Book interviews tagged 19th Century
A Women’s Berlin: Building the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5323 2 (pb)
- featured in: One of Europe’s great modern cities through the lens of women’s urban spaces, both imaginary and physicalFebruary 13, 2009
Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy
- ISBN: 978 1 59102 672 3
- featured in: Retelling the History of AdvertisingFebruary 17, 2009
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5157 3 pb
- featured in: Deconstructing the ghosts in the photographic machineFebruary 27, 2009
Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 3216 5
- featured in: Metaphors are vital to understanding the North American relationship with CubaMarch 3, 2009
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
- ISBN: 978 0 226493121
- featured in: Much is lost in the claim that the Buddha anticipated EinsteinMarch 13, 2009
The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 3217 2
- featured in: The story of one of the last vestiges of wilderness on EarthApril 7, 2009
Fresh: A Perishable History
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03291 0
- featured in: The farther we get from our food, the more we want to know that it’s really freshApril 17, 2009
Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
- ISBN: 978 0 295 98833 7
- featured in: Challenging the idea of theme space as an essentially American phenomenonMay 4, 2009
Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
- ISBN: 978 0520257405
- featured in: Music as an art links leisure and personal enjoyment with the social goodJuly 2, 2009
The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0816656042
- featured in: Historic preservation is a fundamental part of every modern cityJuly 20, 2009
Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940
- ISBN: 978 0226322438
- featured in: Mapping the relationship between racial formation and sexual classification in the United StatesAugust 5, 2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920
- ISBN: 978 0812241747
- featured in: A kind of prehistory of our own media-saturated cultureAugust 31, 2009
Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination
- ISBN: 978 0295988955 hb
- featured in: The case history of lovesickness as a literary-medical conceptSeptember 16, 2009
Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America
- ISBN: 978 1584657736
- featured in: The honeymoon helped to consummate the romance of consumptionSeptember 28, 2009
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
- ISBN: 978 0822345855
- featured in: How black people, once slaves to fashion, have made fashion their slaveOctober 16, 2009
The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port
- ISBN: 978 0295989112
- featured in: Reconstructing the late 17th and early 18th centuries of a now-ruined cityNovember 20, 2009
Household Gods: The British and their Possessions
- ISBN: 978 0300112139
- featured in: Modern consumer society has its roots in early nineteenth-century religious fervorDecember 9, 2009
True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories
- ISBN: 978 0295989075
- featured in: These true stories, from Chinese archives, show how justice was sought through the art of writingDecember 18, 2009
History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche
- ISBN: 978 0415995191
- featured in: How truly wild, bizarre, and contradictory the attitudes towards Islam were—and sometimes areDecember 21, 2009
Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0226520780
- featured in: An architectural history of contention about the future of the industrial cityJanuary 4, 2010
Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain
- ISBN: 978 0791476574
- featured in: We inherited our obsession with being “over the hill” from the nineteenth centuryJanuary 13, 2010
Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power
- ISBN: 978 0674036246
- featured in: Lord Macaulay was an emotionally myopic genius imbued with the sensibility of powerJanuary 29, 2010
The Tyranny of Opinion: Honor in the Construction of the Public Sphere
- ISBN: 978 0 8223 4645 6 pb
- featured in: In Mexico, honor and even violence helped build an autonomous space for political debateFebruary 10, 2010
Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War
- ISBN: 978 0809016457 pb
- featured in: Economics explains better why and how North and South clashedFebruary 22, 2010
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
- ISBN: 978 0312364014
- featured in: The atheist proponents of revolution dreamt of martyrdom for the causeMarch 1, 2010
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
- ISBN: 978 0520256545
- featured in: I propose moratorium on permanent public monuments in Washington; experimentation with temporary memorialsMarch 3, 2010
Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque
- ISBN: 978 0253221285 pb
- featured in: The aesthetic of racial difference on the cusp of modernityMarch 24, 2010
Culinary Nostalgia: Regional Food Culture and the Urban Experience in Shanghai
- ISBN: 978 0804760126
- featured in: Food as an objection to modernity
April 2, 2010
King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age
- ISBN: 978 0801893971
- featured in: Whenever lobbyists, clients, and congressmen come together, Sam is thereMay 7, 2010
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
- ISBN: 978 0 465 00921 3
- featured in: We must reject extreme political rhetoric
June 7, 2010
Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France
- ISBN: 978 0804763844
- featured in: I reconsider what we thought we knew about French Jewish history and literatureJuly 5, 2010
