19th Century Books


Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York Best Price: $18.07 When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the...	John C. Calhoun: A Biography Best Price: $161.62 John Calhoun is probably one of the most interesting Americans to ever serve his country. A...	The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Best Price: $12.71 Professor Les Benedict lays out the case for President Johnson's impeachment in this 1972...	State of 'The Union': Marriage and Free Love in the Late 1800s (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) Best Price: $89.00 This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of...	Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum Best Price: $22.00 First off, I must point out that I work about eight blocks away from the infamous Five Points...



1812: The Navy's War Best Price: $17.39 At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America?s prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the...	A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York Best Price: $20.81 Overall this book provides an excellent summary of the Gilded Age in America, from its inception...	I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation Best Price: $13.14 On May 25, 1806, eighty year old Chancellor George Wythe of Virginia's High Court of...	When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Diplomacy, 1800-1860 (America in Crisis)	Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York Best Price: $18.07 When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the...



John C. Calhoun: A Biography Best Price: $161.62 John Calhoun is probably one of the most interesting Americans to ever serve his country. A...	The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson Best Price: $12.71 Professor Les Benedict lays out the case for President Johnson's impeachment in this 1972...	State of 'The Union': Marriage and Free Love in the Late 1800s (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) Best Price: $89.00 This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of...	Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum Best Price: $22.00 First off, I must point out that I work about eight blocks away from the infamous Five Points...	1812: The Navy's War Best Price: $17.39 At the outbreak of the War of 1812, America?s prospects looked dismal. It was clear that the...

A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York Best Price: $20.81 Overall this book provides an excellent summary of the Gilded Age in America, from its inception...	I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation Best Price: $13.14 On May 25, 1806, eighty year old Chancellor George Wythe of Virginia's High Court of...	When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Diplomacy, 1800-1860 (America in Crisis)	The Great Adventure: How the Mounties Conquered the West Best Price: $6.99 With little training and less experience, in 1873 150 men embarked upon a 900-mile march from...	"I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice Best Price: $8.50 As a graduate from UC Davis with a minor in Native American Studies, and being of Cherokee...

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first...	Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era, 1890-1920 Best Price: $201.95 The Progressive Era may be described as a broad-based response by Americans from diverse...	Heralds of Promise: The Drama of the American People During the Age of Jackson, 1829-1849 (Contributions in American Studies) Best Price: $49.67 Here is a fascinating account of the struggle to create a viable American theatre and dramatic...	The Moment of Decision: Biographical Essays on American Character and Regional Identity (Contributions in American History) Best Price: $119.95 Focusing primarily on 19th-century social reform, political issues, or intellectual issues, the...	War of 1812 Eyewitness Accounts: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Military Studies) Best Price: $112.95 Once regarded as a backwoods frontier skirmish, the War of 1812 has become an object of...

The Popular Press, 1833-1865 (The History of American Journalism) Best Price: $131.95 The third volume in The History of Journalism series, this work provides an overview of the...	Encyclopedia of the Antebellum South Best Price: $28.49 This comprehensive ready-reference encyclopedia of the history, people, events, places,...	Selling Suffrage Best Price: $6.98 Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth...	Making the Invisible Woman Visible	Jacksonian America: Society, Personality, and Politics Best Price: $19.94 In his Jacksonian America, Edward Pessen seeks to dispel what he sees as an unfair glorification...

The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict Best Price: $81.56 Donald R. Hickey departs from conventional approaches to studying what is "probably our...	Prairie Passage: The Illinois & Michigan Canal Corridor Best Price: $237.52 In Prairie Passage, the canal's 150(th) anniversary is commemorated in some 250 stunning...	Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920 Best Price: $21.76 I don't mean to be unkind, but this book is really pretty worthless as much more than...	Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth-Century New York Best Price: $16.49 This is a wonderful book! Summerhill's writing is clear as polished glass and his powerful...	The Baltimore Bank Riot: Political Upheaval in Antebellum Maryland Best Price: $44.95 In August 1835, in the midst of a particularly tumultuous year of nationwide unrest and...

Shared Traditions: SOUTHERN HISTORY AND FOLK CULTURE Best Price: $22.97 Shared Traditions should be required reading. This scholarly, enjoyable book fills the great...	Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries Best Price: $17.08 "In this shocking study, Anne M. Butler shows that the distinct gender disadvantages...	The Burden of Black Religion Best Price: $56.07 I can't even say how much I learned from this book. Really interesting for anyone...	Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier Best Price: $26.93 Most of the history about the Dred Scott US Supreme Court decision focuses on Dred himself; his...	New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age: 1865-1905 Best Price: $28.00 New Spirits: Americans in the "Gilded Age," 1865-1905 provides a fascinating look at...

Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey Best Price: $10.19 I have always had a deep respect for Marcus Moziah Garvey, but this book gives me a new found...	Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America (Inaugural Lectures (University of Oxford)) "Freedom" has never been a fixed category or predetermined concept. Subject to...	The First Wall Street: Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance Best Price: $15.59 Robert E. Wright has written a creative non-fiction masterpiece. From beginning to end I truly...	The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History) Best Price: $71.05 What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for...	Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) Best Price: $26.40

The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s-1914: Speed in the Age of Transatlantic Journalism (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media) Best Price: $68.07 This is the first book to compare and contrast the history of journalism in Britain and America...	Britain and Transnational Progressivism Best Price: $64.99 This collection of essays explores how Progressivism was the historical catalyst for...	Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory Best Price: $104.77 'Moral Dilemmas' presents you with a first hand account of contemporary ethical views. I...	Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America Best Price: $30.00 Professor Takaki picks up where Max Weber left off, in that he illustrates how white men of...	The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828 Best Price: $32.00 DeWitt Clinton's accomplishments have long been trumpeted in New York City and State, and...

