18Th Century category: 835 books
by Daniel Defoe
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
Defoe's "Essay on Projects" was...
by Philacrète Chasles
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Ce ne sont pas des études savantes que l’on trouvera dans ce volume, mais la peinture des caprices anglais pendant le XVIIIe siècle et une partie du XIXe ; – plus de fantaisie que d’érudition, plus de tableaux de mœurs que d’arguments.
J’ai recueilli dans un volume spécial mes études...
La guerra de la Vendée
La insurrección contrarrevolucionaria francesa de 1793
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la guerra de la Vendée, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Comprender las medidas que se toman en Francia durante la Revolución francesa, que no tienen en...
by Bruno Mugnai
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Negli anni in cui si svolse l'operato del grande capitano italiano si formò la tradizione dell'esercito asburgico e in particolare della cavalleria, nella quale il reggimento di dragoni appartenuto al principe Eugenio mantenne il nome del suo colonnello fino al 1918, onore riservato a nessun altro...
The European Seaborne Empires
From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth...
The Conquest of Death
Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner In his fascinating debut, Matthew Lockwood explores the history of crime, homicide, and suicide in England over four centuries through the office of the coroner. While the office was established to investigate...
Aunt Dollie’S Remedies and Tips
175 Years of Home Remedies
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Long before the arrival of the twenty-four-hour pharmacy, folk healers took care of aches, pains, and sniffles with home-grown remedies. Hidden in their kitchens, they had their own bag of tricks used for centuries to treat what ailed them. Growing up, Clementine Holmes Bass learned about many of...
1650-1850
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 24)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines—literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications...
Receptive Human Virtues
A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
This book offers a new reading of Jonathan Edwards’s virtue ethic that examines a range of qualities Edwards identifies as “virtues” and considers their importance for contemporary ethics. Each of Edwards’s human virtues is “receptive” in nature: humans acquire the virtues through receiving...
Japan Extolled and Decried
Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spent eighteen fascinating months in the notoriously...
by François Guizot, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Extrait : "L'histoire de la Révolution française reste encore un champ de bataille, et ce n'est pas sans émotion qu'on y met le pied. Depuis plus de quatre-vingts ans, avec des intervalles de calme ou le torpeur, notre patrie est agitée par une même tempête. Jamais peuple, en moins de temps, n'a...
I-1 Etablissement des Français dans les Antilles
L'esclavage aux Antilles Françaises avant 1789
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Ce livret est le chapitre 1 du Livre I, intitulé « LES FRANÇAIS AUX ANTILLES.-LA TRAITE » extrait de L’esclavage aux Antilles françaises avant 1789 de Lucien Peytraud.
Écrit 29 ans à peine après l’abolition de l’esclavage...
Galérien du Roi
Mémoires d'un galérien sous Louis XIV
Language: French
Release Date: September 11, 2012
En 1662, Louis XIV recrée le Corps des galères qui subsistera jusqu’en 1748.
À son apogée, il comprend quarante galères pour une chiourme de douze mille rameurs, dont le nombre est grossi après la Révocation de l’édit de Nantes, par les protestants refusant d’abjurer leur foi.
Jean Marteilhe...
Le Flibustier mystérieux
Histoire d'un trésor caché
Language: French
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Que Messieurs les bibliothécaires chargés des catalogues se gardent de classer parmi les romans l’œuvre présente. Encore qu’elle débute comme un conte d’Edgar Poë, c’est de l’histoire pure. Les trésors cachés ou engloutis ont de tout temps passionné la foule. Plus d’un a une longue...