system, this Expanded Edit…

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice (British Library Deluxe Facsimile Edition)

This handsome three-volume deluxe facsimile of the first edition of Jane Austen's beloved novel packaged with folded personal letters Austen wrote is a must-have collectible for fans, bibliophiles, and an…

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Thoreau's Journal Drawings

Examining journal drawings as an integral---and often delightful---feature of Thoreau's workIn 1850, Henry David Thoreau began to draw in his Journal---a hedgehog's quill, a locust's wing, a goldenrod lea…

David Mence

Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …