19th Century

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...

The Long Shadow of Waterloo explores how Waterloo was remembered by the various nations involved, including the French, British, Germans, the influence it had on these nations (and others, including the USA) and how this changed over the 100 years...

[Previously published as 'Went The Day Well'] 'Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best' Spectator 'A book to die for' Evening Standard From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David...

Who were the men who officered the Royal Navy in Nelson's day? This book explores the world of British naval officers at the height of the Royal Navy's power in the age of sail. It describes the full spectrum of officers, from commissioned officers to...

Calculating compassion examines the origins of British relief work in late-nineteenth-century wars on the continent and the fringes of Empire. Commencing with the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, it follows distinguished surgeons and 'lady amateurs' as...

Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096153Author Ralph WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279873Author Gary J. BassFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Available in paperback for the first time, Married to the empire situates women at the centre of the practices and policies of British imperialism. Rebutting interpretations that have marginalised women in the empire, this book demonstrates that women...

Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648372813Author Samantha BattamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Samantha BattamsPublisher Samantha BattamsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do we care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? Do celebrities deserve the outsized attention they receive? Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402201493Author W Travis HanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

To many of the Federal soldiers watching the Stars and Stripes unfurl atop Lookout Mountain on the morning of November 25, 1863, it seemed that the battle to relieve Chattanooga was complete. The Union Army of the Cumberland was no longer trapped in the...

How was Elizabeth Bennett expected to respond to Mr Darcy's gauche advances? How was a mother meant to present her daughter to society for the first time? It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man, even these days (if reasonably...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907677274Author G. F. R. HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This book is the first major study of what was probably the most important centre or pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It sheds new light on the genesis and development of one of the most important scientific theories in the...

Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016 The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as `Rebeccaism' or `the Rebecca riots', stands out as a success story within the generally gloomy annals of popular struggle...

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