18Th Century category: 835 books
The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II
Enlightenment Bestsellers
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), and related archives, it charts the dissemination of literature and...
Invisible Hands
Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems—natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others—whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteenth century, older certainties about such orders,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The Eighteenth century is one of the most important periods in the history of Western philosophy, witnessing philosophical, scientific, and social and political change on a vast scale. In spite of this, there are few single volume overviews of the philosophy of the period as a whole.
The Routledge...
Lost Worlds
The Emergence of French Social History, 1815–1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Today’s interest in social history and private life is often seen as a twentieth-century innovation. Most often Lucien Febvre and the Annales school in France are credited with making social history a widely accepted way for historians to approach the past. In Lost Worlds historian Jonathan Dewald...
The Pleasures of the Imagination
English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in...
Radical voices, radical ways
Articulating and disseminating radicalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century. The essays included in the volume explore the modes of articulation and dissemination...
by Maureen F. Musumeci
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Pirates are thieves who roam the seas. They prey on ships to steal their cargoes and valuables.
Pirates have been around ever since the invention of boats! There is even an old tale that Caesar Augustus was captured by pirates and held for ransom. This happened before he became Emperor of Rome.
However,...
The Acadian Diaspora:An Eighteenth-Century History
An Eighteenth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number...
by Manushag N. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals by Manushag N. Powell embraces periodicals across the first two-thirds of the eighteenth century to argue that this mode of writing, packed with humor and verve, originates the figure of the mass-market author as a literary character. Powell...
Aristocratic Vice
The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. Each of the four, it was commonly believed, owed its origin to pride. Many felt the law did not go far enough...
Charlotte Lennox
Correspondence and Miscellaneous Documents
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
This volume compiles and annotates for the first time the complete correspondence of the eighteenth-century British author Charlotte Lennox, best known for her novel The Female Quixote. Lennox corresponded with famous contemporaries from different walks of life such as James Boswell, David Garrick,...
China's Philological Turn
Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history. Professor Black considers the reasons for the growth of the "print culture" and the...
The Century of Revolution
1603–1714
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution....