19th Century – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 6

Prosper Mérimée,

A Slight Misunderstanding and Other Stories

Trapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious dalliance with the elegant Major de Châteaufort. However, the sudden reapp…

Patrick F Cannon,

Robie House

A lavishly illustrated guide to one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most important residential buildingsCompleted in 1910, Robie House was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces, emblematic of his Prairie style…

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

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

"Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massiv…

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums…

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…

Securing Empire

This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats.

Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt

Jefferson's Wolf

A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United State…

Shana Abe

An American Beauty

"Abé is an exquisite storyteller." ---Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace The New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor returns with a spellbin…

David S Brown

A Hell of a Storm

"Insightful." ---The Wall Street Journal * "Noteworthy...readers will come away better informed about antebellum history and how it mirrors current events." ---BooklistThe fascinating …

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…

Peter S Soppelsa

Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…

Peter Hart

Chain of Fire

The dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan.In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that Pri…

Teun Wisse - Unico (Dutch Recorder Sonatas from the early 18th Century)

Teun Wisse (Blockflöte), Teun Braken (Cembalo)

Tom Goyens

Johann Most

Known best for articulating the propaganda of the deed, Johann Most was and still is caricatured as a radical fanatic. Tom Goyens' in-depth biography rediscovers the complexities that animated the German …

Far From The Madding Crowd (1967) (UK Import)

Julie Christie stars in this adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 19th-century story of a woman's passion. Set in Victorian England, the film follows Bathsheba Everdene (Christie), a beautiful, independent woma…

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…

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…