1850s

The Duke of Shadows is set in 1850s India, and Written on Your Skin is set in 1880s Hong Kong. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Meg Rosoff’s fourth novel, a young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she's to marry her childhood sweetheart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Kit's uncle John Bellew, who came west in an ox-team in the 1850s, is taking his sons north and so Kit quits The Billow to go along. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fair complicates our understanding of readers, texts, and the relations between them in 1850s ❋ Unknown (2006)

First ever estimate of cod fishery in 1850s reveals 96% decline on Scotian Shelf ❋ Unknown (2005)

Federalism on this issue, just like federalism over slavery back in the 1850s, is a red herring that I don’t think many serious thinkers on either side support. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The most dominant American political movement between 1800 and the 1850s was the pro-slavery pro-South wing of the Democratic party. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In my knowledge of American history –and I admit that it is far from complete-the 1850s are the one time before the present when the destiny of the country was apparently being shaped overwhelmingly by evil forces. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The "know nothing" party of the 1850s was a democratic outlet for the immigrant haters and conspiracy theorists of the time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Largely in response to the great waves of hard-drinking Irish immigrants, the American temperance movement grew exponentially in the 1840s and 1850s. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Women were instructed to wear dresses of “surpassing neatness and simplicity,” and respectable urban men were expected to become what a business directory in the 1850s called “the unknown knight, with his plain unostentatious black armor.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Places called “concert saloons” appeared in cities during the 1840s and 1850s and gained popularity through the nineteenth century. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Or the Polish artilleryman and freedom fighter Teofil Lapinsky, known to the Caucasians as Teffik Bey, who snuck into the mountains to attack the Russian invaders in the late 1850s. ❋ Daniel Treisman (2011)

The Comanche population peaked at 40,000 in the 1770s and then, ravaged by smallpox and cholera, dwindled to no more than 10,000 by the 1850s. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

Even after incremental additions were made in the 1850s, increasing the number of soldiers to about 16,500, the U.S. Army did not come close to matching the armies of Britain, France, Prussia, Russia, or Spain. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

Pressure to complete the removal of the Seminoles revived, producing a Third albeit much smaller Seminole War in the late 1850s. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

It would also have attempted to annex or conquer Cuba, other Caribbean islands, northern Mexico and parts of Central America—all of which was openly proposed by pro-slavery expansionists in the 1850s. ❋ Fergus M. Bordewich (2011)

In its heyday as many as 35,000 people churned out steel on the site where steel mills had flourished since the 1850s. ❋ Maura Webber Sadovi (2012)

Ms. Tomalin has him hard at work in his office at Wellington Street in London's Strand in the 1850s, asking the office boy to bring him a bucket of cold water, dipping his head in it, drying his hair with a towel and then, in a kind of mechanistic trance, "going on working." ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

By the late 1850s he was supporting three additional households—his mistress's, his estranged wife's and his wife's mother's— as well as dozens of retainers, orphaned children and hard-up relatives. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)