Portrait's Subject. Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Paperback - Sarah Blackwood

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled th...

For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inco...

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

Cracking Up archives and analyzes Black feminist stand-up comedy in the United States over the past sixty years. Looking closely at the work of Jac...

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

Reducere. The widely recognized "Dreamer narrative" celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizensh...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

Inventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells's work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his inter...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 231 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Seung...

Looking at the careers of significant political commentators of the 20th century, this sourcebook includes print and broadcast journalists, scholar...

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...

This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian English context, using the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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...

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...

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

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): James WolfeNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage...

Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over...

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 ...

An accessible course book on U.S.-Latin American relationsPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Britta H. CrandallNumber of pages: 504Publicat...

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