18Th Century category: 835 books
by J.R. Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The press-gang. An unmitigated evil, or the savior of a nation? You decide.
Impressment was nothing new for the Royal Navy. It had been used as early as 1664 as a way of obtaining crews for warships. In many respects, impressment was inevitable. The number of trained sailors was finite, and...
In Bed with the Georgians
Sex, Scandal and Satire in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able to thrive in the eighteenth century like never before. It looks at high-class seraglios as well as the brothels, jelly-houses and bagnios which flourished...
Redcoat Officer
1740–1815
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The commissioned officer ranks in the British Army from 1740-1815 were almost entirely composed of the affluent and educated the sons of the landed gentry, the wealthy, and other professional people. This title looks at the enlistment, training, daily life and combat experiences of the typical British...
Bringers of War
The Portugese in Africa during the Age of Gunpowder & Sail from the 15th to 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Long before coal-fuelled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slaves and searching for mineral riches. They fought their ancient Muslim foes wherever they encountered...
The Unknown of the Known in Africa
The rise and the fall of the African Chiefdoms
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The Unknown of the Known in Africa is the story of George Eden Bess from Germany who does research as a historian. George unveils unknown King Shaka and his plan to make Southern Africa to be in his palm of hand. George's purpose becomes a plan to bring back Africans united, as there is no African...
Scotland in the Eighteenth Century
Union and Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This is an introduction to Scottish history in the 18th which is completely up-to-date and gives equal emphasis to politics and religion. Once a small and isolated country with an unenviable reputation for poverty and instability, by 1800 Scotland it was emerging as an economic powerhouse, a major...
by Chris Heath
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
This latest edition in the Denby & District series opens up in its own unique and in depth style. It begins with a chronicle of the area dating from Medieval times to the 18th century. Most of the documents utilised have never before been published and include a transcription of a petition signed...
The Black Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar**—**because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The...
The First Bohemians
Life and Art in London's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic Gatrell
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014
In the teeming, disordered, and sexually charged square half-mile centred...
How to Create the Perfect Wife
Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and his Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Thomas Day, an 18th-century British writer and radical, knew exactly the sort of woman he wanted to marry. Pure and virginal like an English country maid yet tough and hardy like a Spartan heroine, she would live with him in an isolated cottage, completely subservient to his whims. But after being...
Geographies of an Imperial Power
The British World, 1688–1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration...
Perfectibilists
The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Presenting an advanced and authoritative perspective, this definitive study chronicles the rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Describing this enigmatic community in meticulous detail, more than 1,000 endnotes are included, citing...
En Garde!
Swashbuckling Skirmish Wargames Rules
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the models that they control will fight – offensively,...
Concepts of Space
The History of Theories of Space in Physics: Third, Enlarged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Historical surveys of the concept of space consider Judeo-Christian ideas, Newtonian absolute space, perceptions from 18th century to the present, and more. This scholarly work features numerous original quotations and bibliographical references, including original-language excerpts and translations...