19th Century

Historians of the nineteenth-century rural South have long distinguished the antebellum agricultural system of plantations and gang-style slave labor from the family tenancy system that is thought to have developed only after the Civil War. In Farm...

The eleven contributors to The Girl's Own explore British and American Victorian representations of the adolescent girl by drawing on such contemporary sources as conduct books, housekeeping manuals, periodicals, biographies, photographs, paintings, and...

In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina, arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at Champneys. Nearby was Butler's Island, made famous by Fanny Kemble...

When Horace Greeley published his famous imperative, "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country," the frontier was already synonymous with a distinctive type of idealized American masculinity. But Greeley's exhortation also captured...

Georgia Governors in an Age of Change is the first book to present a clear overview of gubernatorial leadership in Georgia during the critical period between 1943 and 1983, covering the administrations of Ellis Arnall, Melvin E. Thompson, Herman...

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after...

The short, bloody career of "Bronco Bill" Walters and his gang captures the devil-may-care violence of the Wild West. In this detailed narrative of the gang's crime spree in territorial New Mexico and Arizona, two experts in outlaw history...

In nineteenth-century North America the beaver was "brown gold." It and other furbearing animals were the targets of an extractive industry like gold mining. Hoping to make their fortunes with the Hudson's Bay Company, young Scots and...

Noble Cunningham's history of the fifth presidency (1817-25) shows a young nation beset by growing pains and led by a cautious politician who had neither the learning nor the intellect of Jefferson or Madison, but whose actions strengthened both the...

When American settlers arrived in the southwestern borderlands, they assumed that the land was unencumbered by property claims. But, as Maria Montoya shows, the Southwest was no empty quarter simply waiting to be parceled up. Although Anglo farmers...

In Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory,...

For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalising forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806146935Author John H SchroederFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 408g

Theodore Roosevelt is best remembered as America's prototypical cowboy" president,a Rough Rider who derived his political wisdom from a youth spent in the untamed American West. But while the great outdoors certainly shaped Roosevelt's identity,...

Grover Cleveland, who served as both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president of the United States, dominated the American political scene from 1884 to 1896. Viewed at one time as a monument of presidential courage, Cleveland has over the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988873162Author James StillFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint South Jersey Culture & History CenterPublisher South Jersey Culture & History...

Nestled on the banks of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains famous as a blockade-running port during the Civil War. Not as renowned is the city's equally vital but less appreciated role during the Revolution. Through the port came...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788426438Author Henry InmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 640g

Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S...

In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political...

Alexander Ross offers a completely authentic account of the earliest attempts by men of European background to come to grips with the climate, geography, and inhabitants of the Northwest at a time when resourcefulness and daring were prime virtues. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806142845Author Will BagleyFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 1134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065377Author John Franklin MeginnessFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976084686Author Josee ClerensFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Foley Square BooksPublisher Foley Square BooksWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857065223Author William W FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 467g

Pioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announced that he had found gold "among the roots of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989943758Author Daniel WayFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Warren County Historical SocieetyPublisher Warren County Historical SocieetyWeight(grams)...

The journals and diaries of John M. Roberts provide an intimate view of the life and dthoughts of a young schoolmaster, miller, itenerant bookseller, and farmer in centreal Ohio in a time of rising sectional crisis and Civil War.Book InformationISBN...

Practically speaking, nineteenth-century American literary history really refers to writings from the East seaboard of the United States. In fact, no author from the West prior to Mark Twain has been admitted into the canon of American literature, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069412Author F C McGlashanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 281g

Henry Demarest Lloyd was one of the post-bellum 19th-century's best known journalists and non-fiction writers. In fact, only E.L. Godkin exceeded Lloyd in influence and prestige, and Godkin wrote no book-length expose with the impact of Lloyd's 1894...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837162737Author Edward P. CrapolFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986406010Author James Edwin YoungFormat HardbackImprint Mmjw BookhousePublisher Mmjw BookhouseWeight(grams) 590g

On the last Thursday in January 1896, Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, accompanied by his eight-year-old son, Henry, left Lincoln, New Mexico, in a buckboard to drive to his home in Las Cruces. He never arrived. Later a pool of blood and a blood-soaked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061652Author William H RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 154g

This volume provides bibliographic control over the extensive literature on the Haymarket Riot. It lists over 1,500 primary and secondary documents and provides descriptive annotations for most entries. It also includes subject and author indexes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989682794Author J M CarlisleFormat HardbackImprint Tangent PublishersPublisher Tangent PublishersWeight(grams) 651g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181878Author Professor Emeritus of History Morton KellerFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068804Author Henry InmanFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 658g

George W. Bush and Al Gore were by no means the first presidential hopefuls to find themselves embroiled in a hotly contested electoral impasse. Two hundred years earlier, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams endured arguably the most controversial and...