Nineteenth-centuryliterature – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

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 …

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Sarah Gold McBride
Whiskerology

Whiskerology traces how hair became a significant marker of identity and belonging in nineteenth-century America. Viewed during the colonial period as disposable, to be donned or removed like clothing, ha…

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Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

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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…

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Shakers at the Center

Exploring the theological, social, and cultural dimensions of one of America's most ambitious prophetic movementsThe Shakers' Era of Manifestations ranks among the most astounding events in American relig…

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Maeve Adams
Rhetoric and Resistance

This book explores how nineteenth-century literature shaped modern democratic dissent through fiction, poetry, and journalism. It traces dissent's literary history from Romantic and Victorian writers to m…

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Martine Jean
Policing Freedom

Policing Freedom uses the case study of Brazil's first penitentiary, the Casa de Correção, to explore how the Brazilian government used incarceration and enforced labor to control the prison population du…

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Practice in Context

Many of the best known and most regularly performed works of the Western Classical Music canon were written in the nineteenth century. Although this repertoire is loved by audiences and performers, ninete…

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Ethnography and Folklore in Print

Throughout the nineteenth century, social expressions and dynamics have been reflected in the surge of various printed products. The contributors analyze a diverse range of sources, such as caricatures, j…

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Fanny Fern,
A Fanny Fern Reader

The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the highest paid and most famous newspaper write…

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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…

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Ruth Ennis
The Migrant and her Trafficker

Dialectics of the Global

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…

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Clay Rogers, Fred Huddleston
The Galveston Dispatches

In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next ele…

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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…

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Henry French, Ralph Fyfe, Leonard Baker
The Reclamation of Exmoor Revisited

In 1818 the Royal Forest of Exmoor was sold by the Crown to the Worcestershire ironfounder John Knight. Through the nineteenth century the Knight family embarked on the largest upland reclamation scheme i…

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Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Inside Chinese Theater

"In the nineteenth century, opera emerged as a Cantonese regional culture and soon followed the Chinese diaspora to San Francisco. Nancy Yunhwa Rao brings to light the ways Chinese theaters became wo…

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Thomas M Fuerst
Prophetic Peril

Prophecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the bib…

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Danielle Rosvally
Theatres of Value

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City. Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and off…

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Donna Giver-Johnston
Claiming the Call to Preach

Claiming the Call to Preach critically examines the dominant historical narrative that overtly or covertly has exercised its power to keep women from preaching. Donna Giver-Johnston here recovers the hist…

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Thomas M Fuerst
Prophetic Peril

Prophecy reimagines the world. It critiques what is and encourages its audience to imagine what could be. All prophecy, therefore, begins with a person willing to reimagine their own situation. In the bib…

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