18th Century Books


The Duchess Best Price: $6.47 I am a big fan of historical fiction so I decided to order this one. First let me state, this...	Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 Best Price: $12.00 Though long overshadowed in the traditional historical narrative by the American Revolution, the...	The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce (Swans Are Not Silent) Best Price: $7.49 Piper continues his eulogies in 'The Swans Are Not Silent' by tracing the lives of three unique...	Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $5.96 This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. In...	The World Of Jack Aubrey Best Price: $7.50 Anyone interested in the 19th century world of the British Royal Navy will find this book...



Brilliant Women: 18th-Century Bluestockings Best Price: $39.00 such as the wildly intelligent and intuitive individuals given life in this readable and...	The Hellfire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies Best Price: $20.11 The Hell-Fire Clubs scandalized eighteenth-century English society. Rumors of their orgies,...	Don Troiani's Soldiers of the American Revolution Best Price: $26.37 A wonderful gallery of accurately painted forces of the Revolutionary War era including...	A Monarchy Transformed: Britain, 1603-1714 (Penguin History of Britain) Best Price: $7.67 I can certainly appreciate the critiques of some of the earlier reviewers. No, it does not cover...	Wesley and the People Called Methodists Best Price: $16.62 This was a well-written book that I am priveledged to have been introduced to. It is easy to...



Nelson's Navy: The Ships, Men and Organization, 1793-1815 Best Price: $48.75 Excellent in every way - comprehensive, good value, interesting, useful, hard to fault. Covers...	William Wilberforce: A Biography Best Price: $10.72 this book was a difficult read. It contained information that was necessary to the story but a...	Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire Best Price: $21.79 AMAZING read! I have never been interested in History of any sort before and afte reading a bit...	The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 Best Price: $13.76 I expected nothing less from N.A.M. Rodger, but he has exceeded even himself. I love...	My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Royal Courtesan Best Price: $6.69 This may well be the most badly-written book I've ever read. I understand the writer is an...

Cook : The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook Best Price: $10.25 Fast-moving and fascinating account of Captain Cook's three around-the-world voyages,...	George Whitefield: God's Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $8.90 Inspiration from a great 18th century Christian, I opted to read the shorter version, this one....	The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830 (OPUS) Best Price: $20.95 First published in 1948, this book has gone through many editions, the latest, as we can see...	Letters on England (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $3.00 Letters on England is enlightening on several levels and a very interesting description of the...	Lord Chesterfield's Letters (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $10.09 Lord Chesterfield's writings are by far the best guidelines for an up-and-coming, savvy...

Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $5.64 The nineteenth century was a time of massive growth for Britain. In 1800 it was overwhelmingly...	The Age of Exuberance: Backgrounds to Eighteenth-Century English Literature (Language & Literature Studies) Best Price: $115.33	A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland Best Price: $6.70 A great book on Acadian history. This book should be required reading in all south Louisiana...	Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket Best Price: $23.32 I have a massive collection of history books. Some that I have never yet had time to read. And...	The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Best Price: $6.00 I thought Antonia Fraser was a better editor than this ..gross errors ..confusing George I with...

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves Best Price: $4.93 The story of a million European slaves in north Africa, as recently as two centuries back, is...	The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers and Finney (History of Evangelicalism) Best Price: $14.90 This is a fine book if one wishes to understand the impact of Wilberforce, More, [in fact, many...	Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century Best Price: $3.00 Is it weird for a 15 year old girl to be fascinated by prositution and sex in the Victorian Age?...	Reflections on the Revolution in France (Dover Value Editions) Best Price: $4.20 This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. In...	Good News to the Poor Best Price: $15.29 This is another book I had to purchase for a class regarding living with the poor. Found it to...

Romanticism: An Oxford Guide (Oxford Guides) Best Price: $26.84 This uniquely comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to Romantic literature presents forty-six...	The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry Best Price: $14.99 As a graduate student writing her thesis on these amazing gentlemen, I fully and wholehartedly...	The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783 Best Price: $21.50 Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures Preface Introduction PART I . Before the...	Nelson: A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797 Best Price: $15.90 There are possibly more books on the shelves of bookshops (certainly in England) about Nelson...	An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (Early American Studies) Best Price: $24.75 Have you ever wondered about the thirteen colonies decided to fight for to become an independent...

The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors Best Price: $61.20 This is a gorgeous book; the photos are first rate (always in color) and appropriate to content....	Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution Best Price: $25.71 This book was a challenge to read. The first two hundred and fifty pages are as dull as any...	Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History Best Price: $22.44 In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown...	The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century Best Price: $30.66 Volume II of the Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British worldwide...	Thomas More: A Biography Best Price: $12.25 It seems that many of the other reviews on this book are based on personal religious...

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves Best Price: $3.82 This is a very engaging history about the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire. As...	The Age of Aristocracy 1688-1830 (History of England, vol. 3) Best Price: $34.99 This text, which is the third volume in the best selling History of England series, tells how a...	The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble Best Price: $24.89 "The First Crash" by Richard Dale deals with the lessons from the South Sea Bubble of...	The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson Best Price: $3.07 EXLENT HISTORY OF LORD NELSON AND CONFLICT OF THEIR WORLD,WITH A PERSONAL TOUCH OF FAMILY,...	The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837 Best Price: $1.46 If you want answers to the question, "How did the British Victorian Age come about,...

Reflections on the Revolution in France: A Critical Edition Best Price: $29.92 This was required reading for a graduate course in the history of the French Revolution. In...	Floating Brothel, The: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts Best Price: $7.25 Love, adventure and seafaring around the world. A little known but very real story of ordinary...	The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History Best Price: $4.99 If you already know what stock market bubbles are and why and how they work, at least generally,...	Rights of Man (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.74 well, i finally got around to reading thomas paine's "rights of man". his sentences,...	The British Abroad: The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $12.93 I absolutely adore this book! It is so thorough and will give you the most generic yet...

Iron Tears: America's Battle for Freedom, Britain's Quagmire: 1775-1783 Best Price: $4.24 I have to compare this book, "Iron Tears," to Don Cook's book "The Long Fuse: How...	The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England Best Price: $20.89 Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and...	England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton Best Price: $12.79 The book is excellent...always loved the topic of Lady Hamilton...but wanted to read this take...	Early Georgian Interiors (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $61.20 Exactly the book I'd hoped it would be. A wonderful source of information and inspiration.	William Pitt the Younger Best Price: $34.62 William Hague has a pleasant, straightforward and limpid style in which he can convey not only...

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution (Published for the Institute of Early AME) Best Price: $23.95 Gould writes just as he teaches at the University Of New Hampshire; in a clear and concise...	The Best of Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke (Conservative Leadership Series) For the student of politics and politcal philosophy this compilation is a wonderful 'must-read'....	Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 16881804 (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $24.94 In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth...

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