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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

Joshua Gooch

Dispositions of Liberalism in Victorian Literature

Joshua Gooch examines how nineteenth-century writers use genre to imagine new ways of thinking-feeling about their implication by racial capitalism, from hope and trust to comfort, cunning, and defiance.C…

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 …

Caroline Winterer

How the New World Became Old

How the idea of deep time transformed how Americans see their country and themselvesDuring the nineteenth century, Americans were shocked to learn that the land beneath their feet had once been stalked by…

Lois Romano

An Inconvenient Widow

A revelatory new biography of one of the most misunderstood and vilified First Ladies in American history: Mary Todd Lincoln.Mary Lincoln was at the center of politics at a time when society's expectation…

Dennard Dayle

How to Dodge a Cannonball

A New York TimesNotable Book of 2025 An NPR Books We Love pick A New York TimesEditors ' Choice pickHow to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariousl…

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…

Treue. Zur Ethik des Realismus

Treue - ausgerechnet mit diesem Begriff aus dem Inventar bürgerlicher Ehen und populärer Romanzen wird im Jahrhundert des Realismus der nicht mehr abzuweisende Anspruch auf die Nachahmung der Wirklichkeit…

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…