18Th Century category: 835 books
The Louisiana Purchase
A Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation’s geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchase, which many believed...
The Lilies & The Thistle
French Troops in the Jacobite '45
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The Jacobite Rising of 1745 could not have taken place without French support. French ships carried Charles Edward Stuart to Scotland, French gold financed his campaign, and French weapons equipped many of his troops. Yet the actual French military contribution to the campaign was small, and its role...
by Willie Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
The book covers Hume’s biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters’; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the...
Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture
Britain and Ireland, 1660-1714
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2009
This indispensable introductory guide offers students a number of highly focused chapters on key themes in Restoration history. Each addresses a core question relating to the period 1660-1714, and uses artistic and literary sources – as well as more traditional texts of political history – to...
The Websters
Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836–1853
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
When Lucien Webster, West Point graduate and artilleryman, met Frances Smith, granddaughter of a Connecticut Revolutionary War hero, in Florida, neither could anticipate how exciting and stressful their lives would be over the next 17 years. Thrown together in St. Augustine in 1836 during the Second...
by David Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The first major work on this enigmatic British general for more than 40 years, William Howe and the American War of Independence offers fascinating new insights into his performance during the revolution in America.
From 1775 to 1777, Howe commanded the largest expeditionary force Britain had...
Banishment in the Early Atlantic World
Convicts, Rebels and Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Banishing troublesome and deviant people from society was common in the early modern period. Many European countries removed their paupers, convicted criminals, rebels and religious dissidents to remote communities or to their colonies where they could be simultaneously punished and, perhaps, contained...
by Barri J. Gold
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
An engaging exploration of the mutually productive interaction of literature and energy science in the Victorian era, as seen in Tennyson, Dickens, Stoker, and others.
Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism
A Transnational Biographical History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores, for the first time, the uncharted territory of women’s religious Enlightenment. Each chapter offers a biographical insight into the social and cultural context of female Enlighteners and how Catholic women in Europe used the thought and values of Enlightenment...
by Hugh Gough
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
When the ancien régime collapsed during the summer of 1789 the newspaper press was free for the first time in French history. The result was an explosion in the number of newspapers with over 2,000 titles appearing between 1789 and 1799. This study, originally published in 1988, traces the growth...
by Robert R Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book examines the European world before 1789, recounts the history of the revolution in France itself and then explores its monumental impact on European society. The book focusses on the causes of this impact and discusses the levels of thinking, communication, social, political, and economic...
1774
The Long Year of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 president of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April...
John Galt
Observations and Conjectures on Literature, History, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
This volume offers a revaluation of the work of Romantic-era Scottish writer John Galt. Galt traveled throughout the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds and founded the Canadian city of Guelph while remaining in touch with local cultures and politics in Scotland and England. He wrote fiction, drama,...
Household Politics
Conflict in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blather—not that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of people rolled their eyes at them. Indeed many held that a man had to be an idiot...