M.B - 19th Century 1

The Civil War was not the end, as is often thought, of reformist activism among abolitionists. After emancipation was achieved, they broadened their struggle to pursue equal rights for women, state ……続きを見る

Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of t……続きを見る

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris a……続きを見る

George S. Bernard was a Petersburg lawyer and member of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Over the course of his life, Bernard wrote extensively about his wartime experiences……続きを見る

How can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb trace……続きを見る

BnF collection ebooks - "Les deux tiers de ma vie sont écoulés ; pourquoi tant m'inquiéter sur ce qui m'en reste ? La plus brillante fortune ne mérite point le tourment que je me donne, ni les petit……続きを見る

In "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839," Fanny Kemble offers a poignant and meticulously observed account of her experiences on a Southern plantation during the antebellum pe……続きを見る

By: William Bryan and Robert Rose, Orig. Pub. 1876, Reprint 2018, 590 pages, Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-502-7. This book is in 5 parts: The Life of Daniel Boone; Early Days in Missouri; Histor……続きを見る

In "The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X," Imbert de Saint-Amand delves into the intricate tapestry of the French monarchy during a tumultuous period characterized by political strife and……続きを見る

Club Life of London in two volumes is a work of social history that presents the pictures of the social life of England's Capital, with anecdotes of the clubs, coffee-houses and taverns of the metro……続きを見る

Chambers was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (18271911), a corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (18421913). His parents met when his mother was twelve year……続きを見る

Dai giornali d'epoca Questa volta, Umberto De Petri si occupa di Bannio, all'interno della collana "Cronache dei Comuni ossolani". La ricerca si è svolta presso la Biblioteca G. Contini di Domodosso……続きを見る

**“In this slim and eminently readable volume, author Frank Lambert makes a case for the Barbary Wars as the first true test of American Independence.” ー**H-Net Reviews The history of America’s con……続きを見る

In "The Captured Scout of the Army of the James," H. Clay Trumbull deftly intertwines a gripping narrative set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Written during a period when literary r……続きを見る

In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy……続きを見る

"The Life and Adventures of Zambaan African King: His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina" by Zamba Zembola is an autobiographical work. In it, Zembola describes his kidnapping and 40 years of l……続きを見る

In "The Middle Period, 1817-1858," John William Burgess meticulously explores a pivotal era in American history, highlighting the social, political, and intellectual transformations that underpinned……続きを見る

'The only remarkable thing people can tell of their doings these days is that they have stayed at home', declared George Eliot in 1869. In Victorian and Edwardian Britain travel became the rage. The……続きを見る

" Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and Distributed by the University Press of Kentucky This period of Kentucky's history began with the unsettled society following the close of the Civil……続きを見る

In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the “Jewish question” in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as clerical and populist politicians emerged to denou……続きを見る

In the last third of the nineteenth century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this divi……続きを見る

This updated, new edition of this book explores the emergence of what the author terms "late modernist freakish aesthetics"– a creative fusion of "high" and "low" themes and forms in relation to dis……続きを見る

A distanza di quattro anni dalla prima raccolta su Craveggia dal 1895 al 1925, il seguito delle Cronache dal 1926 al 1960. La Val Vigezzo, anche denominata valle dei pittori, ha per De Petri un part……続きを見る

La Val Vigezzo - Turismo e arte La Valle Vigezzo è uno scrigno contenente preziosi tesori e il paese di Craveggia è uno di questi. Ho dunque deciso, dopo avere raccolto le cronache di Crana, che die……続きを見る

The modern, centralized American state was supposedly born in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Kimberley S. Johnson argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Cooperative federalism was not bo……続きを見る

Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1850s, American Commodore Matthew Perry e……続きを見る

On June 3, 1920, Brigadier General Mott Hooton was laid to rest in a quiet corner of Oaklands Cemetery, a leafy burial ground on the outskirts of the small south eastern Pennsylvania town of West Ch……続きを見る

Journalism in the Civil War Era presents the historical context of Civil War journalismーplacing the press of the era within the entire nineteenth century. It gives a broad account of journalism in ……続きを見る

The rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discrimination Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Samuel Ringgold Ward (……続きを見る

Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of t……続きを見る