18Th Century category: 835 books
by Robert Wernick
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
It took all human knowledge as its province and required a quarter century to complete. It sold enough copies to justify being called the first commercial bestseller of modern times - and it changed the world. Here, in this short-form book by New York Times bestselling author Robert Wernick, is the remarkable history of the Encyclopédie.
Uniforms of Russian army of Elizabeth of Russia Vol. 2
Under the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna from 1741 to 1761 and Peter III from 1762
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the years from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries. The Viskovatov’s...
Uniforms of Russian army of Peter I the Great
from the reign of Peter I to Catherine I, Peter II, Anna and Ivan VI. 1682-1741
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the years from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries. The Viskovatov’s...
From Confederation to Nation
The Early American Republic, 1789-1848
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In the era of the Early Republic, Americans determined the meaning of their Revolution and laid the foundation for the United States’ later emergence as a world power. This bookprovides students with an explanation of the major events and developments of one of the most important periods in American...
The Unruly City
Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A lauded expert on European history paints a vivid picture of Paris, London, and New York during the Age of Revolutions, exploring how each city fostered or suppressed political uprisings within its boundaries
In The Unruly City, historian Mike Rapport offers a vivid history of three intertwined...
by Daniel Marston
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The American Revolution has been characterized politically as a united political uprising of the American colonies and militarily as a guerrilla campaign of colonists against the inflexible British military establishment. Daniel Marston argues that this belief, though widespread, is a misconception....
by William R. Nester
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
America’s colonial era began and ended dramatically, with the founding of the first enduring settlement at Jamestown on May 14, 1607 and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. During those 169 years, conflicts were endemic and often overlapping among the colonists, between...
Excitable Imaginations
Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660–1760
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain. Esteemed public modes...
by Eric Jay Dolin
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the “Golden Age” of piracy in the Americas.
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history...
Religion and the State
Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state...
by Amarpal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, stretching to the borders of the Punjab. There the great Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh had developed his military forces to thwart any British advance into...
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom
A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
First published in 1914, this vintage book contains a detailed historical account of the Dutch Kingdom between 1795 and 1813. Willem van Loon (1882 – 1944) was a Dutch-American journalist, historian, and successful author of children's books. Contents include: “William I Frontispiece”, “The...
by Carolyn Purnell
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.
Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class...