... efforts to understand the present and imagine the future. While this perspective, which frequently elides the difference between risk and loss, would go on to find firmer footing in the nineteenth century, it gained a toehold in the eighteenth century, as shown by work on probability, risk, and political...

... F North Atlantic Business Triangle 1900 nineteenth-century imperialism Frank Vanderflip William Stead Wilhemine Industrial System German political system foreign markets Against the background of the analytical framework within which the American-British-German business and political...

...This chapter talks about the rapid expansion of industry dominating nineteenth-century Europe, noting that the end of the Napoleonic Wars brought peace but not stability. It mentions that factories intensified and speeded up the labour process and brought more onerous discipline, repetitive...

... is an act of care and scholarly criticism can be seen as care, particularly in the use of citations and the need to bring care to academia. The chapter outlines some of the ways the idea of care communities has been implemented. Traditionally, historians of the novel have regarded the nineteenth-century...

...This chapter sets out the stakes of the book's argument, situating the English East India Company with respect to some of the larger processes of transition and change in the early modern period and the dawn of modernity in the nineteenth century. The issues addressed are large-scale macro...

...This book explores the dynamics of Classics in the nineteenth-century, focusing on art, opera, and fiction and how artworks come to stand for a self-aware statement about modernity—through the classical past. It raises new questions and new understandings in three major areas of scholarship...

...This book is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain—at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political thought—the book sheds new light on some of the most important...

...One of the crowning achievements of nineteenth-century mathematics was the proof that the geometry of lines in space uniquely determines the Cartesian coordinates, up to a linear ambiguity. This book develops a nonlinear version of this theory, offering the first nonlinear generalization...

...This chapter examines nineteenth-century US writers and activists who drew on the unique properties of coral polyps and reefs to imagine, and sometimes enact, more just alternatives to a society that extracted the labor of marginalized groups while appearing to sustain the collective. These writers...

...This chapter explains how a literary-historical undoing can liberate the now-normative nineteenth-century British novel from its heavy centrality in Anglophone novel history. It explores what can be read if it is read against the grain of the entrenched sense of its “realism” and formal coherence...

... resources of the essay as form; and it provides the grounds for a claim about the relationship between art and human freedom—an “aesthetic liberalism”—not encompassed by traditional political philosophy. Tact has its origins in a particular time and place, the British nineteenth century, but it is also...

...This chapter briefly discusses multiple factors which have come to shape global social history by the nineteenth century. It demonstrates that the making of the middle classes across the world can be explained only by considering the increasing worldwide circulation of people, ideas, and goods...

...This chapter recounts the nineteenth century as a century of engineers and the age of those who could draw. It emphasizes how drawing was crucial to so many areas of nation-building, such as in the surveying of land and sea, cartography, natural history and science, and the dissemination of all...

... a Dickensian array of individuals involved in the case. Drawing from a wealth of correspondence, legal briefs, rabbinic opinions, and court rulings, the book reimagines how we think about Jews, the Mediterranean, and belonging in the nineteenth century....

...—they also mattered in the nineteenth century, as the rapid expansion of print created new relationships between literature and information. Exploring four key areas—reading, searching, counting, and testing—in which nineteenth-century British and American literary practices engaged developing information...

... and motherhood. The chapter explores the didactic novels and fictions that emerged in conversation with such critiques over the first two decades of the nineteenth century, a period that saw the gradual, though uneven, disentanglement of epistemological and moral questions in periodical discussions of fiction...

...This chapter focuses on hucksters who peddled farm produce in towns, brought town goods to farms, in the nineteenth century. The social role of the huckster offers an exceptional opportunity to probe the moral ambiguities of American culture as the nation transitioned from an agrarian to an urban...

...In the postbellum nineteenth century, institutional support for the families of the mentally ill was far less available than it would be a century later. People in these circumstances had only their own resources to depend on and perhaps the assistance they could draw up from relatives and friends...

... McCarthyism Mead Margaret on fanaticism Mormons Protestants Roman Catholicism religion zealots zealotry American religion middle class respectability nineteenth century emotion emotional displays one of the more difficult aspects of middle-class respectability has been getting it right...

... provides an important perspective from which to understand the role that respectability played in the nineteenth century. Immigrant congregations supported their members' sense of being respectable, God-fearing Americans while adhering to distinctive beliefs and practices that also put them at risk...