18Th Century category: 835 books
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Complete Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Read about the fascinating life of Benjamin Franklin, prolific philosopher, inventor, and Founding Father of the United States, in this beautifully illustrated version of his autobiography.
American icon Benjamin Franklin is known for many things: he published the famous Poor Richard's Almanack,...
Under the Black Flag
The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
“This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.”—Patrick O'Brian
“[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpected.”—Men's Journal
This rollicking...
How History's Greatest Pirates Pillaged, Plundered, and Got Away With It
The Stories, Techniques, and Tactics of the Most Feared Sea Rovers from 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on how pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. Readers will follow eighteen of the most famous pirates in detail as they raid...
by M. Sükrü Hanioglu
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile....
A History of the Royal Navy
Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were the first truly global conflicts. The Royal Navy was a key player in the wars and the key enabler of British success - at the cessation of hostilities Britain emerged as the only power capable of sustained global hegemony based on maritime and naval...
by T.C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
In 1763, by the Peace of Paris, England won a position of unapproached supremacy in colonial possessions and in naval strength. The entire North American continent east of the Mississippi River was now under the British flag, and four West India sugar islands were added to those already in English...
by Eugene Rachlis
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
No people have stirred the interest and imagination of the civilized world as have the North American Indians of the Great Plains. For thousands of years before the first European explorers appeared on the grasslands between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, the Indians of this region hunted...
Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume
The Letter to Strahan and Related Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume’s autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it is the only work that Smith published under...
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company
A Story of George Washington's Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border and create fabulous...
The Voyages of Captain James Cook
The Illustrated Accounts of Three Epic Pacific Voyages
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The first-ever illustrated account of Captain James Cook's epic eighteenth-century voyages, complete with excerpts from his vivid journals.
This is history's greatest adventure story. In 1766, the Royal Society chose prodigal mapmaker and navigator James Cook to lead a South Pacific voyage....
This Gulf of Fire
The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award
Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.
On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on...
The French Revolution
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The book that established Thomas Carlyle’s reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical masterpiece has since been accepted as the standard work on the subject. It combines a shrewd insight into character, a vivid realization of the picturesque, and a singular ability to...
Rebranding Rule
The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation...
The Enlightenment
And Why It Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.
Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression....