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Melissa Daggett
Eugène and Eulalie

Melissa Daggett's Eugène and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mande…

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Betsy Golden Kellem
Jumping Through Hoops

"Jumping Through Hoops reveals the hidden history of early female circus performers: boundary-breaking women like Lavinia Warren, known as The Queen of Beauty; Millie-Christine McKoy, the Two-Headed …

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Matthew Perkins-McVey
Intoxicated Ways of Knowing

Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century. Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner of mod…

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Lee Alan Dugatkin
Nary a Horse Left Standing

How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt---but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation. From a veteran science writer, evolutionary bio…

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Todd Savitt
Race And Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century America

An examination of the medical experiences of African AmericansDuring the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were s…

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Sarah Gold McBride
Whiskerology

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the colonial period as disposable, to be donned or removed like clothing, ha…

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Jeanna Smialek
The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth

The untold story of the nineteenth-century novelist who outsold Jane Austen and wove provocative theories into her fiction---changing economics foreverAt the end of the eighteenth century, Europe faced re…

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Paul Fyfe
Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, t…

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Donna Giver-Johnston
Claiming the Call to Preach

Claiming the Call to Preach critically examines the dominant historical narrative that overtly or covertly has exercised its power to keep women from preaching. Donna Giver-Johnston here recovers the hist…

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Colin Anderson
Culture and Containment

Movement--who moves, where they move, and how they move--has long been perceived as a racial threat in the United States. To better understand why, Colin Anderson examines how popular culture played a cen…

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Robert E C Davis
Lieutenants and Light

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Ari…

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Michael E Woods
The Business of Bigotry

Amid nineteenth-century America's fierce battles over slavery and freedom, few proslavery partisans argued more vehemently for the supremacy of the white race than John Van Evrie (1814--96). A New York--b…

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Pedro L V Welch
Could It Be the Congos?

This ground-breaking work offers a detailed exploration of the diagnosis and treatment of yellow fever by British military doctors in the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing…

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Ruth Ennis
The Migrant and her Trafficker

Dialectics of the Global

By the end of the nineteenth century, terms like "white slavery", "la traite des blanches" and "Mädchenhandel" had become linguistic equivalents to describe the (coerced) tra…

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Louise Mcreynolds
Excavating Empire

This book tells the story of imperial Russia's archeologists, the pioneering generations of men and women who took their trowels to the burial tumuli, Russia's kurgans, and went digging to unearth a tangi…

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Voices of War

Voices of War: The Russian Experienceis a collection of historical literature containing pieces that focus on the mentality of warriors and observers of war in Russian culture over time, and the attitude …

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Jennifer Lunden
American Breakdown

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author's quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chr…

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Stephen Boys Smith
Two Months on the Nile

British Consul with a long-standing interest in archaeology Thomas Sandwith's account of his two months travelling in Egypt provides a valuable new primary source on a dynamic period in Egyptian history. …

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Conor Heffernan
When Fitness Went Global

This book provides the first detailed account of how and why fitness and physical culture underwent rapid globalization in the 19th century.

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Voices of War

Voices of War: The Russian Experienceis a collection of historical literature containing pieces that focus on the mentality of warriors and observers of war in Russian culture over time, and the attitude …

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