19th Century

In January 1804, the once wealthy colony of Saint-Domingue declared its independence from France and adopted the Amerindian name "Haiti." Independence was the outcome of the extraordinary uprising of the colony's slaves. Although a central event in the...

The subject of religious liberty in the nineteenth century has been defined by a liberal narrative that has prevailed since Mill and Macaulay to Trevelyan and Commager, to name only a few philosophers and historians who wrote in English. Underlying this...

Empire-building did not only involve the use of excessive violence against native communities, but also required the gathering of data about the native Other. This is a book about books, which looks at the writings of Western colonial administrators,...

This book charts the history of Teylers Museum from its inception until Lorentz' tenure. From the vantage point of the Museum's scientific instrument collection, it gives an analysis of the changing public role of Teylers Museum over the course of the...

This work reframes the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites through the lens of Grand Tour memories, revealing a distinctive Silver Age of Mountaineering defined by ethnographic rather than imperialistic approaches.

This book offers a tour of the history of medical virology in the Netherlands from the nineteenth century to the new millennium.

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Recollections of ordinary people, in isiXhosa and English translation, of daily life and historical events in the nineteenth century

An intelligent, precocious child, Vicky was educated to fulfil her destiny: to be the consort of the ruler of a liberal, united Germany. But she and her husband, the future Friedrich III, would be isolated in the ultra-conservative Prussian court as...

New paperback edition - Sisters Jane and Cassandra Austen were inseparable and sought one anothers approval in all important decisions. Helen Amy asks would Jane have become a novelist without Cassandra?

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The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freedom tells the forgotten story of people seized from slave ships by maritime patrols, "liberated," then...

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After the success of Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen, Sarah Jane Downing turns her attention to the hair and beauty styles of Jane Austen's era. In Beauty and Cosmetics in the Time of Jane Austen, she examines the beauty ideals of the...

Uncovering the origins of the new sentencing structure that emerged in the course of the nineteenth century, this book travels from the demise of the 'Bloody Code' in the 1830s, through the mid-century transition from convict transportation to home-based...

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 on the City of London's burgeoning South American...

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 on the City of London's burgeoning South American...

A social and transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil Freedom's Horizon is a transnational history of black abolitionism in Brazil. In the last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere, enslaved and free Africans and their...

This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery. Including narratives from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean trades, as...

The long 19th century, approximately 1750 to 1918, was one of significant existential change for peoples across the globe. The beginning of this period saw the expansion of empires, and shortly thereafter, the Euro-American Enlightenment brought about...

Political history and history of ideas, art history, theories of nations and nationalism, Classical Reception studies, modern Greek history and modern Scottish history come together in this collection of essays by experts in all these fields. The...