H.P. - 18th Century 1

Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have ……続きを見る

This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine……続きを見る

Economic history is the most quantitative branch of history, reflecting the interests and profiting from the techniques and concepts of economics. This essay, first published in 1977, provides an ex……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Marie-Antoinette en moins d’une heure ! Devenue au fil des ans un personnage mythique de l’histoire de France, Marie-Antoinette n’en est que plus mystér……続きを見る

The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra i……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Benjamin Franklin en moins d’une heure ! Personnalité emblématique de l’histoire des États-Unis, Benjamin Franklin est le symbole même du self-made-man.……続きを見る

The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of ……続きを見る