Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 19th Century

In the mid-nineteenth century, sisters Grace, Eva, and Claire Clinton leave their Belfast home to pursue their dreams in a rapidly changing world. Grace longs for the excitement of London. Eva plans to conquer the theater, and Claire hopes to follow in their physician father's footsteps.

Their personal dreams are centered in a kaleidoscope of social change: the Industrial Revolution, suffrage, and rising nationalism in Ireland. Even the telegraph alters family connections, and Sigmund Freud in Vienna shifts how the world-and the Clintons-views feelings and thoughts. The sisters and...

This book argues for a historical perspective on issues relating to the notion of participatory media. Working from a broad concept of media including essays on the 19th century press, early sound media, photography, exhibitions, television and the internet the book offers a broad empirical approach to different modes of audience participation from the mid 19th century to the present. Using the insights from the historical case studies, the book also explores some of the key concepts in discussions on the politics of participation, arguing for a theoretical perspective sensitive to the...

When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano's massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale.

Here, Gillen D'Arcy Wood traces Tambora's global and historical reach: how the volcano's three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in...

Written by one of the twentieth century s most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell s major work on political history. It traces the main causes of political change during a period of one hundred years, which he argues were predominantly influenced by three major elements economic technique, political theory and certain significant individuals. In the witty, approachable style that has made Bertrand Russell s works so revered, he explores in detail the major forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century.

The Pacific War was the climax of the decades-long Wars of Liberation, and is one of the most important conflicts in South American history. After winning their independence from Spain in 1825, Peru and Bolivia became separate nations - but over the following years repeated attempts to re-unite them were frustrated by the neighboring powers, particularly Chile.

By the 1870s Chilean military superiority and expansionist policies exploded into full scale conflict. This book examines the troops, uniforms and equipment used by forces on all three sides of the conflict and traces the...