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'The Victorian soldier in Africa' reexamines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 18741902 the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. Focusing on eight different encounters, the b…
"In this study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in 19th-century France, the author provides a historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of the disease - rangin…
Early in the nineteenth century, psychology was considered a science of the soul; by the end of the century, it had abandoned the soul to become a science of the mind, says Edward Reed. In this lively and original account of psychology's formative years, Reed relates the failure…
"Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantl…