18Th Century category: 835 books
L'Intendant de Rouen
Juge du contentieux fiscal au XVIIIe siècle
Language: French
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Les intendants rouennais n'ont guère, jusqu’à présent, retenu l’attention. Il en est de même du contentieux fiscal dévolu aux commissaires départis dans les généralités situées en pays d’élections. À ce double titre, l’activité de l’intendant de Rouen, juge du contentieux fiscal...
L'Europe catholique au XVIIIe siècle
Entre intégrisme et laïcisation
Language: French
Release Date: February 24, 2015
La France est le seul pays d’Europe où l’État et les Églises sont le plus strictement séparés depuis la loi de 1905. Si on fait de cette loi la lointaine conséquence des rapports tumultueux entre l’Église catholique et la Révolution française, on oublie trop que, dès la seconde moitié...
Almost Home
Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In...
De founding fathers
de grondleggers van de Verenigde Staten
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 10, 2016
De Founding Fathers waren de grondleggers van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika. Na het ondertekenen van de Declaration of Independence, de Onafhankelijkheidsverklaring, stelden ze, geïnspireerd door het Europese verlichtingsdenken, de Amerikaanse grondwet op. Daarmee legden ze de stevig gebleken basis...
by Ian P. H. Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This title, first published in 1985, examines the evolution of the laws relating to debt and credit during the industrial revolution. Since economic activity was so precarious during the industrial revolution it is important to explore the legal procedures designed to deal with its victims. This work...
Economic Arithmetic
A Guide to the Statistical Sources of English Commerce, Industry, and Finance, 1700-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Economic history is the most quantitative branch of history, reflecting the interests and profiting from the techniques and concepts of economics. This essay, first published in 1977, provides an extensive contribution to quantitative historiography by delivering a critical guide to the sources of...
The Governing of Britain, 1688-1848
The Executive, Parliament and the People
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Focusing on the institutions and players of central and local government during an era of great transformation, Peter Jupp examines the cohesive nature of the British state, and how Britain was governed between 1688 and 1848.
Divided into two parts, bisected by the accession of George III in...
by James Walvin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off course, and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall....
The Age of Machinery
Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pioneering machine-makers, almost all working within textile communities in northern England, and the industry they created. It probes...
Possessed by the Devil
The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches & Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The first comprehensive book on Ireland's only witchcraft trialIn 1711, in County Antrim, eight women were put on trial accused of orchestrating the demonic possession of young Mary Dunbar, and the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman's wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this...
by Mark Salber Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In this exceptionally wide-ranging study, Phillips examines...
by Timothy Tackett
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
How did the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Penetrating the mentality of Revolutionary elites on the eve of the Terror, he reveals how suspicion and mistrust escalated and helped propel their actions.
Louisbourg 1758
Wolfe’s first siege
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Louisbourg represented a major threat to Anglo-American plans to invade Canada. Bypassing it would leave an immensely powerful enemy base astride the Anglo-American lines of communication – Louisbourg had to be taken. Faced with strong beach defences and rough weather, it took six days to land the...
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
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...