19th Century 100

Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another m……続きを見る

The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Populist Moveme……続きを見る

From the author of What This Cruel War Was Over, a vivid portrait of the Union army’s escaped-slave refugee camps and how they shaped the course of emancipation and citizenship in the United States.……続きを見る

Buffalo Bill's Wild West presents a fascinating analysis of the first famous American to erase the boundary between real history and entertainment Canada, and Europe. Crowds cheered as cowboys and I……続きを見る

On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ra……続きを見る

Extrait : Madame Bergeret quitta la maison conjugale, ainsi qu’elle l’avait annoncé, et se retira chez madame veuve Pouilly, sa mère. Au dernier moment, elle avait pensé ne point partir. Pour peu qu……続きを見る

Extrait : M. Bergeret était à table et prenait son repas modique du soir ; Riquet était couché à ses pieds sur un coussin de tapisserie. Riquet avait l’âme religieuse et rendait à l’homme des honneu……続きを見る

Vivre ailleurs, s'installer durablement et changer de perspectives : des récits d’écrivains contemporains sur cette expérience fantasmée et vécue, faite d'émotions et de résonances. Pourquoi tous ce……続きを見る

Extrait : « Un grafitto ! s’écria mentalement le professeur. » Et il prit garde que la tête de ce bonhomme était surmontée de deux cornes et qu’on avait écrit à côté, pour le faire reconnaître : Ber……続きを見る

Extrait : M. Bergeret préparait sa leçon sur le huitième livre de l’Énéide, et il aurait trouvé dans ce travail, à défaut de joie, la paix de l’esprit et l’inestimable tranquillité de l’âme, s’il n’……続きを見る

Extrait : Le salon où se tenait le cardinal-archevêque pour recevoir les visites avait été revêtu, sous Louis XV, de lambris de bois sculpté peints en gris clair. Des figures de femmes assises parmi……続きを見る

Extrait : Comment ? la Liberté déchaîne ses colères ; Partout, contre l’effort des erreurs séculaires ; La Vérité combat pour s’ouvrir un chemin ; Et ……続きを見る

Gender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil equality, lawmakers ext……続きを見る

What use is thinking? This study addresses the ways in which modern American thinkers have intervened in the public sphere and attempted to mediate relations between social and political institution……続きを見る

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report by the U.S. Army examines battle around the Gulf of Mexico in the War of 1812. The War of 1812 is perhaps t……続きを見る

A heartbreaking and compelling story of a family's experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. From Sam Tademy, the son of a runaway slave, and his fiercely strong wife Polly, to the father a……続きを見る

Jane Austen is one of England’s greatest and best-loved novelists, whose works are still widely read and enjoyed nearly two hundred years after her death. Memories of Jane were increasingly recorded……続きを見る

Queen Victoria reigned for sixty-four years, and in those years Britain changed enormously. Not only were there many scientific and technological advances, such as the spread of railways, a transatl……続きを見る

In 1811, the Prince of Wales was officially appointed Prince Regent to act in place of his ailing father, King George III. The Regency marked a period of high fashion and low morals, famous today fo……続きを見る

During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting ……続きを見る

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study……続きを見る

Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study……続きを見る

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Telegraph Editor’s Choice An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” Selection In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London f……続きを見る

Une vie : Alphonsine Plessis, petite Normande à l'enfance misérable, montée à Paris pour y vendre ses charmes sous le nom de Marie Duplessis, entretenue de plus en plus richement, et morte de tuberc……続きを見る

In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female r……続きを見る

Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and ……続きを見る

A lány megpróbálja követni a szabályokat… Amikor Elizabeth Hotchkiss munkaadója könyvtárában a Hogyan fogjunk márkit egy péld……続きを見る

attraktív – vonzó „Soha senkit még ennyire attraktívnak nem találtam. Vagy szerelmes vagyok, vagy romlott volt a hal, amelyet tegnap este ettem.” Caroline Trent saját szótárából Amikor Blake Ravensc……続きを見る

One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794–1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking……続きを見る

Sir Richard Kenworthynek kevesebb, mint egy hónapja van, hogy feleséget találjon magának. Tudja, hogy nem lehet túl válogatós, de amikor meglátja a csellója mögött elbújó Iris Smythe-Smitht a hírhed……続きを見る