18Th Century category: 835 books
The Politics of the Provisional
Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that few large-scale artworks or permanent monuments to the Revolution’s memory were completed. On the contrary, visual practice in revolutionary France...
by Stephen M. Ostrander
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2014
A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume I)
At the time of his death, in 1885, Mr. Ostrander had completed considerable MS. for a history of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County; had prepared many chronological notes with a view to fuller writing, and had accumulated a mass...
by Larry Hyslop
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
History Traveler Series #3
• Enjoy the silence of Carlin Canyon, between rock walls once echoing with cacophony of wagons, animals and people.
• View the sparkling water as the North Fork of the Humboldt flows into the Humboldt River, once a scene of dust clouds rising from oxen, horses...
by Marshall B. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
One-third of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were not of English stock. Eight were first-generation immigrants. It was in recognition of the mixed European background of so many Americans that John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson proposed that the seal of the United...
by David B. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This...
Revolution Against Empire
Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representationRevolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage...
by Jonathan Strom
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
August Hermann Francke described his conversion to Pietism in gripping terms that included intense spiritual struggle, weeping, falling to his knees, and a decisive moment in which his doubt suddenly disappeared and he was “overwhelmed as with a stream of joy.” His account came to exemplify Pietist...
by Henri ROBERT
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Orphelin à 11 ans, marié à 16 ans, Louis XVI n'a que 20 ans lorsqu'il devient Roi de France le 10 mai 1774 à la mort de son grand-père Louis XV. Le 21 janvier 1793, Louis XVI est décapité sous la guillotine révolutionnaire. Que s'est-il passé...
by Comte Fleury
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Entre son épouse Marie Leckzinska et ses favorites « officielles » comme la marquise de Pompadour et la comtesse du Barry, Louis XV n'aura de cesse d'entretenir des « petites maîtresses », jeunes filles choisies pour leur beauté et leur esprit, qu'il n'hésitait...
The Pirate King
The Incredible Story of the Real Captain Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
A compelling account of history's most famous pirate.
The Pirate King is the compelling true story of a Welshman who became one of the most ruthless and brutal buccaneers of the golden age of piracy. The inspiration for dozens of fictionalized pirates in film, television, and literature-as...
Tsar and Sultan
Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
From the 1700s, the declining Ottoman Empire served as a source of inspiration for the westernisation of Russia. Comparisons between European and Ottoman diplomacy, warfare and political organizations shaped Russian identity and provided the nation with a sense of superiority over its adversary. Tsar...
The King and the Catholics
England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From beloved historian Antonia Fraser comes the dramatic story of how Catholics in the United Kingdom won back their rights after two centuries of official discrimination.
In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread,...
Independence Lost
Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
**A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award • Winner of the Society of the...
American Crisis
George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781-1783
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
The story of the dramatic two years (October 1781-November 1783) after General Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, when the nascent United States was on the brink of immediate collapse.
Most people believe the American Revolution ended in October, 1781, after the battle of Yorktown; in fact...