18Th Century category: 835 books
The Crisis of the European Mind
1680-1715
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back...
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early...
The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life....
Thinking about the Enlightenment
Modernity and its Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Thinking about the Enlightenment looks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates...
The Classic Guide to Beekeeping
From Hives to Honey
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The first human attempts to collect honey from wild bees were some 15,000 years ago, while the Ancient Egyptians depicted domesticated bees around 4,500 years ago. But it was only in the eighteenth century that a better understanding of how bees live led to the invention of a moveable comb hive that...
The Island Race
Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Rooted in a period of vigorous exploration and colonialism, The Island Race: Englishness, empire and gender in the eighteenth century is an innovative study of the issues of nation, gender and identity. Wilson bases her analysis on a wide range of case studies drawn both from Britain and across the...
Against War and Empire
Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated...
Cul de Sac
Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth...
The Inner Life of Empires
An Eighteenth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who...
Vitruvius Scoticus
Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Public Buildings, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Houses in Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This classic portfolio uses elevations, floor plans, and other line drawings by Scotland's first great classical architect to document the high Scottish style of the eighteenth century. It was assembled by William Adam (1689–1748), whose sons were the developers of the "Adam style," and published posthumously...
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness
Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness reads the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment’s ethical legacy.
Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman
John Macdonald Travels (1745-1779)
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
First published in 1927. John Macdonald (1741-96) was born, and died, a Scottish Highlander. First published at the time of the French Revolution, these memoirs of his days in service provide a rich panorama of life in the company of blind fiddlers, maid-servants, the Scottish aristocracy, soldiers,...
Sweet William or the Butcher?
The Duke of Cumberland and the '45
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
'Butcher' Cumberland is portrayed as one of the arch villains of British history. His leading role in the bloody defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and his ruthless pursuit of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fugitive supporters across the Scottish Highlands has generated a reputation for severity that...
by Sara Pennell, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen,...