18Th Century category: 835 books
Salon du marquis de Condorcet
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 : "De tous les crimes commis pendant cette époque de folie nommée la Terreur, celui de la condamnation et de la mort de madame Roland est sans contredit le plus atroce ; parce qu'il n'est justifié par aucune de ces raisons, mêmes absurdes, que donnaient alors pour motif et pour but...
Salon de François de Neufchâteau
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 : "Une des choses les plus étranges de notre Révolution, c'est qu'après ce qu'on vient de lire, après les horreurs qui se commirent encore longtemps après le 9 thermidor, le régime de comité de Salut public et de la Convention aurait duré peut-être bien longtemps, si la division ne s'était...
Salon de madame de Staël, Ambassadrice de Suède
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 : "C'est une des chances les plus heureuses pour une femme littéraire que d'avoir à parler de madame de Staël..., cette femme dont le génie a jeté de si brillants rayons, non seulement sur nous, pauvres déshéritées de toutes les gloires, mais sur le siècle qui la vit naître et celui...
Thief-Taker Hangings
How Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Wild, and Jack Sheppard Captivated London and Created the Celebrity Criminal
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England. Crime ran rampant, and highwaymen, thieves, and prostitutes ruled the land. Execution by hanging often punished the smallest infractions, and rip-roaring stories of fearless criminals proliferated, giving birth to...
Scotland's Pariah
The Life and Work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon,...
What is Past is Prologue
Cost Accounting in the British Industrial Revolution, 1760-1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
This volume, originally published in 1997, reports the findings of extensive archival and contextual research into the surviving accounting and business records of some 200 British Industrial Revolution enterprises. This study presents an overview of cost accounting and cost management practices,...
The Academy of Fisticuffs
Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
The Italian Enlightenment, no less than the Scottish, was central to the emergence of political economy and creation of market societies. Sophus Reinert turns to Milan in the late 1700s to recover early socialists’ preoccupations with the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare, and the policies these ideas informed.
France 1715-1804
Power and the People
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Gwynne Lewis’ history opens with a full analysis of all the components of traditional France, including political and religious structures, the seigneurial system, the bourgeoisie and the poor. Part two examines the meaning and challenge of the Enlightenment, with particular reference to women and...
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 14, 2013
L’esperienza quotidiana femminile nel XVIII secolo; le passioni, le idee, le mode attraverso documenti e testimonianze dell’epoca, libri e opuscoli, lettere, atti delle cancellerie, processi e memorie giudiziarie. Un pezzo di storia sociologica e insieme un racconto letterario secondo i severi canoni del realismo narrativo.
by Alessandro Marzo Magno
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 21, 2011
In una calda sera di settembre, un buon mese per terrorizzare i nemici, una bomba fa saltare in ariauna polveriera turca. L'esplosione è immane, blocchi di pietra scaraventati a grande distanza, trecento morti, l'incendio che dura per giorni. I mortai della coalizione cristiana guidata dal veneziano...
by Dr Alexander Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
While the literature relating to Scottish contact with America has grown significantly in recent years, the influence of America on Scotland and its early modern history has been neglected in favour of a preoccupation with Scottish influence on the formation of North American national identities. Alexander...
by David Hume
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 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...
by Thomas Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard published Catos Letters from 1720 to 1723, a series of letters arguing against British tyranny and advancing further freedom and free speech. This letter by Cato is critical of Britains standing armies across the world.
Los Lísperguer Wittemberg: una familia alemana en el corazón de la cultura chilena
Identidad y esplendor de la primera familia colonial de Chile
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 15, 2016
La familia alemana Lísperguer, protegida de Carlos V, y de gran éxito en el Chile y Perú colonial de los siglos XVI y XVII, ha despertado un enorme interés mediático, convirtiéndose en un verdadero fenómeno social. De ella y su célebre tópico literario “la Quintrala” (el Quijote...