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

Cassandra Newby-Alexander

Daily Life Along the Underground Railroad

Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad.Delving into the lives and stories of everyday men and women either escaping slavery or helping other…

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…

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Osteroratorium BWV 249

Ilse Eerens, Michael Chance, Markus Schäfer, David Wilson-Johnson, Pieter-Jan Belder, Cappella Amsterdam, 18th Century Orchestra, Frans Brüggen

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 massive sums…

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…

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…

Securing Empire

This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats.

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…

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…