Nineteenth-century America – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 4

Faith Barter

Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black wr…

Sarah Jones

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medica…

Karen Wade

Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

This Element describes a data analysis of a collection of Mudie's catalogues spanning eighty years, in order to reassess understandings of the library's role in the nineteenth-century publishing industry.…

Snait B. Gissis

Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between 'the biological' and 'the social'. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring t…

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…

Jeffrey Wheatley

American Fanatics

Shows how religious fanaticism became a tool used to police subversive and targeted religions at home and abroadIn 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the "atmosphere of our country is unquestionably c…

Howard Leroy Malchow,

Transatlantic Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

A history of transatlantic culture and Anglo-American relations over the long nineteenth century, showing how it evolved through language, theatre, racial attitudes, tourism and heritage.

Laurie Anderson

Big Science (Red Vinyl)

“Laurie Anderson is the most compelling performer from New York City's bohemian art scene to land a recording contract since Patti Smith signed with Arista some six years ago. Big Science, Anderson's eeri…

Laurie Anderson

Big Science

“Laurie Anderson is the most compelling performer from New York City's bohemian art scene to land a recording contract since Patti Smith signed with Arista some six years ago. Big Science, Anderson's eeri…

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…

María de Lourdes Ghidoli

Stereotypes in Black

Stereotypes in Black is a sharp examination of the representations and self-representations of Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires through the nineteenth century. Originally published in Spanish, this Englis…

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Kellen R Funk

Law's Machinery

Often overlooked by histories of the world's famous code systems, mid-nineteenth century America settled on a code of practice that elevated lawyers as the dominant force of the country's legal institutio…

Jess Libow

Vigorous Reforms

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was prod…

Kevin M Burton

Apocalyptic Abolitionism

Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left h…

Robert J Miller

Faith of the Fathers

Faith of the Fathers provides a captivating collective biography of the Catholic priests who served in America's most deadly war.Faith of the Fathersbrings to light the forgotten stories of courageous cha…

Richard L Miller

John P. Slough

John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the turbulent events of mid-nineteenth-century America. As a pol…

María de los Ángeles Picone

Landscaping Patagonia

In late nineteenth-century Latin America, governments used new scientific, technological, and geographical knowledge not only to consolidate power and protect borders but also to define the physical conto…