18Th Century category: 835 books
British Warships in the Age of Sail 1714-1792
Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
The new Hanoverian dynasty that came to power with the accession of George I in 1714 inherited the largest navy in the world. In the course of the century, this force would see a vast amount of action against nearly every major navy, reaching a pinnacle of success in the Seven Years War only to taste...
by Eduard Fueter
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
WHAT has hitherto been called "universal history" or "world history" (Weltgeschichte) has been nothing but a conglomeration. People believed they were writing world history if they articulated together in a formal fashion the events of various continents. Writers have been satisfied...
Realm between Empires
The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart...
by Rif Winfield, Stephen S Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but this naval force declined rapidly in the 1650s and a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661\. Thereafter, Louis XIV"s navy grew rapidly to become the...
by Sarah Eron
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining...
Exploration of the South Seas in the Eighteenth Century: Rediscovered Accounts, Volume II
Voyage Round the World Performed under the Direction of Captain Etienne Marchand in the Solide of Marseilles 1790-1792
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide scholarship across numerous fields. These navigators and their texts were instrumental in spurring on further exploration, annexation and ultimately colonisation of the pacific territories...
by Martin Hume
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
"I lighted upon great files and heaps of papers and writings of all sorts.... In searching and turning over whereof, whilst I laboured till I sweat again, covered all over with dust, to gather fit matter together ... that noble Lord died, and my industry began to flag and wax cold in the business."
Thus...
Between Wales and England
Anglophone Welsh Writing of the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Between Wales and England is an exploration of eighteenth-century anglophone Welsh writing by authors for whom English-language literature was mostly a secondary concern. In its process, the work interrogates these authors’ views on the newly-emerging sense of ‘Britishness’, finding them in...
by Pat Dargan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
During the eighteenth century the city of Bath experienced a period of dramatic expansion, when an extensive range of elegant uniform streets, landscaped spaces, tall stone-built Georgian houses, and public buildings made their appearance. There was no master plan for the development of Bath. The...
Romantic Appropriations of History
The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson focuses on Joanna Baillie’s Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) and on various historical tales, either written or translated, by one of her very close friends, Margaret Holford Hodson. While...
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early...
Von Boltenhagen nach Ahlbeck - Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns Ostseeküste
Geschichte und Geschichten für Zugezogene, Touristen und andere Neulinge
Language: German
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Die Texte für dieses Buch entstanden auf der Basis umfangreicher Recherchen im Auftrag des damaligen Gewerkschaftsverlages 'Tribüne' in der Zeit vor 1989 und sollten den Urlaubern das Land an der damals schon sehr beliebten Ostseeküste ein wenig näherbringen. Die Ereignisse der Wendezeit und der...
Damm und Deich - fruchtbar und reich
Märkische Miniaturen
Language: German
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Am Beginn unserer Betrachtungen zum Jubiläumsjahr 1997, in dem vor 250 Jahren der Plan gefasst und sogleich umgesetzt wurde, das Oderbruch zu regulieren, mag eine Zwischenbilanz Friedrichs II. stehen, der in seinem Politischen Testament von 1752 detaillierte Angaben zur Situation an der Oder macht:...
Meine Amsel singt in Tamsel
Märkische Miniaturen
Language: German
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Das Buch ist bekannten und weniger bekannten Persönlichkeiten gewidmet, deren Leben die Geschichte Brandenburgs und seine Bewohner mitgeprägt haben. Der Leser lernt Carl August von Hardenberg, Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz, Sophie Charlotte, Königin von Preußen und andere geschichtsträchtige...