18Th Century category: 835 books
The Afterlife of Used Things
Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity...
by William Bertram
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
This book deals with an ordinary man from the 21st century (Michael), through a fault in the Essentia’s admin database, being time exchanged with the soul of a dead naval lieutenant from another century and there is no going back.
In our century, Michael is a sarcastic and cheeky individual, but...
by Autori Vari
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 1, 2016
The Transformation of Confessional Cultures in a Central European City results from a series of projects about the history of Olomouc, a medium-sized royal city in Moravia in the present-day Czech Republic. Set in its regional as well as wider contexts, this study of Olomouc contributes to research...
by Henry Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
THE close of the Seven Years' War brought only a lull in the great conflicts of the eighteenth century, and yet for a time men seemed less influenced by dynastic quarrels, and their attention was centered upon questions of social and political reconstruction. The policies of rulers were affected by...
Casanova
The World of a Seductive Genius
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
“Sexy, surprising, funny, insightful, and wildly entertaining” (Huffington Post)—the definitive biography of Giacomo Casanova, the impoverished boy who became the famous writer, notorious libertine, and self-invented genius in decadent eighteenth-century Europe.
Today, “Casanova”...
by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2004
The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medicine by borrowing folk knowledge from African slaves and Eastern women in frantic bids to protect their...
A Great and Monstrous Thing
London in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A Great and Monstrous Thing offers a street-level view of eighteenth-century London, a city of grandeur and glitter, squalor and poverty, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666 that destroyed half its homes and great public buildings. What emerges is a society fractured by geography, politics, religion, history—and especially by class.
In Pursuit of Privilege
A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's...
by Sophia Hillan
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Marianne, Louise and Cassandra Knight were nieces of the great 19th century novelist who gave us Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up, and they were often the subject of her witty letters. The...
The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Extraordinary Perseverance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The social conscience of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) developed as he operated a brewery in Spitalfields, nineteenth-century London’s poorest parish. His interest and research on penal discipline brought him national prominence and led to a parliamentary career that lasted nearly two decades....
The Great Cat Massacre
And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it...
Suffering Scholars
Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until...
A Warrior Dynasty
The Rise and Decline of Sweden as a Military Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its...
Enlightenment's Frontier
The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Enlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that...