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

Elly Griffiths

The Night Watchman

*PREORDER NOW*The latest instalment in the Sunday Times bestselling Ali Dawson Mysteries sees Ali investigating the case of a boy who vanished twenty-seven years ago and finding herself in the past once a…

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…

Douglas RJ. Small

Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930

The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and …

Owen Chase,

Tage des Grauens und der Verzweiflung

Die Männer vom Walfänger "Essex" trauen ihren Augen nicht und sind derart ungläubig, dass sie die Gefahr erst im letzten Moment begreifen. Mitten in der Waljagd sehen sie sich dem Ansturm eines …

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 birth. "Brilliantly written and illuminating." ---Douglas Brinkley, New…

Shona Maclean

The Cromarty Library Circle

From the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Invernesscomes the unforgettable story of a Scottish town on the cusp of change and the group of townspeople whose lives will be irrevocably altered over t…

Philip F Gura

Reading with the Transcendentalists

Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and communityTranscendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical,…

Henry B Lovejoy

Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta

Becoming Sarah Forbes Bonetta tells the extraordinary life story of a girl born Àìná in Òkè-Òdàn, captured during a Dahomey raid, and presented to a British naval officer in 1850. Renamed Sarah Forbes Bon…

Sergio Luzzatto

The First Fascist

The First Fascist tells the story of Marquis de Morès, an architect of the Dreyfus Affair and a pioneer of blending populism, white supremacy, and open antisemitism. Through violent stunts and media savvy…

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Anatomy of Empire

Syphilis had existed in Ottoman society since the sixteenth century, but it became an alarming public health problem in the nineteenth century. As the epidemic raged with population movements across provi…

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Anatomy of Empire

Syphilis had existed in Ottoman society since the sixteenth century, but it became an alarming public health problem in the nineteenth century. As the epidemic raged with population movements across provi…

Nick Louras

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

In 1848, a group of young painters launched a movement that would change British art forever. John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt founded The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood a…

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--…

Philip F Gura

Reading with the Transcendentalists

Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and communityTranscendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical,…

William Scaife

Hood's Tennessee Campaign

In the fall of 1864, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood threatened Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's lines of communications and central Tennessee by driving north from Atlanta, …

Jake McGinnis

The Making of Thoreau's Excursions

Explores Thoreau's excursions as a method of travel writing, showing a literary process grounded in the emergent instability of the Anthropocene.In the final years of his life, Henry David Thoreau outline…

James Fenimore Cooper,

James Fenimore Cooper: Two Novels of the American Revolution (Loa #312)

The American Revolution comes to vivid life in two dramatic tales of espionage, intrigue, and romance from the author of The Last of Mohicans.With his second novel, The Spy:A Tale of the Neutral Ground, i…

Jared Peatman

A Hell of a Regiment

From raw recruits to battlefield legends, the 20th Maine's stand at Gettysburg became one of the defining moments in American history.The 20th Maine needs no introduction. One of the most famous units of …

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang