18Th Century category: 835 books
Washington's Circle
The Creation of the President
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation’s first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them.
In 1789, as...
Bugles, Boots, and Saddles
Exploits of the U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A history of America’s military on horseback.
For three thousand years, the horse soldier has played a key role in both war fighting and in peace keeping all over the world, not only as a highly mobile strike force in battle but also as an instrument of reconnaissance and occupation, exploration,...
Robert Morris
Financier of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington’s armies and the American Revolution.
Morris...
The Victory with No Name
The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
In 1791, General Arthur St. Clair led the United States army in a campaign to destroy a complex of Indian villages at the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio. Almost within reach of their objective, St. Clair's 1,400 men were attacked by about one thousand Indians. The U.S. force was decimated, suffering...
Michael Collins: The Lost Leader
A biography of Irish politician Michael Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
In print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait of Michael Collins.
First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the author was able to interview Collins' surviving contemporaries and was offered unrestricted access...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
George Washington, the first president of the United States, is much more than a monument on Mount Rushmore. Who was Washington, the general, president, and husband? He was first and foremost a man of impeccable honor which, despite military adversity and political wrangling, never abandoned him....
Marie-Antoinette
Le destin tragique d'une reine dans la tourmente de la Révolution
Language: French
Release Date: December 2, 2015
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Marie-Antoinette en moins d’une heure !
Devenue au fil des ans un personnage mythique de l’histoire de France, Marie-Antoinette n’en est que plus mystérieuse et fascinante. Tantôt considérée comme une martyre de la Révolution, tantôt...
Alexandre Ier
Le tsar européen
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Alexandre Ier en moins d'une heure !
Petit-fils de Catherine II et continuateur de sa politique libérale, le tsar de Russie Alexandre Ier a su, en quelques années, changer le visage de son pays et de l'Europe. Bien que sa volonté d'occidentaliser...
by Benjamin L. Carp
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Virtue, Valor, and Vanity
The Inside Story of the Founding Fathers and the Price of a More Perfect Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Washington, Adams, Henry, Jefferson, Franklin, and Hamilton: their ambitions, intrigues, and jealousies shaped the birth of the nation, but they overcame their foibles and imperfections to throw off the chains of tyranny and form a more perfect union. We think of them now as faces on money or statues...
by Antal Szerb
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked....
Doré's London
All 180 Illustrations from London, A Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject sketched endlessly by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Doré, France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents all 180 drawings from the artist's 1872...
Liberty's First Crisis
Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
“Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
In 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of...