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Mary Grace Albanese

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature

Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center …

Snait B. Gissis

Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between 'the biological' and 'the social'. Within these relations, the late nineteenth-century emergence of social sciences aspiring t…

Simon Joyce

LGBT Victorians

LGBT Victorians explores Victorian thought around gender and sexual identity to examine how Victorians considered these identity categories to have produced and shaped each other, highlighting a range of …

Erik de Lange

Menacing Tides

New ideas of security spelled the end of piracy on the Mediterranean Sea during the nineteenth century. As European states ended their military conflicts and privateering wars against one another, they tu…

Martin Johnes

Welsh Not

A radical reinterpretation of the effect of excluding Welsh from schools on the fortunes of the language.Most people in Wales know that some children in the nineteenth century were victims of the Welsh No…

Heidi Brevik-Zender

Beyond Building

Beyond Building offers a groundbreaking exploration of nineteenth-century French architecture through the lens of gender, focusing on the years 1852 to 1902.Highlighting the creative work of four women an…

Ruth Ennis

The Migrant and her Trafficker

By the end of the nineteenth century, terms like "white slavery", "la traite des blanches" and "Mädchenhandel" had become linguistic equivalents to describe the (coerced) tra…

Matthew Perkins-McVey

Intoxicated Ways of Knowing

Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century. Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner of mod…

Celia Applegate

The Work of Music

In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich. She explores the working world of…

Meike Wagner,

Performing Citizenship and German Amateur Theatricals

This open access book proposes a revision of 19th-century theatre history and examines the contribution of amateur theatre practice to European theatre, by shifting the focus to theatre as a cultural, soc…

Andrew Fitzmaurice

King Leopold's Ghostwriter

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the…

Howard Leroy Malchow,

Transatlantic Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

A history of transatlantic culture and Anglo-American relations over the long nineteenth century, showing how it evolved through language, theatre, racial attitudes, tourism and heritage.

Paulina Banas

Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

Nancy Goldstone

The Rebel Empresses

A vivid historical adventure through the royal courts of nineteenth century Europe, telling the stories of rebel empresses Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France

Nancy Goldstone

The Rebel Empresses

A vivid historical adventure through the royal courts of nineteenth century Europe, telling the stories of rebel empresses Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France

José-Modesto Diago Ortega

The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution

The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution narrates and analyzes the largest judicial battle in culture and industrial property in nineteenth century …

Frank Lorenz Müller

Royal Heirs

Against the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. Royal Heirs paints a vivid picture of this late flowering. It focuses on what the heirs to the throne contributed to this phenomenon, …

Alexander Robert Phillips

Ecology and German Realism

Shows, contrary to the traditional view, that the major authors of German literary realism not only thematized environmental transformation but that it was central to their aesthetics.In nineteenth-centur…