18Th Century category: 835 books
by Richard Ballard
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
The French Revolution was a huge, brutal yet inspiring phenomenon that changed global political thinking and action, and its echoes resound even in the twenty-first century. It was an intensely complex mix of events, concepts and individuals and A New Dictionary is an invaluable aid to unravelling...
by David Brion Davis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
David Brion Davis's books on the history of slavery reflect some of the most distinguished and influential thinking on the subject to appear in the past generation. The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, the sequel to Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture...
by John Mack Faragher
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
"Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova...
by James West Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered in James West Davidson’s vividly told A Little History...
The Last Alchemist
Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Freemason ... Shaman ... Prophet ... Seducer ... Swindler ... Thief ... Heretic
Who was the mysterious Count Cagliostro?
Depending on whom you ask, he was either a great healer or a dangerous charlatan. Internationally acclaimed historian Iain McCalman documents how Cagliostro crossed...
Rumors That Changed the World
A History of Violence and Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The aim of the book is to explore the social and cultural impact of rumor from Antiquity to the mid-1990s, examining it as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Usually defined as an unverified account that circulates from one person to another and refers to...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed...
by Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
The product of a powerful and original mind, this is the history that introduced English-speaking people to the full meaning and tragedy of the French Revolution. First published in 1837, this pioneering work established Thomas Carlyle's reputation as a historian of enduring scholarly and popular...
Anna and Tranquillo
Catholic Anxiety and Jewish Protest in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A historical interpretation of the diary of an eighteenth-century Jewish woman who resisted the efforts of the papal authorities to force her religious conversion After being seized by the papal police in Rome in May 1749, Anna del Monte, a Jew, kept a diary detailing her captors’ efforts over the...
The Fortunes of the Courtier
The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
by Arthur Hassall
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. Starting on 14 May 1643 when Louis was 4 years old, his reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign...
Lord Churchill's Coup
The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated...
Daughters of Ireland
The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and a vast fortune,...
Uniformi piemontesi XVIII sec.
Sardinian & French uniforms of XVIII century
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 25, 2015
Libro dedicato alle uniformi sabaude del XVIII secolo, disegnate e commentate negli aspetti uniformologic dal bravo artista piemontese Guglielmo Aimaretti.