Nineteenth Century

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …

commercial area, the Calle Pintores. Terraced, nineteenth-century buildings with the odd modern protrusion … monks remained, the last in Spain. In the nineteenth century, there were about one thousand spread out …

Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …

From the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth century, Quebec strove through a variety of means … calls in his title the “misfortunes” of the nineteenth-century novel in Quebec. What Quebec’s first novel- … il n’y a ni Balzac ni Flaubert” (in the nineteenth-century [in Quebec] there is neither a Balzac nor … Lacombe’s text a “propaganda novel from nineteenth-century French Canada.”28 If this were not bad enough … letters to Rivard recount the stan- dard nineteenth-century tale of the young man who meets hardship …

Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …

winding driveway led to a huge turreted nineteenth- century imitation of a Renaissance château of the … of importance in the economic history of nineteenth-century Turkey. Erlanger claims that the Camondo … made their fortune. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the father of the two brothers who later … arcades or passages like those for which nineteenth-century Paris was famous and which later fas- cinated … family was selected as one of the targets of nineteenth-century French antisemitism and, in the age of the …

Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …

knowledge. 1 Taming Cannabis Drugs and Empire in Nineteenth- Century France David A. Guba, Jr 2 Cigarette Nation … France Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century Sara E. Black 6 Psychedelic New York A History … understood as a specific reaction against nineteenth-century naturalism rather than a universally applicable … He meant the single sustained Picture [of nineteenth-century naturalism], the statement that continued …

Vancouver, British Columbia, now reports “no religion” as its leading religious identity, putting it in the vanguard of a trend happening across North America. What does this mean for the …

no religious affiliation.21 A common late- nineteenth-century saying declared that men left God behind …

Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two …

rail lines started operating in the mid-nineteenth century, saving me from significant errors of interpretation … the colony was there by stealth.29 By the nineteenth century, people we might now describe as ref- ugees … sanctuaries. This was especially true in the late nineteenth century, though it remained the case for the entirety …

Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how …

problem or the completion of a task.2 By the nineteenth century, the ghost in Western culture had lost its … accrued a more sec- ular understanding in the nineteenth century, distinct from strictly theological matters … the development of photogra- phy in the mid-nineteenth century – a medium itself associated with fluids … through telegraphy, radio, and television. Nineteenth-century developments in technology, science, and … renewed vision, visual technologies of the nineteenth century occupy the precarious boundary between au- …

“Coren tells us the stories of his fascinating life with clarity, self-deprecating wit, and page-turning verve.” — STEPHEN FRY From England’s working class to high profile media personality, Michael Coren …

urban and noisy east London. By the late nineteenth century, they simply couldn’t manage financially …

A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.

Raglan), one of the last representatives of nineteenth-century “primitivist” anthropo- logical research … in museums. Indeed, before the end of the nineteenth century ethnologists had undermined the concept …

The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities explores the historical functions of municipalities, their current ability to tackle major problems, and how to unlock the potential of cities to …

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin introduction To mid-nineteenth-century Canadian legal and political elites, a con- … reformists appeared to be bolstered by mid-nineteenth-century Whig constitutional historiog- raphy which … municipalities is messy. Throughout the mid-nineteenth century, as the rules and conventions of responsible … architectonic role municipalities played in nineteenth-century liberal thought.13 Municipalities and decentralization … turn of events could occur.”15 Insofar as nineteenth-century Canadian legal and political elites are …