18Th Century category: 835 books
by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A groundbreaking work of history (and, incidentally, the primary resource for Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities) Carlyle’s French Revolution explains momentous historical change as resulting from the leadership of heroic individuals. The immediacy of Carlyle’s prose—in which past events are often recounted in the present tense—makes for riveting reading.
by Allison Bruning
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
She captivated Daniel Boone's heart and kept his love close to her own. Everyone knows the tales of Daniel Boone but few know of his unyielding love and devotion to his wife, Rebecca Ann Bryan Boone. Take an intimate look into the love Daniel had for his wife.
Dining with the Georgians
A Delicious History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A cup of coffee and a slice of cake, a glossy book in hand to cook for friends, Sunday lunch with the family at the local pub – most of us take these simple everyday pleasures for granted. But how did we learn to cook and what inspired us to get better at it? Today’s food-obsessed culture has...
by Albert Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Originally published in 1956, this masterly essay weaves together the results of research with an independence of judgement which could only come from a long-established expert in the field of Revolutionary studies. The book examines the causes of the French Revolution and the economics involved in...
by Ernan McMullin
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1994
Newton on Matter and Activity shows persuasively that while the Principia remains within the first two stages of inquiry (mathematical and physical) into nature, Newton spent the next forty years of his life making a philosophical analysis of matter, force, and transmission of force. Close attention...
LES ORIGINES DE LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE
TOME 2 LA REVOLUTION - L'ANARCHIE
Language: French
Release Date: December 23, 2018
Les Origines de la France contemporaine est l'œuvre majeure d'Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosophe et historien français.
Profondément ébranlé par la défaite de 1870 ainsi que par l'insurrection et la violente répression de la Commune de Paris, Taine s'est, à partir de 1870, pleinement...
LES ORIGINES DE LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE
TOME 2 LA REVOLUTION - LA CONQUETE JACOBINE
Language: French
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Les Origines de la France contemporaine est l'œuvre majeure d'Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosophe et historien français.
Profondément ébranlé par la défaite de 1870 ainsi que par l'insurrection et la violente répression de la Commune de Paris, Taine s'est, à partir de 1870, pleinement...
LES ORIGINES DE LA FRANCE CONTEMPORAINE
Tome 1 L'ANCIEN REGIME
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2018
Les Origines de la France contemporaine est l'œuvre majeure d'Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosophe et historien français.
Profondément ébranlé par la défaite de 1870 ainsi que par l'insurrection et la violente répression de la Commune de Paris, Taine s'est, à partir de 1870, pleinement...
by Georges Barral, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Extrait : "On a voulu voir deux hommes distincts ainsi que deux noms séparés dans Napoléon Bonaparte. Bonaparte, a-t-on dit, nom frappant, facile à retenir, simple, uni, militaire, à consonnes dures, brèves, sèches, expressives. Nom éminemment convenable au citoyen, général en chef de l'armée...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical skepticism argues that in the absence of certainty one must either suspend judgment and live by habit...
Los hermanos Alexander y Wilhelm von Humboldt en Colombia
Huellas históricas de la cooperación científica entre dos continentes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 11, 2013
Este libro sigue las huellas de los dos hermanos Alexander y Wilhelm von Humboldt en la Nueva Granada y actual Colombia, para mostrar los caminos históricos de cooperación e intercambio científico entre Alemania y Colombia. Desde el famoso viaje de Alexander von Humboldt a América y su encuentro...
Salon de Robespierre
Histoire des salons de Paris : Tableaux et Portraits du grand monde sous Louis XVI, le Directoire, le Consulat et l'Empire, la Restauration et le Règne de Louis-Philippe Ier
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Extrait : "Rien n'est, je crois, plus difficile que d'écrire l'histoire contemporaine, lorsque surtout les événements ont été influents sur vous ou sur les vôtres, et que leur souvenir se vient offrir à vous et se heurter en même temps, pour ainsi dire, avec nouvelles impressions sans cesse renouvelées...
Jacques Pierre Brissot in America and France, 1788–1793
In Search of Better Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This book examines a decisive five-year period in the life of Jacques Pierre Brissot, one of the influential leaders of the French Revolution. An idealistic, somewhat naive journalist who became a member of the national assembly, Brissot championed the new American republic as an example for the French...
II-1 La législation aux Antilles - Le Code Noir
L'esclavage aux Antilles Françaises avant 1789
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Ce livret est le chapitre 1 du Livre II, intitulé « Le régime de l’esclavage» extrait de L’esclavage aux Antilles françaises avant 1789 de Lucien Peytraud.
Écrit 29 ans à peine après l’abolition de l’esclavage...