African Knights: The Armies of Sokoto, Bornu and Bagirmi in the 19th Century [1 ed.] 1901543080, 9781901543087

A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York 9780814785188

In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigratio

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Soldiers, Weapons and Armies in the Fifteenth Century

The articles in this volume focus on the fifteenth century. Several draw on the substantial archives of the Burgundian p

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The Sokoto Caliphate

The history of the Sokoto Caliphate, 1804-1903, with a detailed analysis of the office of the Wazirin, all based on [a]

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Penang Chinese Commerce in the 19th Century: The Rise and Fall of the Big Five 9789814515030

The story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, a

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Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (America and the Long 19th Century, 10) 1479885681, 9781479885688

Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, pres

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The Theater of Electricity: Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century 9783476059611, 9783476059604, 3476059618

Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban powe

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Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century: Case Studies 9783110473490, 9783110471786

This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of G

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The Theater of Electricity: Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century 347605960X, 9783476059604

Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban powe

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Private Utopia: Cultural Setting of the Interior in the 19th and 20th Century 9783110455496, 9783110454635

An Anthology on the Modern Interior This book is a scientific anthology and a text mosaic on the modern interior, its

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AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE 21 CENTURY

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