18Th Century category: 835 books
Rethinking the Age of Revolutions
France and the Birth of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker seek to break through the narrow...
Revolution in the Andes
The Age of Túpac Amaru
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Revolution in the Andes is an in-depth history of the Túpac Amaru insurrection, the largest and most threatening indigenous challenge to Spanish rule in the Andean world after the Conquest. Between 1780 and 1782, insurgent armies were organized throughout the Andean region. Some of the oldest and...
Lessons from America
Liberal French Nobles in Exile, 1793–1798
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Every war has refugees; every revolution has exiles. Most of the refugees of the French Revolution mourned the demise of the monarchy. Lessons from America examines an unusual group who did not. Doina Pasca Harsanyi looks at the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats, early participants...
Priests of the French Revolution
Saints and Renegades in a New Political Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was especially true for those priests required at the very beginning of 1791 to take an oath of loyalty to...
by C. Keith Wilbur
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Has 85 full-page plates of hand-lettered text and meticulously detailed drawings that bring to life the day-to-day pleasures and privations of the Revolutionary soldier.
Traumatic Politics
The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The opening events of the French Revolution have stood as some of the most familiar in modern European history. Traumatic Politics emerges as a fresh voice from the existing historiography of this widely studied course of events. In applying a psychological lens to the classic problem of why the French...
Provincial Patriot of the French Revolution
François Buzot, 1760–1794
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
This biography of François Buzot, a Girondin leader in both the Constituent Assembly (1789-91) and the National Convention (1792-93), illustrates how his early life in Evreux and his training as a lawyer influenced his ideas and actions during the French Revolution, when he championed individual...
The Ascent of John Company
From Traders to Rulers (1756-1787)
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The Ascent of John Company is the story of the founding of the British empire in India. The process of founding empires is rarely, if ever, edifying. It is invariably a sordid story of brutality and violence, tempered to some extent by blatant lies, corruption, skullduggery and intrigue. Robert Clive...
France on the Eve of Revolution
British Travellers' Observations 1763-1788
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch at first hand the changes taking place in French society an the agitations that were becoming increasingly loud for reform. This book, originally published...
Savannah 1779
The British turn south
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In 1778 Great Britain launched a second invasion of the southern colonies as part of the “southern strategy” for victory in the American Revolutionary War. A force of 3,000 British soldiers, Hessians and Loyalists was dispatched from New York City to capture Savannah, capital of the State of Georgia....
State, Economy and the Great Divergence
Great Britain and China, 1680s-1850s
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of...
Fontenoy 1745
Cumberland's bloody defeat
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A disputed succession to the Austrian throne led to general war between the leading powers of Europe in 1740, with France, Spain and Prussia on one side, and Britain, Habsburg Austria and the Dutch Republic on the other. While fighting occurred across the globe, the bloodiest battles were fought on...
Community without Consent
New Perspectives on the Stamp Act
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The first book-length study of the Stamp Act in decades, this timely collection draws together essays from a broad range of disciplines to provide a thoroughly original investigation of the influence of 1760s British tax legislation on colonial culture, and vice versa. While earlier scholarship has...
The Art of Being In-between
Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a rugged, mountainous, ethnically diverse, and overwhelmingly indigenous region of colonial Mexico. Her...