18Th Century category: 835 books
II-9. Affranchissement des esclaves — Situation nouvelle des affranchis
L'esclavage aux Antilles Françaises avant 1789
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Ce livret est le chapitre 9 du Livre II, intitulé « Le régime de l’esclavage» extrait de L’esclavage aux Antilles françaises avant 1789 de Lucien Peytraud.
Écrit 29 ans à peine après l’abolition de l’esclavage...
La Révolution des ouvriers nantais
Mutation économique, identité sociale et dynamique révolutionnaire (1740-1815)
Language: French
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Connue comme une grande place négociante et portuaire, Nantes est aussi dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle une grande ville industrielle et ouvrière. Dans les ateliers et les manufactures, sur les quais et les chantiers, de très nombreux ouvriers et ouvrières y travaillent. En cette période,...
Ouidah
The Social History of a West African Slaving Port, 1727–1892
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was...
Juan Bautista de Anza
The King's Governor in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like Spain’s other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians and international rivals. As governor of New Mexico from 1778 to 1788, Anza enacted a series of changes in the colony’s governance that helped...
by Jules Michelet, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Extrait: "Au moment d'apporter notre existence entière, nos fortunes et nos vies à cette grande circonstance, la plus grave qui fut jamais, chacun doit serrer sa ceinture, bien ramasser sa force, regarder dans son âme, dans sa maison, s'il est sûr d'y trouver l'unité qui fait la victoire..."
The Politics of Cultural Retreat
Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Galicia from its annexation from Poland-Lithuania in 1772...
by Gabriel de La Landelle
Language: French
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Gabriel de La Landelle (1812-1886) aimait les belles histoires d’aventuriers. Et aussi d’aventurières, puisqu’il a écrit Les femmes à bord, entre autres ouvrages consacrés à la mer, principal terrain sur lequel il choisissait ses héros. Dugay-Trouin eut ses faveurs. Il s’intéressait...
by Suzi Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
What was fashionable for women in the late 1700s? Extravagant colors and fabrics and outrageous styles were all seen in these flamboyant fashions. Take a look at their dresses, hats, underwear, and accessories and enjoy the historical and edited images to get a true sense of fashion in the late 1700s.
by Suzi Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
What was fashionable for men in the late 1700s? Extravagant colors and fabrics and outrageous styles were all seen in these flamboyant fashions. Take a look at their suits, hats, accessories and bedroom fashions and enjoy lots of historical and edited images from fashion plates and extant garments.
Die Leibeigenen
Eine Bayerwald-Saga aus dem finsteren Mittelalter
Language: German
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Anno 1779, als im Bayerischen Wald die Panduren marodierten und viele Siedlungen zerstört wurden, legte der Bauer Eginhart Bärnreuther - wohl der bösen Zeit zum Trotz - die dramatische Gründungsgeschichte seines uralten Hofes in einer Chronik nieder. Diese abenteuerlichen Aufzeichnungen bilden...
by Maria Pia Oelker
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Settembre 1765 : l’avvento al trono del Granducato di Toscana di Pietro Leopoldo D’Asburgo Lorena, segnò senza alcun dubbio una svolta di cambiamento profondo in una regione che per secoli era stata faro di cultura in Europa , ma si era poi arenata quasi senza speranza nelle paludi (metaforiche...
by Walter Panciera
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 11, 2015
In questo libro si ripercorre la storia della Repubblica aristocratica di Venezia nel XVIII secolo e, sulla base della più classica storiografia sull’argomento e degli studi più recenti, si riesce a contrastare ogni visione stereotipata dell’ultimo secolo di vita di un antico stato, del suo...
Nelle vesti di Clio
L’uso politico della storia nella Rivoluzione francese (1787-1799)
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2016
La Rivoluzione francese è diventata tale anche perché è stata pensata in analogia o per contrasto con le rivoluzioni del passato e, più in generale, con tutti quegli avvenimenti storici usati dai protagonisti per interpretarla e prevederne le evoluzioni. In questo volume, per la prima volta, si...
Cùil Lodair - Il sangue dei clan
La battaglia di Culloden Moor e la fine della Scozia
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 29, 2016
La battaglia combattuta a Culloden Moor il 16 aprile 1746 tra le truppe giacobite scozzesi del principe Carlo Edoardo Stuart, il Giovane Pretendente, e quelle britanniche di William Augustus di Hannover, duca di Cumberland, figlio di re Giorgio II di Gran Bretagna fu l'ultima battaglia combattuta...