18Th Century category: 835 books
by Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
First published in French in 1792, Letters Written from the Banks of the Ohio tells the fascinating story of French aristocrat Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia and the utopia he attempted to create in what is now Ohio.
Looking to build a perfect society based on what France might have become...
Jonathan Edwards on Justification
Reform Development of the Doctrine in Eighteenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to the Native Americans. This book deals with Jonathan Edwards’ doctrine of justification and its continuity with Reformed tradition. In his Reformed Theology, Edwards interprets the doctrine with scholastic as well as forensic...
by Jason Eden, Naomi Eden
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
This interdisciplinary study examines how age norms shaped the experiences of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in colonial North America, exploring how diverse population groups conceptualized the human life course and how they adhered to culturally specific sets of beliefs about...
by Peter Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Historians have long recognised the importance of child health during the Industrial Revolution, but few have explored the health of working children in any analytical detail. In this comprehensive study, Peter Kirby places the occupational health of employed children within a broad context of social,...
Eastern Question 1774-1923, The
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
A clear and concise guide to the Eastern Question - the problem facing the European states of how to react to the decline of the Ottoman Empire. A L MacFie's study shows how the question was a major factor in shaping the policies of all the major powers from the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-74 down to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
The Battle of Fontenoy 1745
Saxe against Cumberland in the War of the Austrian Succession
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analyzed in depth and the Europe-wide conflict in which it played a part is little understood. James Falkner, in this perceptive and original account, puts the record straight by describing...
by James S. Olson
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This book is a concise reference source on the era in American history known as the Industrial Revolution—a period characterized by urbanization, mass immigration, organization of labor, and an immense gap between wealthy industrialists and the poor. It serves as an ideal resource for students preparing...
Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks
Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven...
Disease, War, and the Imperial State
The Welfare of the British Armed Forces during the Seven Years' War
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Seven Years’ War, often called the first global war, spanned North America, the West Indies, Europe, and India. In these locations diseases such as scurvy, smallpox, and yellow fever killed far more than combat did, stretching the resources of European states.
In Disease, War, and...
Artisanal Enlightenment
Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment
What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound...
The Singing Turk
Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works,...
Broadsides
Caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity – encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary...
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 4
October 1788 to December 1793
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...
The Imperial History Wars
Debating the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire. In this volume Dane Kennedy offers a wide-ranging assessment...