books about: 1830-1885

books about: 1830-1885

books:

1830-1885

Politics and Society in Athlone, 1830-1885: A Rotten Borough (Maynooth Studies in Local History, No. 23)
Jim Lenehan

Irish Academic Press, 2000

Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life

Kate Phillips

University of California Press, 2003

One of those authors...
...you just can't get over,once you've read her work you want to know everything there is to know about her!

Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 (Politics, History, ...

Libby Schweber

Duke University Press, 2006

a great read, with plenty of charts and graphs to help those whose statistics is rusty
Libby Schweber writes a history of statistics, specifically a history of different methods of statistical analysis and what information, if any, can be inferred from statistics. What can we learn about a population from a segment of its parts? Imagine a ...

The Indian Reform Letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885

Helen Hunt Jackson

University of Oklahoma Press, 1998

Good Reading
Being a member of The Juaneno Band of Mission Indians in San Juan Capistrano, Ca. This book has given me a great bit of understanding into how our people were treated and how this lady dedicated the last years of her life to helping the mission indians in ...

A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West 1830-1885

Gregory Michno, Susan Michno

Caxton Press, 2007

I'm not surprised...
I'm not surprised that A Fate Worse Than Death by Gregory and Susan Michno has fallen between the cracks in terms of being publicized. We live in such a "PC" world that any book that contradicts the "noble savage" theory, even if based on fact, is largely ignored. ...

Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne And Pissarro 1865 To 1885

Camille Pissarro, Joachim Pissarro, ...

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005

A Fine Catalogue of an Important Exhibition: Dialogues of Cezanne and Pissarro
Though this book is a catalogue for an important exhibition traveling to the West Coast after its origin in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, it is so finely produced and contains such important information along with generous examples of the works of two ...

Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California

Dydia DeLyser

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2005

Examines the myth of Ramona in the regional tourist history
The heroine of Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona started a trend of Ramona naming of landmarks which became part of many a tourist's journey to Southern California at the time. Surprisingly, Ramona Memories: Tourism And The Shaping Of Southern California is the ...

Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs: The Story of a Love in Letters
Constantin Floros

Indiana University Press, 2007

In the fall of 1976, 14 letters by Alban Berg, renowned composer of the Second Viennese School, were discovered in the posthumous papers of Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, wife of a Prague industrialist and sister of Franz Werfel, the well-known Austro-Czech writer. In the 1920s Berg gained international notoriety with his opera Wozzeck and the Lyric ...

Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender In England 1830-1885 (Gender in History)
Carol Engelhardt Herringer

Manchester University Press, 2008

This interdisciplinary study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, while ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women. Drawing on a variety of sources, this book seeks to revise ...

Helen Hunt Jackson (Boise State University Western Writers Series ; No. 78)
Rosemary Whitaker

Boise State Univ, 1987

Bits about Home Matters

Public Domain Books, 2003

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Adèle Hugo: La Misérable

Leslie Smith Dow

Goose Lane Editions, 1993

Love It
Anyone who is fascinated with this woman will love this book, as there is not much out there about her! A great buy, well worth the money, it explains a lot that happened in the movie too.

Mercy Philbrick's Choice

Public Domain Books, 2003

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism, 1830-1885

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist institutions: Okubo Toshimichi, Godai Tomoatsu, Matsukata Masayoshi, and Maeda Masana.