Y.A - 19th Century 1

American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumer……続きを見る

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incur……続きを見る

Father Jean Pierre, a missionary priest from Brittany, France, answered a call to serve in sparsely populated Shreveport, where he chose to remain when a yellow fever epidemic struck in 1873. From a……続きを見る

Prior to European colonization, the world was thickly populated with hundreds of independent states and vibrant regional state systems. Yet these states are typically excluded from traditional inter……続きを見る

Les « trois magistrats niais » (Baudelaire), qui ont jugé que l’auteur des Fleurs du Mal et ses éditeurs outrageaient la morale publique et les bonnes mœurs, se doutaient-ils que la postérité les dé……続きを見る

Most equine authorities consider Alexander Keene Richards (1827–1881) one of the nineteenth century’s most significant Thoroughbred importers and breeders. Born in Georgetown, Kentucky, and orphaned……続きを見る

George Bourne was one of the early American republic’s first immediate abolitionists, an influential figure who paved the way for the campaign against slavery in the antebellum period. His approach ……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

Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post–Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For ……続きを見る

The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, revised and updated. Saidiya Hartman has been praised as “one of our most brilliant contemporary thinker……続きを見る

In "What I Saw in California," Edwin Bryant presents a vivid and engaging account of his journey through the American West during the mid-19th century. The book is notable for its detailed observati……続きを見る

"American Notes" by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1891, offers a vivid and insightful account of the author's travels across the United States. Through meticulous observations and engaging prose, Ki……続きを見る

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer……続きを見る

Publicado originalmente em 1997 e hoje um clássico dos estudos afro-americanos, Cenas da sujeição ganhou versão ampliada nos 25 anos de seu lançamento, confirmando Saidiya Hartman como uma das vozes……続きを見る

This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality. The book is a diachronically elaborated history of brick architecture, ……続きを見る

Unearth bounty from the Mississippi Delta The conquistadors staggered through the Delta half-starved, mostly naked, dripping with swamp water. They became the first Europeans to walk in the shade of……続きを見る

By: F.A. Battle & Company, Pub. 1889, Reprinted 2017, 960 pages, New Full Name Index, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-355-9. This book, representative of many of the Biographical sketch books done in the ……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

The first-ever biography of the ultra-radical thinker Robert Wedderburn, from his native Jamaica to metropole London, by an award-winning historian Robert Wedderburn (1762–1834/5) was one of the mos……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson served as the 3rd President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. His two terms in the office are remembered for the Louisiana Purchase, an embargo against trade with both Great B……続きを見る

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, on……続きを見る

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime Asia in the early modern period from c. 1585-1800. ……続きを見る

"What drove Napoleon to conquer Europe? What made his strategies so revolutionary that they still influence modern warfare today?" In The Napoleonic Empire: A Riveting Exploration of the Battles, St……続きを見る

Aujourd’hui encore, Napoléon déchaine les passions. Il y a plus de livres écrits sur lui que de jours qui se sont écoulés depuis sa mort. C’est le personnage le plus interprété au cinéma, devant le ……続きを見る

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and……続きを見る

I turned and reached out into the river to fill my little bucket with water, when somehow, I lost my balance and slipped into the rushing, foaming river. I had on my red riding cloak and hood that M……続きを見る

This stirring chronicle of the 1832 Black Hawk War examines the forces struggling for control over the American frontier. The Sauk Nation once occupied one of North America's largest and most prospe……続きを見る

The frank, funny, and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues. Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. Wha……続きを見る

How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core ideals Exporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both foreign and domest……続きを見る

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative framework to periodize the history from 1850s to 2010s. Ki……続きを見る