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Lucas Nossaman

Divine Cosmos

Tells the story of how 19th-century American writers re-envisioned science and religion in the age of German naturalist-explorer Alexander von Humboldt's "cosmic" ecology.When Alexander von Humb…

Thomas Allen

Vital Moments

The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from …

Joel Rasmussen

Rasmussen, J: Short History of Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

Was nineteenth-century philosophy merely a substitute for religion? The American philosopher Richard Rorty once argued precisely that. Rorty saw intellectuals of the long nineteenth-century (c 1789-1914) …

Jacob Ivey

Policing, Race, and the Formation of Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Natal

This book traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during 'the formative period' of the colony between 1845 and 1899. It examines how whi…

Michiel van Dam

Languages of Belief and Early Sociology in Nineteenth-Century France

This book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief. The author argues that …

Lauren Gillingham

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for ar…

Faith Barter

Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black wr…

Faith Barter

Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamphlets, political speeches, and fiction, Black wr…

Sarah Jones

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medica…

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…

Jennifer Lunden

American Breakdown

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author's quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chr…

Jeffrey Wheatley

American Fanatics

Shows how religious fanaticism became a tool used to police subversive and targeted religions at home and abroadIn 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the "atmosphere of our country is unquestionably c…

Jeffrey Wheatley

American Fanatics

Shows how religious fanaticism became a tool used to police subversive and targeted religions at home and abroadIn 1822, Thomas Jefferson wrote that the "atmosphere of our country is unquestionably c…

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.

Laurie Anderson

Big Science (Red Vinyl)

“Laurie Anderson is the most compelling performer from New York City's bohemian art scene to land a recording contract since Patti Smith signed with Arista some six years ago. Big Science, Anderson's eeri…

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…

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…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

Laurie Anderson

Big Science

“Laurie Anderson is the most compelling performer from New York City's bohemian art scene to land a recording contract since Patti Smith signed with Arista some six years ago. Big Science, Anderson's eeri…