CK - 18th Century 2

From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). Th……続きを見る

In this book Lynn Hunt and Jack R. Censer lucidly trace events from 1789 until the fall of Napoleon, stressing the global dimensions of the French Revolution and offering balanced coverage of both i……続きを見る

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, an……続きを見る

Het onbekende levensverhaal van een Groningse die participeerde in de Franse Revolutie van 1789, correspondeerde met stadhouder Willem V en zich als een van de eerste inzette voor de vrouwenzaak. In……続きを見る

Samuel Johnson famously referred to his future biographer, the unsociable magistrate Sir John Hawkins, as “a most unclubbable man." Conversely, this celebratory volume gathers distinguished eighteen……続きを見る

In diesen Texten geht es um eine doppelte Ermutigung. Dazu müssen wir uns zunächst in den November des Wendejahres 1989 zurückbegeben: In Meerane wurde ein kleines Wochenblatt, das Meeraner Blatt, g……続きを見る

On November 4, 1791, a coalition of warriors determined to set the Ohio River as a permanent boundary between tribal lands and white settlements faced an army led by Arthur St. Clairーthe resulting ……続きを見る

Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a cit……続きを見る

In this autobiography by one of the great Native-American Chiefs, skirmishes between Native-American tribes and the United States government are recounted and described in detail, conveying the brut……続きを見る

This meticulously edited collection is dedicated to the raw and at the same time visionary foundations on which present day United States stands on. Contents: The Beginnings of the American People T……続きを見る

H. H. Brackenridge's 'The Battle of Bunkers-Hill' provides a detailed account of the iconic Revolutionary War battle, blending historical facts with a compelling narrative style. Written in a vivid ……続きを見る

William Makepeace Thackeray's 'The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne' is a historical novel set in the early 18th century England. Thackeray's literar……続きを見る

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 h……続きを見る

This original book presents a global approach to eighteenth century warfare. Emphasis is placed on the importance of conflict in the period and the capacity for decisiveness in impact and developmen……続きを見る

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Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent i……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

Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel……続きを見る

Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes presents an account of “the Poets’ Secret,” the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something ma……続きを見る

Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnaci……続きを見る

How did the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Pene……続きを見る

This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis……続きを見る

American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most o……続きを見る

At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church a……続きを見る

Has 85 full-page plates of hand-lettered text and meticulously detailed drawings that bring to life the day-to-day pleasures and privations of the Revolutionary soldier. 続きを見る

Les transcriptions des conférences données par Henri Guillemin en 1967 réunies dans un seul ouvrage On avait bien compris, à la lecture de son Silence aux pauvres, qu’Henri Guillemin ne se contentai……続きを見る

It took all human knowledge as its province and required a quarter century to complete. It sold enough copies to justify being called the first commercial bestseller of modern times - and it changed……続きを見る

Recreate the action and drama of 17th Century warfare on your tabletop with The Pikeman's Lament. Start by creating your Officer – is he a natural leader raised from the ranks, the youngest son of a……続きを見る

James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787–1788 to secure rati……続きを見る

Here is the surprising story of Swiss hero William Tell. With one shot of his bow, writes New York Times bestselling author Robert Wernick in this essay, Tell started the centuries-long series of ev……続きを見る