18Th Century category: 835 books
by Jerzy Lukowski, Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003
The position of the nobility depended on a stable world which accepted their authority: but, in the eighteenth century, that world was becoming increasingly fractured as a result of social and economic developments and new ideas. Since nobles were, in economic terms, an extremely disparate group,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
This Companion contains 31 essays by leading international scholars to provide an overview of the key debates on eighteenth-century Europe.
Examines the social, intellectual, economic, cultural, and political changes that took place throughout eighteenth-century Europe
Focuses on...
Bayonets and Scimitars
Arms, Armies and Mercenaries 1700–1789
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
A look at the tumult and transformations in warfare during the eighteenth century—and the world-changing events that resulted.
The eighteenth century in Europe was a period of significant economic, political, and technological upheaval—which led to the American and French revolutions, and...
Studies in the Eighteenth Century III
Papers presented at the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.
The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich...
Studies in the Eighteenth Century II
Papers presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will...
Living the Enlightenment
Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 1991
Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was...
The Eagle and the Dragon
Globalization and European Dreams of Conquest in China and America in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.
In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route,...
The Origins of the Individualist Self
Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591 - 1791
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain’s eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to her career and internationally influential writings, three previously unpublished essays by McClelland and nine studies by other scholars,...
by Carolyn & Peter Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Grove House and its extensive estate in Chiswick were owned in the eighteenth century by Humphrey Morice, a not very successful politician and an animal lover. The story of the house has been reconstructed by Carolyn and Peter Hammond who have studied the country home for almost a decade. A wealth...
by H.D. Traill
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
William Henry, Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau, a ruler destined to play a greater part in shaping the destinies of modern England than any of her native sovereigns, was born at the Hague on the 4th of November 1650. By blood and ancestral tradition he was well fitted for the work to which he...
Persia in Crisis
Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterised late Safavid Iran. Persia in Crisis challenges this view.
In this groundbreaking new book, Rudi Matthee revisits traditional sources...
Sans-Culottes
An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and...
The Politics of Rape
Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual violence alongside political tracts, propaganda pamphlets, and circulating...