Nineteenthcentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 4

Stephen Boys Smith
Two Months on the Nile

A new primary source on the history of travel to Egypt and the 'Golden Age' of Archaeology and Egyptology.

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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…

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Clay Rogers, Fred Huddleston
The Galveston Dispatches

In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next ele…

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Erik de Lange
Menacing Tides

New ideas of security spelled the end of piracy on the Mediterranean Sea during the nineteenth century. As European states ended their military conflicts and privateering wars against one another, they tu…

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Ruth Ennis
The Migrant and her Trafficker

Dialectics of the Global

By the end of the nineteenth century, terms like "white slavery", "la traite des blanches" and "Mädchenhandel" had become linguistic equivalents to describe the (coerced) tra…

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Thomas M Fuerst
Prophetic Peril

Prophecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the bib…

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Danielle Rosvally
Theatres of Value

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City. Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and off…

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Ethnography and Folklore in Print

Throughout the nineteenth century, social expressions and dynamics have been reflected in the surge of various printed products. The contributors analyze a diverse range of sources, such as caricatures, j…

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Practice in Context

Many of the best known and most regularly performed works of the Western Classical Music canon were written in the nineteenth century. Although this repertoire is loved by audiences and performers, ninete…

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Thomas M Fuerst
Prophetic Peril

Prophecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the bib…

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Marshall C. Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Fanny Fern,
A Fanny Fern Reader

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper write…

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Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Inside Chinese Theater

"In the nineteenth century, opera emerged as a Cantonese regional culture and soon followed the Chinese diaspora to San Francisco. Nancy Yunhwa Rao brings to light the ways Chinese theaters became wo…

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Jess Libow
Vigorous Reforms

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was prod…

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Henry French, Ralph Fyfe, Leonard Baker
The Reclamation of Exmoor Revisited

In 1818 the Royal Forest of Exmoor was sold by the Crown to the Worcestershire ironfounder John Knight. Through the nineteenth century the Knight family embarked on the largest upland reclamation scheme i…

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María de Lourdes Ghidoli
Stereotypes in Black

Stereotypes in Black is a sharp examination of the representations and self-representations of Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires through the nineteenth century. Originally published in Spanish, this Englis…

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Donna Giver-Johnston
Claiming the Call to Preach

Claiming the Call to Preach critically examines the dominant historical narrative that overtly or covertly has exercised its power to keep women from preaching. Donna Giver-Johnston here recovers the hist…

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Faith Barter
Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black wr…

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Jameson R. Sweet
Mixed-Blood Histories

An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous historyHistorical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differen…

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Verity McInnis
Women of Empire

In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles…

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