19th Century – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 5

Martha A Sandweiss

The Girl in the Middle

Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American WestIn 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort…

Natasha Fyffe, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Robert Howard, Sarah Thomas

Richard Dadd

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from July 25th to October 25th, 2026, this book brings together more than 60 works that track Richard Dadd's life and career.Richard Dadd…

Paola A. Revilla Orías

Entangled Coercion

This book investigates the phenomenon of slavery and other forms of servitude experienced by people of African or indigenous origin who were taken captive and then subjected to forced labor in Charcas (Bo…

Steve Friesen

Lakota Performers in Europe

From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage. Wearing beaded moccasins and eagle-feather headdresses, they set up tepees, danced, and demonstrated marksma…

Sarah Kay Bierle

Glorious Courage

A look at Confederate hero John Pelham, separating the real man from Lost Cause mythmaking."It is glorious to see such courage in one so young!"So declared Confederate General Robert E. Lee on D…

Prosper Mérimée,

A Slight Misunderstanding and Other Stories

Only edition in printTrapped 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. Howe…

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…

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…

Michael Vorenberg

Lincoln's Peace

FINALIST FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZE • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025 • One historian's journey to find the end of the Civil War---and, along the way, to expand our understanding of the nature of…

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…

Jaap Jacobs

A Firm Peace and Sincere Friendship?

For four centuries, people from the Netherlands have gone to America by boat or plane, to explore the country, to trade, to colonise, to settle, to do business, to find a new future or simply to visit the…

Amiee Nwabuike, Gabriel Peragine, Matt Dwinell

Mothman Goes West

In a quest to outdo the Jersey Devil, Mothman embarks on an adventure out west to meet as many cryptids as he can.Follow Mothman as he travels along the Oregon Trail and encounters a weird cast of monster…

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…

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…

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…

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…