18Th Century category: 835 books

A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and...

La réputation de Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) n'est plus à faire. Aventurier, écrivain, diplomate, espion, violoniste mais également coureur de jupons, séducteur, libertin... tous ces qualificatifs collent à la peau du personnage. Ce sont essentiellement ces dernières qualités qui sont...

This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American...

The Enlightenment Movement changed society forever, driving it forward through new and fresh ways of thinking about science, religion, history, politics, and culture. This dictionary offers a balanced overview and helps us to understand and appreciate the Enlightenment through its coverage of the...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born in Leipzig, Germany, is one of the most influential mathematicians and philosopher of the Enlightenment. The Monadology is one of Leibnizs best known later philosophical works. In it, he discusses the metaphysics of indivisible particles known as monads.

Extrait : "L'Alsace en 1789 était mi-française, mi-allemande. Celui qui la visitait rapidement la jugeait plus allemande que française ; le voyageur anglais Arthur Young, par exemple, eut cette impression quand il traversa la pays en juillet 1789. La grande masse des paysans ne parlait que le dialecte...

Ce livre unique comporte une biographie de Olympe de GOUGES et une de ces oeuvres :"LES DROITS DE LA FEMME". Auteur : Marie Gouze, dite Olympe de Gouges, née le 7 mai 1748 à Montauban et morte guillotinée le 3 novembre 1793 à Paris, est une femme de lettres française, devenue...

Unlike his contemporaries, who saw Europe’s prosperity as confirmation of a utopian future, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson saw a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. This is a major reassessment of a critic overshadowed today by David Hume and Adam Smith.

Whitehorse Farmhouse, Morton-on-the-Hill, located just outside Norwich, served as an Inn from the late C17 through to 1912. References to this hostelry can be found in Parson James Woodforde's country 'Diaries'. A short, history of this now private residence can be found on Kindle. Written by Susy Scott, the author of Finding Jingo.

Sur la côte septentrionale du golfe du Forth, dans le comté de Fife (Écosse), s’étend, sur 5 kilomètres de longueur, la petite ville de Kirkaldy. C’est là que naquit Adam Smith, le 5 juin 1723. Son père venait de mourir. C’était, dit-on,...

David Hume (7 May 1711– 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. Hume...

Le premier dialogue met en présence D’Alembert et Diderot. Diderot est ici au sommet du développement de ses théories matérialistes. Il expose sa théorie sur la vie et la nature. Il y indique que la matière n’est pas figée, et qu’au contraire, elle évolue : chaque espèce existante se...