19th-century – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 5

Natasha Fyffe, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Robert Howard, Sarah Thomas

Richard Dadd

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from July 25th to October 25th, 2026, this book brings together more than 60 works that track Richard Dadd's life and career.Richard Dadd…

Honoré de Balzac,

A Woman of Thirty

A hot-blooded, sinuously plotted novel by a nineteenth-century master of melodrama---the story of a stifled woman reckoning with the costs of following her heart.Beautiful and vivacious, Julie is not yet …

India Hayford

Days of Sun and Shadow

Born into tragedy but gifted with a powerful connection to the natural world, a resilient young woman comes of age amid the wild beauty of early-1800s Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas in this incandescent, ha…

Grant at 200

"It is a compelling collection of essays designed to effect and promote the efficacy of Grant's "reputational reclamation," as well as to examine some lesser known aspects of Grant's life. …

Richard Holmes

The Boundless Deep

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize - In this dazzling new biography, Richard Holmes, critically acclaimed author of The Age of Wonder, discovers in Young Tennyson an astonishingly magnetic and merc…

Larry J Daniel

Richmond Views the West

How did politicians, bureaucrats, reporters, and civilians in Richmond understand a war being fought a thousand miles away? Expert Civil War historian Larry Daniel shows for the first time how poor intell…

Marcel Proust

Swann in Love

A stand-alone novella from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time highlighting love's transformative force and the trap lying beneath: the insidious reach of jealousy.Swann in Love is part of the Macmilla…

Edward Watts

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

Sergio Luzzatto

The First Fascist

The First Fascist tells the story of Marquis de Morès, an architect of the Dreyfus Affair and a pioneer of blending populism, white supremacy, and open antisemitism. Through violent stunts and media savvy…

Cassandra Newby-Alexander

Daily Life Along the Underground Railroad

Understand the daily choices, fears, and experiences of freedom seekers along the Underground Railroad.Delving into the lives and stories of everyday men and women either escaping slavery or helping other…

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

"Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massiv…

Alison Rattle, Allison Vale

American History Bite-Sized

Celebrating 250 years of America, this is the definitive and entertaining tour through the moments that have shaped the USA. American History Bite-Sized offers an engaging and accessible overview of the e…

Lux Musicae London - Vestiva (Embellishing 16th & 17th Century Music)

Lux Musicae London

Shana Abe

An American Beauty

"Abé is an exquisite storyteller." ---Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace The New York Times bestselling author of The Second Mrs. Astor returns with a spellbin…

Christa Dierksheide, Nicholas Guyatt

Jefferson's Wolf

A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson's long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United State…

Peter Hart

Chain of Fire

The dramatic story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily violent 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan.In the 1880s, British control over northeastern Africa was a political minefield that Pri…

Anthology of 17th Century French Pieces for Baroque Lute - Vol. 1

Damian Clavel

Financing Sovereignty

Financing Sovereignty rewrites the story of one of the great financial frauds of the nineteenth century: Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish mercenary and self-proclaimed cacique of Poyais, borrowed massive sums…

Joseph Imorde

Reproduktionsindustrie

Die im Buch versammelten Texte untersuchen den Einfluss "Billiger Bilder" auf die Formierung kunsthistorischen Wissens um 1900. Zwei Themen werden dabei vorrangig verfolgt: Erstens die Geschicht…