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Joshua Girling Fitch
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
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Howard College
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Rhea Co Gen Society
This publication is meant as a supplement to the regular agricultural production census of Rhea County, Tennessee for the years 1850, 1870, and 1880. Information on the crops and livestock…
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Leah Grisham
This shows the ways in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels used what the author terms the forced marriage plot - a plot arc in which a greedy father tries to…
Graf Leon Tolstoi
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre "My Religion". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue francaise pour ses lecteurs…
Carl Selwyn
Space Bat, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its…
Chapin Howard Carpenter
Karen E. McAulay
Karen McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and fiddle tune books' contents, the paratext around the collections, its packaging, marketing and dissemination all document the social…
Anonymous
James Stevenson
Ann Oakley
This book recaptures the buried history of the household science movement, including domestic science teaching, public health, higher education for women and the scientific content and aims of domestic science…
Kate Stevens
Centering on cases of sexual violence, this open access book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and…
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Gwynoro Jones
So whose Wales is it? There is a degree of ambiguity that runs through Welsh politics that in turn has hindered discussions of a clear Welsh political identity. Can any…
Xiaolu Ma
Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature in the modern era. Xiaolu Ma discusses leading cultural figures such as Leo Tolstoy…
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This is an unprecedented collection of three newly translated Yiddish plays written by women in the period from 1880 to 1920. Taken together, these plays provide a fascinating insight into…
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Jason Price
In this book, theatre historian Jason Price looks at the relationships and exchanges that took place between high and low cultural forms in Britain from 1880 to 1940
Lawrence John Francell
Told from first person viewpoints in the summer of 1880, this book details the Victorio Campaign across West Texas.
Michalis Sotiropoulos
This history of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism and the ways in which it engaged in reforms in the Greek state after independence from the Ottomans challenges our understanding of European liberalism…
Diego Molina
This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogota led to a transformation in the social role of plants - showing how this city located in the high altitudes…
Emily Whewell
This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of…
Teja Varma Pusapati
It offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of 'model women of the press': women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but…
Andrew D Hetherington
'From Zion's Dawn' is a concise and condensed account of the history of modern Israel from 1880 to the present day, focusing on the confluence of historical events that miraculously…
Huan Jin
The Collapse of Heaven investigates a long-neglected century in Chinese literature through the lens of the Taiping War (1851-1864). Huan Jin examines manifold literary and cultural transformations through pamphlets, diaries…
Stephen W. Sawyer
An intelligent, engaging, and in-depth reading of the nature of the state and the establishment of the modern political order in the mid-nineteenth century.
Previous studies have covered in great…
This book explores the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.
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Gary Mucciaroni
This book explores how and why nations with shared characteristics nevertheless developed strikingly different answers to "the labour question."
Richard E. Frankel
This book examines the history of antisemitism in the United States and Germany in a novel way by placing the two countries side by side for a sustained comparison of…
In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explores the…
Samuel Shaw
William Rothenstein was a significant figure in the British art world, but his own background was distinctly cosmopolitan. This book - the first in-depth study of Rothenstein's art - draws…
Jenny Tinghui Zhang
A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and one Chinese girl fighting to claim her place.
This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Huang Maocai. A trained Chinese cartographer in the service of the imperial Qing state, he was officially deputed to…
Peiyu Yang
When did cultures in the Global South first begin to represent themselves in solidarity with one another? While empires had competed and measured themselves against each other for centuries, it…
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national…
Frederick Douglass
The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post-Civil War years
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Lee Michael-Berger
Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts…
Joseph R Smith
First Published in 1984, Ideas into Politics contains new and exciting research on the ideologies that have shaped twentieth century Europe. It look at reactionary and progressive ideas, at popular…
Volume 7 of the Posen Library captures unprecedented transformations of Jewish culture amid mass migration, global capitalism, nationalism, revolution, and the birth of the secular self
