19th Century

Exiles and Pioneers analyzes the removal and post-removal histories of Shawnee, Delaware, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians. The book argues that the experience of these eastern Indians from the late 1700s to the 1860s was at its core a struggle over...

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415968706Author William PannapackerFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 431g

How providential history-the conviction that God is an active agent in human history-has shaped the American historical imagination In 1847, Protestant missionary Marcus Whitman was killed after a disastrous eleven-year effort to evangelize the...

Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century's great cotton boom required vast human labor to bring new lands under cultivation, and many thousands of slaves were torn...

In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible...

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern's pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular...

"Buffalo Bill in Bologna" reveals that the globalization of American mass culture that seems unstoppable today began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. In fact, by the end of World War I, the United States already boasted an advanced network of...

Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a...

Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues,...

For almost four decades, William Sherrill was a critical leader of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association(UNIA) and a leading African American intellectual and activist in 1930s and 1940s Detroit. But until now, Sherrill's leadership and...

A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the stage for conservation and its legislation.Between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s, the United States witnessed the creation, rapid expansion, and then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108839235Author Robert J. SteinfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 431Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the...

The Panic of 1819 is the story of the first nation-wide economic collapse to strike the United States. It was much more than a banking panic or real estate bubble: it was the culmination of an economic wave that rolled through the United States,...

In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the...

When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that "Our Age is Ocular," he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America's cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city's...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the Southwest, however, two coercive labor systems, debt peonage-in which a debtor negotiated a relationship of...

The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations...

In this anthology, Robert Lewis brings together primary sources on the history of early American theater and variety shows, the materials ranging from programs and advertising bills to contemporary commentary and the memoirs of performers. Although...

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America...

In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. Appearances could be deceiving, and entrepreneurs often relied on their personal reputations to...

John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported...

This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what...

They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small...

John and Abigail Adams sired the first dynasty to shape American politics but they would not witness their family's calamitous fall from grace. When President John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow death of the family's political legacy - a...

The story of the improbable campaign that created America's most enduring monument.The Statue of Liberty is an icon of freedom, a monument to America's multiethnic democracy, and a memorial to Franco-American friendship. That much we know. But the lofty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532598Author Professor Leo DamroschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263812Author Michael WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250282385Author Tom ClavinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 157mm...

No series of events has had a more dramatic impact on the course of American history than the Civil War and the emancipation of four million black slaves. In this book Professor Roger Ransom examines the economic and political factors that led to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809044399Author Langbourne M Williams Michael F HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986070754Author Gale CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 888Imprint Gelcour BooksPublisher Gelcour BooksWeight(grams) 1161gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far away destinations as Australia, Sri Lanka and Egypt. These players, however, represented much...

On a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But with...

When Mount Auburn opened as the first "rural" cemetery in the United States in 1831, it represented a new way for Americans to think about burial sites. It broke with conventional notions about graveyards as places to bury and commemorate the dead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735213241Author Brian KilmeadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

This historical work chronicles the lives, adventures, and discoveries of America's great explorer/naturalists-Lewis & Clark, Martha Maxwell, John James Audubon, John Muir and others.Book InformationISBN 9780815412366Author John MoringFormat HardbackPage...

The nation's leading minister stands accused of adultery. He vehemently denies the charge but confesses to being on "the ragged edge of despair". His alleged lover is a woman of mystical faith, nearly "Catholic" in her piety. Her...

Building a nation by envisioning the future.The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth west-ward. In this innovative study, Thomas Allen posits time, not space,...