19th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565848122Author Olivier RazacFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 19g

In February 1810, Wellington formed what became the most famous British unit in the Peninsular War: the Light Division. Formed around the 43rd and 52nd Light Infantry and the 95th Rifles, the exploits of these three regiments would become legendary. Over...

An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on bourgeois culture and society. Using Arthur Schnitzler, the...

The outbreaks and collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. This book, first published in 1983, attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare...

The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628330Author Thomas ScotlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934125Author Bryan MacMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

In 1798 the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628101Author Gareth GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Charles George Gordon was the preeminent military hero of the late-Victorian British Empire. A lifetime officer in the Royal Engineers, he served in several theaters of war and imperial contest, most notably China and the Sudan. His last assignment took...

The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge, all claiming to 'reveal the truth' or to understand 'the reason why'; exactly what happened at...

Effie Gray was an innocent victim of a male-dominated society, repressed and mistreated. Or was she? John Ruskin, the greatest art critic and social reformer of his time, was a callous misogynist and upholder of the patriarchy. Or was he? John Everett...

Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth...

The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870-1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century. This volume considers a range of...

This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393881179Author John F FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint Cappa PressPublisher Cappa PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics...

In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447115179Author Milan RepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 313g

One scarcely knows whether to laugh or cry. The spectacle presented, in Cynthia Russett's splendid book, of nineteenth-century white male scientists and thinkers earnestly trying to prove women inferior to men--thereby providing, along with "savages" and...

A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century China Photography's development as a new form of art and technology coincided with profound changes in the way...

A major work which will become the standard work on the subject offers a definitive survey of peasant society in Russia from the establishment of serfdom in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant society under Stalin.Reviews"All...

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting...

Blood, Bilge and Iron Balls is a set of wargame rules for naval battles in the age of sail. With them you can recreate the triumphs of Nelson or Hawke or tackle pirates on the Spanish Main. The rules themselves are very simple and easy to learn. Each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845495596Author John BeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint arima publishingPublisher arima publishingWeight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish...

The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable and unfashionable slang, its...

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and...

The Routledge Handbook of the Crimean War is an edited collection of articles on the various aspects of the Crimean War written by distinguished historians from various countries. Part I focuses on diplomatic, military and regional perspectives. Part II...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174768Author Quintin BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996515375Author Violeta KelertasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Birchwood PressPublisher Birchwood PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Education of the Senses draws on a vast array of primary sources to reexamine nineteenth-century sexual behavior, overturning a number of stereotypes, especially about women and sexuality.About the AuthorPeter Gay (1923-2015) was the author of more than...

Winner of the Women's History Network Prize 2014Winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize 2015Empire, Race and the Politics of Anti-Caste provides the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Impey and her radical political magazine,...

The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery of national self-confidence. Though political crises such as the Dreyfus Affair threatened to tear it apart, the Republic established firm parliamentary...

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes "a masterwork of history" (Lawrence Wright, author of God Save Texas), the spellbinding, epic account of the last year of the Civil War.The...

On the night of February 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine was ripped in half by an explosion in Havana harbor with the loss of 266 American lives. War with Spain followed nine weeks later. After a three-month fight on two fronts half a world apart,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942503491Author Samuel GreggFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Acton InstitutePublisher Acton InstituteWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties' literature as dominated by aestheticism, and shows how many late Victorian writers tried to break with...

This work tells the story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the...

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might...