19th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375700712Author Thomas P. SlaughterFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 280g

Nineteenth century families had to deal with enormous changes in almost all of life's categories. The first generation of nineteenth century Americans was generally anxious to remove the Anglo from their Anglo-Americanism. The generation that grew up in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983333135Author Karen DustmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Clairitage PressPublisher Clairitage PressWeight(grams) 218g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674331167Author George DargoFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440871863Author Elizabeth B GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint GreenwoodPublisher GreenwoodWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806164762Author Martin WoodsideFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

The Unstoppable Irish follows the changing fortunes of New York's Irish Catholics, commencing with the evacuation of British military forces in late 1783 and concluding one hundred years later with the completion of the initial term of the city's first...

Draws on eyewitness accounts to tell the story of the fabled Santa Fe Trail For nearly half a century, the Santa Fe Trail served as an avenue of exchange, where transactions ranged from friendly give-and-take to guarded trade to lethal attempts to settle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980125085Author Oscar S StrausFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Straus Historical Society, Inc.Publisher Straus Historical Society, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997624991Author James A BrakkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Badger Valley PublishingPublisher Badger Valley PublishingWeight(grams) 336g

On Slavery's Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise. Missouri's strategic access to important waterways made it a key site at the periphery of...

How did 19th-century women determine what behaviors and attitudes constituted femininity, and how did one generation pass on to another those social attitudes and adaptations deemed proper and necessary for womankind? Theriot argues convincingly that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788447754Author Stuart L ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061669Author William H RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250389Author Arthur Meier SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857069221Author Margaret Irvin CarringtonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738801582Author Jack Edward ShayFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 186g

This book provides a comprehensive description of what being sick and receiving "medical care" was like in 19th-century America, allowing modern readers to truly appreciate the scale of the improvements in healthcare theory and practice. Health...

In the sixty years before the American Civil War, the South Carolina Upcountry evolved from an isolated subsistence region that served as a stronghold of Jeffersonian Republicanism into a mature cotton-producing region with a burgeoning commercial sector...

During the 1850s, the Jacksonian party system broke down in the North and a new sectional party, the Republicans, succeeded the Whigs in the nation's two party system. Using demographic, voting, and other statistical analysis,as well as the more...

In 1838, the U.S. Government began to forcibly relocate thousands of Cherokees from their homelands in Georgia to the Western territories. The event the Cherokees called The Trail Where They Cried meant their own loss of life, sovereignty, and property...

In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that US management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth...

In the 1984 presidential election, only half of the eligible electorate exercised its right to vote. Why does politics no longer excite many-of not most Americans? Michael McGerr attrributes the decline in voting in the American North to the...

Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Civil Service recreates the white-collar world of middle-class workers from the Civil War to 1900. It reveals how men who worked in federal agencies...

A product of the ""spiritual hothouse"" of the Second Great Awakening, Spiritualism became the fastest growing religion in the nation during the 1850s, and one of the principal responses to the widespread perception that American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578859927Author Kay Baker GastonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Belmont MansionPublisher Belmont MansionWeight(grams) 152g

A view into the smoke-filled saloons, brothels, and gambling "hells" of the frontier West Joseph Lowe attracted trouble the way a magnet draws iron. Eventually this strange talent cost him his life, but not before he had made his mark in a good...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837166735Author W.S. FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Religious, political, social, and health reform earmarked the Progressive Era. The era's health reform movement-like today's clean living movement-saw campaigns against alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and sexuality. It included crusades for exercise, vegetarian...

The successful conclusion of the War of 1812 ushered in a new age of American history: the Jacksonian era. This book explores the background, motives, and goals of political and social leaders who dominated this era. Divided into three categories-Whigs,...

Matilda Joslyn Gage was a woman's rights' activist during the 19th century, committed to the woman suffrage movement and civil rights. This book brings needed attention to Gage's life and work and explores her impact on women's rights. Using an advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061782Author Andy AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997127638Author A E RichmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Media HatcheryPublisher Media HatcheryWeight(grams) 152g

A history of various efforts to desegregate northern schools during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, exploring two dominant themes. The first considers the role of law in accomplishing racial change. Most northern state...

The massacre at Haun's Mill is a defining moment in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Mormon Church. The Mormons were at war in 1838. They had come to Missouri at the urging of their prophet, Joseph Smith, but after a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674420854Author Frederick MerkFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809073986Author Louise BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

"By beginning where the standard works leave off and carrying the story up to its logical conclusion in 1865, this book fills a definite void in the history of the fur trade in the American West. Set in the upper Missouri country, which was bypassed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857060792Author William LayFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 191g

Although urban historians point to the creation of the American public library as one response to the chaos experienced by big cities at the end of the 19th century, this study shows that the library developed in the rural community of Hagerstown,...