18Th Century category: 835 books
by Gracchus Babeuf
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2014
La Guerre de Vendée représente l'un des épisodes les plus tragiques de l'Histoire de France qui demeure également peu connue des Français. Mais ce qui a été dissimulé, c’est la répression et la tentative de l’extermination de la population vendéenne en 1793 et 1794.
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The American Revolution
New Nation as New Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In The American Revolution, 1760 to 1790: New Nation as New Empire, Neil York details the important and complex events that transpired during the creation of the enduring American Republic. This text presents a global look at the emerging nation’s quest to balance liberty and authority before, during,...
Land of the Free
Wargames Rules for North America 1754–1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Land of the Free is the new set of wargaming rules from Osprey that allow players to recreate the various conflicts that broke out in North America shortly prior to and just after Independence, including the French and Indian Wars, the Revolution and the War of 1812. This set of rules lets players...
A Child of Colonialism and World War Ii
My Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2012
A child born in 1938 in the Caribbean, known then as the West Indies, writes and illustrates about her life experiences of first hand events during Colonialism and World War II , emigration to Canada, and retirement. My Memoirs may be of interest to students of Colonialism, Imperialism and World War II in the Caribbean.
Enterprising Women
Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction...
George Washington's Surprise Attack
A New Look at the Battle That Decided the Fate of America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Extensively researched and superbly argued in Tucker’s compelling narrative, this in-depth examination of George Washington’s military miracle’ at the Battle of Trenton unquestionably confirms the vital importance of that stunning victory.” -Jerry D. Morelock, PhD, editor in chief at Armchair...
With Musket & Tomahawk
The West Point?Hudson Valley Campaign in the Wilderness War of 1777
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In this third volume of Michael Logusz’s epic study of the Wilderness War of 1777, a sizable British military force, augmented with German and loyalist soldiers, attacks the Northern Army’s southern front in the fall of 1777 in hopes of assisting a much larger British Army that is threatened to...
Trenton and Princeton 1776–77
Washington crosses the Delaware
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Pursued by British forces, Washington and his remaining 5,000 men resolved on a risky strike against the British and Hessian positions across the Delaware River. Crossing the river, Washington took the Trenton garrison for the loss of only four men, before outflanking Cornwallis' 8,000-strong force...
by Daniel Marston
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The French-Indian War was fought in the forests, open plains, and forts of the North American frontier. The French army, supported by North American tribes, was initially more successful than the British Army, who suffered from lack of experience at woodland fighting. This title explains the background...
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715–1747
A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context,...
by James McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The Development of British Light Infantry examines the development of light infantry in the British Army in general and North America specifically. This illustrated history is a must for anyone interested in military history
by Deborah Brunton
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Medicine in Modern Britain 1780–1950 provides an introduction to the development of medicine – scientific and heterodox, domestic and professional – in Britain from the end of the early modern period and through modern times. Divided thematically, each chapter within this book addresses a different...
Creating the Constitution
The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 1993
Creating the Constitution presents a different interpretation of the Convention and the First Congress, derived largely from a close reading of Farrand's Records and the Annals of Congress. Among its special features are a critical perspective on the Framers, an examination of Court Whig influence...