The Book Company: New Products - 19th Century

The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:16:19 +0000

This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine are instrumentalized as a political and military tool.

Price: $64.99

Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility (A Curious Cross-Atlantic Constellation)

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:05:40 +0000

Modern Architecture and an International Sensibility: A Curious Constellation presents an alternative history of internationalism and modernism, with a specific focus on the role of architecture and spatial practices.

Price: $64.99

The Belgian Revolt of 1830

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:26:30 +0000

This book examines and analyzes the factors essential for the success of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, in which the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands successfully broke away in a nationalist revolt and became the independent Kingdom of Belgium.

Price: $64.99

The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840-69

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:29:47 +0000

This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir William Palmer’s Mayo estates, one of the largest in the county. It describes the estates’ social and economic structures, and its tenants’ living conditions and experiences before, during and after the Famine. It explores the relationship Lord Pa..

Price: $14.95

Epidemics and the Modern Age

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:32:47 +0000

Epidemics and the Modern Age focuses on the history of disease and its social significance in a global setting, from the Age of Revolutions to the Covid Pandemic, considering tuberculosis, cholera, the plague, “Spanish” Influenza, HIV/AIDS, and many more.

Price: $57.99

Writing China (Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:41:27 +0000

New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.

On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an..

Price: $75.00

The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack (Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures)

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:35:13 +0000

An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England.

WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award

This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Start..

Price: $36.95

The Sepoy Mutiny: 1857 (An Annotated Checklist of English Language Books)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:10:35 +0000

The Most Comprehensive Bibliography of the 1857 Revolt in Print—1191 Entries on the Sepoy Rebellion. Published in 2007, The Sepoy Mutiny: 1857 is the most current and authoritative collection of English language mutiny literature published since 1966. It is an essential guide for writers, collecto..

Price: $49.95

Gold Rush in the Klondike (A Woman's Journey in 1898-1899)

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:18:10 +0000

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn’t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold, disease, malnutrition, and the ever-present possibility of death. With quiet determination, she resolved to survive, to endure each fresh hardship wit..

Price: $22.95

The Robber Barons' Guide to Getting Rich (How They Built Empires from Nothing and How You Can Too)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:26:13 +0000

What if your greatest weakness was actually your best advantage?

We’re taught to idolize titans of industry as disciplined, rational masterminds. But history tells a far more interesting story. The architects of modern wealth didn’t rise above their flaws—they weaponized ..

Price: $29.99