19th Century

In 1988 Greenwood Press published the Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery to wide acclaim by the library community and scholars in the field. The Dictionary was issued at a time when the study of slavery commanded a central place in American historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837100500Author Charles Albert CollmanFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806307282Author TolerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806307602Author William Matthew MarineFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 606g

Firsthand accounts offer students, scholars, or anyone interested in the pivotal period preceding the Civil War a look at how America's press covered important national issues and events of the day, from the passage of the Missouri Compromise through...

Despite his major role in early American history, President James Monroe has been the subject of limited scholarly work, due largely to the difficulty of locating his papers, especially in a published collection. Monroe scholarship is based on only 25...

This study established an intellectual profile of Albert Gallatin through his vision of government's role in a democratic republic and the republic's role in the community of nations. Only through a comprehensive analysis of Gallatin's political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857062055Author Cynthia Ann ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 181g

American railroads were the Internet of the 19th century. The whole country opened up. Industry exploded. Numerous fortunes were made, lost, and sometimes made again. Railroads had a profound impact on technology, business, politics, and culture. This...

Early nineteenth century America saw the first wave of post-Independence immigration. Germans, Irish, Englishmen, Scandinavians, and even Chinese on the west coast began to arrive in significant numbers, profoundly impacting national developments like...

The second and concluding volume of Professor Ashworth's study of American antebellum politics, this book offers an exciting new interpretation of the origins of the Civil War. The volume deals with the politics of the 1850s and with the plunge into...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674180697Author University Ernest R MayFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 635g

In 1832, 57 Irish Catholic workers were brought to the United States to lay one of the most difficult miles of American railway, Duffy's Cut of the Pennsylvania Railroad. These men were chosen because, in the eyes of the railroad company that hired them,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316924856Author Geoffrey C WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 467g

One of the most influential men in nineteenth-century America, Horace Greeley is remembered not only as the editor and publisher of the New York Tribune but also for his contribution to the profession of journalism, for his role in the nomination and...

One of the leading scholars dealing with early communication history in America, Richard Brown discusses how information moved through eighteenth and nineteenth-century American society, principally through the expansion of the printed word and its...

What could be more 'liberal' than the modern idea of social responsibility for crime - that crime is less the product of free will than of poverty and other social forces beyond the individual's control? And what could be more 'progressive' than the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837164083Author Stephan Chapin DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837197456Author Robert F. Berkhofer, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Published in 1949, this selection of letters between Robert Mackay, and his wife, Eliza Anne Mackay, provide unique insight into the life of a southern merchant during the early part of the nineteenth century. The Mackay's correspondence covers business,...

Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left behind by the Massie family, Pharsalia's owners, this...

The Oberlin College mission to Jamaica, begun in the 1830s, was an ambitious, and ultimately troubled, effort to use the example of emancipation in the British West Indies to advance the domestic agenda of American abolitionists. White Americans hoped to...

Integrating social, cultural, economic, and political history, this is a study of the factors that grounded--or swayed--the loyalties of non-Spaniards living under Spanish rule on the southern frontier. In particular, Andrew McMichael looks at the...

In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the world. Aspiring miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe flooded California looking for gold. The cry of instant wealth was also heard and answered by Jewish...

Few American battles have been the object of as much discussion and popular fascination as the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet after more than a century, a great number of questions remain unanswered. Many are destined to remain so. No white man...

Although many associate Franklin D. Roosevelt with the inauguration of the robust, dominant American presidency, the roots of his executive leadership style go much deeper. Examining the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William...

Although many associate Franklin D. Roosevelt with the inauguration of the robust, dominant American presidency, the roots of his executive leadership style go much deeper. Examining the presidencies of John Quincy Adams, Ulysses S. Grant, and William...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809501038Author Carson Davis CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 148Imprint Borgo PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809069323Author Professor of History Andrew C IsenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S...

M. K. Beauchamp's Instruments of Empire examines the challenges that resulted from U.S. territorial expansion through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. With the acquisition of this vast region, the United States gained a colonial European population whose...

Wallace Stegner called South Pass "one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West." Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806351056Author BlizzardFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 239g

Col. George Wright’s campaign against the Yakima, Spokane, Coeur d’Alene, Palouse, and other Indian peoples of eastern Washington Territory was intended to punish them for a recent attack on another U.S. Army force. Wright had once appeared to respect...

The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. Newspaper coverage of the battle initiated hot debates about whether the U.S. government should change its policy toward American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806169002Author Fritz WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the years from the California gold rush of 1849 to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. In two decades, the West was conquered and the...

When President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their great exploratory expedition of the lands west of the Mississippi, the journey was destined to become the most famous and significant American land expedition...

This is the story of Montana Territory in the last half of the nineteenth century, when a massive influx of gold seekers brought murderers and robbers into the region and forced the creation of an organization of law-abiding citizens known as the...