18Th Century category: 835 books
Exploration of the South Seas in the Eighteenth Century: Rediscovered Accounts, Volume I
Samuel Wallis’s Voyage Round the World in the Dolphin 1766-1768
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields. These navigators and their texts were instrumental in spurring on further exploration, annexation and ultimately colonisation of the pacific territories...
A History of Modern France
PowerPoint Presentation (Download Only)
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Organized chronologically, A History of Modern France presents a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated French history, including the French Revolution, the upheavals of the 19th century, the world wars of the 20th century, and France's current role in the European Union. Written for today's...
Servants in Rural Europe
1400-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's households before...
Slavery Hinterland
Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked in various ways with the transatlantic slave business,...
by Stephen Saunders Webb
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of salutary neglect,” but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces,...
by Thomas M. Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility
The Enlightened and Depraved
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The image of the debauched French aristocrat of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is one that still has power over the international public imagination, from the unending fascination with the Marquis de Sade to the successes of the film Ridicule. Drawing on memoirs, letters, popular songs and...
by Carlton Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
CERTAIN basic principles in society and in politics were proclaimed by the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Era served to communicate them to Europe. The ensuing period was marked by a bitter struggle within nearly every European state for their general acceptance or for their wholesale rejection....
A Time of Sifting
Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embarrassing...
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society.
Men of the period used horses to transform themselves,...
The Development of Modern Europe Volume I
From the Wars of Louis XIV to the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries...
by Heinrich von Treitschke
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
First published in English in 1914, this Routledge Revival is a reissue of Adolf Hausrath's edited collection: Treitschke: His Life and Works.
Treitschke remains one of the most important German historians of the nineteenth century. He is also famous for his nationalist sentiments and political...
The Travel Journals of Henrietta Marchant Liston
North America and Lower Canada, 1796–1800
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Travel writing has a long history, the accounts as varied as the reasons why people travel.Although most travel publications of the eighteenth century were written by men, those by women, perhaps most famously Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, were also widely read.
The Travel Journals of Henrietta...
by John Acton
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
John Acton weaves a fantastic history spanning from the Renaissance to the American Revolution.
Featuring:
Beginning Of The Modern State
The New World
The Renaissance
Luther
The Counter-Reformation
Calvin And Henry Viii.
Philip Ii, Mary Stuart, And Elizabeth
The Huguenots And The League
Henry...