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Jeanna Smialek
The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth

The untold story of the nineteenth-century novelist who outearned Jane Austen and wove provocative theories into her fiction---changing economics forever "Smialek, with the analytical rigor and narra…

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Michael E. Woods
The Business of Bigotry

Civil War America

Amid nineteenth-century America's fierce battles over slavery and freedom, few proslavery partisans argued more vehemently for the supremacy of the white race than John Van Evrie (1814--96). A New York--b…

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Sarah Gerk
Ballads Beyond Borders

Music in American Life

This is a study of how Irish diaspora shaped musical practice in nineteenth-century America. Moving beyond a focus on the transmission of elements of Irish traditional music to music in the US, or the way…

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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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Sarah Gerk
Ballads Beyond Borders

Music in American Life

This is a study of how Irish diaspora shaped musical practice in nineteenth-century America. Moving beyond a focus on the transmission of elements of Irish traditional music to music in the US, or the way…

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Madeline Lee Zehnder
Print for the Pocket

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often overlooked feature of their publishing landscape: the pocket-sized book.Analyzing archival…

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Marshall C. Eakin
Empires and Exploration

Empires and Explorations interweaves nineteenth-century Brazilian history, the extraordinary life of Richard Francis Burton, and the use of travel writing by historians. Burton witnessed the origins of th…

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Thomas Ward
Inca Garcilaso De La Vega

Thomas Ward examines Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's seventeenth-century work and how it influenced post-independence Peruvian literature in the nineteenth century. As literati struggled to define their fledg…

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Henry French, Leonard Baker, Ralph Fyfe
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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Sharon DeBartolo Carmack
The Madame Restell Cases

Rowman & Littlefield

Madame Restell was New York City's most notorious abortionist and self-made millionaire in the mid-nineteenth century. The Madame Restell Cases portrays five of her patients' difficult choices when they f…

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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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Jess Libow
Vigorous Reforms

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was prod…

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Francie R. Chassen-Lopez
The Extraordinary Life of Juana Catarina Romero

Confluencias

The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This biography of …

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Jameson R. Sweet
Mixed-Blood Histories

An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous historyHistorical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differen…

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Francie R. Chassen-Lopez
The Extraordinary Life of Juana Catarina Romero

Confluencias

The construction of the nation-state, the development of capitalism, and the modernization of society have historically been defined as masculine endeavors, with women on the sidelines. This biography of …

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Verity McInnis
Women of Empire

In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles…

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Nora Gilbert
Gone Girls, 1684-1901

In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise…

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Melissa Daggett
Eugène and Eulalie

Melissa Daggett's Eugène and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mande…

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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…

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Lee Alan Dugatkin
Nary a Horse Left Standing

How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt---but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation. From a veteran science writer, evolutionary bio…

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