The Strange Career of Jim Crow Best Price: $11.35 C. Vann Woodward's "The Strange Career of Jim Crow" was the first major...	In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible (Religion in America) Best Price: $3.98 This monograph addresses the intramural battles among American Protestants over new English...	Mark Twain (Lives & Legacies (Oxford)) Best Price: $0.75 Larzer Ziff admirably demonstrates just how much can be accomplished within a limited space. ...	Slave Narratives after Slavery Best Price: $7.71 The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells...	After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 Best Price: $21.75 After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after...

After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915 Best Price: $12.46 After Redemption fills in a missing chapter in the history of African American life after...	Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $3.35 This book covers the rise and fall of the Progressive movement, a sociopolitical trend that...	Young America: Land, Labor, and the Republican Community Best Price: $11.72 The book is very well researched, and uses a vast amount of resources. It is a great book for...	Frontier Illinois (History of the Trans-Appalachian Frontier) Best Price: $11.48 Historian James E. Davis has once again contributed a scholarly, yet readable book on midwestern...	No Cross, No Crown: Black Nuns in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans I particularly enjoyed the historical bits that the editors included in "No Cross, No...

At Home in the Hoosier Hills: Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana, 1810-1870 (Midwestern History and Culture) Best Price: $25.00 The subtitle says:"Agriculture, Politics, and Religion in Southern Indiana,1810-1870."...	American Picturesque Best Price: $51.44 American picturesque, as defined by John Conron, is America's first aesthetic, one that...	The Americas in Italian Literature and Culture 1700-1825 Best Price: $26.95 An analysis of the perception of the New World in Italian literature and culture of the...	Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-century America (Issues in Policy History) Best Price: $62.56 In recent years, the "Journal of Policy History" has emerged as a major venue for...	The Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion Best Price: $34.99 In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's...

Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel (Galaxy Book) Best Price: $36.23 Woodward, the dean of southern historians, was the author of numerous definitive works on the...	Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy Best Price: $77.08 Throughout history there are characters who aren't at the center of the stage, but who are...	The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier 1776-1890 Best Price: $30.00 When I was in graduate school in the latter 1970s the "new western history" was just...	The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 Best Price: $7.19 In this examination of the rise of agrarian radicalism in the late 19th-century South, Hahn...	Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America Best Price: $16.26 I found this book to be full of surprises. I now know that it is possible for a thorough, well...

Prince among Slaves: The True Story of an African Prince Sold Into Slavery in the American South Best Price: $5.33 According to the reviews on the back cover, Alford's book "vividly re-creates a life as...	The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 Best Price: $39.99 Gienapp was my favorite professor as an undergrad at Harvard, but he never assigned this book...	Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt Best Price: $60.00 This major new work looks at what debt meant to Thomas Jefferson and how that affected his...	Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 Best Price: $28.30 Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform 1890-1935 Robyn Muncy 1991, New Oxford Press....	Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents (Major Issues in American History) Best Price: $54.89 Any college-level collection strong in American history and social studies must have RACE...

Brand of Infamy: A Biography of John Buchanan Floyd Best Price: $234.32 Historians have labeled John Buchanan Floyd a traitor and a coward for his actions during the...	Daily Life in the Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Creating a New Nation (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) Best Price: $35.55 In the early years of the American Republic the political ideals of the Revolution took definite...	Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Daily Lives of Civilians during Wartime) Best Price: $40.00 In most accounts of warfare, civilians suffer cruelties and make sacrifices silently and...	Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America (Health and Wellness in Daily Life) Best Price: $58.00 Health and Wellness in 19th-Century America covers a period of dramatic change in the United...	The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 Best Price: $5.38 On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no...

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival Best Price: $5.99 An 1815 shipwreck and slavery by Arabs told under the Sahara sun today Dean King studied...	Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War Best Price: $7.86 Ten years after the end of the Civil War, an organized group of terrorists successfully...	Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Best Price: $8.82 Sometimes these things are written by Christian enemies with subversive propaganda, but got some...	Ulysses S. Grant and the Strategy of Victory (History of the Civil War Series) Best Price: $14.95 This is one of the better books written about Ulysses S. Grant that are intended for children....	In the Name of the Salish and Kootenai Nation: The 1855 Hell Gate Treaty and the Origin of the Flathead Indian Reservation Best Price: $15.72 On July 16, 1855, eighteen leaders of the Flathead, Kootenai, and Upper Pend d'Oreilles...

The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) Best Price: $16.44 NEW IN PAPER--In this first environmental history of the gold rush, Kathryn Morse describes how...	Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, And Japan Best Price: $35.00 Charles Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, arrived in Yokohama in 1871, intending a...	Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan Best Price: $6.98 This is one of the most fascinating stories I have ever read. Politically correct academics have...	Emerson's Antislavery Writings Best Price: $20.00 Although Ralph Waldo Emerson is commonly recognized as one of the most radical thinkers and...	White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South Best Price: $16.00 The book does absolutely make one think (or better--realize) that the 'Old Days' were...

The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition Best Price: $21.49 OK, it's another Lewis and Clark title - but with a big difference: The Fate Of The Corps:...	The Americas in the Modern Age Best Price: $0.14 In this wide-ranging book, historian Lester D. Langley offers a fresh interpretation of the...	The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers - Archaeological Evidence from the Missouri River (THE PLENUM SERIES IN UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY) (The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology) Best Price: $60.44 The book lives up to its title. It is an excellent example of a study of material remains and...	Allies for Freedom and Blacks on John Brown Best Price: $4.94 John Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figure. Here are two classic studies by a...

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