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

Larry Gara

The Liberty Line

" The underground railroad--with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains--has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this h…

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 …

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…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

Jane Austen

Jane Austen Boxed Set

Fall in love with Jane Austen's timeless romances in this stunning six-volume collector's set.Celebrate the timeless charm of Jane Austen's beloved novels with this beautifully designed six-volume boxed s…

Peter Minosh

Atlantic Unbound

In Atlantic Unbound , Peter Minosh examines neoclassical architecture within the Atlantic World--a site of colonialism, resource extraction, commodity circulation, capital, and slavery spanning Europe, No…

Grant at 200

"It is a compelling collection of essays designed to effect and promote the efficacy of Grant's "reputational reclamation," as well as to examine some lesser known aspects of Grant's life. …

Manuela Kikillus

Almas Erwachen

Als Alma Pundt im Winter 1889 auf der zugefrorenen Weser ins Eis einbricht, rettet Kapitän Gerhard Landmann ihr das Leben. Damit öffnet sich für sie eine Zukunft, die sie nie für möglich gehalten hat. Aus…

Matthew Mullane

World Observation

Longlist, Jan van Gelder Prize, Dutch Society for Art HistoryWorld Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867-1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, wh…

Edward Watts

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

Richard Holmes

The Boundless Deep

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR - SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEIn this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Youn…

Balzac,

A Woman of Thirty

A hot-blooded, sinuously plotted novel by a nineteenth-century master of melodrama---the story of a stifled woman reckoning with the costs of following her heart.Beautiful and vivacious, Julie is not yet …

Alberto Castelli

Beauty in the Western Canon

Dadaist works, such as Duchamp's ready-mades, famously challenge the connection between art and the aesthetic by presenting objects of little or no aesthetic interest, such as urinals, snow shovels, and b…

Anne-Julia Zwierlein

Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals and Public Orality, 1870-1910

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910. Bringing together research on Victorian…

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió

Inland Empire

In Inland Empire , Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió examines how modernist architecture and urban design structured US settler colonialism and capitalist hegemony in the twentieth century. Focusing on Palm Sprin…

Edward J. Stackpole

They Met at Gettysburg

A string of Confederate victories at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville led to the June 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania by General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. As Lee was ai…

Jana Milbocker

Gardens of the Gilded Age

Step into the era when American wealth created landscapes that rivaled European royalty and discover the magnificent gardens that still captivate visitors today.During the Gilded Age in America (1870-1920…

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…

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…