19th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Carnegie Medal 2024.Book InformationISBN 9780804197847Author Scott W. BergFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Pantheon BooksPublisher Pantheon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565544574Author Robert CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 180g

How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to longer-term cultural reintegration? Bringing together experts on civil wars around the modern world - the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479811106Author Matthew J ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g

The South possessed an extensive history of looking outward, specifically southward, to solve internal tensions over slavery and economic competition in the 1820s through the 1860s. Nineteenth-century southerners invested in their futures, and in their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163777Author Paul KahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

The utopian socialism of Charles Fourier spread throughout Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, but it was in the United States that it generated the most intense excitement. In this rich and engaging narrative, Carl J. Guarneri traces the American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479816712Author Anna Mae DuaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Hundreds of miles from its supply center in Chihuahua and just freed from the grip of Spain's mercantilist colonial policies, New Mexico was ripe for foreign commerce when the first of the Missouri traders arrived in Santa Fe in 1821. For the next forty...

In the Old Northwest from 1830-1870, a bold set of activists battled slavery and racial prejudice. This book is about their expansive efforts to eradicate southern slavery and its local influence in the contentious milieu of four new states carved out of...

"The year 1816 found America on the cusp of political, social,cultural, and economic modernity. Celebrating its fortieth year of independence, the country's sense of self was maturing. Americans, who had emerged from the War of 1812 with their...

When President James Monroe announced in 1824 that the large public debt inherited from the War for Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and the War of 1812 would be extinguished on January 1, 1835, Congress responded by crafting legislation to...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

While the dynamic urban landscapes of New York, Boston, and Chicago have been widely studied, there is much to be gleaned from west coast cities, especially in California, where the migration boom at the end of the nineteenth century permanently changed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512808742Author Carl WittkeFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375712982Author Richard KlugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063268708Author Linda HirshmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 135g

New Orleans is unique - which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans's fame and...

Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions reveals the life of an Italian Jesuit as he worked at three missions in the northern Rocky Mountains from 1874 to 1878. Meticulously translated and carefully annotated, the letters of Father Philip...

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book...

2021 Nebraska Book AwardNever Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four plains groups—American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and...

Thirty-five classic stories fill this book about San Antonio's seamier side, from the days of the Old West when Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson came by, Rowdy Joe Lowe ran a saloon on Main Plaza and Butch Cassidy got away from Madame Fanny Porter's in time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781313286176Author Jared SparksFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint HardPress PublishingPublisher HardPress LtdWeight(grams) 152g

In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their...

New England Christianity in the nineteenth century produced an almost unending stream of new and old denominations that speckled the landscape. Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Universalists, Spiritualists, Unitarians, Restorationists, and...

When Atlanta enacted prohibition in 1885, it was the largest city in the United States to do so. A Most Stirring and Significant Episode examines the rise of temperance sentiment among freed African Americans that made this vote possible-as well as the...

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the Flats in Los Angeles to interrogate the connections between a city's physical landscape and the poverty and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978800472Author Danielle T. Phillips-CunninghamFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438468235Author Janet Dorothy LarkinFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364411Author Laurence JurdemFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 145mm *...

A vivid description of ColoradoBook InformationISBN 9780252031229Author Eugene H. BerwangerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Illinois PressPublisher University of Illinois Press

Harris maintains that Lincoln held a fundamentally conservative position on the process of reintegrating the South, one that permitted a large measure of self-reconstruction, and that he did not modify his position late in the war. He examines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812253047Author Edward J BlumFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania PressWeight(grams)...

The mythmakers of US expansion have expressed “manifest destiny” in many different ways—and so have its many discontents. A multidisciplinary study that delves into these contrasts and contradictions, Inventing Destiny offers a broad yet penetrating...

Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days-when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of...

Speaking of the emergence of modernism, author Virginia Woolf famously said: "On or about December 1910, human character changed." But was the shift to modernism really so revolutionary? J. M. Mancini argues that it was not. She proposes that the origins...

Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work sheds new light on slavery and Southern history, as it probes the conscience of a troubled jurist...

Although slaveholding southerners and Catholics in general had little in common, both groups found themselves relentlessly attacked in the northern evangelical press during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In Catholics, Slaveholders, and the...

This book explores the lives and worldviews of Indiana's southern hill-country residents during much of the 19th century. Focusing on local institutions, political, economic, and religious, it gives voice to the plain farmers of the region and reveals...

Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life...