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Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
Gay, Peter

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Gays ambitious endeavor looks at the modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, Gay traces the revolutionary path from its Parisian origins to its emergence as... [More...]

Age of Empire: 1875-1914
Hobsbawm, Eric J.

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Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War.

Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
Sears, Clara Endicott

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the... [More...]

Americana: The Americas in the World, Around 1850
Dunkerley, James

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Dunkerley's majestic and unorthodox look at the Americas of the 1850s from an Atlanticist perspective: reappraisal, illuminated by court cases, of the first steps in American modernity.

Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
Sears, Clara Endicott

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Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset
Summers, Leigh

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Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, and romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired passionate debate that is unrivalled by any other article of clothing and surpassed as a means of body modification only perhaps by foot... [More...]

Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order in the Long Nineteenth Century
Blom, Ida

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In recent years, nations, nationalism, and the nation-state have enjoyed a resurgence of scholarly interest. The focus on the twentieth century and in particular the postcolonial and postsocialist era, however, has neglected the crucial developmental phase... [More...]

A Voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands, and Around the World in the Years 1826-1829
Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste Bernard

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While French sea captain Auguste Duhaut-Cilly may not have become wealthy from his around-the-world travels between 1826 and 1829, his trip has enriched historians interested in early nineteenth-century California. Because of a poor choice in goods to trade... [More...]

A Year from a Reporter's Note-Book
Davis, Richard Harding

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism
Mead Kullada, Ke

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This book examines the development of Thailand from the integration of Siam into the European world economy at the beginning of the nineteenth century, up to the emergence of Thailand as a modern nation state in the twentieth century.

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