18Th Century category: 835 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of...
The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795
Warriors and Diplomats
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River...
by Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
In the campaigns of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the deserved reputation of the British infantry has tended to overshadow the contribution of the cavalry, but in fact they did form an integral part of the army, carrying out duties crucial to the success of other arms. British Cavalryman...
Black Ranching Frontiers
African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the history of land, labor, property, and commerce in...
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 5
January 1794 to December 1797
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
The first five volumes of the Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham contain over 1,300 letters written both to and from Bentham over a 50-year period, beginning in 1752 (aged three) with his earliest surviving letter to his grandmother, and ending in 1797 with correspondence concerning his attempts to...
by Clive Emsley
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty...
Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars
North Indian Society in the Age of British Expansion: 1770–1870
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
This path-breaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 'mutiny'. C.A. Bayly analyses the response of the inhabitants...
by Mike Rendell
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The Georgian era is known for its lavish fashions and sumptuous food, as well as being a time of great social and political change. It saw the birth of the Industrial Revolution, the abolition of the slave trade and the expansion of the British Empire throughout the world. It is also an era greatly...
Time, work and leisure
Life changes in England since 1700
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the ‘leisure preference’ of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines...
Secret Cures of Slaves
People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. The history of medicine bristles with attempts to find new and miraculous remedies, to work with and against nature to restore humans to health and well-being. In this book, Londa Schiebinger examines medicine and human experimentation in...
Mary Wollstonecraft
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
First published in 1976, this was the first comprehensive annotated bibliography of Mary Wollstonecraft’s works and most of the critical and biographical comments on her in English written between 1788 and 1975. It is designed both as a research tool for scholars and students and as a revelation...
Wellington
Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 18141852
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime...
The Politics of Parody
A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature...
Portrait of a Woman in Silk
Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production...