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Jesse Olsavsky
The Most Absolute Abolition

Finalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeJesse Olsavsky's The Most Absolute Abolition tells the dramatic story of how vigilance committees organized the Underground Railroad and revolutionized the abolitionis…

lieferbar ab 13.5.2026.

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Jeffrey A Marx
Jewish Firebugs

Explores the history of Jews and arson in AmericaFollowing the Civil War, prominent fire insurance companies in the United States issued instructions to their agents to deny Jews fire insurance policies b…

lieferbar ab 7.7.2026.

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Rebecca S Graff
Disposing of Modernity

Exploring twentieth-century urban America through trash and artifacts from the 1893 Chicago World's FairThrough archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian E…

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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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Megan Kate Nelson
The Westerners

From award-winning historian Megan Kate Nelson, an epic account of the creation of the American West in the 19th century, shattering the traditional frontier myth that has dominated popular American cultu…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6 A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKFew major European writers of the nineteenth centur…

lieferbar ab 3.9.2026.

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

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Brian D Bunk
Beyond the Field

"Played by both migrants and native-born Americans, soccer created communities across the United States. Brian D. Bunk ranges from Pawtucket to Honolulu as he illuminates the deep and diverse origins…

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Darcy Ingram
The Second Greatest Show on Earth

In 1865 wealthy American expatriate Henry Bergh (1813--1888) chose suddenly to abandon a life of leisure in Europe. Returning to his home city of New York, he set to work on what soon proved a remarkable …

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Donna Loftus,
Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and…

lieferbar ab 24.6.2027.

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The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists

Back in print for the first time in decades. A classic in US labor history.On May 1, 1886, Albert and Lucy Parsons led upwards of 80,000 striking workers and their supporters through the streets of Chicag…

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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…

lieferbar ab 2.6.2026.

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Gerald R Gems
Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport

Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport explores the historical role of sport in the prescription for mental and physical health through the epidemic of neurasthenia, a debilitating neurological diso…

lieferbar ab 23.7.2026.

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Milos Jovanovic
Cities of Dust and Mud

This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ott…

lieferbar ab 9.6.2026.

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Milos Jovanovic
Cities of Dust and Mud

This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ott…

lieferbar ab 9.6.2026.

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Michael Degruccio
The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole's America

"This book offers a gripping tale of ambition, self-making, and tragedy set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and its aftermath. This meticulously researched microhistory of a pained vet…

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Melvin Patrick Ely
A Terrible Intimacy

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between Black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of &q…

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

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Wendy E Chmielewski, Jill Norgren
Her Hat Was in the Ring

Reveals the untold story of over 6,000 women who ran for office between 1850-1920, expanding our understanding of women's fight for full political citizenship beyond suffrageHer Hat Was in the Ring detail…

lieferbar ab 15.9.2026.

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Shaun R C Wallace
In Pursuit of Freedom

In Pursuit of Freedom is a pioneering study of advertisements for fugitive slaves published in the early American South. Recovering, reconstructing, and reimagining stories that fugitive slaves compelled …

lieferbar ab 1.5.2026.

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Julie Dobrow
Love and Loss After Wounded Knee

A dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their timeLike any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaime…

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