18Th Century category: 835 books
The Woman of the Eighteenth Century
Her Life, from Birth to Death, Her Love and Her Philosophy in the Worlds of Salon, Shop and Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This translation of the French Femme au dix-huitiéme siécle from 1862, first published in English in 1928, traces the life of the Eighteenth Century woman in an historical account. Through discussion of evidence from paintings and memoirs, the book draws an intimate lifelike account of what lay...
Liberty or Death
The French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe...
The Long Eighteenth Century
British Political and Social History 1688-1832
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the field in the last two decades.
The book...
Eighteenth Century Britain
Religion and Politics 1714-1815
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The church of the eighteenth century was still reeling in the wake of the huge religious upheavals of the two previous centuries. Though this was a comparatively quiet period, this book shows that for the whole period, religion was a major factor in the lives of virtually everybody living in Britain...
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various...
The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are...
How Books Came to America
The Rise of the American Book Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make...
Masquerade and Gender
Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele,...
Building Better Britains?
Settler Societies in the British World, 1783-1920
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The impact of empires and the lingering presence of colonialism continue to be major preoccupations for scholars in the twenty-first century. This concise text explores the spread of settler colonies within the British Empire over the course of the nineteenth century, specifically those in New Zealand,...
The Pikeman’s Lament
Pike and Shot Wargaming Rules
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Recreate the action and drama of 17th Century warfare on your tabletop with The Pikeman's Lament. Start by creating your Officer – is he a natural leader raised from the ranks, the youngest son of a noble family, or an old veteran who has seen too many battles? As you campaign, your Officer will...
THE COMMON PEOPLE
1746-1946
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
First published in 1938 and updated and rewritten in 1946, G D H Cole and Raymond Postgate’s ‘The Common People. 1746-1946’ is a classic study of British working class history from the defeat of the Jacobite cause at Culloden in 1746 through to the end of WWII in 1946. Its 714 pages provide...
Eighteenth-century Women
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journals, memoirs, diaries, courtesy books, county surveys and records, but also on the literature of the...