D.O - 19th Century 1

Leeuwenhoek’s Legatees and Beijerinck’s Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands offers a tour of the history of Dutch medical virology. Beginning with the discovery of the fi……続きを見る

In "The Critical Period of American History," John Fiske presents a meticulous exploration of the formative years of the United States following the American Revolution. Fiske's literary style is ch……続きを見る

The network of freemasons and Masonic lodges in the Middle East is an opaque and mysterious one, and is all too often seen – within the area – as a vanguard for Western purposes of regional dominati……続きを見る

In the United States we elect members of the House of Representative from single-member districts: the candidate who receives the most votes from each geographically defined district wins a seat in ……続きを見る

Cádiz es la octava novela de la primera serie de los Episodios Nacionales de Benito Pérez Galdós. Continúa con el relato novelado de la Guerra de Independencia entre España y Francia. En esta entreg……続きを見る

Troisième volume de la grande fresque napoléonienne de Dominique de Villepin, La chute est une profonde analyse historique et une réflexion sur la tragédie du pouvoir. Au zénith de son règne, Napolé……続きを見る

“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words……続きを見る

Black soldiers first entered the regular army of the United States in the summer of 1866. While their segregated regiments served in the American West for the following three decades, the promise of……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

As a classic work and out of print for many years, August Schaumann''s diaries provide a graphic and vivi d account of campaigning life during the Peninsular Wars. 続きを見る

Lewis Carroll is one of the most prominent English authors of all time for his work for his masterpiece 'Alice in Wonderland'. There is much more to Lewis Carroll then fantasy fiction and with this ……続きを見る

It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly t……続きを見る

Extrait : "Nous allons mettre sous les yeux du lecteur une pièce curieuse et laisser à son jugement le soin de décider si nous avons calomnié un illustre chirurgien-opérateur du temps passé, en l'ap……続きを見る

No other enterprise in America's history ever approached whaling for adventure. Here, award-winning historian Edouard A. Stackpole describes the early Colonial days when boat crews attacked whales n……続きを見る

The American Reaper adopts a network approach to account for the international diffusion of harvesting technology from North America, from the invention of the reaper through to the formation of a d……続きを見る

In 1705-1706, during the War of the Spanish Succession and two years after a devastating earthquake, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious sudden deaths terrorized Rome. In early modern society, a sudden deat……続きを見る

Red Bird, Red Power tells the story of one of the most influentialーand controversialーAmerican Indian activists of the twentieth century. Zitkala-Ša (1876–1938), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonn……続きを見る

This light romance portrays in considerable detail the social life of Ottawa in the post-Confederation years. The gossip of the capital and the prevailing social customs strengthen the story of Hono……続きを見る

Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman’s Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman’s Union army on January 1, 1864. While she worries ab……続きを見る

Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of……続きを見る

Gabriel’s Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspiracy in the history of the American South. Douglas Egerton illuminates the complex motivations that un……続きを見る

When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turned first to the classic European military texts from……続きを見る

The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation ー George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell ー are explored……続きを見る

After the death of his first wife, Roosevelt set off to the frontier, eventually settling his own ranch in the Dakota Territory. Covering the years of 1884–1886, Roosevelt records, with obvious joy,……続きを見る

This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750. An Imperial ……続きを見る

This rare and long-out-of-print collection of papers and addresses by some of America's early railroad movers and shakers provides a fascinating look into the birth of an industry. They helped chang……続きを見る

This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated an……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage ambitieux propose une cartographie des grandes figures, des idées et controverses du premier socialisme français, aujourd'hui largement méconnu et pourtant incroyablement inventif et act……続きを見る

“[A] remarkably revealing history.…This well-researched, opinionated account does a fine job of filling a surprisingly empty historical niche.” ーPublishers Weekly Citizen-in-Chief, The Second Lives……続きを見る

Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, Jo……続きを見る