18Th Century category: 835 books
by Rivka Swenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
John Locke asked, “since all things that exist are merely particulars, how come we by general terms?” Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603–1832 tells a story about aesthetics and politics that looks back to the 1603 Union of Crowns and James VI/I’s emigration...
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 1
1752 to 1776
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 Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Volume 2
1777 to 1780
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...
Licensing Loyalty
Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the...
Posthumous America
Literary Reinventions of America at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
For writers such as John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur and Claude-François de Lezay-Marnésia, America was never more...
by Dale K. Van Kley
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
An investigation into the role of Reform Catholicism in the international suppression of the Jesuits in 1773†‹
The Jesuits devoted themselves to preaching the word of God, administering the sacraments, and spreading the faith by missions in both Europe and newly discovered lands abroad....
The Fortunes of Francis Barber
The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson's Heir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis Barber, born in Jamaica, was brought to London by his owner in 1750 and became a servant in the household...
by Pamela Womack
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Fascinated by history? Wish you knew more? The Illustrated Introductions are here to help. In this lavishly illustrated, accessible guide, find out everything you need to know about the Stuarts. The Stuart era represents a century characterised by unprecedented change and turmoil, beginning with the...
Private Doubt, Public Dilemma
Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Each age has its own crisis—our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson and Charles Darwin, two men who struggled mightily...
Britain since 1688
A Nation in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Authored by a team of North American university professors who specialize in the subject, Britain since 1688: A Nation in the World has been specifically written for students in the United States, or from other countries where pre-existing knowledge of the history of Britain cannot be taken for granted.
Beginning...
John Theophilus Desaguliers
A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was presented with the Society's highest...
by Matthew D. O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field’s focus on historical memory to instead examine colonial-era conceptions of the future
Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O’Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover...
Uniforms of Russian army of Elizabeth of Russia Vol. 1
Under the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna from 1741 to 1761 and Peter III from 1762
Language: Italian
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...
Women in European Culture and Society
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Women in European Culture and Society: A Sourcebook includes a range of transnational sources which encompass the history of women in Europe from the beginning of the eighteenth century right up to the present day. Including documents from across Europe, from France and Germany to Estonia, Spain and...