18Th Century category: 835 books
Talleyrand
L'art diplomatique du diable boiteux
Language: French
Release Date: September 25, 2015
**Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Talleyrand en moins d’une heure ! **
Rien ne prédestinait Talleyrand à devenir ce diplomate de génie qui connaîtra pas moins de huit régimes différents. C’est que, né avec un handicap au pied, ses parents ont préféré l’orienter vers...
The Countess
The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
One of the great beauties of Georgian society, Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey, was a woman of enormous style and spirit whose life revolved around her pleasures. Clever and witty, her charm was legendary, earning her the nickname in the contemporary press of 'The Enchantress'. She glittered...
Beau Brummell
The Ultimate Man of Style
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
**"If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable."
-- Beau Brummell**
Long before tabloids and television, Beau Brummell was the first person famous for being famous, the male socialite of his time, the first...
Napoleon in Italy
The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument...
by Frederick M. Keener
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
More radically than had any contemporary English author’s work, Thomas Gray’s two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers’ powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not...
Marie Antoinette's Confidante
The Rise and Fall of the Princesse de Lamballe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The true story of the woman who befriended the last queen of France—and the price she paid for her devotion.
Perhaps no one knew Marie Antoinette better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thérèse, the Princess de Lamballe. The princess became superintendent of the queen’s household...
by Louis Bertrand
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Marie Mancini, Louise de La Vallière, La Montespan, La Maintenon...font parties d'une très longue liste : celle des maîtresses de Louis XIV. Bien qu'étant un personnage public, le Roi était un homme secret, vivant dans l'adultère ses amours qui sont l'un des...
by Yaël Schlick
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s...
A Path in the Mighty Waters
Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound for Georgia. Two hundred and twenty-seven passengers boarded two merchant ships accompanied by a British naval vessel and began a transformative voyage across the Atlantic that would last nearly five months. Chronicling...
Perdita
The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a woman of undoubted genius.”
One...
The Battles that Made Abraham Lincoln
How Lincoln Mastered his Enemies to Win the Civil War, Free the Slaves, and Preserve the Union
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
A timely look at the atmosphere of political hostility surrounding the Civil War, and the venom faced by America’s sixteenth president.
Today, Abraham Lincoln is a beloved American icon, widely considered to be our best president. It was not always so. This book takes a look at what Lincoln’s...
Phantom Terror
Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxiety. Monarchs and their courtiers lived in constant fear of rebellion, convinced that their power-and their heads-were at risk. Driven by paranoia, they...
The Last Day
Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an inveterate social order and sent reverberations throughout the Western world. Earth, water, wind, and fire all conspired to produce a hellish catastrophe that lasted for a full five...
A History of England
Period III – Constitutional Monarchy from 1689-1837
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Before the Crown was absolutely offered to William, the Convention was eager to reform a number of the most prominent abuses of the last reign. It was shown by the wiser leaders among them that such reforms would entail a mass of legislation which, to be done well, must occupy several years. It was...