19th-century – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 5

Honoré de 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 …

India Hayford

Days of Sun and Shadow

Born into tragedy but gifted with a powerful connection to the natural world, a resilient young woman comes of age amid the wild beauty of early-1800s Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas in this incandescent, ha…

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. …

Richard Holmes

The Boundless Deep

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize - In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and merc…

Larry J Daniel

Richmond Views the West

How did politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, and civilians in Richmond understand a war being fought a thousand miles away? Expert Civil War historian Larry Daniel shows for the first time how poor intell…

Marcel Proust

Swann in Love

A stand-alone novella from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time highlighting love's transformative force and the trap lying beneath: the insidious reach of jealousy.Swann in Love is part of the Macmilla…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

David S Brown

A Hell of a Storm

"Insightful." ---The Wall Street Journal * "Noteworthy...readers will come away better informed about antebellum history and how it mirrors current events." ---BooklistThe fascinating …

Paul Lewis McBain

A Drunken Bee

Sunthorn Phu (1786-1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a "drunken writer" by the court astrologer after his de…

Omar Youssef Cheta

How Commerce Became Legal

When Egypt's markets opened to private capital in the 1840s, a new infrastructure of commercial laws and institutions emerged. Egypt became the site of profound legal experimentation, and the resulting co…

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.

Peter S Soppelsa

Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…