Nineteenth century European paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture

This chapter traces trends in nineteenth-century thought concerning eschatology and apocalypticism. Contrary to twentieth-century wisdom, eschatology was of central importance in n...

This chapter offers a periodization of the literatures of the Americas from the late nineteenth century through the postwar period. After acknowledging the emergence of a brief “tr...

Abstract The Short Oxford History of Italy series, in seven volumes, will offer a complete History of Italy from the early middle ages to the present and, in each pe...

This book examines the ascendancy of a minor nineteenth-century Tibetan chieftain Gönpo Namgyel who hailed from Eastern Kham, a frontier region situated between the power centers o...

This chapter describes and contests the common assumptions about nineteenth-century private international law intellectual history. Conventional historical accounts focus on broad ...

This chapter portrays the American Catholic defense of sacramental confession, that part of the Catholic penitential tradition that was under the most severe criticism in nineteent...

This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term av...

While we now recognize that MS is a common neurological disease, as late as the early twentieth century it was considered a relatively rare condition in Europe and the United State...