Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century

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

This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today...

Reducere. D. L. Moody's reaction was quick and to the point. "No A thousand times no I have no intentions of standing off here in New York City and approving...

Reducere. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...

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

A study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the cour...

Begins with a study of important early figures in the life of the Catholic Apostolic Church, including Edward Irving, Henry Drummond, and John Bate...

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

Reducere. The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of F...

... an extraordinary and richly contextualized biography that highlights the engagement and agency of a little-known African American activist who ...

Fanciful creatures slither, swim, and soar through this full-color adaptation of a rare 19th-century German portfolio. The colorful images include ...

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discu...

Reducere. The development of the piano, together with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This stud...

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

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

Reducere. Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trad...

Reducere. Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, foot...

Reducere. Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appear...

Suitable for those interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture, this work presents a survey of the most popular period in music his...

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...

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Clare Walker GoreIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 208Collection: E...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul W. RhodeIllustration(s): 13 line drawings, 132 tablesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Nati...

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values th...

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Horace O. RussellIllustration(s): 7 ill.Number of pages: 323Collection: Research in Religion and Fam...

Reducere. Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200, 000 free black women...

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion, " but often us...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Caroline ChapmanIllustration(s): 60 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2...

Reducere. DescriptionIra Lapidus' global history of Islamic societies, first published in 1988, has become a classic in the field. For over two decades, it h...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

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

Reducere. The nineteenth century, according to C. Willett Cunnington, was a period when the cult of modesty was a tactical maneuver camouflaged as a virtue. ...

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both ...

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. In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remai...

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...