anne - 19th Century 1

In the summer of 1865, when Captain Edward Stamp began to organize the construction of a small sawmilling operation on the south shore of Burrard Inlet, he likely never realized that a future metrop……続きを見る

Guyenot de Châteaubourg (1745-1824), tour à tour agent pour le compte de plusieurs aristocrates, commis de la monarchie, maître de forges et concessionnaire de canal sut cumuler des fonctions divers……続きを見る

Contributed by leading scholars of Quebec Studies, both emerging and established, the 30 essays of this comprehensive collection offer a multidisciplinary survey of the study of diversity in Quebec ……続きを見る

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, now a major motion picture, comes an incisive study of our obsession with gossip. "A fascinating, dishy story." -B……続きを見る

The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein. Montillo recounts……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage aborde, à travers le cas de Nantes, l’aménagement des ports et les enjeux de pouvoir sur un territoire au xixe siècle. L’objectif est de questionner cet aménagement comme une dimension e……続きを見る

« Que voulez-vous... Nous sommes trop noirs et trop loin de Paris... » Le propos, désabusé, reflète le peu de cas que faisait l’intelligentsia française de la fin du XIXe siècle des écoles professio……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

Buying and Selling Civil War Memory explores the ways in which Gilded Age manufacturers, advertisers, publishers, and others commercialized Civil War memory. Advertisers used images of the war to se……続きを見る

Tells the story of the 1,500 or so common seamen of the American merchant marine who were held as prisoners of war in France during the Napoleonic Wars. Based on extensive original research, this bo……続きを見る

Les femmes ont toujours travaillé. Ainsi au xixe siècle, elles sont présentes partout dans la sphère commerciale. Elles gèrent des manufactures, tiennent les comptes et s’occupent de la clientèle d’……続きを見る

Soigner les pauvres, telle est la vocation de milliers de jeunes femmes qui, tout au long du xixe siècle, prennent le voile en France et concrétisent ainsi un désir de vie religieuse et de service. ……続きを見る

This book examines the emergence of women as audiences and speakers on the British metropolitan lecture circuit and in mass print representations from 1870 to 1910. Bringing together research on Vic……続きを見る

O. ZEGNA RATA, L’acheminement vers la parole, ou l’éducation de Gargantua; I.R. MORRISON, Rabelais contre Machiavel dans Gargantua; P. GILMAN and A.C. KELLER, Why Rabelais wrote Gargantua after Pant……続きを見る

Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy……続きを見る

By: Anne King Gregorie, Pub. 1954, Reprint 2018, 574 pages, E-BOOK, Index, ISBN #978-63914-378-8. Sumter County sits on the banks of the Wateree River in central SC. It was created in 1800 from Crav……続きを見る

Twee eeuwen boeiende treingeschiedenis samengebracht Nog eerder dan de eerste auto, fiets, tram of het motorvliegtuig was er de trein. Op 26 september 1825 maakte de stoomtrein in Engeland zijn entr……続きを見る

Thomas Downing, the son of free slaves, rose from collecting oysters to running New York City's most elegant oyster restaurant. He became New York City's early 19th-century Oyster King and a promine……続きを見る

**“Dennis and Jeanne DeValeria pay overdue homage to the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Flying Dutchman, perhaps the premier shortstop in baseball history.” ー**The Toronto Globe and Mail Honus Wagner is gener……続きを見る

In "Kanossa" entfaltet Johannes Scherr ein episches Bild der moralischen und politischen Wirren des Mittelalters, geprägt von der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Kirche und Weltlichkeit. Durch einen nar……続きを見る

Die Französische Revolution bildet eine entscheidende Zäsur für die französische wie auch die europäische Geschichte. Sie markiert den Beginn der Moderne und legte die Grundsteine für Entwicklungen,……続きを見る

Revendiqué désormais par nombre de nos dirigeants politiques, sujet de films et d'expositions à succès, le souvenir de Clemenceau n'a jamais semblé aussi vivant, aussi stimulant. Mais cette large ad……続きを見る

TALES OF HUMAN FRAILTY, GREED AND OBSESSION AND, OCCASIONALLY, LOVE "The eldest son of a great family, a youth of eighteen, has, we hear, lately eloped to Scotland, with his mother's maid" - Leeds I……続きを見る

Jeanne E. Abrams “has written a sweeping, challenging, and provocative history of Jewish women in the American West . . . a pathbreaking work.”* The image of the West looms large in the American ima……続きを見る

“[Abrams] gives life to Martha, Abigail, and Dolley, illuminating the importance of their position to American history . . . compelling storytelling.” ーLibrary Journal, starred review America’s fir……続きを見る

A look at the Statue of Liberty as a timeless work of art and as a political statement by those who conceived it and by their contemporaries in the late 19th century. This is the first essay in Outd……続きを見る

Was life on the range in the 1880s and 1890s anything like the hard riding, hard working, hard drinking shoot 'em up images that moviegoers saw in old Westerns? Yes-and then some, the authentic docu……続きを見る

Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great B……続きを見る

He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kidーwhose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaughーled a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaug……続きを見る

In this fascinating book, originally published in 1989, Anne Smith records interviews with a group of octogenerian women, covering all social classes and a great variety of experience. She allows th……続きを見る