18Th Century category: 835 books
Jenseits der Oder
Streusandbüchse und eine vorteilhafte Erwerbung
Language: German
Release Date: August 22, 2015
Hans Bentzien hat sich mit seinen historischen Skizzen absichtlich den Gebieten jenseits der Oder zugewendet, die seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs zu Polen gehören, die durch die Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten und den angezettelten Zweiten Weltkrieg verspielt worden sind. Jenseits der Oder...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2016
« Ce sont vos écrits qui m’ont donné envie d’apprendre cette langue ». La langue est l’italien, les écrits sont la première édition des Vite de Vasari et l’auteur de cette lettre est un Flamand, Lambert Lombard, artiste et lettré renommé. La diffusion européenne des Vite fut immédiate,...
by Nancy Mitford
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
The Prussian king Frederick II is today best remembered for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years’ War. But in his youth, tormented by a spectacularly cruel and dyspeptic father, the future military genius...
by Andrew S. Curran
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world.
Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place...
Catherine the Great
Love, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted...
The Invisible Hook
The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining,...
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1982
Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case...
Crucible of War
The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed...
Red Round Globe Hot Burning
A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed...
by Andrea Wulf
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the men who made Britain teh center of the botanical world.
Bringing to life the science and adventure of eighteenth-century plant collecting, The Brother Gardeners is the story of how six men created the modern garden...
by Steve Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The surprising and sometimes shocking history of the scientific innovations in Paris during the French Revolution, by the author of Darwin’s Ghost.
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved...
Georgian Gothic
Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Gothic Revival, rich, ambitious, occasionally eccentric, but nonetheless visually exciting, is one of Britain's greatest contributions to early modern design history, not least because for the most part it contravened approved taste: Classicism. Scholars have tended to treat Georgian Gothic as...
Talleyrand
Todo por la gloria de Francia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Talleyrand, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Conocer a Talleyrand, un polémico personaje que aterriza en política con la Revolución francesa y que no dudará...