Anything in the period after the napoleonic wars but before WW1 1815-1914
Looking for excellent non fiction set during this timeframe. I’ve enjoyed Team of Rivals, The War That Ended the Peace… open to anything else 🙂
Fascinated by the modernising / industrialising world
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*The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade* by Cecil Woodham-Smith.
*Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time* by Dava Sobel.
*In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex* [1820] by Nathaniel Philbrick.
*Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis* by William C. Davis.
*Lone Star Rising* by William C. Davis.
*When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860* by William H. Goetzmann.
*Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party* by George R. Stewart.
*Impending Crisis* by David Potter.
*Battle Cry of Freedom* by James M. McPherson.
*The Civil War: A Narrative* by Shelby Foote.
*Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War* by Maury Klein.
*Co. Aytch, or a Side Show of the Big Show* by Samuel R. Watkins.
*Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln* [1865] by Edward Steers, Jr.
*The Day Lincoln Was Shot* [1865] by Jim Bishop.
*Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment* (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society) by Michael Vorenberg.
*Impeached The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln’s Legacy* by David O. Stewart.
*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West* by Dee Brown.
*Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
*The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the Erie Railway Wars* [1866-78] by John Steele Gordon.
*Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873* [the Crédit Mobilier scandal: 1864-73] by M. John Lubetkin.
*Dark Horse: the Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield* [1881] by Kenneth D. Ackerman.
*Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893* by Douglas Steeples.
*The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush* by Pierre Berton.
*1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals* by Lewis Bernstein (L. B.) Namier.
*The Age of Nationalism and Reform, 1850-1890* (The Norton History of Modern Europe) by Norman Rich.
*The Dreyfus Affair: “J`Accuse” and Other Writings* by Emile Zola.
*Gold and Iron: Bismark, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire* by Fritz Stern.