A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York

Reducere. In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucra...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Patrick DeveneyThis is the fascinating story of Paschal Beverly Randolph, an African American who carved his own eccen...

The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 19...

Reducere. Patria: Puerto Rican Revolutionaries in Nineteenth Century New York examines the activities and ideals of Puerto Rican revolutionary exiles in New ...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

A lyrical story of two brothers at odds with each other against a backdrop of Second World War-ravaged London. Distinctive two-colour printed artwork.

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a ...

DescriptionGlossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to f...

An exploration of the dark side of football, of Italy and of far right politics and organised crime: the hard core fans known as the ultras.

This book explores the origins of interior design in nineteenth-century France. It shows how new, modern techniques of image-making and reproductio...

The great German theologian Albert Schweitzer famously drew a line under nineteenth-century historical Jesus research by showing that at the bottom...

Reducere. This volume examines the literature and culture of 19th-century America, covering genres such as the early American novel, realist fiction and hist...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

In March 1886 in the quiet town of Eatontown, New Jersey, a brutal beating and rape took place of a young white woman named Angelina Herbert. She i...

Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London's poor from a rising star British historian - the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid l...

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies...

Reducere. Introducing Detective Inspector Tom Harper in a brand-new historical mystery series. June 1890. Leeds is close to breaking point. The gas workers a...

Reducere. DescriptionNow one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year" From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking--winne...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Aleksander WatNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 132 x 204 x 40Cover type...

Publisher: Froglets Publications LtdAuthor(s): Bob OgleyIllustration(s): 250ill.(some col.).Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 2...

A history of nineteenth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.Publisher: D ...

Reducere. The eight-decade story of a New York neighborhood In 1940, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company opened a planned community in the East Bronx, Ne...

A little-known story of mutiny and murder illustrating the centrality of smuggling and slavery in early American society On the night of June 1, 17...

Reframes our understanding of the history of the girls' book and provides insightful readings of forgotten bestsellers. The book also outlines an a...

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical ca...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Kenneth GoldsmithNumber of pa...

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-ce...

Reducere. A Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his...