18Th Century category: 835 books
Braudel Revisited
The Mediterranean World 1600-1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region...
by Professor Krista Cowman
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Krista Cowman's highly approachable survey examines some of the areas of women's political activity in Britain from the period of the Glorious Revolution to the election of the first female Prime Minister. Cowman shows how women had worked in a variety of locations and organizations in the decades...
Mapping the Renaissance World
The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
by Philip Haythornthwaite
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In an age when infantry units manoeuvred and fought in rigid blocks, the idea of encouraging initiative and allowing a unit to 'skirmish' was regarded as revolutionary and fell out of favour in the years following the French-Indian and American Revolutionary wars. It was revived by far-sighted British...
Doctor of Society
Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To...
by Lillian F. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
From 1763 to 1867 the land system of Upper Canada was one of the most important questions in the development of the new country. This detailed study of the subject examines Great Britain's plans for Canada after the conquest, the problems created by the royal "promise" of land to the loyalists,...
The Fatal Land
War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble...
Trading in War
London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars
In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain’s military campaigns in North America...
Desertion in the Early Modern World
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial...
Competing Visions of Empire
Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and overseas trade. Focusing on the ideological connections...
Cunegonde's Kidnapping
A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle...
Claiming Crimea
A History of Catherine the Great's Southern Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The first comprehensive, archive-based history of Russia’s original annexation of Crimea and its predominantly Muslim population more than two hundred years ago
Russia’s long-standing claims to Crimea date back to the eighteenth-century reign of Catherine II. Historian Kelly O’Neill...
by Justin Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Published in two parts, the General Index of all Washington descendants and their spouses completes a ten-volume history that traces the “Presidential Line” of the Washington family in America. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland County, Va., in 1657,...
by Justin Glenn
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Published in two parts, the General Index of all Washington descendants and their spouses completes a ten-volume history that traces the “Presidential Line” of the Washington family in America. Volume one began with the immigrant John Washington who settled in Westmoreland County, Va., in 1657,...