19th Century 4

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."ーThe Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: An……続きを見る

A Kentucky Cuckoo’s Egg is a 2500 word history short about the duel between Secretary of State Henry Clay and Senator John Randolph in 1826. It also delves into the history of dueling generally and ……続きを見る

This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from its origins in the helter-skelter ferment of antebellum capitalism to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a……続きを見る

The Gold Hunters offers a unique look at the life in the gold camps of the nineteenth century American West ー the different cultures attracted by the discovery of gold, how they related to one anot……続きを見る

The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." ー Christian Science Monitor “As Hochschild’s brilliant bo……続きを見る

FOR MOST people Bismarck is the man of “blood and iron”; he coined the phrase himself and he lived up to it. But he was much more; he had an intellectual ascendancy over all the politicians of his d……続きを見る

The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality to the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism.
 
 Cotton is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisib……続きを見る

Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas……続きを見る

Maria Carolina, la “giustiziera del 1799”, moglie terribile e dispotica di Ferdinando IV, morta nel settembre del 1814 e donna Lucia, duchessa di Floridia, docile e conciliante bella siciliana, spos……続きを見る

Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy organic foods each year, spending billions of dollar……続きを見る

The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White M……続きを見る

Kamakura: Fact and Legend, has long been the definitive work on Kamakura. This classic book is the lifetime achievement of Countess Iso Mutsu (née Gertrude Ethel Passingham), a talented, inquisitive……続きを見る

Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) hat mit Gemälden wie dem «Tetschener Altar» und dem «Mönch am Meer» seine Zeitgenossen gleichermaßen irritiert und fasziniert. Heute sind sie Ikonen der deutsche……続きを見る

Eine behütete Kindheit im Pfarrhaus zu Günsbach und viel Freiheit, um in der Natur herumzustreunen, die Liebe zu Tieren und das Mitgefühl mit allen Leidenden zu entdecken, frühe musische und religiö……続きを見る

A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedo……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were……続きを見る

The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of people within their national borders: the ……続きを見る

This study investigates the history of the Confederate Army of Tennessee from formation under command of Braxton Bragg through the eve of Chickamauga. The specific question to be answered is whether……続きを見る

"What is the hangman but a servant of law? And what is that law but an expression of public opinion? And if public opinion be brutal and thou a component part thereof, art thou not the hangman's acc……続きを見る

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the British colonies of Hong Kong, Australia ……続きを見る

The riveting story of the nineteenth-century rise of the Prussian armyーa key factor in the unification of Germanyーwith maps and illustrations. On July 3, 1866, a Prussian force overwhelmed and def……続きを見る

This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times. As Ireland has one of the oldest literatures in Europe, and also one of the most com……続きを見る

Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, bo……続きを見る

"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" is a blueprint for the prototypical American, chronicling Benjamin Franklin's life as a printer, diplomat, statesman, patriot, scientist, inventor, and write……続きを見る

The objective of the research project is to examine how the Union and Confederate naval strategies and new naval technologies affected the conduct of the American Civil War. With regard to the Union……続きを見る

The Battles of Antietam and Gettysburg are widely recognized as tactical victories for the Union’s Army of the Potomac. Following both battles, however, the respective commanding generals. General M……続きを見る

For readers of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton, the spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America.……続きを見る

Illustrated with 23 maps and plans of the campaign and engagements at Chickamauga. This thesis is a historical analysis and assessment of Major General John Bell Hood’s Division during the Battle of……続きを見る

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor 'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to……続きを見る

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center ……続きを見る