18Th Century category: 835 books
The Birth of The Chocolate City
Life in Georgian York
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
One of the great names in chocolate history, Rowntree’s, evolved from the humble retail beginnings of Mary Tuke, eighteenth-century mother of York’s chocolate industry. This book explores how she was formative in shaping modern York as a city of confectionery manufacture, a city with a broader...
Gender in Eighteenth-Century England
Roles, Representations and Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Jeremy Black sets the politics of eighteenth century Britain into the fascinating context of social, economic, cultural, religious and scientific developments. The second edition of this successful text by a leading authority in the field has now been updated and expanded to incorporate the latest research and scholarship.
Trade in Strangers
The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or...
Escaping Bondage
A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700–1789
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700–1789 is an edited collection of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In addition to documenting...
by Max Beloff
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, but covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting period...
by Plummer Alfred
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In a period of which so much is known, and of which the materials for additional knowledge are so abundant, as is the case with the eighteenth century, the writer of a handbook sees from the first that a very great deal, of even important matters, will have to be omitted: and one of his chief difficulties...
Studies in the Eighteenth Century
Papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority...
Revealing Bodies
Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The injunction, ‘Know thyself!’, resounding down the centuries, has never lost its appeal and urgency. The ‘self’ remains an abiding and universal concern, something at once intimate, indispensable and elusive; something we take for granted and yet remains difficult to pin down, describe or...
Translating the World
Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany’s...
by Morris, Marilyn
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread into a much broader and more public political arena...
Sicily and the Enlightenment
The World of Domenico Caracciolo, Thinker and Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge correspondence, with his diplomatic despatches...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2007
This engaging and humanizing text traces the development of Europe since the mid-eighteenth century through the lives of people of the time. Capturing key moments, themes, and events in the continent's turbulent modern past, the book explores how ordinary Europeans both shaped their societies and...