Gunsmoke and Saddle Leather: Firearms in the Nineteenth-Century American West, Hardcover - Charles G. Worman

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...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

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

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

In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing ...

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...

Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100, 000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlant...

Reducere. Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the ...

DescriptionA powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational ...

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...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 344Collection: Global Shakespeare InvertedPublication date: 2022Dim...

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Reducere. By the Wand of Some Magician addresses the severe impact of railroad technology upon its arrival into Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century that in...

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...

Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white America...

DescriptionA dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revo...

When cowboys were workers and battled their bossesIn the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of "rugged individualism, " ind...

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

The unforgettable story of one woman who leaves behind her hardscrabble childhood in Alaska to travel the country via freight train--a beautiful me...

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. ...

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 ...

This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field the history of letters and letter writing is essential reading for anyone in...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave...

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

Reducere. The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions o...

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DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

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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...